A contracted racquet sports provider for your program guide. Adult and junior clinics by level, summer camps, leagues and socials, run by certified and trained coaches. Insured, registration handled, no township staff needed on court.
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Most parks and recreation departments have the same problem with pickleball and tennis: residents want it, the courts exist, and there is no instructor on staff to run it. Hiring one person means finding, vetting, scheduling and covering them. Hiring Universal Rackets means the whole program shows up at once: certified and trained coaches, a season schedule by level, registration, resident support and promotion.
We have been a contracted provider for Pennsylvania townships since 2021. Radnor Township brought us in for tennis, the clinics doubled in year two, pickleball was added in 2022, and by 2023 programs ran year-round for adults and juniors plus an adaptive clinic. Today we run programs with Radnor, Lower Merion, Upper Merion, Tredyffrin, Conshohocken, Whitemarsh, Plymouth Meeting, Springfield, Upper Dublin, Lower Providence, Phoenixville, Limerick, Doylestown, Warrington, Lower Makefield, Solebury and Perkasie, among others.
Beginner, Advanced Beginner and Intermediate, in five-week series. Two levels run back to back with one coach so one court block serves twice the residents.
After-school junior clinics by age, and half-day summer camps that slot straight into your camp week calendar. We run 50+ half-day summer camps.
The programs that keep residents coming back after the clinic ends: weekly ladders, round robins, Picklefest and King and Queen of the Court events.
An adaptive clinic for children with special needs, run with Radnor Township.
Two ways to run registration. Both are common; the program is the same either way.
Levels, days, times and pricing built around your court availability and your program guide deadline.
Residents register through your own township system and pricing lives on your site, or residents register through our online system and we handle payments.
Your program guide and email list plus our town page, social audience and signage at the courts. Every township gets its own page on universalrackets.com with the current schedule.
Coaches arrive early, set up, coach, and handle rain calls and make-ups. Residents email and call us, not your office.
General liability with the township named as additional insured, certificate before the first session. Coaches are Universal Rackets certified and trained.
Descriptions, photos, levels and a flyer, written to drop straight into your seasonal guide.
No township employee needs to be present. We handle the players, the weather and the questions.
Read how it has worked in Radnor on our partner page, or see a live example of a township program page: Radnor, Upper Merion, Doylestown.
Not for clinics. Residents pay for their own spots, either through your registration system or ours. Township-funded events and reserved blocks are quoted up front on one page.
Yes. Many of our township partners run registration in their own system. Others send residents to our online registration. Both work; pick whichever your office prefers.
Eight weeks is comfortable and lines up with most program guide deadlines. We have launched in three.
Each series holds a make-up date. We make the call and notify every registered player by email the morning of a cancellation, so your office never has to.
Yes. Adult and junior tennis clinics and camps are half of what we do, and many townships run both on the same courts.
A 20-minute call about your courts and your residents. We come back with a proposed first season, no commitment. Or download the free Community Program Playbook first and bring it to your next staff meeting.