Our History
Welcome to the Imamovic-Ayer Tennis Academy (short, IATA).
We are pleased that you have chosen our school, which emphasizes tennis skills and strategies, fitness, and wellness while making new friends in a safe, fun, and competitive environment.
The Academy's structure is guided by safety, program efficiency and effectiveness, service quality, knowledge, friendliness, and training.
Mission
To enhance the lives of children, youth, and adults by providing quality instruction from introductory to high-performance levels of tennis skills and strategies, fitness, and wellness related to the sport in a safe and fun environment, to establish hard-working individuals striving for excellence.
Who we are
- A multi-lingual service provider that offers a wide range of tennis programs (including wheelchair tennis) independently and in cooperation with small and large community-based organizations to help increase awareness of the sport and active living.
- Established in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia in February 2007.
- Led and operated under the supervision of Nadina Ayer in conjunction with her family members, Joel and Uzeir (Uzo), and many friends from local universities, colleges, and communities.
What we do
- Offer yearly junior programs to families in Kitchener-Waterloo, ON (on private, club, home, and public contract and insured-based surfaces).
- Promote tennis as a fun and life-long activity having introduced over 30,225 elementary school students to the sport.
- Donate thousands of used tennis balls to local schools as well as dog owners. If you know anyone in need of used tennis balls, please let us know.
- Support causes and initiatives related to well-being, children, education, human rights, and animal welfare
- Since 2012 we serve on the Kitchener Waterloo Sports Council committee.
Academy's Video
Video Credits: I. Savic