Our History
Welcome to the Imamovic-Ayer Tennis Academy. We are pleased that you have chosen to be part of our school that 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, and 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.
The Academy is 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.
The Academy was established in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia in February 2007 and is 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.
Most of the Academy's programming takes place in Kitchener-Waterloo, ON (on private, club, home, and public contract and insured-based surfaces).
The Academy promotes tennis as a life-long sport, and to date has introduced over 29,697 elementary school students to the sport.
Annually, the Academy donates over 1,000 used tennis balls to local schools as well as dog owners. If you know anyone in need of used tennis balls, just ask us!
The Academy supports causes and initiatives related to well-being, children, education, human rights, and animal welfare such as Kid Sport, Jump Start, Right To Play, Girl Up, UN Women, Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society, and Stratford-Perth Humane Society.
Since 2012, the Academy coaches have served on the Kitchener Waterloo Sports Council committee.
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