Process Scholarship
Overview
The Process Scholarship, powered by Chanceletes.org, is a program with the mission of developing student-athletes with a two-way commitment to excellence. The program empowers resource-constrained junior tennis players willing to outwork others, sacrifice, and build positive lifelong habits by investing in the wraparound support needed to reach their fullest potential. In sport and in life.
We promise to invest in you if you invest everything in yourself.
Reject shortcuts. Reject excuses. Commit to the process.
Expectations
1. Honorable: Compete like a warrior but never compromise on your sportsmanship, integrity and respect for others. Honor the code of conduct of champions.
2. Coachable: Embrace and implement feedback. Trust the process over results even when it’s uncomfortable. Respect coaches and staff and work towards long-term dreams.
3. Work hard: Give maximum effort in your training, academics and recovery. Never go through the motions and stay hungrier than the competition.
4. Give back: When you succeed, help the next generation. Mentor younger athletes. Share your story. Build the community that lifted you up.
5. Optimize: Stay aware of your habits and metrics and optimize your sleep, nutrition, hydration, and screen time for performance. Meet goals for sleep, recovery, strain, and screen time.
6. Mental training: Do your mental training routine 5+ days/week through the Level Up app as well as practice and implement your mental tools consistently in training and competing.
7. PT: Execute Physical routines daily. Morning activation for mobility, energy, and muscle activation. Thorough dynamic warmup before picking up racquet. Consistent recovery routines post training/matches. Weekly tennis specific strength and plyometric exercises.
8. Whoop: Where your Whoop 24/7 and use it to build self awareness and make meaningful adjustments to your daily routines.
9. Journal: Submit weekly journal including an evaluation of the past week’s performance and achievements. Journal about thoughts, feelings, and experiences related to your training goals. Including screen time sharing.
10. Academics: Maintain adequate effort and follow through with academics at all times.
* Every player must maintain an understanding and commitment to upholding these expectations at all times. Failure to do so can result in pause or stoppage of the scholarship.
Requirements
Loves tennis and the process of training and competing.
Prioritizes tennis such that you are able to consistently train 4+ days/week and play 12+ tournaments per year.
Provide current transcript and GPA (minimum 3.3)
This is a 2-way investment and the player must commit to a monthly package of 8 clinics/month for $280/month, the remaining training fees will be covered by the scholarship. Package fees can come from family, Step Up for Students, or other funding sources. Additional funding opportunities are available for low-income families.
Benefits
On Court Training
Will receive 3 clinics + 90 min privates per week.
Physical Training
Physical education and individualized training routines for morning activation, dynamic warmup, recovery, and tennis specific strength and plyometric training.
Developmental Plan
Development Plan including current goals and intentions, PT routines, tournament scheduling, and a full player evaluation including life skills as well as technical/tactical/mental/
Mental Training
A membership to Level Up Performance Mental Training App as well as a custom journaling form to be filled out weekly and reviewed/discussed with players team.
Health Tracking
All players will be given a Whoop Health device and membership to be used in helping to optimize training through the tracking of sleep, strain, and recovery.