Tennis Courts Projects
2024 - Picnic tables for High School Tennis Courts
2024 - High School Career and Tech Education Center provides indoor bathroom access
2024 - Painting of Middle School tennis shed
2023-24 - High School Tennis Courts Resurfacing Project
2023 - Court benches for High School Tennis Courts
2022 - Backboard for High School Tennis Courts
2022 - Windscreens for Hgh School Tennis Courts
2022 - Naming of tennis courts
2022 - Court Numbers
20?? - Tennis nets for the High School Tennis Courts
2018 - High School Parking lot
2016 - Middle School Tennis Courts Resurfacing Project
2006 - High School Tennis Courts Construction
High School Tennis Courts Resurfacing Project
Backboard for High School Tennis Courts
Windscreens for High School Tennis Courts
In the spring of 2022, Tim and Dennis Crandall made court number signs for the high school tennis courts. We thank them for donating time and materials for this project.
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Tennis nets for High School Tennis Courts
In ??????, new nets were purchased for the high school tennis courts by the Spearfish School District and the Spearfish Tennis Association.
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In the summer of 2018, the Spearfish School District constructed a parking lot West of the tennis courts that added approximately 100 parking spaces and three additional handicaped parking spaces. The sidewalks were added to the West and South sides of the tennis courts and the sidewalk between the tennis courts was extended to the West parking lot. The entrances to the gates on the south courts were made handicaped accessible. The existing tennis sheds were replaced with a new shed on the West side of the courts and the old Spearfish Tennis Association shed, which was a donation from Wells Fargo, was moved to an area close to the middle school courts.
Middle School Tennis Courts Resurfacing Project
In August of 2016, Evergreen Tennis Courts from Loveland, Colorado finished resurfacing the three Middle School courts, giving recreational and competitive tennis programs room to expand in the community. The project was the result of cooperation between many different individuals and organizations.
The Middle School courts were built in the 1970's but had fallen into such disrepair that they were unusable. The Spearfish Tennis Association (STA), however, beleived they could be salvaged.. Donations were given by Pioneer Bank and Trust ($3,000), First Interstate Bank ($250), and Dick and Rita Hicks ($10,000). Dick was a local tennis player and instructor. With these donations anchoring the project, both the Spearfish City Council and the Spearfish School Board allocated $10,000 each to the project. Finally, the STA wrote successful grants of $10,000 and $3,805 to the USTA abd USTA.Northern respectively, The maximum amount these organizations allow.
The project consists of three adult-sized tennis courts with additional 60-foot and 36-foot line for the ten-and-under play and USTA's QuickStart program for younger children. Summer lessons for younger players will be held on the new courts, and physical education classes at the Middle School now have an easily-accessible venue. In addition, the courts give the Junior Varsity boys and girls teams a clean, roomy facility on which to practice and to host matches. The courts also provide the general public a place to play when the high school matches are being held. Added to the six existing courts near the high school, Spearfish now has nine state-of-the-art courts, making it possible for the school and the STA to host tournaments
Over the course of three weeks in August of 2016, George Stalin and his crew from Evergreen Tennis Courts INC, with the help of several local workers, scraped off the old surface, completely sealed the substrate, re-surfaced the courts, painted the lines, installed new net posts, and installed new 4' gates. Volunteers from the STA constructed a handicap-accessible walkway.
According to Joe Doerges,there is "a night and day" difference between the courts now and their previous condition. Youth and varsity tennis programs in Spearfish are growing, Doerges says, and the new courts will accommodate that growth. He notes that a project like this would not be possible without the cooperation of many different people and organizations. In addition to the banks and individuals who donated time and money, Doerges cites Keith Hepper of the city's Park and Rec department and Dave Peters, former superintendent of school, for their support, and Walt Cook of the STA's board for his years-long commitment to the project. He would also like to recognize Spearfish Lumber Company, PROBuild, Hills Materials Company Centennial Quarry, and Sharkey Plumbing and Heating for the walkway materials.
Click here to view a slideshow of the project
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High School Tennis Courts Construction
In the summer of 2006,six new post-tensioned tennis courts were constructed by Renner Sports at Spearfish High School, with funds coming from the Spearfish School District, the city of Spearfish and a Category-III grant to the Spearfish Tennis Association from the USTA. At the time of their construction there wer seven other courts in Spearfish. Two at Black Hills State University, which have been replaced with an alumni center, one at Spearfish City Park, which has been replaced with six pickle ball courts and three courts at Spearfish Middle School, which were resurfaced in 2016.
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