2025 High School Summer Program
Welcome Letter
Welcome to the 2025-2026 Tennis Team.
We invite you to come out for the team as we encourage all athletes to participate at Rocklin High School. We are coming off a great run with the Boys and Girls Teams winning section titles over the last 5 seasons.
With 74 members in our program, minus our amazing departing seniors, our 2025/2026 teams look to welcome our new students and continue the run of success.
Tennis is only part of the fun. Our goal is to create a family through experiences, competition, and team relationships.
What should you do ?
- Visit the Girls Tennis website / Boys Tennis website at:
- Look at the Schedule (Start date August 4- Girls)(Feb. 2, 2026- Boys
- Results Page - Get an Idea of matches!
- Video’s
- Our team videos from the last 8 years are available.
- Explore the activities we do! (Archery, Surfing, Rafting, etc.)
- Plan for the summer (Separate Email )
- Tennis Camp – June 9-20
- Summer program – June 9th – August 1st
Have a great rest of the year and we look forward to working with you over the next four years. If you have any questions of our program please feel free to email me at deckenburg@rocklinusd.org or call at 916-549-9771.
Go Thunder,
Mr. Dale Eckenburg
FAQ
TENNIS PRINCIPLES
Over the last 27 years I’ve tried to create a program that strives to achieve 3 principles.
- ACADEMICS: The tennis team and our school promotes an academic program that works with sports to better your experience. Our school schedule is ideal for sports as well as the 23+ AP programs. Our varsity tennis team each year is the most academically successful sports program on campus measured by academic GPA. Our Varsity team last year took over 50 AP courses. We strive to be responsible student athletes.
(2025 Graduates - Stanford, Penn, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly, Northwestern, UC Davis)
- TEAM: I try everyday to make sure we create a team environment and continue to work on creating team experiences that develop friendships and a bond that each tennis player can rely on. We’ve had team activities ranging from white water rafting, waterskiing, paintballing, ocean kayaking, camping, hiking in Yosemite, horseback riding, surfing and yes tennis!!
- COMPETITION: We work to create a team that competes with the best of the best in this area. Last year our girls played against the top 10 teams in the area, eventually ending up ranked #10/130 and our Boys finished 2024 12th in the section.
CUT SPORT
Is tennis a cut sport? Yes We typically have 30-40 girls/boys on the tennis team and work hard to not cut. I try hard to keep all freshmen to get them experiencing tennis. If I get 10 freshmen out, great shouldn’t have to cut. If I get 30, the math doesn’t work with 3 coaches and 8 courts.
It's pretty simple, how much time do you put in from now until August (girls) / February (boys). I did have to let 8 girls / 3 boys go.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Do you have to have prior experience? No, sports transfer. Basketball, softball/baseball and volleyball players make great tennis players. I never played tennis growing up. My first tennis was my freshman year, but I played basketball, baseball, football and shot archery. Several of our players never played tennis before high school.
But, you have to get started with the learning process now/summer.
SUMMER “STUFF”
- Summer Camp and High School Camp - Click on Summer Program Tab Above
- Johnson Ranch or Sierra View – Local tennis clubs who offer quality tennis instruction during the summer. Typically it costs $400-$500.
SCHEDULE
- The schedule is online. Please review the matches.
- Girls start August 4th and go through Nov. 20 +/-.
- Boys start February 2nd and go through May 10.
- Are there JV matches – Most programs have 16-18 girls/boys. It is very hard to schedule JV matches but we do. With such a large team with lots of good players we play two matches each day (1/2 team home and ½ team on the road) while also scheduling 6-8 JV matches.
Lastly, please visit the girl’s/boy’s tennis website and look around. THIS year’s schedule, results, photo galleries, videos, etc.
Thanks again for your interest in girls tennis and if you have any questions please respond!
Dale Eckenburg
deckenburg@rocklinusd.org
916-549-9771
Summer Program
The end of the year is upon us and that means summer is ahead. Below is the information on our summer program.
Little Kids Tennis Camp (KC) – June 9-13 & June 16-20 8- 10:15
- Mandatory Participation! Remember this is our primary fundraiser!
High School Tennis Program (HS)
June 9 - June 20 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm / June 23-27 - 8:00 - 10:00 am /July 15 - Aug 1- 8 am - 10 am
Key - KC (Kids Camp - 8am - 10:15am) - HS (High School)
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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June 9
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 10
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 11
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 12
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 13
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 16
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 17
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 18
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 19
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 20
KC
HS-6:30-8:30pm
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June 23
8-10 am - HS
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June 24
8-10 am - HS
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June 25
8-10 am - HS
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June 26
8-10 am - HS
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June 27
8-10 am - HS
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June 30
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July 1
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July 2
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July 3
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July 4
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July 7
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July 8
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July 9
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July 10
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July 11
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July 14
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July 15
8-10 am - HS
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July 16
8-10 am - HS
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July 17
8-10 am - HS
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July 18
8-10 am - HS
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July 21
8-10 am - HS
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July 22
8-10 am - HS
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July 23
8-10 am - HS
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July 24
8-10 am - HS
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July 25
8-10 am -HS
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July 28
8-10 am - HS
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July 29
8-10 am - HS
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July 30
8-10 am - HS
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July 31
8-10 am - HS
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This year we will have our High School practice will be in the evening (6:00-8:00pm) during the Little Kids Tennis Camp June 9-20. Following that all high school practices formal or informal will move to the 8-10 am.
The program at the high school is not mandatory but available as an option. The summer program is $150. Register Here
Once again, my goal is to provide a viable alternative for some summer tennis. If you are planning on playing at Johnson Ranch, Sierra View, Lifetime or any other tennis program, I totally support you.
Mr. Dale Eckenburg
deckenburg@rocklinusd.org / 916-549-9771