| News & Know How | On The Move Award Winning Butch Staples, Nancy Hoekstra Honored by PTR


The Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) recently honored two outstanding tennis leaders during the 2011 PTR International Tennis Symposium, held at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Butch Staples, the head pro at the Mid- town Tennis Club in Chicago, was named 2011 Professional of the Year, and Nancy Hoekstra, an instructor at Homewood-Flossmoor Racquet and Fit- ness, in Homewood, Illinois, was named the 2011 Humanitarian of the Year. At Midtown, Staples oversees a staff of 34 instructors and also teaches


35 hours a week. In addition, he’s the head coach at the USTA Regional Training Center and a USTA national trainer for QuickStart and USTA Schools Workshops. Hoekstra, an industry veteran instrumental in the development of wheelchair tennis, has held positions at the Special Olym- pics World Games, the World Summer Games, and the National Games. —|


Anniversaries


Anniversary of Let’s Move! Prompts SMHS Café to Revamp Menu


Healthquest Celebrates 10 Years with Zumba Fest


Healthquest of Hunterdon in Flemington, New Jersey, the 100,000-plus-square-foot full-service fitness center, celebrated its 10th anniversary with a Zumba Fest event. At Healthquest, which offers more than 150 group fitness classes per week, Zumba is the most popular attraction, so it was a natural choice to show- case the exciting cardio dance class at the club’s celebration. “We don’t do anything small here, so we reached out and got


Tanya Beardsley, who is one of the best Zumba instructors in the world,” said Kevin Messina, director of public relations for Healthquest. “Attendance came close to our sports center’s maximum capacity of 1,000 people. It was rather packed, but we had just enough room for everyone to Zumba.”


O2 MAX goes to school


To mark the first anniversary of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to combat childhood obesity, the students of Santa Monica High School, in California, reopened the stu- dent-operated Vikes’ Inn and Café, offering a revamped menu of healthier fare. The reopening also came a week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its new dietary guidelines, which emphasize the importance of a diet consisting of fresh fruits and vegetables, and a lower sodium intake. For over a decade, the students have successfully managed


the café with assistance from area businesses. O2 MAX Fitness, the Santa Monica-based youth fitness media company, worked with the students to create marketing materials to help educate patrons and other students about making better food choices. Vikes’ now sells Pop Chips, Chobani Greek yogurt, and fitness products that students can use in conjuction with their healthy diet and exercise plans. —|


Nancy Hoekstra, Butch Staples


Zumba Fest at Healthquest Healthquest pulled out all the stops from marketing to


production. Advertisements ran on the club’s Facebook page, as well as in Z Life, a Zumba publication, and engineers came to the center to develop a sound, lighting, and stage plan for the event to give it a true nightclub feel. “We are a fitness center that believes in keeping the fun in fitness and this was just another incredible event that helped us stand by that motto,” added Messina. —|


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