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Edmonton's finest tennis club, featuring 7 new Nova-Pro clay courts and 3 newly renovated beach volleyball courts. Members enjoy continuous play for tennis and volleyball. All tennis courts are lighted for night play.
For more information, please contact our office at(780) 431-2085 or email garneautennis@gmail.com.
HOURS OF OPERATION:
Please be advised that hours may change due to weather. Contact links: We are located just North of Whyte Avenue on 109 street. The office is located in the City Arts Center building and can be accessed during our regular office hours:
HistoryIn 1926 Harry Ainley, principal of the Garneau Public School, convinced the city to allocate a block of land for recreation use, between 83rd and 84th Avenues and 109th and 110th Streets.
Four shale tennis courts were built on the land, using volunteer labour. The following year a small clubhouse was built, to be used by skaters in the winter and tennis players in the summer. The skating rink was located where the Cafe Select now stands. In 1929 the Garneau Community League Tennis Club was founded. Two additional shale tennis courts were built some time before 1950, and two asphalt courts were added in the 1980s.
The Garneau Community League built a multi-use facility adjacent to the tennis courts in the 1970s. The building included squash and racquetball courts. Unfortunately the league entered a period of financial instability and could not sustain operation of the new building. In 1990, tennis players incorporated the Garneau Tennis Club as a not-for-profit organization, and the operation of the club was made separate from that of the community league. The community league agreed to lease the tennis courts to the club.
In 1995 the league turned over the multi-use building to the City of Edmonton. The building was occupied for a time by a theatre group, which in 1996 converted the lawn bowling courts to the west of the building into beach volleyball courts. The club became known as the Garneau Tennis and Beach Volleyball Club, although its legal name is still the Garneau Tennis Club.
In 1999 the City of Edmonton proposed moving the City Arts Centre into the now abandoned building. As part of this move, the city proposed to convert the two asphalt tennis courts into additional parking spaces. Only a concerted lobbying effort by the tennis club saved the courts from destruction. The parking lot was instead expanded onto an unused bus loop adjacent to 109th Street. The building was renovated and the new City Arts Centre opened in 2000. The club leases a small office and storage shed in the building, and has use of washroom and shower areas.
The club has raised a considerable amount of money through biannual casino fundraising activities, and is planning an upgrade of the tennis court lights. The light upgrade will bring a new standard of tennis court lights to the Edmonton area.''
Garneau StaffAt the Garneau Tennis & Beach Volleyball Club, we offer the best in service and instruction. Recognizing that it will be a busy summer we have staffed up to meet our needs.  Operations Facilitator Cara is back for another season at the GTBVC. This will be her sixth year at the club. Cara is currently a Law Student at the University of Alberta, and studied abroad in Oslo, Norway this past winter. Cara has an athletic background as a former competitive figure skater and sprinter. She is currently an avid runner and was the captain of the law faculty's womens' hockey team last season!
Cara also promises (again!) that she will actually try to become a better tennis player this year!
 Tennis Pro Lane is returning as our Head Tennis Professional this season. We are very lucky to have him returning for a third year at the club. Lane is an accomplished tennis coach with 7 years of coaching experience. He has also obtained a Club Pro 1 Coaching Certification. Lane was also the MVP of the University of Alberta Tennis Team in the previous season. While he works full-time as our Tennis Pro, he also finds time to coach at the Royal Glenora on weekends. Lane will have a wide range of lessons/programs available for our membership.
Lane is currently an Education student the UofA. In addition to being a skilled two-stepper, Lane is also our resident "Grill King" and can be found satisfying everyone's BBQ needs at most of our tournaments and social events!  Assistant Pro Ariel is back at the Garneau for her second year. She also has experience coaching for the U of A summer camps and also with KidSport and Groovy Girlz camps. Ariel is a 2009 graduate of the UofA junior elite tennis program and represented Alberta at the 2008 U18 Nationals in Markham, Ontario. She first picked up a tennis racquet in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she spent most of her life until moving to Canada in junior high. After taking a gap year to work in retail sales and perfect her driving skills, she will attend the UofA this fall and hopes eventually to study law. She loves reading, playing tennis, and her fatso cat, Stuart.
 Assistant Pro
This is Ross' second year at the Garneau as Assistant Pro. Ross has trained out of the Royal Glenora Club for tennis, and has coaching experience there as well. He also completed his Instructor cerfication this past fall. Ross is interested in going into bio-chemistry in a couple years. Besides tennis, he loves music, acoustic guitar, snowboarding and mountain biking. Ross is really looking forward to being at the Garneau again this year!  Manager
2011 will be Emma's first season as Manager at Garneau. She will be taking over for Cara, as she moves on to pursue her career in law. Emma has a Finance diploma from NAIT, and will be returning to Trent University in Ontario in the fall for the third year of her Archaeology degree. Emma has been a member of the Beach Volleyball club at Garneau for two years, and has a passion for the sport. She has competed at the provincial and national level as a member of Team Alberta and was invited to the National team identification camp last summer. Besides playing beach volleyball, Emma enjoys watching movies, working out and spending time with her family, friends and cat, Bug.
Emma is really looking forward to a great season at Garneau this year and encourages all new and returning members to come in and introduce themselves to her at the office!
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