Playerzone Standard Operating Procedures

Welcome to Playerzone.  Playerzone is an online portal for used for collaboration between Coaches, Players and Parents of Life Time's High Performance Tennis Program.  Some of the features of this portal are:

• Individual player pages and player documents manager
• Player Dartfish videos and video lockers
• Online Forms
• Online Exams
• Tournament and Training calendar
• Mental Tougness, Fitness and Parent resources
• Tactical and Technical Video Library
• Individual Club Pages and Club Calendar
• Coaching Education Resources

If you do not have a username or password, please email [email protected] requesting login credentials.

Menu Items

• Wiki - is the general home page for Playerzone
• My Activity - provide you a list of documents and or pages that you have edited recently
• My Documents - A list of documents including pages that you have created and is private only to you, unless yo udecide to share it with other.
• My Favorites - A list of documents and/or pages that you have marked as favorites
• All Wikis -  A list of all the different sections of the website that you have access to.
• Web Calendar - Your personal web calendar. 

A default password and email is created for you when your account was setup.  If you are not sure of your password, please email [email protected]  It is a good idea to change the default password when you login for the first time.  Click on Change password and enter the new password.   

By default, every user on the system is assigned an email.  Your default email is username@playerzone.us.  If you want your emails forwarded to your personal email, cllick on the Settings icon and click on My User Settings.  You can change your display name and type in your your preferred email that you want your emails forwarded to.  

The Online Forms Wiki is an important feature of Playerzone that allows Players and coaches to fill out forms online.  The data is stored in a database.  The data submitted in the forms can later be accessed, sorted, searched and edited.  

Form submissions are emailed to the coaches and the player who submitted them.  In addition, form submissions are stored in a database and is accessible as a report for editing and for review.  

Each player can create and maintain his or her own Tournament and Training Calendar.  Click on My Calendar on the home page to view the web calendar

The My Documents section of Playezone is where each player can store his or her training and development documents.  PDF, Word, Excel and other standard formats are supported.  

To share a document with a coach or another user in your club, open the document and under Document Info, click Sharing, click Edit and type in the name of the person you wish to share the document with.  You can provide read only or edit access to each person or group you choose to share your documents with.  

Each player on Playerzone has access to his or her own Dartfish Video Page.  To get started with your Dartfish Video Page, create a new page in your My Documents page by clicking on the "+" sign on the top right.  Name your new page "My Dartfish Videos" and share that page with Administrator, providing "Edit" access.  Your club video admin will then embed your Dartfish Videos into your Dartfish Video Page.  Once your Dartfish Video Page has been setup, any videos uploaded by your coach to your dartfish locker will be displayed on this page.  A playlist of all the videos is created automatically.  

Mental Toughness articles, videos and worksheets can be found on the Mental Toughness section of  the website.  

The Fitness & Nutrition Resources section contains articles, videos and worksheets that can be accessed by both players and coaches.  Coaches can access "How To" videos and assessment protocols

The Video Resources page is linked to the Life Time Dartfish Video page on Dartfish.tv.  All users of Playerzone have access to resources relating to technical, tactical, strategy, mental touchness, fitness and other videos that are stored on Life Time's Dartfish.tv channel.

The Coaching Education Resources (Coaches only) section provides a wealth of information from USTA, ITF and other coaching workshops and conferences.  News, information, articles, videos and methodologies are some of the resources available for coaches to access and learn.