Practice, Fundraiser, & More

Athletes, welcome back from Fall Break! We hope you have been blessed!  Come to practices ready to tell a highlight from your break.  Those positives are moments we can use on the court to shift momentum.  Also, the tennis team is responsible for bringing potato chips to the fundraiser for dinner.  Here's a quick look at the week ahead.  

• Monday

  • Greet your 8am teacher with a smile, whether you want to or not!

  • Turn in those Fundraiser ticket sales to Coach Hawkins in her office.  

  • 3:30pm Optional Practice focused on Individual Skills - Let's Go! 

  • Figure out who toilet papered my house on Saturday night (the cross country team).  Then plot to get fun revenge on the perps (cross country team). 

  • Sign Up to Volunteer for the Wheelchair Tennis Tournament - https://www.tophertennis.net/post/sign-up-for-wheelchair-tennis-tournament

• Tuesday

  • 3:30pm Singles Optional Practice - Strategy - BEATING A PUSHER

  • Sign Up to Volunteer for the Wheelchair Tennis Tournament - https://www.tophertennis.net/post/sign-up-for-wheelchair-tennis-tournament

• Thursday

  • 3:30pm Doubles Optional Practice - Learn 5 NET MOVES

  • 4:30pm - Go set up for the Fundraiser Dinner from 5pm-8pm

  • Sign Up to Volunteer for the Wheelchair Tennis Tournament - https://www.tophertennis.net/post/sign-up-for-wheelchair-tennis-tournament

I had a great time this weekend at the USTA Doubles Tennis State Championships.  Our Upper Cumberland Team finished 5th out of 6 teams, which is a step up for us! The Upper Cumberland has been considered it's own region for tennis for about 3 years now.  The other regions are Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Murfreesboro.  These are all bigger tennis communities with bigger tennis resources than the Upper Cumberland.  So, in the last couple of years we've built a team to play in the State Championships (Think of this like a baseball All-Star tournament).  This year we beat Chattanooga and gave Murfreesboro a good run!   That's great progress.  We had a men's team and a women's team, pictured below.  It was a blast and I look forward to this competition every year!  There are opportunities for you to  keep playing tennis easily into your adult years!

Special thanks to Krysta for recording some highlights!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuazfG4RjU