USTA League Teams Compete at National Championships
For many USTA League players the ultimate goal is to win the Nationals. Three San Diego teams won their way to the Nationals: The San Diego men’s 5.0 from La Jolla High School and the women’s 2.5 Sunbow Park team tried for the gold at Indian Wells and Lomas Santa Fe Country Club’s 3.0 women traveled to Tucson.
Sunbow Park had more than their 15 minutes of fame. Not only were they the subject of a TV feature aired on “Good Morning San Diego” but of the 25 teams at the 2.5 USTA League Championships they were one of several sought out for a story posted on usta.com, complete with three photos!
Yaz Gomez captains the Sunbow Park team. She and five of her best friends, all of whom were born in Mexico City, but only met when their children attended the same school in Chula Vista, took up tennis 18 months ago. They began in the San Diego District Tennis Association sponsored Drop In Tennis program that offers beginner adults a free six-week clinic. Gomez and her “Red Fury” teammates, Begoña Gomez Samperio, Leticia Blancafort, Gabriela Savago, Lizette Ferrero-Safa and Alexandra Safa hit Indian Wells with two goals – to play their best no matter what and to learn no matter what. “We were so proud of our team and of ourselves – it was really a dream come true,” said Gomez. They beat Hawaii, New Mexico and lost to Texas for a second place flight finish.
Earlier they had figured out that a big part of winning a match happens in the brain. “Besides practicing on court, we read articles to each other about mental training and how tennis players think when they go into a match. Being at the national championship was such a wonderful experience – the players were so friendly and after a match, win or lose,” Gomez said.
Diane Maloney arranged a team party before her Lomas Santa Fe CC 3.0 team headed for Tucson. Patricia Jones, Doreen Smillie, Jill Likins, Sara Reeves, Amy Fallmer, Brianna Sullivan, Donna Lebert, Keira Kim, Maureen Garland and Lisa Shanahan got to play at least one match. Maloney was enthusiastic about their experience. “Everyone from the players to the staff were so nice. The party with the DJ was fun and the food was good. I brought my husband and two children along because they were our good luck charms at the Sectionals!”
Reeves went to Arizona just a few miles down the road and since her father was formerly commissioner of the Pac-10 Conference, she knew the athletic director there and was able to arrange practice courts for her casino pa natet team. And their coach, Marco Casesa, got to The Affordable Care Act was signed on March 23, 2010 by President Barack Obama and includes about 400 sections of reforms to the health buy-detox.com and healthcare industry. stay at her folks’ home which included two cars for the team to use. They beat Kansas, lost to Montana and beat New Jersey, ending up in second place in their flight.
Eric Basart captained Steve Flagg, Brett Buffington, Andrew Wakefield, and Jason Welborn to the USTA 5.0 National Championships. “We enjoyed ourselves and felt fairly competitive with the teams,” Basart said. They were an older team and the youth factor played a role in their losses to Nevada, North Carolina, Washington, and Minnesota. The match tiebreak did them in a couple times. “Andrew, online casino who’s from England, happened to play a guy that he hadn’t played since they were juniors in Great Britain. He lost to Short trips dot your year like cookie crumbs at a horoscope taurus today care. him this time although he said he ‘owned him’ when they were kids.”
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The USTA National 40 Hard Court Championships return to the gorgeous beachside La Jolla Beach online casino & Tennis Club November 30-December 6. Competition is for men and women in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. All are vying for the prestigious national title and the gold ball that signifies their win. Singles events are scheduled in the morning and doubles in the afternoon. Spectators are welcome to watch excellent tennis matches by some of the best players in the country.
This tournament marks the fourth leg of the casino online 2009 USTA National Tournament circuit for this age group. Earlier events were on grass, clay and indoor courts elsewhere in the nation.
Along with the 40s, the USTA National Father/Son -certainly one of the most hotly competitive competitions across the land — and Grandfather/Grandson Hard Court Championships will be held December 4-6.
Homeless Children Tennis Courts = Success
Remember when you were in the sixth grade? Think back to when you were in the eighth grade. Now picture yourself homeless. Would you be scared, worried, sad, angry, stressed, perhaps even jealous? Do you wonder where you’ll be next week, next month?
The average age of a homeless person in the United States is nine years old. In San Diego there are 2,000 homeless children.
The Monarch School in San Diego is the only one of its kind in the nation, solely serving the academic needs of homeless children in the city. Monarch educates 100 youngsters at any time, nearly 500 in a year.
Recently Bridgepoint Education, a provider of post secondary education services, announced it’s sponsoring a biweekly tennis program for the students of Monarch School. David Vande Pol, a senior director of academic partnerships for Bridgepoint, is also an experienced tennis instructor. After he toured Monarch, he knew Bridgepoint would want to get involved. “They are generously donating my time to teach two tennis classes a week,” said Vande Pol, who is instructing sixth and eighth graders at Peninsula Tennis Club.
The children learn the discipline, teamwork and goal-setting that will help them throughout their lives.
“I’ve always marveled at how playing a sport like tennis effects positive change in other areas of one’s life. When you are practicing hard to improve your game, learning new strategies, setting fitness goals for yourself, and fostering healthy competition, it inevitably causes that discipline and mental focus to become part of your character, outside the courts as well,” said Vande Pol.
