Racquetball Visit

This year the La Conner Braves gained a triple athlete. She was a starter in volleyball, basketball, and track. The coaches all fought for her to join their teams. She just graduated from middle school and is now a record breaking freshmen. She is currently breaking track records. And I believe we will be seeing her name everywhere in the years to come. Her name is Matty Lagerwey.

Winning the Girls 14s National Tennis Championships gave Natalia Kochkodan the chance to make a difference in the world and she jumped right onto that opportunity. In the 18 years that she has lived since the win, she has created a non for profit organization that assists disease stricken children in playing sports, has donated over 10 million dollars to several children’s charities including Ball For All and Project Fit

First, I would like to share with all of you what tennis is and what it’s like for the professionals and high school teams, to

become an Amercian professional tennis player which is one of the greatest of all time. She uses grit which means passion and perseverance to achieve long term goals. As she overcome challenges throughout her life as a tennis player. Her hard work and practice has taken her a long way.

I was at my house sitting on the soft couch that I was sinking in like quicksand. I had my tennis racket in one hand, a fuzzy neon green tennis ball in the other. My house was always empty because it was just my mom, my dad, and me. Now, I have a crazy little brother and he is very messy. I was watching a little kid movie with my baby brother and the DVD froze. I figured that it was time to practice for the tennis tryouts. The tryouts are for a camp that took girls to learn more about tennis and compete with other teams. My mom went to that same camp and I wanted to follow in her footsteps. The camp that is ran by an elementary school and it was to help little kids get into sports like tennis. But, lately my mom is acting like I was

As far as most people are concerned, every school tennis court is pretty much the same. The only prominent difference is the surface, whether it is a hard court, clay, or even grass. While I was a member of the Brewer High School Tennis team, I can recall vivid details of the time I spent participating in inter-school scrimmages and district tournaments as well as the other teammates involved. The tennis court I played on was surrounded by a steel, vinyl coated chain-link fence with aged and weathered benches located in the outer boundaries of the court. In addition, the surface of the court was coated with a green, acrylic paint with white boundary lines painted where necessary. There was one practice session where I accepted a challenge to

Background Info: I was born on December 21st, 1954, in Florida. I had four siblings, three brothers and one sister. At age five, my father drilled me into practicing tennis day and night. In 1969, I became the world's number one under-14 girls tennis player. When I was 15, I defeated the reigning U.S. Open Champion, Margaret Court in North Carolina. I became a professional tennis player along with my sister, Jeanne Evert.

Tennis has always played a significant role in my life as well as my commitment to my community, academics and as a part of my future goals. Ever since the age of six, I have absolutely adored the game of tennis. I honestly cannot explain my genuine attraction to the sport, although I know that I would not be the tenacious and goal-oriented young lady I am today if it was not for my participation in the Prince George’s Tennis and Education Foundation. PGTEF is a community tennis association that provides the opportunity for children of all ages to succeed academically and athletically through tennis.

In the autobiography, No One Makes It Alone, by Andrew A Valdez, we learn more or less on how one man’s decision to pull Andy off the streets, and have him pursue tennis, changed Andy’s entire life for better. Even though my older brother Omar was not influenced by a certain person he is still pursuing his dreams and trying to accomplish all his goals in life. Andy and Omar both learned how play sports and they knew that in order to improve they need to keep practicing and never give up. Omar and Andy are both self- doubting , curious, and hardworking individuals who have overcome obstacles in life, and still manage to keep positive attitudes.

I’ve always asked myself,” what does it really take to make it big? To play amongst the greats, how could I do that? Me, Skylar Ross, a young man with this desire, the passion, wanting to play side by side with legends, to become someone people talk about, is what has pushed me all these years. It drove me to become a better player, to become more informed about the sport. This also influenced me to become more intertwined with school, that way I could have a better chance at getting a scholarship at a college.

Alex’s sports hobbies include tennis and volleyball. Alex has been playing competitive tennis for 3 years now. She has been ranked in singles as high as the 16th highest ranked player in all of Colorado. In doubles, she has been ranked as high as the 8th highest doubles team with her doubles partner Lindsay Lynch. Alex and her doubles partner Lindsay got 4th overall in a sectional tournament with girls competing from Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Utah. She has also played team tennis and won different titles in Colorado for winning the 12 and under and 14 and under with her team. Alex has gone to different states such as Cheyenne, Wyoming, Boulder, Colorado, Las Vegas Nevada, and Boise, Idaho for tennis tournaments. Her best

Four of five senior tennis players are new to the sport this year. Shaun Petrovich, Matt Larsen, Dylan Ion and Grant Anderson all decided to join the tennis team for their senior year.

Infinite Jest page 100-200 starts out with Hal Incandenza and his friends in the locker room at the tennis academy. They talk about miscellaneous topics, but most is just usual stuff that teenage boys talk about. Although, one theme that I find in their conversations is unhappiness. Most of the boys seem exhausted, worn out, and just sick of being there. They go to the cartridge viewer room and start to question why they are even there, because the players on the viewers do not look too happy either. I think that this depression has a lot to do with why Hal likes to get high, even though he says he is “addicted to the secrecy of it,” and while that may be true, I feel like subconsciously he knows that it is because he is unhappy at the

Day Wednesday Friday Saturday Time 10:30am - 11:30am 10:30am - 11:30am 8:00am - 9:00am Duration 5 weeks 5 weeks 5 weeks Cost $75.00 $75.00 $75.00 Dates 9/07 - 10/05 9/09 - 10/07 9/10 - 10/08

IU is about 193 miles from my house. Which is about 3 hours and 41 minutes away from my house by car. If you walked to IU it would take roughly 63 hours.