April 14, 2008
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Great tennis news!
Wow what an eventful past few days! Where to start…
Well first off, I just found out this morning that our humble little UMBC tennis club won the award for Most Improved Team on CollegeClubTennis.com!! I am soooo happy that we got this award and this will only further legitimize our club to UMBC Athletics and among the nation’s tennis clubs.
In other news, this past weekend we played in the Blue Hen Invitationals at the University of Delaware. The team we brought consisted of Jeff Ocker, Shane Yap, David Martin, Alex Chan, Kevin Chiong, Brian Hsiao, Kenny Lee, Tiffany Hodges, Whitney Torchia, and Sylvia Lee. On Saturday, we won our round robin pool by beating Delaware (ranked 16th in the nation), TCNJ, and Towson to get 1st place in our pool and an entry into the Gold Bracket. Unfortunately for us, we lost in the Gold Bracket elimination round to (who else?) Navy, AGAIN, in a close match. Ahhh we are now 0-3 against Navy in tournaments -_- . Overall though, this weekend was a success and we tied for 5th place among 16 clubs. For CollegeClubTennis.com take on this event, go to this link: http://www.collegeclubtennis.com/2008bluehen.php
I’m so tired from this weekend…didn’t get too much sleep as we had to leave from UMBC on Saturday at 6:30am and then 8am on Sunday. The weather was so wacky at times, especially on Saturday. There was a stretch of time when it was pouring and extremely sunny at the same time! Distractions were everywhere throughout the tournament. Besides random weather conditions, there were distractions from random nearby rugby/softball games (one rugby ball actually hit Tiffany during play!), random 2 mile long trains roaring by, and random parades marching by the courts.
Crazy weekend…but in the end I really had a good time. I would put this tournament up there as one of the most fun times I’ve ever had with the club
.BTW, nice seeing you again Susan
. Congrats to your team for winning the tournament!Alright, time for pictures! Here are just a few…the rest are over here .
Vlogs from Day 1 (after beating Delaware and TCNJ) and Day 2 (getting lunch after losing to Navy):
Finally, here we are demolishing Kevin’s (already cracked) racket. It was all in good fun:So that was a very long post haha. Now time to get back into school mode. Just got an exam this Wed in Aggression psyc really. Gonna watch an advanced screening of The Forbidden Kingdom on Tuesday night and an advanced screening of 88 Minutes on Wednesday night with a new girl. Hope this week will be as great as the past few days have been
