Club Tennis Members,

I hope you all had a relaxing break and are ready for another successful semester. We have a huge season ahead of us, so I hope you are all ready for some great tennis, and most importantly to have some fun. The following are important announcements:

1. We will be having a club tennis meeting this Friday at 4:00 PM at Whispers. All officers are required to come, and this meeting is also meant for anyone who is at all interested in contributing to the future of club tennis. We will discuss the upcoming season, as well as what anyone wants to change/improve about club tennis, such as practices, ladder system and anything that might be important. I highly recommend anyone, especially freshman and sophomores currently on the competitive team to come to this meeting .

We will also be electing new officers for the positions of Secretary, SCF rep, and Webmaster (people currently with these positions are allowed to reapply), so anyone interested in these positions or even in just helping out with club must come to the meeting.  If you cannot make the meeting because of a conflict, but are still interested please email me.

2. We will be starting indoor practices at Vetta Hampshire this Sunday from 7-9PM.  We will be getting 4 courts so we will be taking a maximum of 16 people per practice. If you are interested in going to the Indoor practices Please fill out a record in the Indoor Practices yahoo group database http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/wuclubtennis/database  with your name, number, and how many people you can take if you have a car, so we can organize travel arrangements.  Since space is limited we will most likely reserve the space for people currently on the competitive team (based on the ladders) and people who want to try out for the competitive team. Once it gets warm enough (probably around early March) we will start practices 2-3 days a week on the varsity courts.

3. The upcoming Spring Season is going to be our biggest yet. Here is our tentative schedule, try to keep these dates open if you are interested in playing:

- January 28/29 Tri team tennis match with University of Nebraska and University of Missouri Rolla (This match is coming up very quickly and you should think about whether or not you would like to come, very soon you will get another email with more details asking to confirm if you are interested in going)

- Weekend of Feb 18,19 Club Team Tennis Sectional Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa

-TBD Match with Wash U Women’s Varsity Team (Sometime in February)

-Friday March 3^rd Men and Women’s Match against Fontebonne University

-TBD Match with SLU Club Team (Matt Seiler will schedule this match)

- Weekend of April 20-22^rd Club Team Tennis National Tournament in Austin, Texas

Jeff Rudie

Club Tennis President

http://sugroups.wustl.edu/~wutennis/