Girls tennis team spreads thin
Senior Ann Dai sets up for a hit during practice.
May 1, 2009 • written by Emily Holland, Business Manager
Filed under Sports
Since she was young, junior Beth Anderson loved tennis. Before every match, she traditionally opens up a bottle of Pedialyte, a concentrated drink with extreme electrolytes, which many professional tennis players drink before their match. But lately, the Pedialyte has been sitting, waiting in the fridge for the season to begin.
This year the season has been forced to rescheduled matches one after another. To accommodate for this misfortune, the tennis team will be playing nine matches in the next two weeks.
“The new schedule will be interesting,” Anderson said. “But the more nervous you get, the more you are playing a mental game.”
Holding the number one seat on the team, Anderson has not only prepared herself physically, but mentally as well.
“Since we will not have time to regroup and go over what we did wrong, we have to mentally prepare before each match,” Anderson said.
Even though the team lost the time normally used for revising mistakes, the team incorporated more time with conditioning and training during pre-season.
“Since we had a week off, we practiced really hard and got the practice time we needed,” head coach Chad Anderson said.
Taking on the extra time given to prepare for the matches, senior Ann Dai uses the time wisely.
“This is a big mental game as it is physical,” Dai said. “I am definitely embracing this instead of complaining.”
Dai sees the flood in a positive light, even though the next few weeks will be busy.
“I honestly have enjoyed the time off from the flood,” Dai said. “We have had more time to prepare for our matches.”
Even though the flood has postponed the team’s opportunity to compete, Anderson has dealt with the flood in a positive way.
“You cannot control the flood,” Anderson said. “You do what you gotta do.”
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