Tuesday, September 2, 2008

First Practice

Howdy Ags!

Let's BTHO Arkansas St!...awkward silence...but seriously, what is up with Fightin' Texas Football?!?!  That was unbelievable on Saturday what happened.  If we keep on this pace Mike Goodson's back is gonna hurt from carrying the team.  Our pass defense looked as soft as ever and McGee looked as confused as Derek returning one of my serves at times.  I just hope the Shermanator shores up that O-line and gets our defense a lil more fired up.  It was definitely one of the more frustrating games I've watched, I mean we never really fell into a rhythm and how can we let Arkansas St....Arkansas STATE...walk all over us at home.  I mean this Arkansas St. team was picked to finish fourth in the lowly Sun Belt Conference. And the temporary loss of J-Train was painfully evident when we couldn't even punch the ball into the end zone from inside the 5...Hopefully, our kicker figures out how to put a foot on the pigskin, and we can get our act together to BTHO New Mexico and redeem ourselves against Miami after last year's nationally televised embarrassment.  But thinking about all this just depresses me...let's get to some Fightin' Texas Aggie Tennis Club...

So first practice is this Wednesday, September 3rd, from 8-11pm out at the intramural tennis courts.  I hope all of y'all are as excited about club this year as I am.  We're looking to build off of last year and be better than ever.  As always, we'll be expecting a big turnout and we want to get as many people as possible out there playing tennis (especially girls).  As a bonus to you girls, I'm sure at some point during the first couple of practices Billy will probably take off his shirt, ha.  For the first couple of practices will be just be getting to know everybody and will be playing A LOT of the greatest game in the world…clean winner.  Also, don't be scared about coming out to club no matter what your skill level.  We have a very wide variety of players that come out for club, from ex-varsity's to people who just play a little in HS to people who have never picked up a racquet before.

If you decide it's for you, and you want to be a part of the biggest and best tennis club in the nation, you can pay your dues.  And remember, our tournaments are free…FREE…***FREE*** for our members.  Did I mention our members get into tourneys for free? FREE.  There's no such thing as a free lunch, but we got free tourneys.  Y'all are also more than welcome to come out for the first couple of practices and see what we're all about (and how much fun we have).  We'll be collecting membership fees at practice, and we have a special early sign up offer.  If you can pay your membership dues before September 10th at 8pm, you'll only have to pay $40 for both semesters, which really is a good deal (it covers balls, uniforms, social events, REC court fees, entry fees, housing, and travel costs for intra- and inter-club tournaments in and around the state, and to nationals, and our freaking awesome new tennis club t-shirt...Tennis Club members also get 15% off at Tennis Warehouse).  Otherwise the dues will be $50 for both semesters or $30 for the fall semester only.  Our club shirts will be in by the first practice and you can pick yours up once you pay your dues.  Seriously guys, the shirts are flippin' awesome.  If ya'll really want to you can waive the membership dues and just pay $40 for the shirts…seriously they're that awesome.

We will be participating in a number of out-of-town tournaments throughout the semester and if you want to see our schedule laid out just go to http://tennisclub.tamu.edu and click on our "Google Calendar" link.  We will also be having a couple intra-club singles and doubles tournaments.  Our doubles tourney will be on September 13th and 14th and the intra-club singles tournament will be October 4th and 5th. So start scopin' the competition and find a good doubles partner.  We will be giving out a bunch of prizes and give-a-ways from local businesses, thanks to the efforts of Christine and Aubrie.  The out of town club tournaments are also a blast.  We get to play teams from all over the state, and most especially BEAT THE HELL OUTTA t.u.!  In order to determine our teams for the inter-club tournaments we will be using pool play (beginning in mid-September) and intra-club tourney results in the fall and a ladder system in the spring.

We will also have a couple social events coming up, including a tailgate before the September 20th game against Miami.  Terry will be organizing a few bowling socials and cookouts for everyone to mingle with all the sexy people tennis club is made up of.  Another awesome thing about tennis club is the freaking awesome hookup we got from Shivers Snow Cones down on Harvey.  If anyone goes down to Shivers and says they are supporters of the Texas A&M Tennis Club, we get 15% of the sale to help out our club.  So take your dates to Shivers. Take you mom, dad, uncle, rabbi, boyfriend, girlfriend(s), classmates, friends, enemies, co-workers, ex's, dogs, neighbor, cousin, priest, doctor, dentist, and profs to Shivers.  Walk in like you own the place, cuz technically we own 15% of it!

Also, I note for all you Blinners out there…Y'all are more than welcome to join our club and be part of the fun, just talk to David if you have any questions about starting your own club over at Blinn.

Remember if you have any more questions visit our website at tennisclub.tamu.edu or email us.  Also remember to join the Tennis Club Facebook Group.

Thanks and Gig 'em!

-Jonathan "my serve is still huger than Derek's" Brower

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