It's pretty hard to describe how great this time of year is: excitement is everywhere on campus - from the classroom to the courts everyone is enjoying being back together. In what has become one of the teams favorite start of the year traditions we joined the men's team and went out to Hutch's place - the home and horse ranch on the Walla Walla River of Biology prof Delbert Hutchison- for team blackberry picking. Coach Jeff stepped up once again providing an awesome dutch oven pot pie, we had a great fire, and lots of blackberries for cobbler. Jeff took some photos you can find on his blog (or this link).
What a fun start to the year, and it was the twins birthday! Then, Monday was our first practice (which is like Christmas for me to be on court with everyone). It was a great one as we celebrated Liv's birthday and had a great focused, efficient and fun session of singles play. Liv even finished off the day going through everyone on the team in a game we like to call Wolverine (hint - it's HARD). The depth we have each year is better and better both from hard work put in by our returners and a great recruiting class.
Today many of us watched our buddy team, men's soccer battle to a 1-1 tie before running out to the wheat fields and playing some doubles under the lights.
Speaking of lights, the new ones in Bratton are just about ready to go, so even with wonderful sunshine, we know our awesome indoor center is now brightly lit with wonderful new fixtures!
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| Men's coach Jeff Northam and I check out the new lights |
I hope everyone had a great Labor day weekend and is enjoying life half as much as we are.
Coach John
