T-Bar Girls Rule!!!

So, as anyone who reads this blog knows, I am completely tennis obsessed.  I love to watch it, play it, read about it -- it is my thing, it keeps me happy and sane (Mommies, don't we all need something just for us that keeps us happy and sane????). 

When I started to play tennis (it will be 2 years in September, not counting the 3 months I had to take off when I tore my calf), I was content to participate in drills and lessons, working on proper stroke mechanics and doubles play strategy.  But as my game progressed, my fabulous pro, Royce, insisted that I begin team tennis play -- he said it was the only way to get better.  So in the spring, I formed a USTA (US Tennis Association) team, and asked all my favorite TBarM girls to play on it.  I asked my two favorite pros to coach it.  And off we went, into the world of competitive team tennis, many of us for the first time.

There were 8 total teams in our flight -- teams from other clubs in the Dallas area.  We traveled to their clubs, they traveled to our clubs.  And somewhere along the way, we became a darn good tennis team.  The season just ended, and we ended up 3rd in our flight -- behind a Royal Oaks team that was completely undefeated and a Lifetime Fitness team that was a former City Championship team.  For our inagural year, we kicked some serious butt!  Our pros were even surprised that we did as well as we did.

So on a night a few weeks ago, we gathered as many of us as we could to toast our season and toast each other, the T-BAR GIRLS, which is what I always called us in e-mails to the team, and has somewhere along the way stuck.  So here we are, the T-Bar girls.

Stacey and Melissa

Sabrina (who also happens to be my neighbor) and me!!!

Susan (our strongest player!!) and Sabrina

Cheryl, Rini and Donna

Nora and Cheryl (they made a darn good doubles team)

one of our pros, Ryan Haley (he's from New Mexico, just like me!!)

hook 'em horns!  Susan is a die-hard UT girl!

T-BAR GIRLS RULE!!!