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Cal Poly Students Hit the Courts on the Central Coast
By Nancy Abrams Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (SLO) kicked off the new school year in September with the 60th annual Week of Welcome (WOW) new student orientation program. Over 5,500 incoming students participated in WOW, which is the top-ranked university orientation program in the country. In an effort to showcase the benefits of recreational…
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T.I.S. The Season for TEAM, Innovation, and Sportsmanship
By Trevor Kronemann Team, Innovation and Sportsmanship are on full display for the next couple of months. The Junior Tennis Players of Southern California have been competing in several Team and Innovative formats; the Level I Jim Buck Team event, the JTT National Championships, the 10 and Under Pacific Exchange, the Girls CIF Team Season,…
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San Diego Collegiate Coaches Make History in the District Championships
It was history in the making as age and experience reigned at the 89th Annual San Diego District Championships at Balboa Tennis Club. Veteran players and coaches Ryan Keckley and Curt Wheeler were crowned the Men’s Open Doubles Champions in a tough 32-team draw. Keckly and Wheeler are the head men’s tennis coaches respectively at…
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San Diego Meets The ED in Town Hall Series
Friends of the San Diego tennis community visited La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club in September for the first in a series of meet and greet forums with Lance Lee, the new Executive Director of the Southern California Tennis Association. In a town hall format hosted by the club’s owner and SCTA Board member, William…
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Tie-Breakers And Unseededs Rule Second Day Of Los Cab Futures
Four Doubles Quarter-Finals And Six Second Round Singles Matches Set For Thursday Seven tie-breakers, including five in the final sets of matches, were played Tuesday in the 16 singles and doubles matches at the Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures $15,000 tennis tournament at Los Caballeros Racquet and Sports Club.’ Germany’s Adrian Oetzbach won a second-set…
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Redondo Beach And Former UCLA Player Continues Socal Tennis March
Four Singles Quarterfinals And Doubles Final Set For Friday In Fountain Valley Professional Event Karue Sell may have been born and raised in Brazil, but he’s taken quite a liking to Southern California, as the Redondo Beach and four-year UCLA player has won 20 straight matches in his last two tournaments in Claremont and Fountain Valley. Thursday, at…
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Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures Event Down To Final Four
Injury Forces Doubles Team Of Past And Present UCLA Bruins To Withdraw From Finals Since turning professional in early June, Ronnie Schneider has made the finals of four USTA Futures doubles championships, winning three. His latest win, at the Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures event in Fountain Valley Friday, was by far his easiest. He…
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Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures Singles Final Set For 11 A.M. Sunday
Former University Of Virginia And University Of North Carolina Stars To Face Off Ryan Shane is no stranger to singles championships on the USTA Men’s Futures tour, competing in three, including winning two, since 2015. It’s foreign ground for Ronnie Schneider, however, who has won three doubles titles since turning pro in June, but has…
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UNC Product Wins First USTA Men’s Futures In Fountain Valley
Ronnie Schneider Topples 2015 Winner Ryan Shane In Three Sets It was a fine two weeks in sunny Southern California for Ronnie Schneider, a 23-year-old Indiana native and recent graduate of the University of North Carolina: he won two USTA Men’s Futures doubles championships and claimed his first singles championship Sunday by defeating Ryan Shane…
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Local Junior Earns Entry Into 15K Professional Tennis Event In Fountain Valley
Singles Qualifying Begins Sept 22; Main Draw Starts Sept. 26 San Juan Capistrano’s Gavin Spencer won the singles and doubles titles this week in a junior tennis tournament held in Fountain Valley to win slots in both the singles and doubles main draw in the Los Cab USTA Men’s Pro Futures tournament, which will be held…