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117th Annual USTA SoCal Junior Sectionals Ready To Kick Off
The USTA Southern California Junior Sectional Championships return to Orange County June 19-23, 2019. Billed as “Southern California’s most competitive junior tennis tournament of the year,” nearly 900 athletes will take part in a tournament that has proven to be a stepping stone for some of the game’s most prolific names, including past competitors…
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Juniors: APPLY NOW for the Victor Stern Scholarship Grant
Applications are now being accepted for the Victor Stern Scholarship Grant. The Victor Stern Grant is designed to support juniors between the ages of 8 and 18 who demonstrate academic and athletic promise, aspire to play competitive tennis at the collegiate or professional level, or to compete in national or sectional tournaments. The recipient…
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Stop Robocalls on iPhone and Android
Not every automated solicitation call counts as illegal. Calls from political campaigns, debt collectors and charities are all permissible. What’s not allowed are the calls from the fake IRS agents or the companies that claim you won a free vacation to the Bahamas. Best practices According to the FCC, there are some easy steps you…
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Doris Day, Raptors, Barcelona vs Valencia, Warriors & Miranda Elish
Below is a snapshot of worldwide search interest this past week: Doris Day, Raptors, Barcelona vs Valencia, NBA Draft Lottery, Warriors and Miranda Elish were all trending on Google this past week. searches for tennis lesson up 16% searches for real estate in mission viejo up 43% searches for margarita mix recipe up 79% searches…
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Ian Freer Captures CIF-SS Individual Singles Title
JUNIOR SPOTLIGHT: Ian Freer Ian Freer knew the CIF-Southern Section Individual Championships singles draw was missing a few of SoCal’s top players, including winners of the past two Ojai Boys’ Interscholastic singles titles from Irvine powerhouses Woodbridge and University in Stefan Dostanic and Aditya Gupta, respectively. But that did nothing to diminish the fact that…
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Claremont Mudd-Scripps Men, Women Fall in Div. III Final
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s and women’s tennis team got as far as they could, but both came up just a little short in their quests for NCAA Division III Championships. Playing at Stowe Stadium on the campus of Kalamazoo College, the Stags held a 3-2 lead over Emory, which rallied for a 5-3 decision as the…
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Live Longer. Walk Faster.
Fast walkers appear to live longer than dawdlers: Study says people who walk briskly live up to 15 YEARS longer – regardless of their weight. Fast walkers may live longer than dawdlers – regardless of their weight, a new study suggests. Researchers at Leicester University analyzed data on 474,919 people with an average age of…
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USTA Women’s Senior 90-50s Wrap-Up at La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club
Gold, silver and bronze USTA national balls were handed out to a special group of women senior tennis players at the recently concluded USTA National Women’s Senior Hard Court Championships played at the prestigious La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club. It was a matchup of the top two seeds in the 50-and-over division as No.…
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NCAA Individuals Begin For Local SoCal Teams
Both the top USC women’s and UCLA men’s doubles teams are favored to get at least to the final round of the upcoming NCAA Doubles National Championships, if the seedings hold true. Trojans Angela Kulikov and Rianna Valdes have been tabbed the No. 1 seeded team on the women’s side, while Bruins Max Cressy and…
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UCLA, Pepperdine Fall In Elite 8 at NCAAs
Both the UCLA and Pepperdine women’s teams won the crucial doubles point, but proceeded to lose four straight in singles as the Bruins’ and Waves’ seasons ended in the quarterfinals at the NCAA National Champions played for the first time at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. The seventh-seeded UCLA team fell to No.…