Jerry Vance The Sun Lakes Tennis Club is starting 2016 out with our first potluck dinner and meeting. Potlucks are the second Wednesday of each month so come enjoy great food, fellowship and the meeting. This year’s leadership is Paul Patterson, treasurer, Betty Dunn, secretary, Mary Jane Robinson, president, Dan Thorsen, Vice president, Denise White,…
Denise Lott IronOaks Tennis Club welcomed the New Year by inviting our neighboring communities to join them in a day of social tennis with potluck specialties. The weather was perfect as 80 club members and visitors got together to start the new tennis year with exercise and camaraderie. Our guests came from Robson Ranch in…
Rod Hayward Welcome to the first in a series of articles from the Cottonwood Tennis Club designed to help the community play better tennis. According to three instructors in the Cottonwood Tennis Club, nothing affects performance more than where we choose to play on the court. For Don, finding the proper court position is helped…
Sue Elsner December 16 was the last day of the fall Wednesday Women’s Tennis League in Cottonwood. ‘Twas the season as well for the end-of-the-league party, including lunch, gifts and awards. Mary Ann Rice, league coordinator, had organized the lunch and awards, as well as the outdoor heaters for the chilly morning event. The winning…
Jerry Vance We had a good December with the annual dinner on December 12; everyone was dressed in their Christmas finest. Events in January were a meet with IronOaks that was canceled and turned into a social. On January 16 we held our own Hot Dog Tournament and on January 23 we had a good…
IronOaks Tennis Club once again showed why it is one of the premier senior tennis clubs in the nation, with four teams capturing their respective league titles at the Southwest USTA 65-and-over Sectional Tennis Championships in Surprise, AZ from December 11-13, 2015. Competing teams which had won their local leagues represented districts from El Paso,…
Denise Lott The Southwest Adult and Senior Tennis Tournament was held in Tucson in early November. On the humorous side, Dana Billingsley of Scottsdale and Len Paulson of IOTC were the only entrants in the 80 age bracket singles, so they got permission to play the “final” at the new Ironwood courts. This was a…
This was the 31st year for the Bradshaw Tennis tournament held at the Cottonwood Racquet Club. There were many close matches with over 50 needing a tie-break game. The IronOaks Fitness and Racquet Center had many members place in the top three in their division. The results are as follows: Dave Rokusek was part of…
Jerry Vance Mary Jane Robinson says it’s time to play tennis again for the Sun Lakes Tennis Club. Our potluck dinners started on November 11 and will be the second Wednesday of each month with the next one January 13. Officers leading the club this year are Mary Jane Robinson, president, Dan Thorsen, vice president,…
IronOaks Tennis Club is thrilled to recognize four of our USTA teams who won their season on the local level and advanced to the sectional competitions on December 11-13. All four teams were in Surprise, AZ at that time. These are all 65 and over teams. Their competition was teams from the rest of Arizona,…