Hey there tennis fans!
I hope you
all had a well rested weekend and enjoyed the weather reaching into the 80's
believe it or not. It's about time! We're so spoiled living in Southern
California sometimes. Anything in the 60's and below is freezing to us. We
can't even fathom what the harsh winters are bringing the east coasters right
about now.
Most of our
team battled little hick-ups of injuries, which prohibited them from carrying
on full practices this week. However, they properly took care of themselves in
the training room and built up each day with more hitting in order to gear up
for our big weekend of back-to back matches in Santa Barbara.
My Peruvian
teammate Claudia, but we call her "Clau" put on a lovely upbeat Spanish
playlist for our strength workout with Nick this week. There's something about
that Spanish flavor that is so catchy sometimes. Even Nick, our strength
training coach and the most difficult to please when it comes to music, enjoyed
the little Spanish mix.
After
drowning our sorrows in the thought that none of our team had valentines for
Valentines Day (except for Adri who has a boyfriend who we all love and is one
of our biggest fans) our coach, Jamie, or 'Jimbo' as we prefer calling him,
gave us a glimmer of hope when he blessed our whole team with V-Day grams. It
easily made all of our days! We couldn't have asked for a better valentine! We carried
out the rest of day in high spirits and positive vibes, and then some of us
treated ourselves to some Pinkberry later where I got my first medium sized
fro-yo! I always settle for the mini, but in honor of this holiday giving me an
excuse to binge on sweets, I thought why not go up in size! Oh man it was good.
Unfortunately
your Lady Lions faced two tough rounds of tennis in Santa Barbara this weekend.
We fell just short to UCSB 4-3 on Saturday where we seemed to have had a rather
slow start. On Sunday, we lost to Colorado State. I think our team has a lot of
energy and spirit but we sometimes channel that energy elsewhere for a little.
Winning that doubles point is so key and can really help our confidence towards
the singles matches to follow. However, we have to keep up the intensity
throughout the whole singles matches because they are not quick 8 game pro
sets, they're 2 out of 3 sets. You gotta be in it to win it the whole time
because the match doesn't end after the doubles point! There are definitely
things we all need to work on but I am confident, without a shadow of a doubt
that our team can improve and get there!
In fact, I
think we will make some improvements by this Friday against our match against
SDSU. Wish us the best of luck for the upcoming week! We hope to kick some lion
butt and do LMU proud!
Until next time!
Logan
