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Tennis Club news

Christine Terechenok Tennis is winding down this season with March and April events scheduled. Upcoming activities: March 10-12 – Cottonwood hosts East/West Tournment March 19 – Springfield hosts SunBird March 21-25 – IronOaks hosts Claycourt Tournament March 26 – SunBird tennis in-house year end picnic April 22 – SunBird hosts IronOaks An update on the…

SunBird Tennis Club Supports Community Projects

Pictured to the left is Jean Mrugala, President of the SunBird Garden Club, accepting a cash donation from the President and Vice President of the Tennis Club, Dave and Jen Walden. Jean was very excited to accept the contribution to use towards their future projects.

Christine Terechenok The Tennis Club appreciates all the hard and beautiful work the Garden Club does for our community. The Tennis Club in the past has donated to other worthwhile community projects: to name a few, the front entry wall re-design, sails for the Horseshoe Club, bench at the Post Office and the Horizon Room…

Tennis Club news

Christine Terechenok Happy New Year to all. Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays. At the Tennis Club December meeting all the officers of 2015 volunteered to stay on for year 2016. They are President Dave Walden, Vice President Jen Walden, Secretary Lillian Donley and Treasure Pam Tiffany. No one opposed and the vote was unanimous. We…

Summer Tennis event

Thanks to Pat Daven (left), Charlotte Wiard (right), Jo Lucas and Vickie Ayres (not shown) for organizing this new summertime tennis event for our full time residents and tennis enthusiasts.

Christine Terechenok SunBird Tennis Club invited three other clubs to participate in a tennis mixer; Trilogy, Springfield and Solera. It took place on July 25 at 6:30 a.m. and finished at 9:30 a.m. before the hot temperatures moved in. Together they came up with a total of 32 players and everyone from all clubs brought…

Tennis Club news

Anthony Pappano at our in-house tournament and picnic.

Anthony Pappano has been a SunBird tennis member for 20 years and is still on the courts playing his heart out. Yeah Anthony! So if you think you can’t play at your age, think again about joining the Tennis Club and keep your heart and body going. The Tennis Club had its last meeting on…

IronOaks Tennis events

Denise Lott The IronOaks Tennis Club Gender Doubles Tournament was held In February. Winners were Lola Bernadelli and Carmelle Davin (4.0 women), Mike Corey and Leo Lapane (4.0 men), Olena Buxton and Barb Yankee (3.5 women) and Jerry Geiszler and Len Paulson (3.5 men). Our Winter Drop-In Social, open to all Sun Lakes area players,…

SunBird Tennis news

Christine Terechenok The next Tennis Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. in the Lakeview room in the SunBird Clubhouse. Remember, everyone that wants to participate, bring an appetizer to share at the meeting. Our new tennis board is trying out this new idea and hopes to continue it…

IronOaks Tennis Club activities

USTA 7.0 Sectional winners are Hal Davis, Jim Utter, Gary Porter, Ken Stanley (captain), Zev Yardeni, Phil Messer, Jerry Rex and Randy McManus

Denise Lott Our men’s USTA team had exciting news. They captured the 2014 65 Plus USTA 7.0 Sectionals held at the Tucson Racquet and Sports Club. There were teams from El Paso, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Tucson and Sun Lakes competing in their bracket. They now are advancing to the national championship held in Surprise on…