Palm Creek Tennis Club

Cancer Awareness Tournament Results - Men's and Mixed

2012-02-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

The Men played 6 games against each team and earned 2 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 for a loss.

Congratulations to the team of Bob Gibson/Manfred Sohni for winning the Men’s Doubles as the winning team in a play off against Ken Civiello and Jerry Grayson.

Mixed doubles today had lots of great matches:

The morning session was won by the team of Ken Civiello/Doris Grayson in a 10-7 tie break against the team of Bob Gibson/Mary Anderson.

The afternoon session was won by the team of Pete McGannon/Helen Arnold in an 11=9 tie break against the team of Manfred Sohni/Patti Blessen.

The tie break between the two sessions was won by the team of Ken Civiello/Doris Grayson in a 10=8 tie break against the team of Pete McGannon/Helen Arnold.

Congratulations to all the winning teams in the Palm Creek Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Tournament. And, everyone who played was a winner in supporting this very worthy cause.

If you don’t make it to the dinner tomorrow night, please make sure you thank Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson for the excellent job on this tournament!!!

Looking forward to seeing you at the Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Tournament Awards Dinner and Raffle/Auction tomorrow night (Saturday 2/4) at 5:30 P.M. in the San Tan Room,

Palm Creek Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Tournament - Ladies Results

2012-02-01T19:43:00.000-07:00

Here is an update on the results of the Ladies Doubles played today in the Cancer Awareness Tournament;

Sandy Hurlbert/Harriette Roberts won the 9:30 session

Rhoda Zaph/Mary Williams and Penny Jacobsen/Bev Nirenberg tied in the afternoon session. Penny Jacobsen and Bev Nirenberg won the tiebreaker between these two teams.

Sandy and Harriette then played a tie break with Penny and Bev. By winning this tie break, Sandy and Harriette are the winners of the ladies doubles. Congratulations to Sandy and Harriette and congratulations to all the ladies who played as we are all winners!!!

It was a beautiful day and all the ladies had a great time.

Stay tuned for tomorrow with the results of the Mens Doubles.

Weekly Update - Sunday 1/26/2012

2012-02-01T19:40:00.000-07:00

Palm Creek Tennis Tournament (February 16-19)– The registration forms are available with hard copies in the bulletin board (“Upcoming Events” section facing the pavilion). You can sign up for gender specific doubles (ladies or mens) as well as mixed doubles. The registration fee is $5 per player per event for Tennis Club Members, $10 per event for non club members. Now is the time to ask one of your tennis friends to be your partner. If you would like to play and you don’t have a partner, give me or Mark a call (6459) and we will find you a partner. This event is a lot of fun and results in some good quality tennis. The single elimination process with a consolation bracket results in almost everyone playing at least twice. Please get your registration form and monies to Mark or me at Site #459 by February 14th. The seeding event will be held at 2pm on Tuesday, February 14^th. This is gives you a good warm up with your partner and makes sure you are playing at the right level. And, don’t forget to mark your calendar right now for the Sunday celebration awards dinner. Its free for all players, their spouses and all tennis club members. Guests are welcome for the most reasonable price of $5 per person!

Cancer Awareness Tournament – The times are now set for the Cancer Awareness Tournament. As we once again do not have enough courts to schedule everyone in one session, the ladies doubles and mixed doubles sessions are split between a 9:30 start and a 12:30 start. The session times for all players will be posted on the bulletin board on Monday and I will also send out an email to let you know if you are scheduled in the 9:30 session or the 12:30 session. As we have split the sessions there are some courts available for scheduled play. We have made changes to accommodate as many of the existing reservations as possible. On Wednesday and Friday, Social tennis will have courts 1 and 5. Therefore they will need to split the groups and have a rotation line up on each court. On Thursday Social Tennis will only have court #1. If you have court reservations on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday (2/1, 2/2, or 2/3) please go into www.reservemycourt.com to check on your reservation, check on the status of organized play or make a reservation on any of the available times. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me or Mark at 6459.

Remember, the Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Dinner and Raffle/Auction is scheduled to start at 5:30 on Saturday, February 4^th in the San Tan Room. If you are playing in any session your dinner is free. Anyone not playing can attend the dinner for the amazingly low price of $5. Those not playing but attending the dinner need to sign up by Thursday 2/2. The sign up sheets are inside the tennis club bulletin board. Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson have done a wonderful job getting some fabulous items for the raffle and the auction. Please remember all of these monies go to the Cancer Awareness Charities of Susan B. Komen and the American Cancer Society. So bring some money with you and in addition to getting some great deals you support a very worthwhile cause. Mike Kirsh heads the raffle and auction and if it is half as much fun as last year’s event you will not want to miss it!!

Club Team Tennis had some away games at Mission Royale this week and from the feedback received from the players it all worked out very well. The Mission Royale teams did a wonderful job and even added door prizes to their event. Everyone appreciated that all the games started in both locations at 2pm. The Robson Ranch group reported that they have shared with their management that there are now games at Palm Creek and Mission Royale but with only two courts they can’t participate. Evidently this has spurred Robson to look into building two additional tennis courts!!

Weekly Update 1/22/2012

2012-02-01T19:35:00.000-07:00

As we don’t have enough tennis courts at Palm Creek for all the teams to start at the same time, we are going to try doing Club Team Tennis this week by splitting the courts between Palm Creek and Mission Royale. We know we have hit the big time – we are playing “away games!!!” Play will start at 2pm at both sites. All players will receive an email letting them know which courts they will be playing on. As Mission Royale does not have the depth of facilities that we have here at Palm Creek they are requesting all players bring chairs. Those playing at Mission Royale will have their Happy Hour at Mission Royale and those playing at Palm Creek will have their Happy Hour at Palm Creek. If you are not playing Club Team tennis please come out and cheer on the teams and stop by and emjoy our tennis club happy hour at 4pm. This is our last session of Club Team Tennis for the January Session. The February/March Session will start up again on February 23^rd.

Sign up sheets are posted for the Cancer Awareness Tournament. Please stop by the bulletin boards and sign up. This is a very worthy cause and the Cancer Awareness Tennis Tournaments are always great fun!! You don’t even have to find a partner as partners are randomly assigned to you!! It really makes for a very fun filled event. And, all players are invited to the Cancer Awareness Awards Dinner on Saturday at 5:30 pm for free. Spouses are invited to also attend for $5. There is a sign up sheet for those who just would like to attend the dinner for $5. Please note that the tennis club does not participate in the Cancer Awareness shirts/caps/towels. We prefer to give as much money as we can to the Cancer charities. As many of us participate in the golf tournament or the walk, or one of the other tournaments we already get a shirt/cap/towel. If you want a Cancer Awareness shirt or a cap and you don’t participate in any of the other Cancer Awareness events you can go to the Activities office and they will sell it to you.

I heard from Helen Arnold, membership chair, that she is getting calls looking for updated phone numbers. Because I so value all of the tennis club volunteers, I hate to put additional burdens on them. So I reprioritized The Tennis Club Roster on my “to do” list and I have updated the roster on the tennis club website: www.palmcreektennisclub.blogspot.com. On the right under the word Menu is the “2011-2012 Tennis Club Roster.” Please check and make sure your site number is correct. I have found that many of you have changed sites and did not let me know so I am finding out the hard way how to find you. Also, the self rating is just that, how you rate yourself as a tennis player. We use the USTA rating system. But, this is your self rating, you are the only one who can change it. Please review your rating and let me know if you would like to change it. Last but not least, there are no emails included in this roster. This is a public website and with all the emails posted it would open all of us to unnecessary spam. Also, someone added in our planning meeting that they believe it is against the law to publish email addresses. I highly value the use of emails to communicate with you. Therefore, I am very careful to send this using the “blind carbon copy” or bcc. That way no one can see any of the other email addresses. Take a minute and print the roster so you can easily look up your tennis friends.

Ladies League is going strong with 7 courts!!! Connie Emerson advised me that as the 11:00 court has to finish by 12:30 so the rest of the league can play. The 12:30 group courts 4 and 5 have to be finished by 2pm if not earlier so Hank Olson can get ready for Ball Machine 101. In order to ensure that the games are all finished in time the ladies league is going to a “no ad” format. The tennis league members discussed this and voted as a group to go to the “no ad” format.

Tennis Lessons on Tuesdays at 2pm are going strong. Last week Skip assigned the beginners and some of the newer players to work with Bob McConnell on Court 2 and it seemed like they were all having a great time. Four of the ladies in this group traded contact info and they are going to start playing together. This is just outstanding! If you want to improve your game and have some fun at the same time, come out to the courts Tuesday at 2pm. Skip, Walt, Rhoda and Bob do an amazing job. And, its FREE!!!

Also, I need to clear up a possible misunderstanding. Social Tennis is open to ALL LEVELS OF PLAY. If you are just starting please know that you will be welcomed. I have seen Mary Ellen Halm, one of our top lady players at Social Tennis and I have seen some of our newest beginners at Social Tennis. This is one of the best things about our tennis group - we welcome all players and all of the people playing social tennis are more than willing to help you out. It is a great way to learn the rules of the game, get to meet other tennis players, get in some exercise, and have fun! Social Tennis starts at 9:30 AM Monday through Friday. To all of our social tennis players, please make sure the lid is placed back on the ball container. Last week I found balls spilling out of the bin and the lid was off. If there are extra balls in the bin either throw them away or put them in the can to be used with the ball machine or lessons. Thanks!

Weekly Update - Sunday 1/16

2012-01-21T21:21:00.000-07:00

It was a busy week on the courts. The 1^st games of Club Team Tennis took place last Thursday. It was nice having the cloud cover to block the sun from our eyes, but it was a bit chillier at the Happy Hour. But that didn’t stop us from having a wonderful time. With team names like: Terminetters, Double Shots, Net Force One, Jolly Volley Gang, Court Masters, Swing Team Ace Kickers, Chip & Charge Barrage, Alley Gators and Diva Force - Palm Creek was well represented! Robson had two teams: Road Runners and Rocks & Rockettes. Mission Royale made their first appearance at Club Team Tennis this year with two teams: Mission Possible and Mission Racq Pacq. No, the scores are not posted. That’s because when it is all over we all walk away winners!! It all about the cheering, courteous trash talking and the chance to play tennis with people you would never get to play with.

News alert, as if there was any doubt, our past president Char Eicher is now the President of the Mission Royale tennis club.

We had a wonderful surprise during Club Team Tennis when Carol and Larry Heinz arrived at the courts. It was just great to see them both back at Palm Creek!

I have a new container to put on Court 2 to hold tennis balls for Social tennis. It is bigger than the old container and this one has a lid. When you leave the courts after social tennis please make sure the lid is securly fastened.

Save the date – Saturday February 4^th 5:30 PM - Slight change in plans for the Cancer Awareness Tournament. We will still be having the tournaments on the same dates: Feb 1 (Wednesday) Ladies doubles, Feb 2 (Thursday) Men’s Doubles and Feb 3 (Friday) Mixed Doubles. But, as the Park is going to do the Cancer Awareness Walk on Friday evening so you can stroll the streets and marvel at the glowing luminaries, we are going to move our Cancer Awareness Tournament Awards Celebration Dinner to Saturday evening in the San Tan Room. This way we will not have to worry about the possibility of rain or cold weather. All participants will get their dinner for free as part of their registration fee ($25 one event and $30 for two events). There will be a slight fee for non playing spouses or friends who would also like to come to the dinner. I will provide more details in the future, but please remember to get this new date on your calendar. We will be having the raffle and the auction at the dinner. If you were there last year you know just how entertaining this was. It is an event you do not want to miss!

The pickleball club used Court #1 on Saturday (1/14) for their pickleball paddle demo and I received the following thank you from A.J. Freitas who was in charge of this event. A.J. was concerned when he first went down to check the court and he saw so much activity on the tennis courts, but I did reassure him in an email that I reserved court #1 for pickleball. Here is his email:

“Kate, you are right, I did not have a problem...when I went over a little after 11 the court was vacant. Thanks for reserving it for us.

More to the point, thanks for suggesting and for offering us the use of Tennis Ct. #1 for the vendor area. This worked VERY well...we had a lot of people there today, they were able to wander between the four vendors, borrow paddles, wander from there over to the "demo courts" next door and try those paddles in a real environment. It was GREAT and made the day a big success and a lot of fun.

Additionally I appreciate your volunteering use of your two tables...we did use them, and we replaced them this evening...... please pass on to your club our sincere thanks!”

Helen and Glenn Arnold represented Palm Creek Tennis Club at the Welcome Home Party and got 10 new members. I know I speak for everyone when I say: A special thanks to Helen and Glenn for doing such a wonderful job for our tennis club.

We are now close to one month away from the Palm Creek Tennis Tournament which will take place February 16-19 (Thursday – Sunday) with the seeding event on Tuesday February 14^th. Start looking for a partner and join in on the fun. The winners from the last seasons are etched on the placques hanging in the tennis club bulletin boards. I will be sending out the entry forms and details in next weeks update. But, don’t wait, find a partner so you are ready to sign up and participate in a great tennis club event.

The Australian Open has started so don’t miss the great tennis!!

Weekly Update - Sunday 1/8

2012-01-21T21:15:00.000-07:00

I just got back from the Tennis Club’s Soup and Salad Social and if you missed it this year, you missed a wonderful dinner. Lots of soups, rolls and butter and a long table just chock full of interesting salads. Hats off to our social committee for an excellent event with over a hundred people in attendance!

Here are some of the items discussed at this meeting:

The Palm Creek Welcome Home Party is this Saturday, January 14^th from 11:30-1:30 at Palm Park. If you have not paid for your membership ($15/couple $10/single) stop by the Tennis Club Table and Helen and Glenn Arnold will be there to sign you up. Coupons for a free hot dog and a free ice cream at the Welcome Home party are available in advance in the Activities Office or you can get them the day of the party. They also have free popcorn but you don’t need a coupon. As Gwen Black so eloquently stated at our meeting this evening, “even if you are just a social tennis player, the tennis club really appreciates your supporting us by joining as a member.”

I know you have heard it before but I am once again asking for your help. If you don’t have an answering machine on your park phone it would greatly reduce all the phone calls we need to make when we cannot leave a message. I do most of the communication via email, but when we do need to make phone calls it is very time consuming and your support would be very much appreciated!

Marion Gavin gave the Treasurer’s report. We started the month with $1610.83, we had $377 income for the month and $283.02 in expenses resulting in a balance at December 31 of $1704.81.

There are some tennis club Antigua collared shirt available. If you would like a shirt, please call Marion Gavin at 7708 and she can tell you if we have the size and color (red or white) in stock. If we get enough requests I will place another order. The shirts are high quality and only cost $25.

Reminder: Tennis Lessons start this Tuesday at 2pm. The lessons are free and open to everyone. No sign up sheet, just show up on the court with your racquet. There is one court that focuses specifically on beginners - those who have not played much tennis, or never played tennis. The other courts focus on specific skills and you rotate between the courts. It is a lot of fun and very helpful for anyone who wants to improve their game. Also remember that ball machine 101 is available every Monday at 2pm. Come out to courts 4 and 5, the ball machines are set up and ready to “take you on!”

The Pickleball Club is having a pickleball paddle demo event on Saturday January 14^th from 1pm-4pm. For all of our tennis club players who also play pickleball, please stop by and demo a new paddle. The pickleball club will be using Tennis Court #1 . I have reserved it for them from 11-5. There are plenty of other tennis courts available at this time, The pickleball club will also be borrowing the two folding tables that the tennis club owns.

Club Team Tennis starts this Thursday on January 12^th. If you have not signed up to play, please come out and cheer on your friends. Due to the amount of people who signed up we are going to have two sessions. The first session is 1-2:30 and the second session is from 2:30 – 4:00. All players will receive an email letting them know what team they are on and what time session they will be playing on 1/12. Immediately following the last session, at 4pm we will be having the Tennis Club Happy Hour in the Tennis Pavilion. Please bring a snack/appetizer to share and your own adult beverage. Last year these were lots of fun with an amazing variety of snacks.

www.reservemycourt.com is the final resource for court assignments. We have opened permanent court time to include the 11-12:30 slot. If you have a group that you would like to play tennis with every week, please call me or Mark (x6459) and we will be glad to reserve a permanet court time for you. Otherwise the system only allows you to reserve a court one week in advance. If you have a permanent court time, please go on reservemycourt.com and verify that it is posted correctly.

SAVE THE DATE – Here are some important dates for you to post on your calendar:

CANCER AWARENESS TOURNAMENT – Wednesday. 2/1 – ladies doubles, Thursday 2/2 – Men’s Doubles, Friday 2/3– mixed doubles. The net proceeds will be donated to the Palm Creek Cancer Awareness Fund which splits the proceeds 80% to Susan G. Komen Foundation and 20% to the American Cancer Society. On Saturday at 5:30 we will have the celebration dinner in the San Tan Room with a very entertaining raffle and an auction. The fees for one event is $25 and if you are going to play gender doubles and mixed doubles it is only $30 for both. The sign up sheets will be posted on the Tennis Club bulletin board.

PALM CREEK TENNIS CLUB TOURNAMENT

Seeding event – Tuesday, February 14^th

Event - February 16-19

SECOND SESSION CLUB TEAM TENNIS

February 23, March 1, 8 and 15.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE COURTS

March 10

ANNUAL MEETING AND BBQ

March 18

The Palm Creek Lion’s Club is doing a fundraiser called “Minute to Win It.” It costs $1 per team member and each team can have 4-8 team members. The event will be held Tuesday, January 31^st at 7pm in the Ballroom. Penny Mason is in charge of the Tennis Club team/s. If you would like to participate in this fun and very worthwhile event please give Penny a call at x6603.

We have a new addition to organized play. Rhoda Zaph is the court captain for Advanced Couples on Wednesdays at 2pm. If you are interested in playing with this group please contact Rhoda at x7736.

Activities office has asked me to remind you to please have your badge with you if you are not wearing it when you are on the tennis courts. If you have a guest visitng you, please make sure you get a visitor badge for your guests.

Last year Betty Scofield recommended that we do something to try and reduce the glare when we are using the tennis pavilion. Four umbrellas are due to arrive at the pavilion sometime this week. We will put the four umbrellas in four of the tables and tilt the umbrellas to block the sun. Hopefully, this will reduce the glare in the pavilion.

Last but far from least, I recently received an email from Wendell Johnson, General Manager of Palm Creek which states “You and your team are giving us the confidence to go forward with plans to make the Tennis/Pickleball complex a Tennis only complex in the future.”

Weekly update - Sunday 1/2/2012

2012-01-02T20:55:00.000-07:00

We are enjoying some wonderful weather and the courts are getting extremely active. I noticed the Sunday couples tennis and champagne celebration sign up sheet for this week was packed and last I checked the Wednesday night couples sign up sheet has also filled all of our courts. Saturday round robin also had full sign up sheets. It is great to see a lot of activity on our courts! Please remember, if you would like to set up a permanent court time you can call Mark or me at 6459 and we can set it up for you. Permanent court times are available starting at 11 AM except for times when organized play has been scheduled. And, as always, you can reserve a court at www.reservemycourt.com one week in advance. If you are having any problems getting registered or getting your court reserved let me know.

Important – Walt Krahl informs me that he and Glenn Arnold will be putting up the wind screens this Tuesday, January 3^rd at 9AM. As always, this goes very fast when we have lots of volunteers. So, if you can help us out, please show up at the tennis courts at 9AM with a ladder if you have one. It will be very much appreciated and with more people the job will go a lot faster.

All of our court separators have new sun screen covers installed which provide better sun blockage than the old covers. Thanks to Walt and Glenn for getting this taken care of.

Soup and Salad Social 1/8 in the San Tan Room 5:30 PM- Time Change - I am double booked and, as I don’t ask much, I do have to ask your understanding that I need to move the Soup and Salad Social start time to 5:30 pm. I will probably not get there until 6 pm but please start without me. Patti Blessen, our Social Chair will get you started. We will have tables for the salads ( whatever side dish/salad you choose, even the ever popular deviled eggs fit in this category). The soup crock pots will be located on the counter top so we can use the outlets. Please bring enough to feed 6-8 people. The club will provide bread and dessert. Please bring your own plates, bowls and utensils. As always we will provide coffee but if you would prefer another beverage please bring it (byob). The sign up sheet will be posted until Saturday morning 1/7. Please help our volunteers and at least let them know you plan on attending by signing up. If you decide to go at the last minute please call Patti Blessen at 6967 (520-876-6257). This is a great opportunity to connect with your tennis friends who have just arrived as well as a chance to meet some of the new players. Also, if you have yet to pay your dues, this is your chance to get this done. Dues are still only $15 per couple or $10 per individual. We appreciatel your support of our tennis club. I look forward to seeing everyone as well as some of our newer members this coming Sunday.

Upcoming events

Tennis Lessons will be starting in January – Every Tuesday starting at 2pm and they are FREE!!! As soon as I hear from Skip I will let you know when this will get started.

Club Team Tennis – The response for club team tennis has been amazing. We also have teams coming in from Robson and Mission. The Thursday tennis club happy hours will take place at 4 pm after club team tennis and is open to those playing in club team tennis, spouses and tennis players who are not playing in club team tennis. Please plan on bringing an appetizer to share and your own adult beverage. The sign up sheet for club team tennis is still posted but get your name on the sheet soon as it will soon be coming down. If you are not yet in the park but would like to participate in the January session (January 12, 19 and 26) please let me know by responding to this email. If you want more information on club team tennis, please see the attachment.

Cancer Awareness Tournament [February 1st (ladies), 2nd (men) and 3rd(mixed)] – Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson are already starting to plan for this wonderful charitable event. The dinner afterwards will include a raffle and for some of the larger items, an auction. Please let Jean (7066) or Mary (6259) know if you are artistically talented and have something you created to donate, or if you have an item you would like to donate to this extremely worthwhile cause. This tournament is always a lot of fun so keep your eyes open for the sign up sheets which will be posted this month.

Weekly Update - Sunday 12/18/2011

2011-12-18T22:06:00.001-07:00

There is a sign up sheet posted for the January 8^th Tennis Club Soup and Salad social. This has historically been one of our most popular socials. The food is always delicious and it is a great opportunity to connect with all your tennis friends as well as a great opportunity to meet some of our new members as well as our members who are returning to the park. Please take the time to sign up. I can’t stress enough how important it is and how much it helps our volunteers who work very hard to make this a fun event.

There is also a sign up sheet posted for the very popular Club Team Tennis. Robson Ranch has two teams and Mission already has one team and may have one more team. We match the Palm Creek players into teams to ensure everyone has a challenging match. Each team generally has 3 ladies and 3 men. Each team member rotates in so no one is playing all of the matches. The details of how it works can be found on the bulletin board. We do encourange courteous “trash talk” on the court as well as cheering on your fellow team mates. You have to experience one of these to get the true feel for this event. The January session runs on January 12, 19 and 26. Club team tennis starts at 2pm followed at 4 pm with the tennis club happy hour. Everyone brings their own “adult” beverage and an appetizer to share. It is always a lot of fun and it is so well attended that we at times ran out of chairs. But, I think I have that taken care of with the additional chairs that have now arrived. If you are not able to play all three times for this session we do need subs from time to time so please let us know if you would like to be a sub and what weeks you will be available to play. But, please put these dates on your calendar and if you are not playing, come out to cheer on your friends and mix and mingle during happy hour with this great group of people! If you want to be certain to get on a team, please get signed up before the January 1^st.

The water fountain has arrived, but there are some glitches so it is, to the best of my knowledge, not yet operational. But, they are working on it.

Pickleball club has the layout for their new center and it was presented to their membership at their meeting last week. They still do not have the final count as to how many pickleball courts will be installed this year but the Pickleball club is pushing very hard to get all 22-24 courts installed. Right now the construction is not set to start until March. I will keep you updated.

Remember that the coffee and hot water for hot chocolate and tea supplied by the pickleball club is also offered to our tennis club members. Please remember to drop some money in the container provided to offset the cost of the coffee and supplies. Edie Priest (who heads this up for Pickleball) commented that she has not seen any monies in the container so I would like to encourage our tennis players to set a good example and show how much we appreciate their efforts by dropping in some money to help offset the cost. It is nice to have it available on these cold mornings we have been experiencing!

I got a lot of comments as to how much everyone enjoyed the updates on their tennis friends so I thought I would pass this one along - I recently got an email from Joan and Jack Cashman. They will not be returning to the park this year but they do expect to come back to the park next year!

Weekly Update - Sunday 12/11/2011

2011-12-11T22:23:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderful day for tennis today and everyone appeared to have a great time at our Sunday/Funday December tennis event. Thanks to Patti Blessen, Social Chair and her helpers: Carol Miller, Sieny Kouwenhoven, Glady Olson and Helen Arnold. There was lots of tennis with opportunities to hit the ball with club members that you have never played with before. We did attract an even larger crowd for lunch with plenty of clean plates at the end of the day. Thanks to all who came out and through their participation made this event such a great success!!

Pickleball Club wants all the tennis players to know that the coffee they have set out is also for the tennis players. I think they do have cups but they are asking for you to bring a cup and a donation to help offset the cost. I know that coffee is very welcome on some of the cold mornings we have been experiencing.

Tomorrow, Monday, December 12^th at 10AM our Court Maintenance Team of Walt Krahl and Glenn Arnold will be putting up the wind screens. If you have time, please come out to the tennis courts at 10AM and lend a hand. It is also helpful if you can bring a ladder. Walt and Glenn have a great process that goes very quickly when they have helpers.

Less than a month away on January 8^th at 4 pm is the famous Palm Creek Tennis Club Soup and Salad Social. The sign up sheet will be posted on the bulletin board in the Social section (faces the tennis pavilion). Please take the time to sign up so our social committee knows how many tables they need to set up!! This is always an amazing display of great food and a chance to catch up with all the tennis players who are coming into the park in January.

Also coming in January is a return of the very successful Club Team Tennis. Mark has informed me that he has already heard from our friends at Robson Ranch. This year we are also expecting a team from Mission Royale. Club team tennis is played on Thursdays starting at 2 pm followed by the tennis club happy hour at 4pm. The January session is scheduled for January 12, 19, and 23. The sign up sheet for this session will be posted on the bulletin board. So stop by and sign up and we will find you a team. Club team tennis is for all levels of play and the teams are mixed to give every team a “fighting chance!” If you are not in the park and want to play club team tennis, please let me know by replying to this email and I will put you on the sign up sheet. For those of you who did not play Club Team Tennis last year here is a summary of how it works:

1. Three women and three men per team

2. All matches are doubles competition, “ad” scoring

3. Women will play the first 9-game set

4. Men will play the second 9-game set

5. Third set is 12-game Mixed

6. Divide play equally amongst team members

7. Only one top male and one top female player per team. Top players are those that have placed first in A-Division of a tournament or first or second place in league play (or any player that is clearly a top player).

8. Required to have a great time at the Tennis Happy Hour after the match

One more item: Mary Anderson, co-chair of the Palm Creek Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Tournament scheduled for February 1-3 is requesting donations from all of our “crafty” players for the tennis club’s raffle. If you were not there last year the raffle provided some great entertainment and the monies all went to fight cancer. So this is to give you time to start working on your “creation” to donate to the raffle.

Palm Creek Tennis Club Update 12/4/2011

2011-12-06T20:35:00.000-07:00

We have a tennis club event scheduled for this coming Sunday, December 11th starting at 12:30pm. This includes a free lunch and tennis. All tennis club members are invited to attend for free. Everyone who signs up is assigned to play either in the first grouping or the second grouping. While the first grouping is on the courts, the second grouping can socialize in the tennis pavilion, enjoy some lunch and/or cheer on their favorite players. After 20-30 minutes of play, the whistle is blown and the first grouping comes off the court to socialize and enjoy lunch and the second grouping goes on the court. We go through this process twice so you get to play twice with a different group of players each time. This is a great opportunity to meet some of our new members as well as reconnect with your tennis friends. Spouses are invited to join us for lunch and to cheer on their favorite players. The sign up sheet is posted on the bulletin board on the side facing the tennis pavilion. Remember to stop by and sign up for Sunday/Funday!

I will have some tennis club shirts available for sale at the Sunday/Funday event. These are still only $25. Don’t forget to bring cash or a check with you to the event so you can take home one of these high quality Antigua shirts with a Palm Creek Tennis Club logo.

If you have been by the tennis pavilion, you can’t help but notice all the new tables and chairs!! Hopefully, this year we will have enough to seat everyone at our tennis club happy hours. The solar lights are in place to light the walkways and are also located by the switch to turn on the court lights. This should be very helpful on those moonless nights. And, the new water fountain, next to the tennis shed, is in the process of being installed.

Social tennis is in full swing so don’t forget to stop by Monday through Friday at 9:30 and get in line to rotate on the courts. We do ask everyone to respect the queue so that all players have an equal turn to participate.

Our membership chair, Helen Arnold will be available at the Sunday/Funday on December 11^th. Please help our tennis club by signing on as a member. Membership dues of an amazingly reasonable amount of $15 for a couple or $10 for an individual make it possible for us to offer fun events, repair and maintain the ball machines, purchase tennis balls for events like club team tennis as well as provide for some minor communication needs like the bulletin boards and the white board. Thank you in advance for your support of our tennis club.

Update – I just wanted to update you on the status of some of our tennis friends:

Kenny Civielo reports that his achilles is healed and his legs are as good as new and he and Ginny will be back at the park in January

Gwen and Wayne Black have had a wonderful vacation in South America. Wayne had rotator cuff surgery and Gwen had some back problems but they are hoping to be back on the tennis courts when they get back to the park

Ken Babb had a bad motorcycle accident but Leta reports he is recovering quicker than expected. He was recently released from the hospital 9 weeks from the day of the accident. Ken thinks he will recover much better in the sun so they are now planning on making it back to the park before the season is over.

Sieny’s wrist has healed and although it is not perfect she is back on the courts.

Carol and Steve Land built a home in the Robsen Community in Denton Texas. They sold their RV and they are currently on a 70 day cruise of Asia and Australia (where Carol is from).

Skip and Bev will be back in January and the Tuesday tennis lessons will then begin.

Carol Heinze let me know in August that her chemo treatments did not work as planned but they were working on a “new game plan” and they were planning to return to Palm Creek this winter. Please keep Larry and Carol in your prayers.

Rick Jaccarino is getting a knee replaced this year so he and Susan will not be returning this year, but we hope to see them next year.

Tom and Diana Langstine are still in Florida. Diana reports that Tom is getting in some tennis. They are very much missed here, especially when Mark and I start to work on the Tennis Tournament that they did such a good job in initiating.

Palm Creek Tennis Club Update 11/27/2011

2011-12-06T20:30:00.000-07:00

We kicked off the 2011/2012 season with a planning meeting. The officers and committee chairs met to get everything ready for our upcoming season.

Organized play scheduled start dates:

· Women’s League – Court Captains Connie 6030 and Bonnie 6900 - (Mondays 12:30-2pm) Will start January 2^nd. The sign up sheet will be posted on December 4^th. If you will not be in the park by December 4^th and want to participate in the women’s league, send me an email and I will add your name to the list. Cost to cover balls is $5 for the season

· Men’s League – Court Captain Jim Weaver 7284 (Tuesdays 12:30-2pm) Will start December 6^th. Sign up sheet has been posted on the bulletin board. Cost to cover balls is $5 for the season. New lists will be posted each month.

· Club Team Tennis –Court Captain Mark 6459 – (Thursdays 2pm-4pm) Sign up sheet Will be played in two sessions. First session will be 3 weeks: January 12, 19, and 26. Second session will be 4 weeks: Feb 23, March 1, 8, and 15.

· Social Tennis has already started – Drop in - Court Captains: Monday-Ted Knowles, Tuesday- Roger Jensen, Wednesday- Marion Gavin, Thursday- Jack Hardy (Glady Olsen will fill in for Jack until he arrives back in the park), Friday – Mary Sullivan-Pondell.

· Couples Open – Court Captains Gail and Hank 7246 – Sundays 2:00-3:30 – Sign up sheet Will start in December 11

· Round Robin Mixed Doubles – Court Captain Glenn 6865 – Sign up sheet Already started – Saturdays 9:30-11

· Evening couples round robin – Court Captains John and Patti 6967 – Sign up sheet Already started

· Ball Machine 101 – Court Captains Hank and Glady 6715 - Mondays 2:00-Already started

· Ladies Intermediate – Court Captain Sieny 6687 Wednesdays 2:00-3:30 – Sign up sheet Will start January 10

· Men’s Intermediate – Court Captain Bob McConnell 7033 – Fridays 11-12:30 Sign up sheet Will start December 9

· Ladie’s Advanced – Court Captain’s Penny 6603 & Marg 6897 – Mondays 8-9:30 – By invitation

· Advanced – Court Captain Mark 6459 – Fridays 2-4 – By invitation

· Tennis Lessons – Court Captain Skip 6583 – Drop in – Will start January 9

Schedule for 2011-2012

· 12/11 Sunday/Funday – (free lunch with players assigned to timed session of play for two session with different partners and different opponents in each session) Sign up sheet is posted on the bulletin board. Non playing spouses invited to lunch

· 1/8 – Soup and Salad Social

· 2/1-2/3 Cancer Awareness Tennis Tournament

· 2-16-2/19 – Palm Creek Tennis Tournament

· 3/10 – Saturday Night at the Courts

· 3/18 – Annual Meeting and BBQ

Court Preparation

· Wind screens and the court separation covers will be installed soon.

· The white board has been cleaned and we will be posting the organized play as well as any permanent court times on the board. Please do not use felt makers on this board as it is not longer erasable.

· Court captain badges are in and will be distributed

· Tennis balls in the ball machines are in good shape and balls are available for the organized play events that charge for balls.

Changes for the 2011/2012 season

· Less pot luck socials/meetings – more focus on tennis related events

· New position of Ball Captain added. Zuzana has accepted this volunteer position. Thanks Zuzana

· Evening session of organized play added – See above

· Non Prime time has been extended to start at 11:00 AM. The online reservation system provides us with the ability to review the usage and it was determined that this change will not cause court availability problems. Permanent court time may be reserved M-F starting at 11 AM and all day Saturday and Sunday. Call Kate or Mark 6459 to book permanent court time

Budget Status – Palm Creek

· Tennis club requested the cracks be filled on the courts – Status: The courts have all been resurfaced. Thanks to Glenn blowing off the courts they are all in excellent shape!

· Tennis club requested 5 additional tables and 28 chairs to bring the total to 20 tables and 80 chairs in the pavilion. Status: Some of the tables and chairs from last year are gone. The new tables and chairs have been delivered

· Tennis club requested lighting in the walkway. Status: Solar lights now light the walkway and the area where you turn on the lights on each of the tennis courts

· Tennis club requested water fountain – Pickleball also requested water fountain in their budget request – Status – Plan is to install water fountain outside tennis shed – Installation is in progress

· Palm Creek has purchased new score keepers for each of the tennis courts

Open discussion

· Plan is to build a new pickleball center with build out starting the end of this season. No decision has been made as to how many courts will be built in the new location and how many pickleball courts they will continue to use at the tennis center. At this time Palm Creek has not allocated any funding to convert any unused pickleball courts to tennis courts. We understand that the new buildout requires a significant investment in infastructure. We appreciate the court resurfacing.

· Last year we had quite a few issues with pickleball players walking onto tennis courts during active play. Mark Nelson, President of the pickleball club, informed us that pickleball will be installing signage on the pickleball court side as well as the main gate to court one. Hopefully this will help. If it continues pickleball will lock the gate.

· The tennis club’s online reservation system, www.reservemycourt.com, is being actively updated. If you forgot your password, call Kate or Mark 6459 and we can reset it.

Palm Creek Tennis Events 2011/2012

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Lots of people are returning to Palm Creek already! The good news is that all of the tennis courts have been resurfaced and new scoreboards for each court have been ordered and should arrive shortly. The tennis club schedule of events for 2011/2012 is as follows:

-November 27 - Sunday/Funday - at the tennis courts (sign up sheet will be posted on the tennis club bulletin boards.
December 12 - Sunday/Funday - at the tennis courts (sign up sheet will be posted on teh tennis club bulletin boards
January 8 - Soup and Salad Social - San Tan Room
February 1-3 - Cancer Awareness tennis tournament
February 15-18 - Palm Creek Tennis Tournament
March 10 - Saturday Night at the Courts - Tennis Courts
March 18 - Annual Meeting and BBQ - North Pavilion

See you on the courts.

End of Season Event - Saturday Night at the Courts 3/19/2011

2011-06-16T08:38:00.003-07:00

The photos just can't paint the fun and festivities enjoyed by all who attended the Palm Creek Tennis Club's closing event for the season - Saturday Night at the Courts. But here goes:

Opening ceremonies included the Canadian Choir leading us in the singing of "O Canada"...

...immediately followed by the American Chorus leading us in the singing of "America the Beautiful" as well as the "Pledge of Allegiance."

Steve Allen, Bev Argo, Mark Costello (shown here), Walt Krahl, Pete McGannon, Will Updyke, Richard Weatherall, and Rhoda Zaph put on an excellent exhitibtion singles tournament under the lights on courts 2, 4 and 5.

Richard Weatherall took the gold giving Canada bragging rights. Rhoda Zaph did an excellent job competing against this top level group that included 6 men and two women as she was the silver medalist!

There were lots of spectators, watching the action on the courts...

...but, the real action was the activity on court 3! Everyone was greated with a fresh wine glass from our somoliers Carol and Bill Nelson. The court was set up with 3 appetizer tables, and 5 wine tasting tables: sweet red, dry red, dry white, sweet white and miscellaneous. Barristas: John and Patti Blessen (shown in the background) and Marg (shown in the foreground) and Gar Wildeman, Wayne and Gwen Black, Frank and Carol Miller and Hank and Gail Verhoeff opened bottles and poured. Everyone brought an appetizer and a bottle of wine and we went through almost every drop!

The evening ended under the "Super Moon" (the full moon was the closest to Earth) with a pot of StarBucks coffee and a large variety of yummy deserts courtesy of the Palm Creek Tennis Club: carrot cake, assorted cheese cakes, double chocolate cake (Carol Heinz is cutting), tiramisu, apple turn overs, lemon meringue pie, sour cream pudding cake, brownies and chococate chip dunking cookies just to name a few!

The entire Palm Creek tennis club would like to extend a big thank you to Michael Hill. Michael provided the large Canadian and US Flags for this event. He also provided water coolers so we could keep filling the rinse pitchers to keep our "top shelf" plastic wine glasses fresh for the next taste. But, most of all, a thank you from all of our tennis players for keeping those water coolers filled with icy cold water throughout the season. Michael, you are the best!

The real show was the creative Black tie attire. Palm Creek Tennis Club sure knows how to "put on the ritz" so here is a sampling of the "Palm Creek style elegant attire" of some of our attendees. I apologize in advance to all whose photo is not shown. Please remember to click on the collage to enlarge the photo.

You can't miss Gar's "suave and sophisticated" footware shown directly below the photo of Steve and Gar!

Hope you enjoyed the opportunity to share in the evening if you were not able to make it. And, for those of you who were there, hope you enjoyed this quick trip down memory lane.

Palm Creek Tennis Club says "Thank you" to our Tennis Instructors

2011-06-12T13:53:00.001-07:00

Without a doubt I speak for the entire tennis club in sending a huge thank you to Skip Nirenberg for serving as the Captain of the Tennis Lessons and his fellow instructors (as see in the center shot from left to right): Skip Nirenberg, Walt Krahl, Mark Costello, Rhoda Zaph and Bob McConnell. High quality lessons, which are lots of fun, are offered free to anyone who wants to start playing or focus on improving their game. Thank you all for a great season and we look forward to doing it all again next season! If you want a better view of the collage - just click on it!

Weekly Update - Sunday 3/6/2011

2011-03-11T21:46:00.000-07:00

The tennis tournament awards presentation and pizza happy hour was an outstanding success last Thursday. A special thanks to Seiny and Bill Kouwenhoven for all their hard work to make it such a wonderful event for all who attended.

We had 10 teams filling the courts for the first match of our March Session of Club Team Tennis. From the laughter and applause coming off the courts it was, as usual, a fun day of tennis. This session, with many of our men players being on the “injured reserve” list, or having left the park, Mark got creative and put together an all women team called “Chicks with Sticks!” Bev Argo, Rhoda Zaph and Marg Wildeman played in the men’s slots in the men’s doubles and the mixed matches. They did not win this week but from my scouting report, they are going to be one tough team to beat!

The Tennis Tournament Medalist Plaque is in production, the medal winners have received their certificates, and, I am proud to announce (put it this way…I am thrilled to get it off my “to do list”) that the blog has been updated with action photos of all of our winning teams. You can find this on our website www.palmcreektennisclub.blogspot.com. Just click on this link and it should take you right to the posting! Please remember that I also post a copy of this weekly update on our blog so you may have to scroll down past the 3/6 update to get to the tennis tournament medalist photos.

Next session of Club team tennis is Thursday, March 11^th. If you are not playing, please come out to cheer the teams on and then join us for the tennis club weekly happy hour at 4pm. Just bring your favorite adult beverage and an appetizer to share (can be homemade or store bought) and meet some of the people that make our tennis club so great.

The secret is out and all of our members should have received an invitation in their park mailbox to the March 19^th “Saturday Night at the Courts” event. The invitation has the details of the draw for the singles tournament which has eight of our finest tennis players competing in a single elimination tournament with a single set determining each match. The festivities start at 6:30 pm on Court 3 with the Opening Ceremonies and the singing of “O Canada” and “America the Beautiful.” In keeping with the elegance of our members this is a [Silly] Black Tie event. We are asking for everyone to wear some form of black tie, ribbon, bow, and entertain us with their creativitiy. A black tie event of this magnitude would not be complete without fine wines to taste. We have therefore asked for every couple to bring a bottle of their favorite wine to add to the tasting (with a suggested maximum cost of $10/bottle). In keeping with this sophisticated black tie extravaganza, we are also asking for everyone to bring an appetizer that fits a “Silly” black tie event. To complete our evening in style, the club will provide dessert and coffee. This event is open to all members of the tennis club and their guests (who we respectfully ask to also bring a bottle of wine and an appetizer). If you are not a member and would like to attend, just call Helen Arnold at 520-876-6877 and, as you are signing up so late in the season, we will count this year’s dues toward’s next season’s dues as well.

Last but not least, I hope to see you at the Tennis Club Annual BBQ on Sunday, March 13^that 4pm in the North Pavilion. The sign up sheet has been counted, but if you forgot to sign up, please give Sieny a call at 6687. The club provides the hamburgers and the hot dogs and we ask our members to bring either an appetizer, a side dish or a dessert. And don’t forget to bring your favorite adult beverage. This is also the election of officers and committee chairs for the 2011/2012 season. Past Predident, Char Eicher, as her “swan song” before she moves into her new home in Mission Royale, has voluteered to head the nominating committee. If you got a call from Char I hope you stepped up to be of service to our great club.

Palm CreekTennis Tournament - February 17th - February 25th

2011-03-06T14:54:00.001-07:00

Yes, the dates are correct. For the third year in a row we managed to get rained out at least one day of our tournament. Aside from the weather, we had an exceptional tournament with all of the brackets full and great tennis matches.

Everyone who played in the tournament was a winner! However, here are some action shots of the medal winning teams (all names listed are from left to right):
Gold Men's A - Steve Land and Mark Costello

How's that for "leaning into the shot!

Silver Men's A - Steve Allen and Ken Civiello

Steve's in his ready position and don't be fooled...so is Ken!

Bronze Men's A - John Smith and Pete McGannon

John just hit the ball and Pete is making sure it lands "in."

Gold Women's A - Bev Argo and Mary Ellen Halm

Bev's got it and those eyes are fixed on that ball. Mary Ellen's making sure she got it!

Silver Women's A- Penny Jacobsen and Rhoda Zaph

Rhoda has her eye on the service toss (see it almost at the top of the fence) and Penny is ready for that return of serve.

Bronze Women's A
Bonnie Morgan and Connie Emerson

With their fashion conscious team outfits, Bonnie has just hit the ball and she's doing what they taught her in lessons...she's moving in. Connie's got her eye on the ball and she's holding her position at the net.

Gold Mixed A - Ken Swanson and Mary Ellen Halm

Mary Ellen's got the racket back as far as it will go so she can crush this serve!

Silver Mixed A - Ken Civiello and Rhoda Zaph

Rhoda just hit the ball (see it passing to Ken's left) and she is into her follow through. Ken and Rhoda had to retire in the Gold/Silver match but Ken assures me he will be back next year to kick some butt!

Bronze Mixed A - Pete McGannon and Penny Jacobsen

Penny is poised to hit that ball (see it at the top of the fence) and Pete is quite the imposing figure at the net.

Gold Men's B - Manfred Sohni and Brian Younge

Manfred got pulled off the deuce court, hit a great cross court and is rushing back to catch a possible cross court return. Brian is at the ready.

Silver Men's B - Ron Bates and Gar Wildeman

Ron and Gar are practicing serves "warming up" for the big match.

Bronze Men's B - Dennis Eggert and Herbert McMahon

Dennis just hit the ball (see it at the top of the windscreen) and Herbert is in ready position. These two players are new to Palm Creek Tennis, were put together as partners by chance and they walk away with a medal. Way to go and hope to see you back next year to defend your title!

Gold Women's B - Kay Nelson and Carol Heinze

Kay just hit this ball (just above her racket) and Carol is focused and ready for the next shot! This team was also a last minute change as their original partners could not play so they teamed up at the seeding event and walked away with a Gold Medal. Way to go ladies!!

Silver Women's B - Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson

Jean and Mary are another of our style conscious teams with these great matching outfits! Jean is pulled to the alley and Mary is watching in case she needs to call the ball "out."

Bronze Women's B - Carmen Allen and Mary Sullivan-Pondell

Mary just hit this shot (see the ball by Mary's racquet) and Carmen has her eye on the ball.

Gold Mixed B - Steve Allen and Carmen Allen

Steve's got this ball with his racquet ready to meet the ball in front of him. Carmen is focused on the action of the opponents.

Silver Mixed B - Dennis Dahlen and Mary Sullivan-Pondell

Dennis is running for this one and Mary's is keeping a close eye on the ball.

Bronze Mixed B - Patti Blessen and John Blessen

John's is back to receive serve and Patti is watching the ball to make sure it lands in the service box.

Congratulations to all of our medal winners and to all who participated, spectated, or worked on the tournament making it the most successful tennis tournament we have ever had!

Weekly update - Sunday 2/27/11

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The Tennis Tournament has finally finished with the last match played on Saturday. We look forward to seeing all of our members and all of the tournament players and their spouses at the Tennis Tournament Awards Presentation and Pizza Happy Hour on Thursday, March 3^rd at 4 pm in the Tennis Pavilion. This will start immediately after the Club Team Tennis that is scheduled from 2pm-4pm. Please come out to cheer on the club team tennis teams and then stay for the Awards Presentation and Pizza Happy Hour. You don’t need to bring an appetizer to this happy hour but you can bring an adult beverage!

Speaking of club team tennis, we are still looking for people to fill out the teams, but we plan to announce the full lineup no later than Tuesday, March 1. Our March session starts this Thursday, March 3^rd and lasts 4 weeks until March 24^th. If you are interested in joining this fun event, please let us know as soon as possible.

Annual Meeting and BBQ is scheduled for this coming Sunday, March 13^th at 4 pm in the North Pavilion. I know you may be tired of hearing it, but please sign up so we have plenty of food and chairs. This event is open to all tennis club members and the hamburgers and hotdogs being provided by the tennis club with the members bringing either an appetizer, a side dish or a desert. Please help our social committee by signing up by Thursday, March 10^th.

SAVE THE DATE: MARCH 19^TH 6:30 PM-9:00 PM FOR AN AMAZING “CLOSE OF THE SEASON” TENNIS EVENT. I can’t share the details but I can tell you to watch your mailbox. Its shaping up to be quite the evening event. So, clear those social calendars and block it out for something that will be the talk of the tennis community!!

Ken Civiello does have a ruptured achilles but he is feeling fine with his fiberglass splint. He and Ginny are scheduled to pull out on Tuesday and has an appointment to see his orthopedic surgeon as soon as he gets home. He will probably be off the foot for a few weeks and he will not be able to play tennis or pickleball for about 5 or 6 months. We send our wishes for a speedy recovery and if all goes as planned we expect him back in the park with his tennis racquet in hand, ready to take on the competition…he said it in far more colorful words!!!

Just a reminder the Annual Pickleball Tournament is here at Palm Creek on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 4, 5 and 6. They will be using courts 1, 4 and 5. You can still schedule play on courts 2 and 3. Friday Social Tennis is scheduled on courts 2 and 3. If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call. Some of the top pickleball players in the country will be here so feel free to stop by the courts and watch the play. They will also be serving lunch for $6. This is going to be a huge event, so lets show them the professionalism and courtesy of our tennis club.

Weekly Update- Sunday, February 20th

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The tournament matches postponed due to the rain have been rescheduled as follows:

Monday 8:00 AM – Mixed A – Bronze medal match - Bob Gibson/Penny Mason vs. Pete McGannon vs Penny Jacobsen Court 5

Monday 9:30 AM – Mixed A – Gold/Silver medal match - Ken Civiello/ Rhoda Zaph vs. Ken Swanson/ Mary Ellen Halm – Cour1 1

Saturday 11:00 – Mixed B – Gold/Silver medal match - Steve Allen/Carmen Allen vs. Dennis Dahlen/Mary Sullivan Pondell – Court 5

Please feel free to go out and cheer on our players.

The tournament awards presentation and pizza has been moved to Sunday, February 27^th at 4pm, but I still need to confirm the availability of the tennis pavilion with Ann Lykens in activities. Assume it will be happening as scheduled and if there is a problem, I will let you know.

The 2011 tennis tournament, despite the weather problems, was an outstanding success. We filled all of our brackets, and everything went very smoothly. We did have nice weather for the tournament on Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning. The men’s medal matches were played Saturday afternoon but they really had to play some great “wind tennis!” We had lots of spectators, hot coffee, muffins and banana bread, and lots of fruit not to mention some great tennis matches. I don’t know how we do it but this now makes three years in a row we have managed to get rain at the tennis tournament…and this is the Arizona desert!!

I spoke to the pickleball club about the problem we had during our tournament when they moved their lessons to the courts next to court 1. Next year they recommend that we take over the four pickleball courts adjacent to court 1 for our staging area – to post scores, place for refreshements, etc. They will also put up signs so that the pickleball players do not hang their bags on the tennis court fences during tournament play.

Save the date – Sunday, March 13^th starting at 4 PM is the Annual Tennis Club BBQ in the North Pavilion (that’s the big tented area adjacent to the North Pool). We cook up loads of hamburgers and hot dogs and we ask our members to bring a dish (appetizer, side, dessert) of their choice to share. A sign up sheet will be posted on the tennis club bulletin board tomorrow afternoon (Monday Feb 21^st). Please sign up if you plan on attending so we know how much to buy and also so we have sufficient tables and chairs. Even if your not 100% sure you will be able to make it please sign up. This event is free to all members of the tennis club. If you have not signed up as a member yet, now is the time to call Helen Arnold 6877. This is also the last meeting of the tennis club and will include the election of officers.

Tennis Tournament - Saturday February 19th schedule of play

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The schedule for play on Saturday, February 19th is as follows. In the likely event of inclement weather an update will be posted with the adjusted schedule.

Men’s B

Gold/Sliver

Ron Bates/Gar Wildeman vs. Brian Younge/Manfred Sohni - 11:00 AM (Court 2)

Bronze

Dennis Eggert/Herbert McMahon vs. David Pratt/Wayne Black - 11:00 AM (Court 1)

Men’s A

Gold/Silver

Steve Land/Mark Costello vs. Ken Civiello/Steve Allen –11:00 AM (Court 4)

Bronze

Jim Weaver/Dennis Dahlen vs. Pete McGannon/John Smith - 11:00 AM (Court 5)

Ladies’ B

Gold/Silver

Jean McConnell/Mary Anderson vs. Kay Nelson/Carol Heinze – 9:00 AM (Court 2)

Bronze

Mary S. Pondell/Carmen Allen vs. Patti Blessen/Glady Olson – 9:00 AM (Court 1)

Ladies’ A

Gold/Silver

Bev Argo/Mary Ellen Halm vs. Rhoda Zaph/Penny Jacobsen – 9:00 AM (Court 4)

Bronze

Connie Emerson/ Bonnie Morgan vs. Rita Yates/Roma Sohni – 9:00 AM (Court 5)

SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 20

Mixed B

Gold/Sliver

Steve Allen/Carmen Allen vs. Dennis Dahlen/Mary S. Pondell – TBD (Court 2)

Bronze

Lionel Anker/Millie Christensen vs. John Blessen/Patti Blessen – TBD (Court 1)

Mixed A

Gold/Silver

Ken Civiello/Rhoda Zaph vs. Ken Swanson/Mary Ellen Halm – TBD (Court 4)

Bronze

Pete McGannon/Penny Jacobsen vs. Penny Mason/Bob Gibson – TBD (Court 5)

Schedule of Play - Friday, February 18th

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The current schedule of play for the Palm Creek Tennis Tournament on Friday, February 18th is as follows:

Mixed B

Ron Bates/Connie Emerson vs Steve Allen/Carmen Allen– 9 AM (Court 1)

Dennis Dahlen/Mary S-Pondell vs. Hank Verhoeff/Gail Verhoeff– 9AM (Court 2)

Manfred Sohni/Roma Sohni vs. Lionel Anker/Millie Christensen 9 AM (Court 3)

Glenn Arnold/Kay Nelson vs. John Blessen/Patti Blessen – 9AM (Court 4)

Mixed A

Mark Costello/ Bev Argo vs. Ken Civiello/Rhoda Zaph 10:30 AM (Court 1)

Ken Swanson/Mary Ellen Halm vs. Susan Manganaro/Rick Jaccarino 10:30 (Court 2)

Pete McGannon/Penny Jacobsen vs. Larry Heinze/Carol Heinze - 10:30 (Court 3)

Jim Weaver/ Charlotte Eicher vs. Penny Mason/Bob Gibson– 7:30 AM (Court 5)

Men’s B

Ron Bates/Gar Wildeman vs. Glenn Arnold/Dennis Snell– 12:30 PM (Court 1)

Brian Younge/Manfred Sohni vs. Jack Hardy/Dick Johnson 12:30 PM (Court 2)

Dennis Eggert/Herbert McMahon vs. Scott Fraser/ Bruce Gwilliam - 12:30 (Court 3)

David Pratt/Wayne Black vs. Hank Olson/Bob Scharnus – 12:30 PM (Court 4)

Men’s A

Steve Land/Mark Costello vs. Skip Nirenberg/Walt Krahl– 12:30 PM (Court 5)

Ken Civiello/Steve Allen vs. Larry Heize/Marty Kuiken - 2:00 PM (Court 1)

Bob Gibson/Ken Swanson vs. Jim Weaver/Dennis Dahlen - 2:00 PM (Court 2)

John Blessen/Robert Burns vs. Pete McGannon/John Smith - 2:00 PM (Court 3)

Ladies’ B

Jean McConnell/Mary Anderson vs. Marilyn Perini/Gwen Black – 2:00 PM (Court 4)

Kay Nelson/Carol Heinze vs. Nancy Restum/Mary Williams– 3:30 PM (Court 1)

Carol Miller/Lorna Lenox vs. Mary S. Pondell/Carmen Allen – 3:30 PM (Court 2)

Marion Gavin/Kate Perrie vs. Patti Blessen/Glady Olson – 2:00 PM (Court 5)

Ladies’ A

Bev Argo/Mary Ellen Halm vs. Betty Scofield/Penny Mason- 3:30 PM (Court 3)

Rhoda Zaph/Penny Jacobsen vs Susan Managaro/Millie Christensen – 3:30 PM (Court 4)

Gail Verhoeff/Zuzana Seba vs. Connie Emerson/ Bonnie Morgan 3:30 PM (Court 5)

Rita Yates/Roma Sohni - Bye

2011 Tennis Tournament - Thursday Schedule of Play

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The seeding tournament is complete and the schedule of play has been printed – see below. There will also be a schedule of play for each day posted on the Tennis Club Bulletin Board in the board to the right of the Award Plaques.

Please come out to cheer on your favorite teams and enjoy the day with your tennis friends!

Mixed B

Ron Bates/Connie Emerson vs Glenn Arnold/Helen Arnold – 9 AM (Court 1)

John Blessen/Patti Blessen vs. Steve Allen/Carmen Allen – 9 AM (Court 2)

Dennis Dahlen/Mary Sullivan-Pondell vs. Manfred Sohni/Roma Sohni – 9 AM (Court 3)

Hank Verhoeff/Gail Verhoeff vs. Lionel Anker/Millie Christensen 9 AM (Court 4)

Mixed A

Mark Costello/ Bev Argo vs. Bob Gibson/ Penny Mason – 10:30 AM (Court 1)

Jim Weaver/ Charlotte Eicher vs. Ken Civiello/Rhoda Zaph – 10:30 AM (Court 2)

Pete McGannon/Penny Jacobsen vs. Ken Swanson/Mary Ellen Halm 10:30 AM (Court 3)

Larry Heinze/Carol Heinze vs. Susan Manganaro/Rick Jaccarino- 10:30 AM (Court 4)

Men’s B

Ron Bates/Gar Wildeman vs. David Pratt/Wayne Black – 12:30 PM (Court 1)

Hank Olson/Bob Scharnus vs. Glenn Arnold/Dennis Snell – 12:30 PM (Court 2)

Brian Younge/Manfred Sohni vs. Dennis Eggert/Herbert McMahon- 12:30 PM (Court 3)

Jack Hardy/Dick Johnson vs. Scott Fraser/ Bruce Gwilliam – 12:30 PM (Court 4)

Men’s A

Steve Land/Mark Costello vs. John Blessen/Robert Burns – 12:30 PM (Court 5)

Skip Nirenberg/Walt Krahl vs. Pete McGannon/John Smith – 2:00 PM (Court 1)

Ken Civiello/Steve Allen vs. Bob Gibson/Ken Swanson- 2:00 PM (Court 2)

Larry Heize/Marty Kuiken vs. Jim Weaver/Dennis Dahlen- 2:00 PM (Court 3)

Ladies’ B

Jean McConnell/Mary Anderson vs. Carol Miller/Lorna Lenox – 2:00 PM (Court 4)

Marilyn Perini/Gwen Black vs. Mary Sullivan- Pondell/Carmen Allen – 2:00 PM (Court 5)

Helen Arnold/Carol Heinze vs. Marion Gavin/Kate Perrie – 3:30 PM (Court 1)

Nancy Restum/Mary Williams vs. Patti Blessen/Glady Olson – 3:30 PM (Court 2)

Ladies’ A

Bev Argo/Mary Ellen Halm – Bye

Betty Scofield/Penny Mason vs. Rita Yates/Roma Sohni - 3:30 PM (Court 3)

Rhoda Zaph/Penny Jacobsen vs. Gail Verhoeff/Zuzana Seba – 3:30 PM (Court 4)

Susan Managaro/Millie Christensen vs. Connie Emerson/ Bonnie Morgan 3:30 (Court 5)

Weekly Update - Monday 2/14/2011

2011-02-14T09:30:00.000-07:00

Happy Valentines Day!!

We had a wonderful Sunday Brunch Social and it just seems that for every tennis club social pot luck I go to the array of food just keeps getting better and better!!!

I forgot to hand out flyers for a fundraising dinner the pickleball club is having at Chipotle Grill on Florence Blvd on Tuesday, February 15^th from 4pm – 7pm. If you show them the flyer, 50% of the proceeds will benefit the Palm Creek Pickle Ball Association. I think these proceeds will go to the charities they donate to like abused women, food bank, humane society and pickleball equipment for the children at Ironwood Elementary school. If anyone is interested in getting a flyer, please let me know and I will figure out how to get it to you. I will also bring the flyers to ladies league on Monday.

The Cancer Awareness Tournament is already a memory and we are now getting everything ready for the Annual Palm Creek Tennis Tournament. We have a record number of teams already signed up and we have just about hit our limit in all categories: Men’s, Ladies and Mixed. The seeding event starts at 2pm on Tuesday, the 15^th. If you are not playing in the tournament, please feel free to come out on Tuesday to see the teams as they hit against the ball machine. The tournament will start this coming Thursday, February 17^th and run through Sunday, February 20^th. All courts will be used for the tennis tournament and organized play is cancelled from Thursday through Sunday! For all of our “die hard” social tennis players that means you as well. Sunday, February 20^th after the medal matches for Mixed doubles are complete, we will have our Awards celebration to hand out the awards and celebrate with free pizza for all of our players and members. So, if you are a member, please come out at 11 AM to watch the mixed doubles medal matches and then stay for pizza and share in the celebration.

Schedule of Play for Tournament:

The evening prior to the matches the exact time and court for each match will be posted on www.PalmCreekTennisClub.blogspot.com.

In general, play will be as follows:

MIXED DOUBLES:

All mixed doubles teams will play on Thursday and Friday Mornings.

Mixed doubles teams playing for a Gold, Silver or Bronze will play mid-day on Sunday

MEN'S DOUBLES:

All men's doubles teams will play mid-day on Thursday and Friday (top seeds may have a bye on Thursday).

Men's doubles teams playing for a Gold, Silver or Bronze will play mid-day on Saturday.

WOMEN'S DOUBLES:

All women's doubles teams will play Thursday and Friday Afternoons (top seeds may have a bye on Thursday).

Women's doubles teams playing for a Gold, Silver or Bronze will play on Saturday morning.

Club Team Tennis will be starting up again on Thursday, March 4^th. This is the last session of Club Team tennis for the season and it will go for 4 weeks ending on March 24^th. Club Team tennis has proven to be a major step in enhancing court utilization. We need your support for the continued success of this event. This provides a chance for all of our members to get to know the other tennis club members. And, it is has made a definite impression from all of the comments I have received from people outside of the tennis club!

Cancer Awareness Tournament - February 2-4

2011-02-06T19:21:00.000-07:00

The tennis club showed up in force to support the Tennis Club Cancer Awareness event. The tennis club, after all expenses are paid will contribute over $1,500 to the cancer charities!!!

Everyone had a great time at the Awards Banquet, with the patio heaters adding the right amount of warmth. The delicious italian menu of lasagna, caesar salad, garlic bread with brownie bites and lemon cakes made for a great meal.

Sitting around the tables with your tennis buddies sharing a nice glass of wine made it just perfect!

All of our players were winners! However, Award Certificates were presented to the teams who won the most games:

Men's Division Winners with their certificates (from left to right) Skip Nirenberg/Jack Hardy-1st Place, and Glenn Arnold /Ken Civiello - 2nd Place.

Ladies Division Winners with their certificates (from left to right) Charlotte Eicher/Leta Babb [not shown] (PM 2nd place), Betty Scofield/Carmen Allen (AM 2nd place), Bev Nirenberg/Penny Jacobsen (AM 1st place), and Patti Blessen/Susan Manganaro[not shown] PM 1st place.

Mixed Division Winners (from left to right) Steve Allen (partnered with Kate Perrie) PM Division tied for 2nd , Hank Verhoeff (partnered with Susan Manganaro [not shown] PM Division 1st place, Kate Perrie, Pete McGannon/Helen Arnold, PM Division tied for 2nd place, Rhoda Zaph (partnered with Jim Weaver [not shown] AM Division 1st place, Rita Yates and Mark Costello AM Division 2nd place.

The highlight of the evening was the raffle drawing that added over $200 to the tennis clubs contribution to this worthy cause.

Jean McConnell and Mike Kirsch thoroughly entertained the crowd with their quick wit and ad lib comments as they announced the winners from the drawing for each of the raffle prizes.

A special thanks to Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson who both did an exceptional job as co-chairs for this successful event. They both agree that they could not pull this off without the help of their team: Bob McConnell, Doug Anderson, Dick Stone, Carolyn Stone, Sieny Kouwenhoven, Mary Williams, Connie Emerson, Darlene Knowles, Marilyn Howisey, Nancy Restum, Mary Sullivan-Pondell, Barbara Stolz, Glenn Arnold, Walt Krahl, Rhoda Zaph, and Kate Perrie. A heartfelt thank you goes to all of these volunteers for contributing their time to such a worthwhile cause! Last, but not least, Pete McGannon deserves special recognition for creating the raffle idea with his donation of a new Wilson tennis racquet.

Weekly Update - Sunday 2/6/2011

2011-02-06T19:20:00.000-07:00

First a huge thank you to all of our tennis club members who supported the Tennis Club’s Cancer Awareness Tournament. Despite the unseasonably cold weather we played every match scheduled! A huge thank you to all (players and volunteers) who faced some pretty cold wind chill factors and still came out to make this worthy event such an outstanding success. Our chairs, Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson outdid themselves putting on a first class event. With patio heaters taking off the chill our members enjoyed the Italian Themed Awards dinner of Lasagna, Caesar Salad and Garlic Bread (not to mention the Lemon Cakes and the Brownie Bites for dessert). It was a great site: the Tennis Pavilion filled with tables covered with Red and White Checked Table Cloths and all of our tennis buddies clinking wine glasses and enjoying the fun of a “raucous raffle” emceed by our own Mike Kirsch. The final tally is in and the Tennis Club has $1343 in net proceeds from the tournament (this is after $272 for food and $45 for balls), and $209 from the raffle for a total donation to Cancer Charities of $1,552! This far exceeds our donations in the past and, it is important to note, our past donations were then reduced for the costs of the park provided shirts and lunches.

Everyone who participated was a winner but those scoring the most game points included:

Women’s Doubles: AM: 1st: Bev Nirenberg and Penny Jacobsen, 2nd: Betty Scofield and Carmen Allen PM: 1st: Susan Manganaro and Patti Blessen, 2nd: Charlotte Eicher and Leta Babb

Men’s Doubles: 1st Skip Nirenberg and Jack Hardy, 2nd Ken Civiello and Glenn Arnold

Mixed Doubles: AM: 1st: Jim Weaver and Rhoda Zaph, 2nd: Mark Costello and Rita Yates PM 1st: Susan Manganaro and Hank Verhoeff, Tied for Second: Pete McGannon and Helen Arnold tied with Steve Allen and Kate Perrie

Photos are posted on our blog: www.palmcreektennisclub.blogspot.com. Just click on this link and it will take you right to the site. I hope you enjoy my impressions of the event. Sorry I did not get any photos on the courts but at least I remembered to bring my camera to the Awards Banquet!!!

Please remember you can get a full listing of the tennis club members on the roster posted on the blog site as well under the link on the right side titled Tennis Roster.

On a sad note, we have lost a dear member of the tennis club, Al Bovluger. Carol Bovluger has invited the members of the tennis club to a Celebration of Life event on Saturday, March 12th at 11 AM in the Ballroom. Carol is planning a lunch and in order to help her plan we will have a sign up sheet posted on the Social Bulletin Board. Please save the date, sign up and come out to show how the Tennis Club supports our own.

The Palm Creek Tennis Tournament, February 17 – 20th is getting close so don’t delay, find a partner and come participate in this great event. Currently we have 5 Men’s teams, 6 Women’s teams and 10 Mixed teams. Our goal is to have 16 teams in each category so we need your support. One of the things I hear from our members is that they want challenging play. Well, here is your chance. After your first match if you win, you will move up to compete against the other winners. If you lose your first match you progress to the consolation round and play against another team who also lost their first match. If you want help finding a partner, please give me a call or reply to this email. We would love to see all of our brackets filled with no byes so we need you to sign up by February 15th at 2pm (the date of the seeding event) and share in all the fun!

As the seeding event is on Tuesday, February 15th we will not have tennis lessons on that Tuesday. But, the tennis lessons will be held this Tuesday (2/8) at 2pm so come on out and join in. No matter what your level, it is great practice to hit lots of balls and also quite helpful to have an unbiased third party on hand to give you some insight on your play.

Next Sunday, February 13th at 11:30 AM in the San Tan Room is the February Brunch Social/Meeting. This is a lot of fun and always interesting array of delicious foods. We love homemade but store bought is always welcome. Bring a brunch item that feed 6-8 and join in the fun. Please sign up on the sign up sheet by Friday, February 11th and bring your Valentine out for an early Valentine’s Day Celebration Brunch.

Club Team Tennis will start up again on March 3rd - March 24th for our final 4 week session. Don’t miss out on the event that everyone is talking about. If you are interested in playing in the March session, regardless if you have played in the past sessions, we need you to call, send an email or just sign up on the sign up sheet posted on the bulletin board.

Weekly Update - Sunday Jan 30th

2011-02-06T15:28:00.000-07:00

The Cancer Awareness shirts and visors that were ordered through the tennis club are in and I have them at our RV. Please call and stop by to pick up your order. If you have not yet paid for your order, please bring your payment as well. I received cash in an envelope in the mail. There was nothing on the front and nothing inside to identify who it came from. As I don’t have a CSI DNA identification kit I have to trust in the honesty of our club members. Please let me know if you sent the cash.

When Diane placed the January order she did order some additional shirts. Sadly, none of the extras match what is on the sheet of shirts to be ordered. The shirts on hand include:

Women’s – 2 Medium (White), 2 Large (Red) and 2 XXL (Red)

Men’s – 3 Large (White), 2 Large (Red) and 1 XXL (Red)

If anyone who has already placed an order would like to change the color ordered to get their shirt right away, let me know. If you have not ordered a shirt, but would be interested in one of the shirts on hand, let me know and I will get it from Diane. Otherwise Diane will hold them and will not invoice the tennis club for them unless we order them.

Club Team Tennis has finished the January Session. It was lots of fun and we got a lot of people who were around the tennis courts asking what was going on!! Our final week was quite the event – the Mica Lane Ladies, Kathy Jensen, Helen Arnold, Terry Bradley and Bonnie Morgan came out to the courts dressed in their “high tea” finery. Not only do we have the most fun, we have the best dressed spectators!!! Larry Marik serenaded us at happy hour with his sax and his flute – what a treat!! And, the Park Photographer was out on a tall ladder to capture all the Tennis Club activity!!!

With all the work we will have running the Palm Creek Tennis Tournament we have decided to start the last session of Club Team Tennis on March 3rd for 4 weeks ending on March 24th. Please let us know if you are interested in playing in the March session by February 24th. Club Team Tennis is a great way to get to know other members of the tennis club, helps make new friends, enhances court utilization for the tennis club and is great fun! Support our wonderful club and call Mark at 5459 or send him an email at ma.costello@yahoo.com to sign up for the March session.

The Cancer Awareness Tournament is just around the corner starting this Wednesday with Ladies Doubles!! Please, Please, Please remember to sign up by tomorrow (January 31st) to attend the Awards Banquet on Friday Afternoon, February 4th. For all those playing in the tournament this is a free meal for you and your spouse!! Remember to bring cash to the Awards Banquet as we re going to have lots of great prizes to raffle with all of the proceeds going to support Cancer Awareness. Its going to be a fun event, great food with a wonderful group of people. I hope to see you there!!!

The sign up sheets for the Palm Creek Tennis Tournament are posted on the Tennis Club Bulletin Board and attached to this email. Find yourself a partner and come out for some great tennis. We will have a consolation round so that if you lose your first round you will go into the consolation round. The seeding event is scheduled for Tuesday, February 15th starting at 2pm. If you cannot make the seeding event let us know and we can schedule you earlier. If you would like to play but don’t know who to ask to play with you, let me know and I will work on finding you a partner. This is one event you don’t want to miss.

SAVE THE DATE – February 13th is the next Tennis Club Social/Meeting 11:30 am-1:30 pm in the San Tan Room – This is our famous pot luck Sunday Brunch and it is loaded with some brunch favorites and some brunch creativity. The sign up sheet will be posted on the bulletin board on Monday afternoon. Please sign up, bring a brunch item that feeds approximately 6-8. We will have coffee and hot tea but bring your own beverage if you prefer something a little stronger!!! We love the great homemade specialities, but please know we understand how busy we get here at Palm Creek and if you want to bring in something store bought, that is okay as well!!!

Weekly Update - Monday 1/24/2011

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We had a wonderful Soup/Salad social with loads of great food and a large crowd of tennis club members! A good time was had by all! Sieny found a silver goblet when cleaning up after the event. If you lost it, Sieny has it at her park model. You can reach her at 6687.

The February Men’s league sign up sheet has been posted on the Tennis Club bulletin board.

The Cancer Awareness Tournament is on pace to be a great event! We are having an awards banquet following the last session of mixed doubles on Friday, February 4th. The meal is free to all players and their spouses. If you are not signed up to play we would love to have you join us. If you or your spouse have not signed up to play the cost for the meal is only $5 per person. We want to make sure we have the right amount of meals and we want to contribute as much as possible to the cancer awareness funds. Therefore, we are asking for everyone who is planning to attend the awards banquet ( players, spouses and non players), to sign up on the Cancer Awareness Awards Banquet Sign up sheet that is now on the tennis club bulletin board (in the same place where you sign up to attend tennis club socials).

Tennis Club shirts can still be purchased. If you are interested, please let me know. The shirts are Antigua shirts that have a suggested retail price of $60. With the volume discounts afforded to Palm Creek, we are able to offer these quality shirts for $25. Not only are they great for playing tennis but they also make great golf shirts. And the best part is you just wash them (with no fabric softener) and hang them up and they are dry in minutes. I hope to have samples at the Cancer Awareness tournament so you can check out the sizes and place your order. I will only be placing one more order.

The last matches for the January session of Club Team Tennis are going to be played this Thursday, January 27th. If you are not scheduled to play come on out and cheer for your favorites. I will have samples of the Palm Creek Cancer Awareness Shirts and Diane Gaines is offering the sporting clubs special pricing. The t-shirts which are normally $11 will only cost $10 and the Hats and Visors will only cost $8 if you buy them through the tennis club. I will have a sign up sheet and the samples at Club Team Tennis this Thursday and at the Tennis Club Happy Hour that follows.

The Annual Palm Creek Tennis Tournament is scheduled for February 17-20. The seeding tournament will take place on Tuesday, February 15th. Its time to find a partner and sign up to participate in this popular tennis club event. The sign up sheet is attached to this email and there are plenty of sign up sheets available on the tennis club bulletin board. We celebrate the end of this tournament on Sunday afternoon with a pizza party for all tennis club members. If you don’t have a partner but want to participate, let me know.

The updated roster is available on this website. Look on the right column and the third item is “Tennis Roster.” Click on tennis roster and you will see two tabs “2009-2010” and “2010-2011” Just click on 2010-2011 and you will see the entire tennis roster. You can print it from this site if you would like.

A reminder to all court captains, anyone with permanent court time or anyone who has reserved court time that you will not be using - it is important for you to let us know and we will release the courts in our on-line reservation system, reservemycourt.com. As the park is filling up it is critical that we optimize the usage of the tennis courts.

Weekly Update - Sunday 1/9/2011

2011-01-11T17:50:00.000-07:00

The courts are getting busier and it is great to see our court utilization continually improve. The on line reservation system appears to be working well. Mark and I have worked very hard to get the organized play, the permanent court times, the tennis events and the pickleball events on the schedule. But, we are not perfect, so if you see something that does not look right, please shoot us an email or give us a call (6459). If you have any problems signing on reservemycourt.com or if you have a problem making a reservation, please give us a call and we will be more than happy to help you with your problem. So far, the only problem we incurred is that we had to limit the time frames to 1 ½ hours for prime time slots and therefore when you book non-prime time slots you can only book for 1 ½ hours even though you are reserving for 2 hour slots. Robson Ranch is looking to go to an online reservation system and they were very impressed with our system!!

Club Team Tennis had 8 teams playing last Thursday and this Thursday we have added two more teams: the “Racqueteers” and the “Court Jesters.” We will now have play on all of our courts. If you are not on a team, please call and get on the sub list. And, please come out and cheer the teams on. If nothing else come out and see the wild and crazy teams that take to the courts every Thursday! Tennis Club Happy Hour follows club team tennis and last week we had a “rockin” full house with lots of great appetizers. I requested additional tables and about 25-30 white chairs from the park but as this is a weekly event we were turned down. I know that many of you ride your bikes over to the courts, but if you are not riding a bike and it is not too much too ask it would be great if you could bring a chair.

We have just added Men’s Intermediate (3.0 & 3.5) to the organized play schedule on Friday’s 11:00-12:30. This is for men who play at the 3.0 and 3.5 level. Currently Men’s advanced (4.0-3.5) only has four courts available, this addition will provide our Men players with another chance to have a permanently reserved organized play in addition to the Men’s League. Bob McConnell and John Blessen will be co-captaining.

Sign up sheets are up for the Palm Creek Tennis Club’s Cancer Awareness Tournament. You don’t even need to find a partner as partners are drawn at random. The ladies are playing on Wednesday, Feb 2nd, the Men on Thursday, February 3rd and Mixed is on Friday, February 4th. There are lots of sign ups for the ladies and the mixed but where are the Palm Creek tennis club’s men’s players? I know we fill up all of our courts for Men’s leagues…so I know you are here. I am hoping that it just takes the guys a little longer to remember to walk over to the board to sign up! This is for a great cause and it is really a lot of fun. We will have an awards banquet for all of our Cancer Awareness Tournament players and their spouses, following the mixed doubles play on Friday and then we can all walk over to Palm Park for the lighting of the luminaries and the Balloon Glow!

We have a Tennis Club Soup and Salad Social/ Meeting scheduled for Sunday, January 23rd at 4pm in the San Tan Room. The first page of the sign up sheet was full so I added a second sheet – Wow isn’t that wonderful. This is always a great event with loads of great food. Please remember the next time you are at the courts to sign up and let us know if you plan to bring a crock pot of soup or a salad. I know I have said this many times but it is really important for our great social committee to know how many people to expect. I hate when they have to scramble to set up tables and chairs and dig around for extra plates. Let’s make it easy for everyone and just sign up – if something comes up and you can’t make it, I promise we will understand!

Speaking of making it easier for everyone else – Mark and I make a lot of phone calls following up with people and it is just amazing how many people do not have an answering machine on their phone. I know that Walmart has a cordless phone with an answering machine and it is not a lot of money. If it is not too much to ask, this would be a great help to us and I am sure your friends would appreciate it as well.

Tennis Lessons begin on Tuesday for every level of play from beginners to “pros!” Skip had a meeting with the instructors, Walt got our nets with holes changed out, and we have plenty of tennis racquets for those who don’t have a racquet or don’t think their racquet is quite “up to par.” Every Tuesday at 2 pm courts 2-5 will each have an instructor to help us improve our game. Come on out and hit lots of balls and have fun with your fellow tennis players. We are trying out Ball tube retrievers to pick up balls. In other words you don’t even have to bend over all you do is position the tube over a ball and give a little push. When the tube is full you invert it over the ball machine or the instructor’s basket and get back in line.

Couples Tennis on Sunday used all of the courts, Social Tennis has had days with all the courts in use and people lined up to rotate in, Club Team Tennis has all of the courts utilized – this is great news. But, we still have lots of non prime time available for permanent court time reservations. Get with some of your tennis friends and call Mark or me (6459) to schedule a permanent weekly game in a non prime time slot (Monday – Friday after 12:30PM and all day Saturday and Sunday). Once your permanent court time reservation is confirmed you don’t have to bother with making another court reservation for that time. Mark and I take care of all of the reservations for you and a permanent court time reservation is posted on the Palm Creek Tennis Club White Board.

I have distributed most of the Tennis Club Shirts and I have a new order sheet started. The shirts are available in White or Dark Red and are high quality Antigua Shirts that retail for $60 but our cost is only $25. The shirts are and easy to care for in that all you need to do is wash it (without fabric softner) and put it on a hanger to dry. I will have the order sheet available at club team tennis as well as at the January 23rd social. Shirts will be only be ordered once I receive your money.

Weekly Update - Sunday 1/2/2011

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Before anything else this updatecomes to you with wishes for a very Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Fun New Year to all of our tennis friends.

Its January and the Park is filling up fast. For those of you who signed up to play on the Leagues – they start at 12:30 PM on January 3rd for Ladies and January 4th for Men’s. Great news – we have filled all of our courts for both Men’s and Ladies!!! If you are not going to be able to play, please call a sub from the subs listed on the league sign up sheet. Please remember it is your job to find a sub if you will not be able to play in any session of league play!

The Club Team tennis January session is scheduled to begin on January 6th and runs for 4 weeks. Mark has been working hard to fill in teams and he is still waiting for some responses but we should have 8 teams for the January session! If you are not on a team, please come out to the courts on Thursdays at 2pm to cheer on your tennis buddies. Good natured trash talk is encouraged so come on out and join in the fun and stay for the Thursday Tennis Club Happy Hour which starts at 4pm!

Save the date: The January Meeting/Social is Sunday January 23rd at 4pm in the San Tan Room. This is our famous Soup and Salad pot luck. Please stop by the bulletin boards (pavilion side - Social) and sign up to bring either a soup (in a crock pot) or salad. Then show up on January 23rd for an amazing array of wonderful foods. Please, make it easier on our volunteers, who work very hard to make each event very special, and sign up. I just can’t stress enough how important is for you to sign up.

The Palm Creek Tennis Club Cancer Awareness Tournament is scheduled for Wednesday February 2nd (Ladies Doubles) Thursday February 3rd (Men’s Doubles) and Friday, February 4th (Mixed Doubles). Please sign up on the sheets posted on the bulletin board (pavilion side – Upcoming Events). You don’t need to find a partner for Men’s or Ladies or Mixed Doubles as each player will be matched at random. This year Jean McConnell came up with the excellent idea to move the tennis tournament out of the weekend timeframe so that we don’t compete with the other club’s tournaments. Also, we will not be giving out shirts this year as we had problems over the year in getting the correct sizes. If you want a shirt you can participate in one of the cancer awareness events in the park that gives out shirts, or you can purchase a shirt at the Activities office. In addition, we will be having our own awards celebration on Friday after Friday’s matches for all those and their spouses, who participated in any of the Tennis Club Cancer Awareness tournament events. We can then all walk over to Palm Park to witness the lighting of the luminaries here at the park. The fee for participating is $25 per individual for one event and if you want to add on the mixed doubles event the total cost is only $5 more for a total of $30. All of our profits will be donated back to the Palm Creek Cancer Awareness Donation.

Speaking of shirts, our tennis club shirts are in and I will be picking them up tomorrow. If you ordered your shirt in the November order I will bring them to the tennis club happy hour this Thursday, so please make sure you stop by to pick up your shirt!

Gwen and Wayne Black and Gail and Hank Verhoeff have volunteered to co captain Couples Open on Sundays at 2pm. This is a great opportunity for couples to have a fun game of tennis with other couples in the park. Each couple draws from a deck of cards for the couple they will be competing against. They then play the best of 3 games with the winners moving up and the losers moving down. There is a sign up sheet (pet park side – Sign up sheets).

I am working hard tonight to get the tennis club roster fully updated to post on the bulletin board. I am going to fill in all of the people who are on my distribution list for these emails. You should be able to tell who has arrived in the park by the notation showing if they have paid their membership dues or not.

I can’t end without a “standing ovation” for our court maintenance team of Walt Krahl and Glenn Arnold. The new wind screens are installed and the old wind screens have been powerwashed, the courts have been blown off weekly and everything is in working order. Our courts look GREAAAAT…Hats off to a job well done!

Weekly Update - Sunday 12/12/2010

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Hello all,

Its been a very busy week for the Palm Creek Tennis Club.

On Sunday, December 5th we had lots of fun on a warm 74 degree day at the Palm Creek Tennis Club’s Sunday/Funday. Although our new solar powered atomic clock recorded a very warm 84 degrees!

We had so many players signed up to participate we could not all play at the same time. But, we made good use of our down time socializing and enjoying the free lunch of sloppy joes, chips and a big cookie. Char and I made sure no one walked away hungry with 4 crock pots full of sloppy joes.

When the whistle blew everyone knew what to do - either go on the court to play or, like some of our participants in this photo, get off the court and enjoy the free lunch and catch up with friends and neighbors. A good time was had by all!

On Thursday, December 9th we once again had some warm wonderful sunshine for our first Club Team Tennis Pre Season (December 9 – December 30) series. To work out all of the bugs we limited this “pre-season” to four teams. The “Aces” played the “Blue Fins” and the “Quackers” were up against the “Whiners.” As you can imagine from the team names it was lots of fun. In fact, a member of the pickleball club board stopped me to share how impressive it was to hear all the hollering and laughing coming from those “busy tennis courts.” After the fun filled play with most of the trash talking coming from the spouses we enjoyed the opportunity to share our “best point of the day” stories with each other while we sat together to enjoy the Thursday afternoon tennis club happy hour. If you want to find out more about Club Team Tennis come down to the tennis courts on Thursdays at 2pm and cheer on our teams! There are sign up sheets on bulletin board (see information board) so make sure you sign up for the January Club Team Tennis series to get in on all the fun. If you would rather be placed on a team, call Mark or Kate (520-876-6459) and we will do our best.

The first order for the tennis club shirts has been submitted and we expect them to be delivered soon. I have a second order ready to go but I will not sent it in until all of the money has been collected. If you would like to order a shirt with this order please let me know (520-876-6459) your what size and what color shirt (white or dark red) you would like and get the money to me as soon as possible. After this December order is placed, the next order will not be placed until after the January Social on January 23rd.

Which reminds me, please save the date, January 23rd at 4pm in the San Tan Room for the famously wonderful Palm Creek Tennis Club Soup and Salad pot luck. More information and a sign up sheet will be on the bulletin board in early January.

Ladies League is scheduled to begin on January 3rd and run through to March 28th. Connie Emerson and Bonita (Bonnie) Morgan have once again volunteered to serve as “captains.” I posted the sign up sheet on the tennis club bulletin board today. There are only 20 slots available so get down to the bulletin board to sign up or, if you have not yet arrived at the park, call me at 520-876-6459 and I will go down to the bulletin board and sign you up. We will also need plenty of subs available to make sure we always have all of the courts full so if you don’t want to commit to playing every week, please sign up as a sub.

Jim Weaver reports that the Men’s League had all the courts full for the December session of Men’s League and we are expecting to once again fill the courts for the January Men’s League scheduled to start on January 4th through January 25th. Once again, the sign up sheet for the January Session of Men’s League was posted on the Bulletin Board today. Please make sure you go down to sign up or, if you have not yet arrived, call me at 520-876-6459 and I will go down and sign up for you. Just let me know if you want to commit to playing for the full month or if you would like to serve as a sub.

The order has been placed for 3 new windscreens to replace our damaged windscreens as well as for 2 new squeegie units and 4 new squeegie replacement rollers. Walt Krahl has put some additional shelving in the tennis building and he and Glenn Arnold worked hard to get everything cleaned up. Walt and Glenn will soon be hanging one of the windscreens to pilot the process of using caribeeners in place of the plastic clips. Our court maintenace team has been hard at work and everything looks great!

We are in need of volunteers to captain Couples Tennis on Sundays for December and January. If you would be willing to captain this organized play please let me know (520-876-6459). Gwen and Wayne Black will take over when they get back to the park.

Looking forward to seeing you on the courts...Kate Perrie (President - Palm Creek Tennis Club)

Weekly Update - Sunday 11/27/2010

2010-11-27T16:49:00.000-07:00

Our next social was scheduled for Sunday, December 5th. As this is only two weeks from our last social there is not much need for another meeting. Therefore, we will not have a social/meeting in the Ballroom as scheduled. Instead, we are going to have a Sunday/Funday tennis event on Sunday, December 5th starting at 12:30 at the tennis courts. Every player will be assigned a number and at the beginning of every 20 minute set the teams for each court will be announced. In order to participate you must sign up by Friday, December 3rd. And, as the saying goes “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” That is unless you belong to the Palm Creek Tennis Club! We will have a free lunch at this event for all members (but we are requesting that you bring your own drink). I don’t want to have to turn anyone away so PLEASE sign up if you are planning to attend! I need to know exact number of players in order to have the correct court assignments and I don’t want to run out of food! When you sign up let me know if you are 1) tennis & lunch - participating in the tennis or if you are 2) lunch - just coming to cheer on the players and enjoy the lunch. You can reply to this email or there will be a sign-up sheet posted on the bulletin board by the court. It s going to be a fun event that you don’t want to miss!!!

Walt Krahl and Glenn Arnold have been very busy cleaning the courts and the tennis building. Walt and Glenn cleaned out the used balls from the ball machines as well as the tennis lesson carts. As one of the ball machines would get clogged by the Dunlop balls we have eliminated dunlop balls from our ball machines. There is a “step to open” can ouside of court 2 for your used balls. With the clean out of the old balls we have lots of space for your used balls!

Men’s league for the month of December is starting on December 7th through December 28th. Jim already has three courts signed up! So, if you want to join in stop by the bulletin board to sign up or give Jim Weaver a call at 7284 (520-876-7284)

Club Team Tennis preseason session is scheduled to start on Thursday December 9th (2-4pm) for 4 weeks. If you don’t have a team and would like to participate, please sign up on the Club Team Tennis section of the bulletin board or contact me by replying to this email or calling me at 6459 ( 520-876-6459) and we will find you a team.

Ladies Intermediate will meet every Wednesday 2:00-4:00 starting on December 8th. Sieny (6687) is the court captain for this group and she would like for you to sign up if you would like to play but you don’t have to commit to play every week. She will rotate players in to make sure everyone who shows up gets to play. Please come out on Wednesdays and enjoy some fun tennis with a great group of Palm Creek ladies.

Don’t forget to sign up for Round Robin Mixed Doubles on Saturdays at 9:30 AM. Glenn, is working hard to make sure you get in some great matches in your rotations. If you have any questions give Glenn a call at 6877 (520-876-6877).

2010-02-11T06:34:00.000-07:00

We all want to thank Jean McConnell for her hard work to make our Cancer Awareness Tennis Tournament such a success. Mary Anderson was a great help for Jean. Thanks also to Doug Anderson and Marilyn Howisey for helping to organize the tournament. And of course, Mr. McConnel had a hand in it.

Mission Royale Valentine Tennis

2010-02-10T08:16:00.000-07:00

Here's the schedule for Saturday's tennis at Mission Royale.
9:00 a.m. Court 1 Connie and Bonnie
Court 2 Gail and Zuzanna
Court 3 Mark and Bob McConnell

10:45 a.m. Court 1 Bob Gibson and Darwin
Court 2 Mary Anderson and Rita Yates
Court 3 Glen and Doug

12:30 Court 1 Penny Jacobson and Betty Scofield
Court 2 Darwin and Glen
Court 3 Sienny and Mary Sullivan-Pondell

I'm sorry I could have all that volunteered play. There will be refreshments and sandwiches at noon. Eveyone is invited to watch the play. Hope to see you there.

2010 Palm Creek Tennis Tournament - Awards

2010-02-09T12:27:00.000-07:00

The 2010 Palm Creek Tennis Tournament is now a thing of the past. Everyone that played enjoyed some fun matches. With court 6 set up as a spectator court there was lots of room to watch the matches. The absolute grand finale was the Men's Doubles match with Ken Civiello and Jack Hardy giving it their all against Skip Nirenberg and Walt Krahl.

2010 Palm Creek Tennis Tournament Award Winners:

Skip Nirenberg and Walt Krahl
Gold - Men's Doubles

Ken Civiello and Jack Hardy
Silver - Men's Doubles

Ron Bates and Jim Weaver

Bronze - Men's Doubles

Penny Jacobsen and Rhoda Zaph

Gold - Women's Doubles Division A

Marg Wildeman and Penny Mason

Silver - Women's Doubles Division A

Carol Mason and Kay Nelson

Bronze - Women's Doubles Division A

Rhoda Zapf and Rick Watkins

Gold - Mixed Doubles Division A

Penny Jacobsen and Bob McConnell

Silver - Mixed Doubles Division A

Jack Metzler and Marg Wildeman

Bronze - Mixed Doubles Division A

Gail Verhoeff and Zuzana Seba

Gold - Women's Doubles Division B

Jean McConnell and Mary Anderson

Silver - Women's Doubles Division B

Rita Yates and Tricia Tranholt

Bronze - Women's Doubles Division B

Susan Manganaro (Jaccarino) and Rick Jaccarino

Gold - Mixed Doubles Division B

John Blessen and....

...Patti Blessen

Silver - Mixed Doubles Division B

Darlene Whicher and Jerry Hall

Bronze - Mixed Doubles Division B

The 2010 Tennis Tournament ended with a great Pizza and Awards party enjoyed by all the players and members of the Palm Creek Tennis Club.

Fun tennis, great friends, delicious pizza, and the award presentations...needless to say "a good time was had by all!!! "

Tennis Tournament - Thursday Results & Friday Schedule

2010-01-28T18:29:00.000-07:00

The Mixed Doubles Teams scheduled to play on Thursday did get in all but one of the matches. The match results are as follows:

Mixed Division A
Rhoda Zaph/Rick Watkins defeated Marg Wildeman/Jack Metzler 6-3 / 6-3
Penny Jacobs/Bob McConnell defeated Laurie Bredemen/Ken Civiello 5-7 / 6-3 / 6-3
Penny Mason/Bob Gibson defeated Mary Sullivan-Pondell/Bob Ryan 6-3 / 6-4

Mixed Division B
Patti Blessen/John Blessen defeated Glady Olson/ Hank Olson 6-0 /6-1

The Schedule of Play for Friday, January 29th is listed below.

See you on the courts,
Kate and Mark

Men’s
Skip Nirenberg/Walt Krahl – Bye
Jack Hardy/Ken Civiello – Bye
Ron Bates/Jim Weaver vs. Steve Allen/Rick Watkins - 9 AM (Court 5)
Bob Gibson/Gar Wildeman vs. Ron Restum/Bob McConnell– 9 AM (Court 7)

Women’s A
Penny Jacobson/Rhoda Zaph – Bye
Terry Bradley/ Susan Manganaro (Jaccarino) – Bye
Connie Emerson/Bonnie Morgan vs. Kay Nelson/ Carol Mason – 11 AM (Court 5)
Nancy Restum/Bev Nirenberg vs. Marg Wildeman/Penny Mason – 11 AM (Court 7)

Women’s B
Marion Gavin/Kate Perrie – Bye
Jean McConnell/Mary Anderson – Bye
Gail Verhoeff/Zuzana Sela vs. Rita Yates/Tricia Tranholt – 11 AM (Court 1)
Laurie Bredeman/Glady Olson vs. Mary Pondell/Darlene Knowles – 11 AM (Court 8)

Mixed A
Laurie Bredeman/Ken Civiello - Bye
Sherrill Kuiken/Marty Kuiken vs Penny Jacobson/Bob McConnell – 2PM (Court 5)
Penny Mason/Bob Gibson vs Rhoda Zaph/Rick Watkins – 2PM (Court 7)
Mary Pondell/Bob Ryan vs Marg Wildeman/Jack Meltzer – 2 PM (Court 2)

Mixed B
Glady Olson/Hank Olson - Bye
Susan Manganaro /Rick Jaccarino vs. Darlene Whicher/Jerry Hall – 9 AM (Court 1)
Nancy Restum/Ron Restum vs winner of above listed 9 AM match – 2 PM (Court 1)
Patti Blessen/John Blessen vs Helen Arnold/Glenn Arnold – 2 PM (Court 8)

Tennis Tournament - Thursday schedule moved to Friday

2010-01-28T08:27:00.000-07:00

Due to the rain, all matches scheduled for today, Thursday, will be moved to Friday. The scheduled times and courts will be exactly the same as the Thursday schedule. Barring no future bad weather, we will be able to finish the tournament on Sunday afternoon. If you have any questions, please feel free to call us at 6459.
Kate and Mark

Minutes from January 26 meeting

2010-01-27T06:41:00.001-07:00

Palm Creek Tennis Club
General Meeting
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The meeting was called to order by President Charlotte Eicher at 4:15pm at the tennis pavilion. Charlotte introduced officers, Walt Krahl, Vice-President; Mary Williams, Secretary; and Helen Arnold, Membership chairman.

The minutes from the last general meeting (December 9, 2009) were accepted as posted. Charlotte read a summary of the treasurer’s report sent in by Carolyn Stone. Expenses lately have included money for tennis club brochures, a new ball basket for use during lessons, and a new “sandwich board” to use at the courts to publicize activities.

The Cancer Awareness Tennis Tournament will be held February 5, 6, and 7. With women playing on Friday, men on Saturday and Mixed doubles on Sunday. There are still openings for players in all categories.

The Palm Creek Tennis Club “in-house” tournament is this coming Thursday through Saturday. Seeding events were completed today.

The next tennis social will be on February 21. It will be a brunch. Watch for details to b posted on the bulletin board and on-line.

The rest of the meeting was a discussion of current court usage and the possible consequences of that. The courts are not being utilized as much as they could be by our current approximately 128 active members. Attending members expressed various ideas and suggestions to increase usage. Those ideas included posting individual play requests on the bulletin board, adding an afternoon “social tennis” and a 2.0-3.0 drop-in tennis time to the schedule. All of the ideas and suggestions will be taken under advisement by the officers,

The meeting was adjourned at 5:15pm.

Tennis Tournament - Thursday 1/28 Schedule

2010-01-26T19:55:00.000-07:00

As long as there are no weather problems there will be three session on Thursday and Friday: 9-11 AM, 11 AM-1 PM, and 2-4 PM. In order not to conflict with church on Sunday, we will not begin play until 11 AM. If you are not playing, please come out to cheer on the teams that are playing. Court 6 will be set up as a spectator court. As a result of the seedings, the schedule for Thursday is as follows:

Men’s
Skip Nirenberg/Walt Krahl – Bye
Jack Hardy/Ken Civiello – Bye
Ron Bates/Jim Weaver vs. Steve Allen/Rick Watkins - 9 AM (Court 5)
Bob Gibson/Gar Wildeman vs. Ron Restum/Bob McConnell– 9 AM (Court 7)

Women’s A
Penny Jacobson/Rhoda Zaph – Bye
Terry Bradley/ Susan Manganaro (Jaccarino) – Bye
Connie Emerson/Bonnie Morgan vs. Kay Nelson/ Carol Mason – 11 AM (Court 5)
Nancy Restum/Bev Nirenberg vs. Marg Wildeman/Penny Mason – 11 AM (Court 7)

Women’s B
Marion Gavin/Kate Perrie – Bye
Jean McConnell/Mary Anderson – Bye
Gail Verhoeff/Zuzana Sela vs. Rita Yates/Tricia Tranholt – 11 AM (Court 1)
Laurie Bredeman/Glady Olson vs. Mary Sullivan-Pondell/Darlene Knowles – 11 AM (Court 8)

Mixed A
Sherrill Keiken/Marty Keiken - Bye
Rhoda Zaph/Rick Watkins vs. Marg Wildeman/ Jack Meltzer - 2PM (Court 5)
Penny Jacobson/Bob McConnell vs. Laurie Bredeman/Ken Civiello - 2 PM (Court 7)
Mary Sullivan-Pondell/Bob Ryan vs. Penny Mason/Bob Gibson – 2 PM (Court 2)

Mixed B
Nancy Restum/Ron Restum – Bye
Helen Arnold/Glenn Arnold – Bye
Susan Manganaro(Jaccarino)/Rick Jaccarino vs. Darlene Whicher/Jerry Hall - 2 PM (Court 1)
Glady Olson/Hank Olson vs. Patti Blessen/John Blessen – 2 PM (Court 8)

We will continue to update you on the schedule of play as the tournament proceeds.
Hope to see you on the courts,
Kate and Mark
6459

Tennis Meeting

2010-01-25T11:08:00.001-07:00

We will have a business meeting at the 4:00 Happy Hour, tomorrow, Jan 26.

Tennis Tournament - Seeding - changed and new teams

2010-01-24T12:22:00.000-07:00

To: All players in the 2010 Palm Creek Tennis Tournament:
In hingsight it looks like we made the right decision to postpone the Tennis Tournament until the 28th. Now we just have to keep our fingers crossed that we have beautiful weather this weekend. For those who had to change partners, or for new entrants to the tournament we are going to have another seeding event on Tuesday (1/26) at 3:30pm immediately following the tennis lessons. To date the following teams will need to attend this event:

Ken Civiello/Laurie Bredeman
Rhoda Zaph/Rick Watkins
Marg Wildeman/Jack Metzler
Bob Ryan/Mary Sullivan-Pondell
Ken Civiello/Jack Hardy

If any of you cannot make this event, please let us know so that we can set up a time for you. Also, at this time we have two byes in every division. Therefore, if you know of anyone who is interested in entering, please let them know that we need them! I am putting more applications in the tennis bulletin board and I can email applications to anyone if they let me know (6459 or nperrie1@yahoo.com) they are interested.

We will be scheduling the Men’s, Women’s, and Mixed opening matches on Thursday. So you will be playing on Thursday (1/28) unless you get a bye. I will send an email to you with the schedule of play after the seeding event on Tuesday but no later than Wednesday. We will also post the brackets and schedule of play on the tennis bulletin board and on the Palm Creek Website: www.palmcreektennisclub.blogspot.com

Thanks,
Kate and Mark -6459

Tennis Tournament Delayed One Week

2010-01-21T06:10:00.001-07:00

Hi all,

Mark and I don’t think the forcast for Thursday and Friday is going to change from the 80% chance of rain and the 25-30 mph winds. We have made the decision to postpone the tennis tournament start until next Thursday, January 28th. The weather may change and we may look stupid for postponing but given the information we have right now postponing for a week is the only option that we see. If there are any conflicts such that you can’t play we will work with you.

We will send out the schedules for next week on Tuesday evening, January 26th. As we have “byes” in all the brackets we will keep the registration period open until Tuesday, January 26th.

Thank you for your understanding,

Kate and Mark

Tennis Tournament postponed to 1/28-1/31

2010-01-21T01:53:00.000-07:00

Due to the forcast of 80% chance of rain on Thursday and Friday with winds at 25-30 miles per hour, the tennis tournament, originally set to begin on 1/21, has been postpone one week. The tournament will start on Thursday, Januay 28th and conclude on Sunday, January 31st. The registration period will be extended to Tuesday, January 26th. If anyone has a conflict due to this scheduling change please contact Kate or Mark (6459). All brackets have "byes" so if you have not already signed up, please contact Kate or Mark (6459). Schedules and results of play will be posted on this website as well as on the bulletin board at the tennis courts.
Kate and Mark

ANOTHER CPR TRAINING OPPORTUNITY

2010-01-11T07:25:00.000-07:00

Palm Creek is offering it's next CPR class on February 12th. Theywould like to have representatives from each of the sports groups trained in CPR. Please let Diane Gaines know if you would like to attend this session. Your earliest response is appreciated. Call Diane at 8969

Damaged tennis post

2010-01-11T07:20:00.000-07:00

Wendell has received a bid from General Acrylics and given the okay to repair the rusted post on court #1. They will be here as soon as possible to repair it. Stay tuned!

January Tennis Social

2010-01-08T08:00:00.000-07:00

Mark your calendar for Sunday, January 17. Details of time and place when plans are firmed up, but it will be after the Park's Welcome Back Party.

Plan to sign up for the Tennis Tournament.

Tennis Tournament 2010

2009-12-18T06:58:00.000-07:00

As you may know the 2^nd Annual Palm Creek Tennis Tournament is scheduled from Thursday January 21 to Sunday January 24 with the new addition of the fun filled seeding event scheduled on Tuesday, January 19^th. The Entry Form as well as the Rules for the Tournamentare available at the tennis club bulletin board.

We are hoping to generate a high level of participation in this event. No matter what your level or your experience in tournaments this is one that you don’t want to miss. This event is open to all Palm Creek Residents. We would be more than happy to help you find a partner or answer any questions you might have. 520-876-6459. Kate and Mark

WIND SCREENS ARE INSTALLED

2009-12-11T10:40:00.000-07:00

Thanks to brilliant organizing on the part of Dick Stone and Glen Arnold, along with a wonderful turnout of volunteers, the windscreens at the tennis courts were installed in a record 40 minutes. It rather reminded me of a finely organized ant farm where everyone knew just where to be and what to do at any given moment.

Thanks to the extraordinary folks who showed up.

MINUTES FROM DECEMBER 9, 2010 MEETING

2009-12-11T04:11:00.000-07:00

Palm Creek Tennis Club General Meeting December 9, 2009

The general meeting of the Palm Creek Tennis Club was called to order by President Charlotte Eicher. After allowing members to help themselves to the treats brought for the occasion, Char introduced the officers - herself, Walt Krahl, Vice President; Carolyn Stone, Treasurer; and Mary Williams, Secretary. She then welcomed all those in attendance and had those new to the tennis club this year stand and introduce themselves. Treasurer Carolyn Stone gave a brief treasury report. There is $838.63 currently in the various accounts held by the tennis club. It was moved by Mike Kirsch and seconded by Wayne Black and approved by the membership that the report be accepted as presented.

President Eicher announced that at the current time there are no problems with court scheduling. Social Tennis has been active each day. Gwen Black acknowledged that perhaps the Tuesday and Thursday time should be 12:00 to 1:30. John Blessen and Sieny Kouwenhoven have volunteered to be in charge of the weekly Court Schedule Board cleaning on Saturday evenings at 5:00.

The Palm Creek in-house tennis tournament will be chaired by Mark Costello and Kate Perrie who volunteered to take over the tournament because the previous chairmen were unable to return to the park this year. The tournament will be held January 21-24. Those in attendance agreed to the date in spite of conflicts affecting a few members. Mark announced that there will be no medals given this year, but instead a plaque will be displayed with winners’ names. Mark and Kate will work to get as many participants at all levels in the tournament as possible. A social and a fun game day will be held several days prior to the tournament to determine seed placement. Most participants will be able to play at least two matches. The tournament fee will be $10 per team, with the club providing balls. Please contact Mark and Kate at 6459 to volunteer to help with the tournament. Information about the tournament will be published on the bulletin board and on the tennis club blog at www.palmcreektennisclub.blogspot.com

Our club has been invited to participate in a “Valentine’s Tennis Tourney” at Mission Royale on February 12. Lunch will be provided. Watch for details on the bulletin board and in newsletters.

The Palm Creek Pickle Ball Club will be holding their “in-house tournament” on Feb. 12 and their “invitational tournament” March 2-7. In the spirit of cooperation, the tennis club will turn over Court 2 on Tuesday and the remainder of the tennis courts on Wednesday for use by the pickle ball group. Tennis Club members have agreed to volunteer to provide a pasta dinner for the pickle ball group on Saturday night, March 6. Mike Kirsch has volunteered to cook and various others have volunteered to help prepare, serve and clean up. We understand that the pickle ball club will pay for the food.

The Palm Creek Cancer Awareness Days are February 5 and 6. The Tennis Club will have a tournament in support of the event. Jean McConnell is in charge.

President Char gave thanks to the people who have been setting up and taking down chairs and tables for the Palm Creek Craft Fairs. Darwin Tranholt has volunteered to be in charge of this activity for this season.

Women’s Tennis League will begin Monday, January 4. Men’s League will begin Tuesday, January 5. Sign-up sheets will be posted on the bulletin board on December 29. Both groups will meet at 11:30 for a short meeting to go over rules and procedures with play to begin at noon. Bonnie Morgan and Connie Emerson are in charge of the Women’s League. Rex Fetzer is in charge of the Men’s League.

Dick Stone is expecting as many volunteers as possible to bring ladders and meet him on the tennis courts on Friday, December 11 at 9am to help hang the wind screens on all but the north fence, where oleanders still need to be trimmed.

Ball machines are available for use, but please be careful of the weak gear box on the one machine. Please load balls away from the gear box.

President Char asked members to be thinking about officers and volunteers to run for office and plan the upcoming election of officers. The meeting was adjourned around 4:45.

Respectfully submitted, Mary Williams, secretary

2009-11-22T12:39:00.001-07:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

2009-11-18T13:00:00.001-07:00

	Glenn	Arnold	6877	3.0/3.5	Gnh2106@gmail.com
	Helen	Arnold	6877	2.5/3.0	Gnh2106@gmailcom
	Dina	Bates	7088	2.5	bates@shaw.ca
	Lawrence	Bates	7088	3.0	bates@shaw.ca
	Ron	Bates	7814	3.5
	Fran	Biggers	6546	3.0/3.5	wbiggers@gmail.com
	Wayne	Biggers	6546	2.5/3.0	wbiggers@gmail.com
	John	Blessen	6967	3.0	jblessen@yahoo.com
	Patti	Blessen	6967	3.0	jblessen@yahoo.com
	Gan	Cossel	7684	2.5/3.0	cossel@live.com
	Jack	Cossel	7684	2.5	cossel@live.com
	Donna	Crofford	7637	NA	tcrofford@shaw.ca
	Terry	Crofford	7637	3.0	tcrofford@shaw.ca
	Gerrie	Dey	7030	3.0	gerlin@aol.com
	Linda	Dey	7030	2.5/3.0	gerlin@aol.com
	Denise	Erickson	6873	3.0	padrecliff@earthlink.net
	Doris	Grayson	6555	3.0/3.5	Jerrydoris.grayson@verizon.net
	Jerry	Grayson	6555	3.0/3.5	Jerrydoris.grayson@verizon.net
	Barb	Hillman	6670	NA	mauriceparobee@hotmail.com
	Mike	Kirsch	7711	3.0	mikeandvanilla@aol.com
	Bill	Kouwenhoven	6687	NA	wkandsk@shaw.ca
	Sieny	Kouwenhoven	6687	3.0/3.5	wkandsk@shaw.ca
	Celeste	Krahl	7383	2.5/3.0	wkrahl@yahoo.com
i	Walt	Krahl	7383	3.5	wkrahl@yahoo.com
	Bonita	Morgan	6900	3.0/3.5	dabomorgan@gmail.com
	David	Morgan	6900	NA	dabomorgan@gmail.com
	Glady	Olson	6605	3.0	Olson_hank@yahoo.com
	Hank	Olson	6605	3.0	Olson_hank@yahoo.com
	Maurice	Parobee	6670	4.0	mauriceparobee@hotmail.com
	Marilyn	Perini	7023	2.5/3.0	rmperini@xplornet.com
	Robert	Perini	7023	2.5/3.0	rmperini@xplornet.com
	Betty	Scofield	7847	3.5	kenbettysco@hotmail.com
	Carolyn	Stone	7302	2.5	ostonesfun@juno.com
	Dick	Stone	7302	3.0	ostonesfun@juno.com
	Darwin	Tranholt	6872	3.0/3.5	Tranholt@gmail.com
	Tricia	Tranholt	6872	3.0	Tranholt@gmail.com
	Gar	Wildeman	6897	3.5	garandmarg@aol.com
	Marg	Wildeman	6897	3.5	garandmarg@aol.com
	Mary	Williams	6513	2.5	Mcw50@aol.com
	Tom	Williams	6513	3.0	mcw50@aol.com

May is a Lonely Month

2009-05-12T17:26:00.001-07:00

Well, folks, tennis is definitely on its last leg for the summer. We only have five women and two men players. Myself, Marion Gavin, Darlene Knowles and Peggy Fetzer have become the "regulars" as Mary Williams left on Monday.

I'm back to my full game after months of having a pinched nerve. The wind screens are down and have even been water blasted, thanks to our own Will Updyke. Seems like next season is years off, but I'm sure it will be here before we know it.

There are still some open spots on the men's league list, but the women's league was full up before everybody left.

It's been quite warm here for the past week..............triple digits, but very tolerable as the humidity is only 7%.

Wish I had more news for you, but we are in hibernation mode.

Charlotte

Season Winds Down

2009-04-14T07:16:00.000-07:00

Most of our tennis players are gone. The courts look sad. I had an opportunity to be at the courts the other day and by chance met a lady named MaryEllen Halm. She is just here for a few days, but I told her all about our program and hopefully MaryEllen will come back next season to spend some time with us. She is a former teacher and tennis coach. She's very active in the USTA community building program. She's a 3.5 player and would be a wonderful addition to our group. Besides that, she's just a very nice person. COME BACK, MARY ELLEN.

I don't know how many of you saw Glenn Arnold before he left. In case you didn't, here's a picture of what happened on one of his last games of tennis here. Tennis can be a dangerous sport for us old folks............................

As for other injuries, I'll be back in the tennis business shortly. My neurologist evaluated the MRI I had done. Results..................no surgery needed.............just need time to heal.............taking new anti inflammatory meds. Such good news for me................yeah. I'll be trying my leg out this week on the courts if I can find anyone willing to play with an old cripple.

Hope everyone made it home safely and you're out on the courts getting ready for next season. We'll have some new competition as several pickleball players and working on their tennis game.

Charlotte

New Event for Next Season

2009-03-28T15:23:00.000-07:00

Next season we will be starting a Women's Round Robin on Saturday mornings. This was an idea from Penny Mason who felt it would be the perfect time to play with ladies that we just can't get scheduled with during the week. Sounds like a great idea to me. Thanks for the idea Penny.

PENTATHALON...........THE FINALISTS

2009-03-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

Pentathalon - Golf

2009-03-28T06:59:00.000-07:00

Our contestants hit the links on Thursday for the fourth event in the competition. Pete McGannon and Rick Watkins managed to take first place for the men. Rhoda Zaph and Marg Wildeman squeaked past Connie Emerson and Penny Mason by one stroke to take first place in golf.

THE PENTATHALON - Tennis

2009-03-27T14:46:00.000-07:00

Top left: Marg Wildeman and Rhoda Zaph
Top Center: Penny Morgan and Terry Bradley
Top right: Glen Arnold and Tom Langstine
Center left: Pete McGannon and Rick Watkins
Center right: Jack Metzer and Mark Costello
Bottom left: Jim Weaver and Skip Nirenberg
2nd from left bottom: Kate Perrin and Earlene Riggins
2nd from right bottom: Penny Mason and Connie Emerson
Bottom right: Rita Yates and Marion Gavin

The winners in Tennis for the ladies were Penny Morgan and Terry Bradley

The gentlemen's gold went to Mark Costello and Jack Metzer.

Pentathalon - Pickleball

2009-03-25T12:13:00.000-07:00

The Pickleball portion of the Pentathalon proved to be a spirited competition. Pete McGannon (playing with Pete's Pretty Powerful Pickle Paddle) and Rick Watkins took first place for the men. Marg Wildeman and Rhoda Zaph walked off with the gold medal.
A big thank you to the Pickleball Club for providing referees for the games.

Minutes of 3/20/09 meeting

2009-03-25T07:46:00.000-07:00

In the absence of secretary, Mary Williams, it was moved/seconded and approved that the minutes of the last meeting be accepted as posted.

Discussion of moving the Women's Tennis League from Thursday to another day followed. It was moved/seconded and approved that the Women's League will play on Monday's at noon.

The following officers were elected:

President, Charlotte Eicher
Vice-President, Walt Krahl
Secretary, Mary Williams
Treasurer, Carolyn Stone

Following are the committee volunteers for next season:

Court Maintenance: Dick Stone and Glenn Arnold
Social Committee: Diane Langstine, Carol Heinz, Mary Pondell
Women's League: Connie Emmerson and Bonnie Morgan
Men's League: Rex Fetzer
Round Robins: Glenn Arnold and Cliff Crook
Lessons: Skip Nurenberg
Membership: Helen Arnold
Publicity: Marg Wildeman
Cancer Tournament: Jean McConnell
Club Tournament: Tom Langstine
Chair Setup: Diane Langstine

The last hurrah

2009-03-25T07:44:00.000-07:00

The final social hour of the season...................a time to say goodbye til next year..................travel safely.

Pentathalon - Lawn Bowling

2009-03-24T15:22:00.000-07:00

The second day of the Pentathalon found the contestants on the Lawn Bowling Green. Gold medalists for the ladies were Penny Mason and Connie Emerson. The gentlemen winners were Mark Costello and Jack Metzer. Wednesday will be the big Pickleball match..........stay tuned.

Mission Royale Tennis Mixer

2009-03-24T07:54:00.000-07:00

We entertained our friends from Mission Royale on 3/20/09. A great time was had by all

Pentathalon Horse Shoe Event

2009-03-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

Election of Officers/Business Meeting

2009-03-18T01:41:00.000-07:00

Don't forget our meeting
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2009
7:30 P.M.
SANTAN ROOM

We'll be having he election of officers and I'm sure there will be a lively discussion regarding changing the day of the ladies tennis league.

Mission Royale/Palm Creek Tennis Gathering

2009-03-18T01:28:00.000-07:00

Ok folks, we are all set for our Saturday tennis gathering with Mission Royale. For those of you who have signed up to play, the schedule is posted on the bulletin board. Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled time.

Our wonderful Social committee will have coffee and donutes for the early morning and I am asking anyone interested to drop off some cookies or snacks to munch on throughout the morning. We are having a light lunch at around noon, so plan to spend the morning at the courts. It should be lots of fun.

I want to thank Rhoda Zaph and Linda Grant-Barger(President of the Tennis Club at Mission Royale) for helping set up the foursomes.

Looking for a few good men/women

2009-03-11T06:21:00.000-07:00

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.

.........................ok, that having been said, let's move on to a new topic. We have our election of officers coming up on March 20, 7:30 p.m. in the Santan Room. We need to put together a slate of officers and chairpersons of various committees. Nancy Restum is retiring as chairman of the Social Committee. This is a key role in the club as it is the glue that holds us together. Nancy and her crew have said they will assist anyone who is willing to chair this committee.

I received lots of thanks from pickleball players for our cooperation in providing court space for their tournament. Without exception, those folks I talked with from other parks were astounded at the spirit of sharing between the two clubs here at Palm Creek. We owe ourselves a big pat on the back for helping to make their tournament the great success that it was.

Mission Royale

2009-03-05T07:34:00.000-07:00

I have corrected the date for the Mission Royale get to gether. It is Saturday, 3/21/09

REMINDER

2009-03-04T13:38:00.000-07:00

There will be no tennis this Friday, Saturday and Sunday as we will be donating our court space to the Pickleball Club for their big tournament this weekend. Make sure and stop by to watch the competition. It's great fun.

TENNIS CLUB SOCIAL

SUNDAY, MARCH 8

4:00 P.M.

NORTH PAVILLION (NEXT TO NORTH POOL)

More News

2009-03-04T13:32:00.000-07:00

I have been remiss in attending the Tennis Club happy hour which is held in the Tennis Pavillion every Tuesday @ 4:00.. Sure am glad I remembered. I discovered that Skip Nirenberg has designed a certificate for those who attend 4 tennis lessons.

Skip, Bob, Walt and Rhoda have been doing such a great job with the lessons......................we owe them a big Thank You...............................they are creating our future competition!!!!!

Mission Royale Tennis Club Competition

2009-03-02T12:12:00.000-07:00

Please keep the date of 3/21/09 open for some great tennis. We have invited the Mission Royale Tennis Club to join us for a morning of tennis and refreshments.

Our plan is to play two morning sessions; one at 8 a.m. and the second at 10 a.m. This will be followed by a light lunch and a chance to say goodbye for the season to our friends from the other side of Rt. 10.

The format will be best 2 out of 3 full-set matches with Adds. Sets tied 6-6 decided by one more game with no Adds. Estimated match time 1.5 hours, with 15 minutes for warm-up and practice serves.

I have put a sign up sheet on the bulletin board. First come, first served. Since we don't know how many players we will have from each park yet, we will try to fill all 6 courts for each session, but we'll have to see what sort of numbers we are working with. We hope to accomodate everyone which means that you may end up playing with one of the Mission Royale folks. It is meant to be a morning of fun and good tennis. No prizes, no trophies.................just lots of fun.

Please make sure to fill out your ranking as that will aid us in matching folks up appropriately. We had a wonderful time visiting M.R. this past Saturday and I'm looking forward to a great day with them.

Error...Error

2009-02-27T18:22:00.001-07:00

Sorry I identified Kate Perrie's partner as Darlene Knowles when in fact it was Mary D. Sullivan-Pondell. I apologize

TENNIS ROSTER NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE

2009-02-27T16:12:00.000-07:00

I have figured out a way to view our roster from this blog. Right now just click on this link
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dddgtn97_6fmbg45c8&hl=en
It will give you the latest roster.

When I learn how I will make that link a permanent part of the page.

Back to the Blog

2009-02-27T13:06:00.000-07:00

As per my email to all of you, I will now be posting all news for the Tennis Club on this blog site.

Pay close attention to the "calendar" as this has all the information for club events. I will be adding more details as I learn how to use this new tool.

You can print the calendar if you choose which can make life a little easier.

I would appreciate it if any of you have digital pictures you would like to share, the easiest way for me to transfer them to our blog is if you give them to me on a memory stick which I will return to you. I'm sure some of you have photos of our tennis events.

Here are a few of the photos we took after the Tennis Tournament.

Winners in the Ladies's A bracket
Gold medalists: Terry Bradley and Rhoda Zaph
Silver medalists: Marg Wildeman and Penny Mason
Bronze medalists: Carol Zigala(not pictured) and Del Bullen

Ladies' B bracket winners

Gold Medalists: Bonnie Morgan & Connie Emerson
Silver Medalists: Chris Bangsund & Charlotte Eicher
Bronze Medalists: Darlene Knowles & Kate Perrie

Sorry I don't have any pictures of the Mens winners or the Mixed Doubles.

I encourage you to look around on the blog page and discover that you can be automatically sent an email whenever we update the page. You can print our the calendar. You can add comments to the page in case I make an error.

Take care and stay tuned.

Get your hot dogs here!

2008-03-16T21:51:00.001-07:00

Ron Restum, Walt Krahl and Skip Nirenberg traded their tennis racquets for spatulas and tongs and served up some delicious burgers, dogs and sausage to our tennis club members. The March "social" on Sunday, March 16 was a B-B-Q with the side dishes and deserts brought in by the members.

The weather was a little cool and breezy for a picnic...so we ate our meal and enjoyed each other's company in the Sonora Room.

A big thank you to our social committee, headed by Nancy Restum, for putting on such great monthly socials this season!

Whipped cream and a cherry?

2008-03-07T23:27:00.000-07:00

The tennis club social committee once again did a good job organizing an event for our members. At the spring general membership meeting on March 7, 2008 we were treated to an ice cream social....we made our own sundaes before sitting down for the meeting.

Mary Anderson and Bill Howisey are choosing their favorite toppings while

Marilyn Howisey waits her turn. Marg Wildeman and

Dave Morgan are already enjoying their treats.

Earline Riggins and Doug Anderson seem to be enjoying their creations.

Then we got down to business. We were called to order by the president, Charlotte Eicher and discussed various matters of business of the club. We also had our election of officers for the 2008-2009 season. Taking their positions will be.....

President .........Charlotte Eicher

Vice Presidents........Jean McConnell and Bob Gibson

Secretary............Mary Williams

Treasurer........Marilyn Howisey

The Executive Board will be meeting soon to go over the budget and committee duties and positions for the coming season.

Competition!

2008-03-05T22:45:00.000-07:00

The second competition between tennis players from Palm Creek and Mission Royale took place on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at Mission Royale. There were nine teams of men and women on the 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 level from each club. Palm Creek was victorious in six of the matches. Congratulations to the winners....Steve Allen, Ken Civallo, Carmen Allen, Denise Erickson, Rhoda Zaft, Dell Bullen, Tom Langstine, Larry Halliday, Wayne Black, Jack Gumph, Helen Arnold, and Patricia Gibson. Also representing Palm Creek were...Bob Stevens, Jerry Walther, Rick Watkins, Bob Bullen, Glen Arnold and Bob Gibson.

The Mission Royale Tennis Club provided refreshments for all!

Rhoda served a winner!
Bob and Glen are ready to play!
Carmen and Denise face their competition.
Helen and Patricia discuss strategy.
Jack and Wayne are ready for the next shot.

photos supplied by the Mission Royale Tennis Club

All-Around Sportsmen

2008-03-03T19:44:00.000-07:00

The Second Annual Palm Creek Tennis Club Pentahlon took place February 25-30, 2008. Six teams of women and eight teams of men participated in a different event each day. Lawn bowling took place on Monday. Tuesday was reserved for horseshoes. On Wednesday the competition was in tennis. The teams played 18 holes of golf on Thursday and the week was finished off with pickleball on Friday. Following the final event, the participants and their spouses, committee members and referees from the various sports gathered for a fantastic potluck and the awards ceremony. A great big THANK YOU to all! The event was a big success and a lot of fun.

Winners in the Men's Division were: Third place-Skip and Ken;

First Place- Steve and Rick; Second Place - Dick S and Dick W

Winners in the Ladies' Division were: Second-Connie and Bonnie;

First place- Penny M and Marg; Third plade - Penny J and Rhoda

For a Good Cause

2008-02-09T20:46:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, February 9, the ladies of the Palm Creek Tennis Club held a tournament to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer organization. Before hitting the courts, the ladies enjoyed a tasty lunch on the poolside patio and were given a goodie bag as a thank you.

Soup's on!

2008-01-24T17:09:00.000-07:00

The Tennis Club Social Committee did a "bang-up" job at organizing our January get-together on Sunday, January 20. It was perfect weather for us to enjoy the vast variety of soups and salads that our tennis playing cooks brought to share. We had a full house of people who enjoyed meeting and greeting while we hunted up friends who met the qualifications of the questions on our game sheets. Then we got into the important activity of tasting all the soups and salads. A great time was had by all!

The meeting is called to order!

2008-01-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

About 40 of our tennis club members gathered for the general membership meeting on January 8, 2008. Lots of business was discussed. Minutes will be posted on the bulletin board at the courts. We'll be looking for you all at our Social on January 20!

Who's on first??

2008-01-08T22:13:00.000-07:00

A great group of volunteers helped get our new Court Schedule Board installed.

Terry Eicher is justly proud of the work completed. Thanks, Terry and gang!

Wind Screens have been installed!

2007-12-20T22:07:00.000-07:00

A great big THANK YOU to all the guys and gals that came out on Thursday morning, December 20 to help get all the wind screens installed. Now we have "real" tennis courts.

Team work makes the job go faster!

There were ladders all over the place.

(They could come in handy for some of those lobs!)

Welcome!

2007-12-18T09:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new Palm Creek Tennis Club Blog!
We'll be adding notes of events, matches, and whatever we're involved in.