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Lone Star-Cy-Fair tennis headed to nationals
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| The Lone Star College-Cy Fair tennis team has been involved in several community service projects in the community. |
By Michael Sudhalter
The Lone Star College-Cy-Fair tennis team has fared well on the court, but they’re truly making an impact in the community.
LSC-Cy-Fair fields a club tennis team that competes against club teams from Texas, Texas A&M, Rice Houston, Texas Tech as well as other community colleges.
Known as the Fighting Ducks, team members have always been involved in community service projects off the field, but they’ve recently had more incentive to become very active in the community.
College officials told coach Tim Sebesta that their budget allows the team to travel to the USTA Campus Championship national tournament April 16-18 in Surprise, Ariz.
The top three teams from the Texas state tournament qualify for the event, and the Fighting Ducks finished fourth in the event last season.
Texas’ 2008-09 Tennis On-Campus Club of the Year also qualifies for nationals, and that’s based on a combination of efforts on and off the court.
Last Friday, the Fighting Ducks won the club of the year award, which gives them an automatic bid to nationals.
They’ll accept the award next month at the USTA Community Tennis Workshop in Austin. Sebesta said winning club of the year was the result of the team pulling together their respective community service projects and adding more of them.
“Our goal was to bring it to the next level,” said Sebesta, an Angleton native who was an assistant coach for Sam Houston State’s NCAA team. “We would normally do three or four community service activities, but our goal was do be Team of the Year. We’ve gone into overdrive, and we said ‘let’s put it all together and do it all in one semester.”
Team members have taken part in Race for A Cure, the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk, the Special Olympics and Habitat for Humanity.
They’ve also helped with Hurricane Ike relief efforts in Galveston, organized a Thanksgiving food drive, worked with area high school tennis teams and donated tennis balls to assisted living centers and local pet shelters.
On Monday, they plan on participating in the Adopt A Highway program.
LSC-Cy-Fair tennis player Andra Yanchenko has coached tennis with the Special Olympics since before the season.
“They really worked hard, and it gives you a new perspective on your tennis,” Yanchenko said. “You realize tennis is a game to be enjoyed and if you miss, it’s not the end of the world.”
Jamie O’Leary, a 2007 Cy Falls graduate, who’s considering playing NCAA tennis at Texas State or Texas Tech, organized the team’s participation in the Race for the Cure.
“Community service just brings us all together,” she said.
LSC-Cy-Fair fields a club tennis team that competes against club teams from Texas, Texas A&M, Rice Houston, Texas Tech as well as other community colleges.
Known as the Fighting Ducks, team members have always been involved in community service projects off the field, but they’ve recently had more incentive to become very active in the community.
College officials told coach Tim Sebesta that their budget allows the team to travel to the USTA Campus Championship national tournament April 16-18 in Surprise, Ariz.
The top three teams from the Texas state tournament qualify for the event, and the Fighting Ducks finished fourth in the event last season.
Texas’ 2008-09 Tennis On-Campus Club of the Year also qualifies for nationals, and that’s based on a combination of efforts on and off the court.
Last Friday, the Fighting Ducks won the club of the year award, which gives them an automatic bid to nationals.
They’ll accept the award next month at the USTA Community Tennis Workshop in Austin. Sebesta said winning club of the year was the result of the team pulling together their respective community service projects and adding more of them.
“Our goal was to bring it to the next level,” said Sebesta, an Angleton native who was an assistant coach for Sam Houston State’s NCAA team. “We would normally do three or four community service activities, but our goal was do be Team of the Year. We’ve gone into overdrive, and we said ‘let’s put it all together and do it all in one semester.”
Team members have taken part in Race for A Cure, the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk, the Special Olympics and Habitat for Humanity.
They’ve also helped with Hurricane Ike relief efforts in Galveston, organized a Thanksgiving food drive, worked with area high school tennis teams and donated tennis balls to assisted living centers and local pet shelters.
On Monday, they plan on participating in the Adopt A Highway program.
LSC-Cy-Fair tennis player Andra Yanchenko has coached tennis with the Special Olympics since before the season.
“They really worked hard, and it gives you a new perspective on your tennis,” Yanchenko said. “You realize tennis is a game to be enjoyed and if you miss, it’s not the end of the world.”
Jamie O’Leary, a 2007 Cy Falls graduate, who’s considering playing NCAA tennis at Texas State or Texas Tech, organized the team’s participation in the Race for the Cure.
“Community service just brings us all together,” she said.
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