Regionals in Las Vegas

Not long after returning home from Santa Barbara (Sunday) we left for Las Vegas (Monday). We spent long hours at the tennis courts at UNLV for our regional tournament. We would get there around 7 am to warm up for the first matches and leave around 8:30 pm. The girls were great and supported everyone until we were done each day.

Aussies practicing their yoga or stretching??

Hanging out in the shade so we didn't melt! (it was 90 degrees everyday)

Lizzy our trainer and Aubrey watching and cheering

Santa Barbara

Our third tournament of the pre-season was held down in Santa Barbara, CA. We had a great time and played some great tennis while enjoying this beachside town. Megan Price and Callie Craig captured their second doubles title here at this tournament.

Senior Elle Carney

Senior Liza Ezhova

After we flew into LA, we stopped by the grove for lunch and ran into Mario Lopez while they were filming Extra the tv show. He is a BYU tennis fan :)

Sophomore Aubrey Paul celebrated her 20th Bday

and of course... Jumping Pictures!

Berkeley Invitational

For our first Fall match on the road the team went to Berkeley, CA for the Berkeley Invitational. It was a great trip and on the last night there we ventures into San Francisco for dinner and walking around.

Megan and Liza Hanging out in the shade

Stadium court... Callie and Megan played doubles against the #1 team in the country and almost beat them... it ended up being 6-8.

Berkeley Tennis Courts

Excited to be headed into the city (minus Kelsie in the back middle)

A nice cozy team dinner at Cheesecake

Had to stop by our favorite dessert destination...Ghirardelli Square

Megan will not be happy about this one but on the way home the girls were pretty tired

BYU Invitational Tournament

On the second week of September we kicked off our pre-season with our BYU Invitational tournament. It was great to get straight into match play and see all of the girls competing on the court. In the end Andie Young made it to the finals of flight B... Callie Craig won the singles title of flight A... Megan Price and Callie Craig won the doubles title!

Freshman Annika Huish

Singles finalist Andie Young

Freshman Kelsie Craig

Junior Megan Price, Doubles winner

Freshman Callie Craig, Singles Champion

Aussie Ladies

Elle, Liza, Chie (5th year), Aubrey Paul, Mel

Traveling Practice in Sundance

To start the year off we planned a fun get-away for the girls up to Sundance. It was a "practice on the road" but we made sure to have fun and get to know one another a little better! We played a few "minute to win it" challenges and a few other games the Craig sisters shared.

Annika and Justine

Andie and Aubrey

Justine and Aubrey playing "flip the cup"

Justine, Callie, Kelsie, Aubrey playing "face the cookie"

Andie and Megan playing the fruit game

Aubrey, Chie and Elle

Ladies on the Sundance chair lift

At the top... had to do our jumping picture

James, Aubrey, Justine, Elle, Lauren, Aubrey