Home Match vs. Washington

Saturday was our first home match of the season vs. Washington. All of the girls fought hard and played well. Our score was 2-5 but the score does not reflect how close the match was.

In doubles our #2 team of Ezhova and Carney won their match 8-5, and at #3 Paul and Young fought hard and lost a close match 6-8. Going into singles Craig had a close match but fell 5-7, 7-5, 7-10 (10 point tiebreaker for the third), Tran lost another close match 5-7, 6-7 (5-7 in the tiebreak). The cougars who came out on top were Ezhova winning her match in straight sets 6-3 6-3 as well as Paul 7-6 6-3.

This was a great start to our season and showed the girls how close we are to reaching our goals. We have been working very hard but we are going to work even harder. We hope to see you all at our next home match February 4 at 11:00 am vs. Washington State!

MWC Player of the Week: Megan Price

Congrats Megan!

PROVO, Utah (Jan. 19, 2011)—Two BYU tennis players earned Mountain West Conference Player of the Week honors for outstanding performances last weekend.

Senior Evan Urbina and junior Megan Price were named players of the week Wednesday afternoon.

Price led the No. 73 women’s tennis team with two singles victories in the No. 1 position. She also teamed up with Elle Carney to defeat No. 51 Kaitlyn Ritchie and Mallory Weber of Mizzou and teamed up with Callie Craig to defeat No. 22 Kristi Boxx and Abby Guthrie of No. 18 Ole Miss.

Price now has a 10-5 singles record and an 11-2 doubles record with Craig.

The women play No. 23 Washington at home Saturday.

Southern Hospitality

Our 2011 Season is officially underway! Last week we ventured down south to Memphis Tennessee to play in a hidden duel. The teams that participated were BYU, Memphis, Missouri, and Ole Miss. We had a great time meeting all of the friendly southern folk and played some good tennis. When we were away from the courts we ventured to the local hotspots and took a detour down to Graceland. We were surprised at how COLD it was there!! It felt much colder than Provo!

Racquet Club of Memphis - Where we played

Enjoying some good southern BBQ

The famous Corky's BBQ

Hard Rock Cafe on Beale Street, downtown Memphis

Cougars on Beale Street in downtown Memphis

Desiree and Aubrey hanging out

Megan, Elle and Liza chatting with the locals

The wall surrounding Elvis' house - it was covered in writing

so we decided to write a little something...

Our signature BYU Tennis jumping picture

Yummy airport food

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