so today there was a little philanthropy tennis tournament hosted by the alpha tau omega fraternity called ATOpen. will debell pulled this event together and did a wonderful job. props debell. now you may be wondering why i am blogging about this. the fact that i am not athletic is probably running though your head right about now. and yes while you are correct about that, i am a stupid, nonathletic person. here it is...
elizabeth price and shane crawford were signed up to play doubles. unfortunately, lizzy had a conflict at the last minute, so being the friend that i am to both liz and shane, i stepped up to the plate. however, that was one plate i should not have stepped up to. my thought process consisted of one thought, " Tennis, how hard can that be?" in hind sight, that was most definitely not the right thought to be having!
shane and i show up today trying to be upbeat about the whole situation. however, i must not have been doing a very good job of relaying that on my face because the first thing cal said to me when i walked up was, "wow, you look nervous!" he was correct about that, but my nerves soon turned to anger when i found out we were playing thomas gore and partner. that pairing was debell's one mistake, and an epic one it was. t-gore's prof pic on facebook is him playing tennis... says it all right there. from that point on, my ATOpen experience was a blur of tennis balls whizzing right by me and robert's shameless laughter.
we got worked. in an effort to lift my spirits post-match, shane said, "at least you only got hit with the tennis ball twice." and there concludes my story.
i am now going to take this opportunity to brag about my little sister. i know yall may not know her, but you probably should. her name is holly, and she is pretty cool. we are kinda exactly opposite which at times can be very funny. we have our ups and downs, but in the end, she is my sister. consequently, i am stuck with her.
i bring her up in this blog post because she plays tennis... and is actually capable of hitting the ball over the net. she is capable of a lot more than that. just this past week, she won both singles and doubles sectionals! i was clearly unsuccessful at channelling holly's tennis skillz today. anyhoodle, i am so very proud of her and have included some pictures to praise her just a wee bit more...
oh and no she does not have a tumor on her hip. that's just an extra tennis ball. apparently that's the place to put them if you are legit.
doubles champs in da house
and this one is just for kicks and giggles
(we look nothing alike...i know)
signed,
holly's big sister
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