Starting the season optimistic was how Washburn University’s head tennis coach, Dave Alden described his season after both the women’s and men’s tennis teams played their first matches.
Domination. The word pretty much sums up the match between the Washburn Lady Blue tennis team against MIAA opponent Lincoln University of Missouri.
As spring begins to take over, the Washburn women’s tennis team had already began it’s spring schedule in full swing.
Le Nguyen, Washburn University's assistant coach of the men's and women's tennis teams, strength became life.
Last season, the Washburn Lady Blues wrapped up their season at the ITA South Central Regional Tournament where Rainey reached the quarterfinals of the tournament as a junior.
Over the weekend break, the Washburn University tennis teams, both men's and women's, traveled to Springfield Mo., to play the first matches of the season against Drury University and Lindenwood University at the Cooper Tennis Complex.
For nearly 10 years, Elektra Hunter has been playing tennis alongside her family in her homeland of Noosa, Queensland, Australia.
Washburn University tennis is heading into the spring season with plenty of attitude. Saturday, both teams headed to Springfield, Mo., to match talents with Drury University. While the men's team fell 2-7, the women rose to the occasion with a 6-3 victory.
If sports were puzzle pieces, Dave Alden has tried to fit almost all of them. But one of the last ones he tried, tennis, was the piece that finally fit. Washburn men's and women's tennis head coach Dave Alden grew up around athletics. With a dad that was a semi-professional baseball player at one point on the east coast, Alden played football, basketball, baseball, track and even swimming. But tennis came later on and was an interest off the start.
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