Hi everyone! Welcome to Armstrong Women's Tennis first blog. Thanks for checking out our page, I hope you'll enjoy learning a little bit about our tennis program here at Armstrong. I think I can speak for the whole women's tennis team when I say that we are all very proud to have the opportunity to represent Armstrong Women's Tennis here in Savannah!
After a tough month of training in January all the girls were physically and mentally prepared to start the season off strong. So far the hard work is showing through in our tennis matches and I feel confident that we can keep this up throughout the tough season. Last Friday we started off a tough 3 match weekend against an NAIA team, Embry-Riddle. We defeated the team 9-0 and returned to the courts the next day to have another succesful match against #10 ranked Clayton State giving up only 1 match in the process. The most succesful match of the weekend was a 9-0 win on Sunday against #5 ranked, Columbus State University. We all played solid tennis the whole weekend and we're very happy with our results.
Even after a long weekend of matches it was important for us to get back to practice on Monday in order to prepare for our match on Tuesday. After some hitting on Monday focused on keeping up our timing we were ready to travel to Milledgeville, GA and compete against Georgia College State University. We defeated GCSU 9-0 and arrived back in Savannah around 12:30am. The away matches during the week are always a nice change of our regular routine of classes and practice. The matches afterall are what we are training for, so it's important for us to enjoy them. Wednesday was back to reality with regular classes and lots of schoolwork to catch up on. All the girls also took some time in the day to go to the gym and lift weights and work out a little bit. Thursday started back our regular tough practices with 2 hours of court time focused on a lots of hitting and footwork. After hitting we took 30 minutes to grab a snack and mentally prepare for the dreaded "Treadmill". Treadmill consits of sprints set on an incline. Every sprint is a challenge to complete but we are getting better each week. After completing the treadmill we hit the weightroom for 1 hour of arm weights. Friday's practice schedule was tough again due to a rescheduling of two away matches we were supposed to play over the weekend. Practice Friday consisted of 3 hours of on court hitting followed by on court conditioning and 1 hour of leg work in the weightroom.
Well, that was a summary of our life in tennis this past week. I hope you enjoyed reading the Armstrong Women's Tennis blog and will continue to follow our updates! :)
-Gabriella
