March ATA news

    Great turnout for the Alamogordo Invitational. There were 97 matches played, total entrants 109; singles, 60; doubles 49. There were 10 schools participating.
   Mark your calendars; the Cottonwood tournament will be March 24-25. The tournament registration forms will be at the courts Thursday, March 1.  They will also be emailed to you about that same time.  Please be looking for them and getting together with your partners.
    As some of you may have noticed, Greg and Ron spent quite a bit of time putting up “ball recycle” bins at the courts, rest assured, there will always be plenty of old balls to donate to Rick S. for the schools and for us to use at the Cloudcroft play days.  ALSO, play day sponsors are still in need, see Ron to sign up. Thanks.

    Please send us tennis related events or news so we can post or include in our newsletter.  ***The next board meeting will be March 19^th, which is also the night of the tournament draw, as always, all members are welcome to attend, 6:00pm at Linda G’s house.***

Here’s wishing you all festive St. Patrick’s Day.
April's birthday dinner will be at Si Senior Restaurant, 4/2/18 @ 5:30, reservations have been made, thanks Cathy.

Cottonwood Tournament Entry Form

To access the entry form for the upcoming Cottonwood Tournament, click here.

Please e-mail entry info to gilli@beyondbb.com by deadline.

USTA leagues about ready to start

First up is the ladies 2018 SNM 40 & Over . 3.0, 3.5, 4.5 teams. Contact Daniel Avila @ aviladdaniel@yahoo.com if interested in playing.

2018 Battle of the Clubs

    Congratulations to the 3.5 Alamo Heavy Hitters for taking home the 1st place prize at the Battle of the Clubs held last weekend at NMSU, Las Cruces. This is their 5th win in 5 years, perhaps it's time for another Alamogordo team to take home the prize. Great job everyone.

January Play Day

Great turnout Saturday for the 1st Play Day of 2018. Hosted by Melanie Jun, her Mom Michele and help from Charles.

Delicious food, coffee, hot chocolate and dessert provided by Patsy with contributions by Gail, Sal, Janet and Dave. Thank you one and all.

Congrats to the winners, Evelyn/Janet tied, Sal, John G and Gail. All in all in was a beautiful, warm morning to play tennis.

 

Reminder about the play days, we need hosts' so please see or email Ron Wells. Also, don't forget to pay your dues.

Farewell

ATA members partied at Wolfgang and Sabine's to say farewell to Anke and Carsten who are returning to Germany.  They will surely be missed!

Turkey Shoot & Annual Meeting

Turkey Shoot play day & annual meeting on Nov. 4th, hosted by the ATA board, was well attended with about 30 members present.  Evelyn presented a short run down of ATA:  Past, Present, & Future, and Greg presented ATA financial status and court maintenance issues.  Board election process began with 4 people running for 3 positions.   After the meeting Charles organized six courts of players, with help from Nell and Linda.  Players who took home the turkeys were Joy, Nori, Grady, and Terry.  Congratulations!