Mountaineer Minutes

T.E.N.N.I.S

By: Frédérick Hallé

People playing tennis. 

The spring fest activities started Last Tuesday after a two weeks spring break. Student came back fresh and ready to start something new, different then their sports. There are many activities that students can do, like cycling, yoga, yearbook, rock climbing, tennis and many others.

Tennis is a sport that everyone knows about, but not everyone has played it. Here at NSA Luke Hudak, who played high level of tennis in college, is responsible for all tennis blocks, since it has started 3 years ago.  

He played at St-Michael’s on the varsity tennis team. He was the third best player out of 9 and on the first double team. He played a year of hockey and 4 of tennis and when I ask him why tennis, he said: ‘’It’s a two season sports where hockey is only one’’ and he went on and added, ‘’ I was better at tennis and it was more fun’’. We can see how true that can be with being captain for 3 years with a season of 22 wins and 4 lost, being 3 times part of the 12 all conference players out of approximately 15 teams for a total of 150 players. We understand that students that chose to play tennis will listen to him because he knows how to make you better.

There are around 20 students who took tennis as a spring fest activities and I little bit more girls seemed interested.

Tennis is only 3 days a week so students had to choose a second activity that they wanted to do to complete the 6 mandatory blocks per week. Hudak said that in case of bad weather, students would have to go the next day, unless they have another activity already chosen for that block. Since it started, the rain made it impossible to move the activity to the next day so these blocks had just been canceled. Hopefully the weather will allowed them to practice to be ready to play Northwood.

Students that want to, have a change to compete in matches against NSA biggest rivalry, Northwood. No date as been decided but it should be soon since the end of the year is coming fast.

Having 4 tennis courts, gives a chance to students that decided to choose another activity to play at lunchtime or during their free time. I have noticed that a lot of students find tennis a fun game, because it is totally different than hockey or skiing.

All that students’ need for tennis is a racquets because the school as balls, and most of people that have a racquet leave it in front of students mail box, which allowed someone that does not have a racquet to be able to play.