Hello there everyone! I’d first like to begin by thanking you all for the flood of birthday wishes today! What a fantastic day it was to cap off a busy weekend! It really began on Friday night when all four of my nieces and nephews (Jamie, Cody, Molly, and Lucas) were crashed in the living room…
Tag: tennis
New Dreams start from “Love”
I’m in my mid-20s and never been an athlete. Despite both of those facts, just Monday (8/6/12) I made an announcement: I am going to begin playing competitive tennis around mid-2013-2014. The Back Story My desire to compete in tennis dates back a decade, to when I was a freshman in high school at Francis Howell…
London 2012 – Day 6: All-Around Gold
Gymnast Gabby Douglas, of the United States’ “Fab Five,” claimed the gold medal in the Women’s Gymnastics All-Around final on the sixth day of Olympic competition. Douglas’ four scores (15.966 [vault], 15.73 [uneven bars], 15.5 [balance beam], 15.033 [floor]) earned her the right to be called the best all-around female gymnast in the world. Douglas’…
London 2012 – Day 4: Record Tennis
UPDATE: Venus and Serena Williams have advanced to the doubles quarterfinals. The Olympic tennis courts are heating up in London. Yesterday, the American contenders went six for six, all of them advancing. Today, however, that streak came to an end when USA’s Andy Roddick fell to Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, but more on that later. Tennis…