Team Stories

Issue 21: Spring, 2008

The Foster City Tennis Club sponsors many teams and we have written many stories to share our team experiences with the club. For prior issues, please check out our archive.

• Senior Women's 3.5 Team
• Senior 3.5 Guys Claw Into Local Playoffs
• Mixed 7.0 Team Lumbers Their Youth To Local Playoffs
• Senior Women's 3.0 Team

Senior Women's 3.5 Team

by Barby Pickett, Captain

Our Season started off on a rather rocky start, with injuries, illnesses, and availability problems putting us in last place.

This may have discouraged some, but not the joint Captains (Vikki Mion and Barby Pickett) nor our outstanding Team Members. Galynn Brady, Louisa Bussing, Cheryl Butts, Kathleen Cammarata, Lisa Chang, Karen Chew, Janice Coakley, Patty Coulson, Olive Ebert, Helen Kishi, Dora Kreidl, Shaun Lenihan, Pearl Leung]Gima, Joyce Madeira, Kathy Rudovsky, Regina Spadarella, and Scarlett Wood.

"Onwards and upwards" was our motto. And with that said: match by match our Team moved up position by position to finish the Regular Season at #1.

We all had an exciting Regular Season and look forward and are all fired up to kick booties in the next 2 rounds of Local League Playoffs. Then head onwards to Sacramento to represent the Foster City Tennis Club at Districts and onwards.

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Senior 3.5 Guys Claw Into Local Playoffs

by Jake Karmendy, Captain

The Senior Men's 3.5 team has scratched and clawed its way into Local Playoffs. The playoff picture was undecided until the last week of the regular season when the guys came through when it mattered most to capture the last remaining playoff berth. The team, captained by Jake Karmendy and Wil Dang, will face undefeated Red Morton.

Led by stalwarts James Kiehl and Ed Cruz, the team included grizzled veterans Tony Durfor, Mitch Tom, Jin Jue, Alan Hall, Victor Luscap, Adolf Kreidl, Chuck Lumia, Al Briones, Rich Zaro and Ben Asaro as well as young bucks Tony Lolong, Bruce Klafter, Paul Catalli and Rich Martyn.

The bookies have given the FCTC team very long odds against powerful Red Morton … a bit like the Giants had against the Patriots in the Super Bowl..

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Mixed 7.0 Team Lumbers Their Youth To Local Playoffs

by Barby Pickett, Captain

The mixed 7.0 team is headed to the 2nd round of local playoffs. With a 14-1 record, the team ranging in age from 20 - 60 years old, hats hanging in Mountain House, Petaluma, South San Francisco and Palo Alto is having fun winning and practicing together. We stand firmly in 1st place in all of NorCal and after sweeping the very strong Red Morton B team on March 9th in the 1st round of local playoffs, we now need to bring our strength together to beat the #3 place Beresford team. (The "1" next to the 14-1 was our loss to Beresford during regular season.).

Our great mother-son, brother-sister, brother-brother and husband-wife team consists of Kathryn Chou, Sheila Cooper, Allison Don, Helen Geer, Glen Hernandez, Jake Karmendy, Stewart Kerr, Jo Lim, Henry Lin, Paul Lin, Cathy Lin, Barby Pickett, Jeremy Pickett, Dale Russell, Jenille Tan, Jobie Tan, Martin Uiberlacker, and Ken Wanzer.

We are all anxious to move on to Districts at Stanford if we beat Beresford on March 30th at 2 PM, at Edgewater. Come to the 2nd round playoff match and we will share a mimosa and sandwich for a FCTC cheer.

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Senior Women's 3.0 Team

by Kacey Karmendy, Captain

What an exciting season we have had! We traveled from San Francisco down to Sunnyvale over the course of 14 matches. And the final standings went down to the very last match!! Our team ended up in third place (having spent one whole week early in the season at #1!), and will be heading once again down to Sunnyvale to try to bring home one more victory. While the team that ended up in first place was pretty much in that position most of the season, our team handed them their only two losses!

Thanks to Maria, Roz, Dania, Patti, Rikko, Marji, Mary, Gemma, Marie, Marion, Sam, Ushio, Maureen, Po. Kathleen, Fumi, Phyllis, and most of all, my co-captain Marcia. You all played like troupers, giving it your all in each and every match. Regardless of how the rest of the season goes, it's been a fun and exciting season, and you all are a great bunch of ladies. I look forward to playing with you all in upcoming seasons.

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Updated 2/20/08