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Community Day event offers tennis, fun
The Palm Coast Tennis Center is holding Community Day from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 12. The event will feature cardio tennis for adults and children, drills and games, and a Round Robin tournament, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 12. The Tennis Center is located at 1290 Belle Terre Parkway in Palm Coast.
Tennis has been called the sport for a lifetime – serving up a great way to remain active, practice mental alertness, and get cardio exercise from childhood through the senior years. And now’s your chance to try out the sport at no cost!
Community Day is part of Parks and Recreation Month and will provide residents and visitors with the opportunity to see the City’s top-notch Tennis Center, find out about the programs and classes offered at the center, and meet the instructors and staff. Lunch will be served, and some racquets and balls will be available for use during the event.
Participation in the Palm Coast Tennis Center Community Day is free! The schedule will be as follows: introduction and warm-up from 9:30 to 10 a.m., cardio tennis for adults and kids from 10 to 11, drills and games from 11:15 to noon, lunch from noon to 12:30 p.m. and round robin tennis from 12:30 until 2.
The Palm Coast Tennis Center is also offering a Summer Special through Sept. 1, with public court fees of $5 per person after 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday and all day, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
For more information, visit www.PalmCoastTennisCenter.com or call 986-2550.
Bulldogs earn All-American honors at summer event
Flagler Palm Coast’s wrestling team finished seventh in the AAU Scholastic National Duals held at Disney. The meet featured 48 teams from across the country, including Ohio, Iowa and Indiana.
“The level of competition was phenomenal,” FPC wrestling coach Tom Bartolotta said. “Being very close to home was good, the kids didn’t have to travel really far and we wrestled a lot of good teams.”
Three FPC wrestlers — Evyn Insalaco, Michael DeAugustino, Justin Boyle, and Jakob Dempsey — finished with three or fewer losses and were named All-Americans. As a squad, the Bulldogs went 9-3 and earned All-American status by placing inside the top-eight.
“It was a significant accomplishment to finish seventh and to be one of the few Florida schools who placed,” Bartolotta said.
With a bevy of returners and a promising incoming freshman class, the Bulldogs have reason to be excited for next winter.
“We were able to see where we’re at, things we need to work on, stack up and measure up,” Bartolotta said.
“We’re looking as if we’re definitely a contender to be up at the top of the state next year, at the least.”
Matanzas grad wins scholarship
Morayna Thorpe, a 2014 Matanzas grad, was recently awarded a $2000 college scholarship by the Daytona Beachcombers running club. Thorpe was a captain on both the Pirates track and cross county teams and holds the school record in the 2000-meter steeplechase with a time of 8:17.31.
To be considered, she wrote an essay responding to the prompt, “How has running changed your life?”
“I wrote about how (running) not only taught me how to work through pain physically, but it also taught dedication and that everything comes with time,” said Thorpe, who dealt with a meniscus injury and the resulting surgery during her Pirates career.
Thorpe, a self-proclaimed animal lover, plans to attend BYU Idaho, a religious school affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, where she’ll study zoology.
When she looks back at her time at Matanzas, she’ll remember, “feeling like a family with my team,” she said.
