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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Moses Gittens
Ida Lee Park Tennis Center
mgittens@leesburgva.gov
703-737-6043
Leesburg Ladies Tennis Team Aces Local Competitions
Team will compete in the 2010 USTA League’s Adult National Championship
Leesburg, VA (August 19, 2010) – Ida Lee Park Tennis Center’s 2.5 Ladies Team has captured a
slot at the 2010 United States Tennis Association (USTA) League’s Adult National Championship,
to be held October 1-3, 2010, at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.
Sponsored by the Town of Leesburg’s Parks & Recreation Department, the team members are
coaches Korey Suk and Moses Gittens, captain Ellen Wyly, and players Jennifer Culko, Susan
Gorman, Kathy Horne, Jen Kaine, Jennifer Pearson, Christine Sequino, Nicole Sicre and Eve
Webber.
USTA League is the country’s largest recreational tennis league, organized as competitive team
match play. Teams and matches are set up according National Tennis Rating Program (NTRP)
rating categories so that teammates and their opponents have similar skill levels. The ratings
are based on a scale from 1.0 (player is just starting to play tennis) to 7.0 (player makes his/her
living from tournament prize money).
Considered “underdogs” at the USTA Virginia District Championship, held July 15-18, 2010, in
Norfolk, the Leesburg ladies team qualified as a wildcard for the Mid-Atlantic Sectional
Championship. The team followed that performance by going undefeated at the Mid-Atlantic
Sectional Championship, held August 14-15, 2010 in Virginia Beach, to win their berth in the
National Championship.
“The whole team has been working very hard all season,” said Moses Gittens, Ida Lee’s Head
Tennis Pro. “If they continue to play the same level of tennis that has brought them this far,
they can win at the national level.”
Ida Lee Park Tennis Center is part of the Town of Leesburg’s Parks & Recreation Department, a
two-time recipient of the National Parks and Recreation Association’s Gold Medal Award for
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Excellence. In addition, the Ida Lee Park Tennis Center was named an Outstanding Public
Tennis Center by the United States Tennis Association in 2002, and has been recognized by the
USTA Virginia Chapter and the Virginia Recreation and Parks Society.
For more information, visit www.idalee.org or contact Moses Gittens at 703-737-6043 or
mgittens@leesburgva.gov.
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