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Wornden Ly

Wornden Ly 


Hi my name is Wornden Ly and I have been playing for eight years and teaching for five years. I graduated from Hagerstown Community College on May 2016 with an Associate’s in Biology. From there, I transferred to Stevenson University on August 2016 majoring in Business Communication. This is my second year playing for Stevenson. 

 Since I’ve picked up my racket, I haven’t put it down since and there were many times I wanted to put the racket in the trash can. For some reason, tennis has now become part of my life for the good and the bad.

I started teaching tennis since I was a junior in high school, I am certified to teach tennis by the Professional Tennis Registry to teach people of all ages and skill levels. That’s right, I taught a little 4-year-old boy how to play tennis for the first time and trained high-level college players.

My biggest accomplishment while teaching tennis was being a coach for Junior Team Tennis. I volunteer to coach for three years, we won our local league and advanced onto the Maryland Sectionals championships. All of the players played in Maryland Country, Regional, and State Championships. Many of them move on to play in collegiate tennis.

One thing that I learn about this game is no one is perfect, even Rodger Federer and he won 20 Grand Slams to this date. My goal in this blog is to give you my opinions about tennis stuff, get you all to become better tennis players, show a little inside of my life as a collegiate tennis player.

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  1. ProfFebruary 8, 2018 at 8:47 AM

    Great idea for a blog, Wornden! I've only played tennis twice in my life ( I really sucked) but I like watching very much. I'm looking forward to reading your expert commentary and advice. Thanks so much for sharing it!

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