Kicking Off Season with Member-Associate Tournaments by Hannah Fleckenstein, Head Tennis Professional It’s November 1 and season is officially here! While we’ve enjoyed a fun summer at the Tennis & Games Center, our team is so excited to welcome you home with a few of our most unique events that we look forward to every year – the Member-Associate Tournaments. Last week, we hosted the first with the 9th Annual Member-Associate Tennis Tournament. Sign-ups filled up fast for Members and Associates alike with 42 total players (and a waitlist almost half as long!), with each Member being paired with an Associate. Each year this tournament is exciting, but in the days leading up to the tournament this year, we saw historical clinic attendance from both Members and Associates (we host Associate clinics in the evenings three days a week) as they fine-tuned their skills for the big event. Among the participating Associates were some familiar faces seen in our Member Fitness, Recreation, Maintenance, Port O’Call and Culinary departments. Others may be less familiar, hailing from departments such as Setup, Communications and Accounting. These Member-Associate tournaments provide the unique opportunity for Members to interact with Associates they may otherwise have never... Read More » The post Kicking Off Season with Member-Associate Tournaments appeared first on Ocean Reef Club.