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Nathan Brown and Taylor Bounds are captains on UTC’s Club Tennis team.<\/p><\/div>\n

In April, the UTC Club Tennis team heads for a whole new experience.<\/p>\n

National championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a huge step not just for club tennis but for club sports at UTC as a whole,\u201d says Nathan Brown, captain of the men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery few teams have qualified for national tournaments, so this puts us in a very exclusive group amongst UTC club sports. We have also become just the second club tennis team from Tennessee to qualify for the national tournament, other than UT-Knoxville last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

From April 12-14, the team will be in Orlando, Fla., competing with 63 other teams from around the country. The club\u2019s \u201cA\u201d Team \u2014 male and female players with the highest skill level among the more than 50 members in the club \u2014 has compiled a 22-10 record this season, which runs from September through April.<\/p>\n

For the championships, board members of the United States Tennis Association select one club from each region based off their results at tournaments, community involvement and membership growth.<\/p>\n

Brown says he and women\u2019s captain Taylor Bounds both joined club tennis when they were freshmen. It was a different experience than today.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaylor and I joined the team not really knowing what we were getting ourselves into,\u201d he says. \u201cWe both knew we didn’t want to pursue varsity tennis in college because of the time commitment but didn’t want to give the sport up either.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we joined club tennis, there were just seven people on the team. We went to about three tournaments the whole year and struggled to win a single match at any of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bounds says club tennis \u201chas been a huge part of my college experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have met so many people and gotten the chance to travel and play places that I wouldn’t have thought of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time, the UTC Club Tennis team is heading to the national championships.<\/p>\n

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