The St. John’s men’s and women’s tennis teams have spent much of their time off the courts this season serving the community. The squads participated in the University’s annual Service Day, the fifth annual Fun Run, the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk and most recently visited the Bayside Senior Center to paint a couple of classrooms.

“It was very uplifting to see the men’s and women’s tennis teams collaborate for a good cause,” said women’s tennis head coach Allison Davidson. “We were pretty much an assembly line of priming, coating and trimming. The teamwork factor really played a big part.”

To view photos from that day, please click here.

Earlier this semester, the women’s tennis team donated over 100 tennis balls to Mrs. Mary Brown’s third grade class at The Stratford Avenue School in Garden City, N.Y. The tennis balls were used as bottoms for the student’s chair legs so that they wouldn’t scratch the floors and would lessen the noise in the classroom.

The students in Mrs. Brown’s class wrote to Coach Davidson and the team to thank them for their generous contribution. To view some of the letters and drawings the students sent, please click here.

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