A Roller-Coaster ride...

We get tossed and turned, thrown in and out, told yes then no, first come then go. Yes, this is exactly how the lives of the players on the UNK tennis teams, both men and women, seem to be going this season. If it's not one thing its another. We get told we are playing at this place at this time and then it changes about 7 times, usually ending with what was said at the beginning. It has gotten to the point where parents just say call me right before you are getting ready to go on for warm up so I actually know what time you will begin match play. It's absolutely ridiculous to say the least! I feel like I am on some sort of over-thrilling, yet extremely annoying, never know what your going to get, roller coaster ride. And believe me when I say I do not recommend waiting in line for this one!

Believe it or not, its even happened again. We were scheduled to play in Hays, Kansas both Friday and Sunday. Well, due to the unfortunate weather Kansas was experiencing the past couple of days, it was decided that tennis may be difficult to play on a court full of snow; not to mention the fact that it would probably be freezing outside as well. So, Friday's match is canceled due to weather. Fine, we can handle that. However, Sunday's match was still to be determined. So we await all day Friday for an answer--nothing. We keep waiting into Saturday, only less than 24 hours until we would actually have to leave to play, and nothing until about 2:00p.m. What is the news we received?! We are leaving Kearney at 6:00 a.m. driving 3 1/2 hours and are now playing two matches, one of which wasn't even scheduled to begin with! Two matches, both women and men plus a total of 7 hours driving time = getting back to Kearney super late when each of us must get up and be in class the next day. On top of that, we have injury, sickness, and the bulk and most important part of our season begins next weekend. To top that off, instead of catching up on school work Monday we will most likely want to sleep and then all classes on Thursday and Friday will be missed for pretty much the remainder of the semester. Come on, is this really necessary?! Of course, I forgot to mention, the two matches we are supposed to play on Sunday do not count for anything other than our record because they are not conference or regional matches.

I am a little disgusted by this matter to say the least. It just seems so inconsiderate of those whom randomly decide to thrown in a match and expect us to all cheer and shout in an excited, over-joyed manner. Instead, we get 'the look' in our eyes and steam sprays out of our ears. The one who throws this on us and responsible for the disorganization that seems to come up numerous times a day, is also the one who sits back and watches, not having to put forth any physical effort whatsoever. Perhaps the ones who compete should deal with the matter of scheduling and rescheduling matches, after all they are competing and know how much their bodies, both physically and mentally can take.

I apologize that this post was basically my place to vent, but in doing so I got out what I wanted to and still don't really feel much better! I hope everyone else has had a wonderful weekend though!