ASE SRE LED DHE Se ENTE Bp ASSL ST“ ead OANE Be W. Van tennis coach offers JO ANN ANDREWS has come full circle. explains, Parents who thought their daughter should help pay for her By STEPHEN BARRINGTON News Reporter The 32-year-old West Van- couver tennis coach started playing tennis at age seven. Now she is coaching players of the same age in tennis classes designed just for them. “} didn’t like it initially,’’ remembers the player who placed second behind her older sister Susan through most of her teenage years as a tennis player. “I was probably too little and the equipment was too big,”’ says Andrews. Andrews, who played her first tennis match in the small Midwest town of Stillwater, Oklahoma, won a-tennis scholarship to the University of Texas where she ob- tained a bachelor's degree in soci- ology. From there she did one year of law school. . ASPIRING LAWYER she says. parent.”’ star reached tennis As a= coach, important in game plan. tournament entry fees prompted a 15-year-old Andrews part-time job: teaching tennis. “Coaching is because I’ve made all the errors,”’ to get a easier for me At 32, Andrews is at what she considers the perfect coach’s age: “I'm kind.of at an age where I’m between the big sister and the The former All-American tennis the pre-qualifying round for the famous Wimbledon tournament. quite an event,’’ she says. “That was FORMER PLAYER Andrews draws from her experience as a former player —- she knows what it is like to be frustrated from playing with a too-large racquet. Being sensitive to the players is Andrews’ teaching Playing against her older sister, ‘*T wanted to be a lawyer,"’ says Andrews, who is now a national- level coach. But under the harsh lights of a law school classroom, Andrews began to yearn for the tennis court. Leaving school behind, she set off to play tennis. Living out of her car, Andrews would lead a nomadic existence until she ran out of money — usually about every three months. “Then I’d go back to work to make enough money and then I’d go back to play more tennis,”’ she could."’ But she psychological players finally break. thought I cculdn’t worry about the other person. | made that break,” Andrews remembers. As advice. to aspiring Andrews sleep in your car. Andrews was afraid to beat her even though she knew she could. ‘IT was second to her for a long time,”’ she recalls. “For a long time I didn’: want to beat her even though I knew I made the “Then I tennis offers: don't namenis. NAMED MR. TENNIS unter bags a FOR THE first time in 20 years a North Shore resi- dent was named Mr. Tennis at the recent annual Ten- nis B.C. awards dinner held at the Arbutus Club. The selection committee chose West Vancouver’s Dick Hunter for their top annual award and the B.C. Tennis Patron’s trophy. The previous North Shore recipient of the honor was Lt. Col. Jack Brawn, also of West Vancouver, who won in 1966, Hunter was a top-ranked player in the 1960s and early '70s but the award was given primarily for his outstanding contribution to tennis organization. Besides serving 14 years on the executive council of the B.C. Lawn Tennis Association (BCLTA), the forerunner of Tennis B.C., Hunter helped run over 80 major tennis tournaments, including !4 B.C. public parks events at Stanley Park. He also served many years on the executives of West Vuncouver Tennis Ciub and Hollyburn Country Club tennis committess, with terms as chairman of both clubs. Hunter was well known throughout the North Shore for a tennis column which he wrote for a number of years for the now-defunct Lions Gate Times. Though his playing activities have been seriously restricted by an arm injury, Hunter is still involved in tennis at the Hollyburn Club, where the principal summer tournament is for the Hunter Cup. His wife, Pamela, is still one of the top players on the North Shore and in 1984 was the Canadian over- 50 singles and doubles champion. iS ~ Wednesday, Apri! 8, 1987 - North Shore News Baha‘is meet for peace PAGE 31 NEWS photo Stuart Davis WEST VANCOUVER tennis coach Jo Ann Andrews takes time out from teaching student Gai} Macisaac (left). Tennis is a way of life for Andrews whose fine coaching stems from years of competition in professional tour- Learn Kung Fu ard on the N. Shore STARTING APRIL 14 at the Delbrook Community Centre, 600 West Queens, Ken Low will be teaching a class in My Jong Law Horn Kung Fu. Low has been practising martial arts for over 20 years and has been teaching for over 10 years. Recently he taught four years at the University of British Columbia and one year at the Kitsilano Community Centre. My Jong Law Horn, loosely translated, means lost track of the war god, The style combines the speed of jong range techniques and the deceptiveness of short range techniques. It i equally advantageous to mien and women. For further information and registration call the Delbrook Centre at 984-4181.