Thank you so much everyone. Sorry it took awhile to respond. I was without a computer and at the mercy of the business center hours.
Thanks Eric and everyone that has been there for years and years! Oscar and Stevie both got the best of me, but I definitely put up a fight! Overall, I am very happy with how I played. Granted my draw could have been way worse considering the field but I still had to play hard.
It was truly an honor and something that I've wanted forever when my name was called in the fourth round of the winner's bracket. I heard all of these great names being said before mine. My heart kind of sped up when I heard my name called along with those names!
Eric, keep giving tables to the Boys and Girls club. Maybe next time you can get one of the pros to go do a small exhibition. That alwasy gets the interest of the kids. Maybe even put a small little class together to get them started right. Just think if that happened all over the country.
Dead Crab, The Pantagraph here in Bloomington/Normal does do some coverage as long as my dad or myself send them a press release. I can write something up and have it in tomorrows paper. The sports writers are very friendly and are always willing to give coverage as long as you provide the m with the information. It is the same with local TV. If you give them the info and heads up, they will usually make time.
1on1...thanks for being a great friend for almost half of our young lives. You've helped me through some rough times! Thanks for sticking by me so long.
Thank you all again for your kind words and for those of you I met in Texas and New York last week, the pleasure was all mine.
Sarah