On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 9:28 PM Jane Smedley <smedleyja@yahoo.com> wrote: May 30, 2023 Dear Cole Kanyer,
We are deeply concerned about the future of the Ellensburg High School Tennis Program. We are both K-12 graduates of Ellensburg School District and played tennis throughout our high school years with one of us representing EHS at the State level. We both then went on to play college tennis at Central Washington University, when they still had a competitive team, throughout our years there. We recently heard of the outrageous amount of money CWU was charging EHS to use the courts and the possibility of no longer having a tennis program at the high school level and we find this to be unacceptable. During our years at school and college, Ellensburg had 18 courts that were well used throughout the day and into the evenings due to lights at Morgan Middle School. The courts were well maintained and there was pride in the tennis programs. We were greatly disappointed when the remodeling of the schools happened, and the tennis courts were taken away from EHS and MMS. Luckily, CWU stepped up and a ff ordably allowed EHS to share the usage of their courts. Recently, CWU began charging over $10,000 in rental fees to use the courts. It is likely student athletes will no longer be able to participate in this lifetime sport. It is not the way CWU should be partnering with EHS to promote healthy activities for the youth of Ellensburg. Furthermore, we personally knew Fred and Val Lister and played tennis with Fred and 2 of his children. Fred and Val donated a significant amount of money to build CWU’s current tennis courts. They would be extremely disappointed that the courts they provided for the whole community of Ellensburg were not available to EHS tennis team at an a ff ordable price. We ask that CWU work with EHS to equitably solve this problem for the community and to allow high school tennis to continue at EHS. Sincerely, Mary Andreotti Wood Jane Andreotti Smedley
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