A Camas-based tennis team has been invited to play in a national tournament.
This past summer, a group of high school tennis players competed together in the Junior Team Tennis 18-and-under advanced division at Evergreen Tennis in Camas.
The team won the first place title in the local area with a 27-3 record and advanced to the championship round at the sectional tournament in Kirkland, Washington.
Due to their success in the Pacific Northwest Region, the United States Tennis Association offered the team a wild card birth to the JTT National Tournament in South Carolina, Oct. 20 through 23.
The six Evergreen Junior Team Tennis players are Wilson Ho, Samantha Merrill, Grace Maxey, Bjorn Morfin, Sydney Wallace and Brian Wang Matt Houser, a USPTA Elite Pro at Evergreen Tennis, coaches the team.
“It’s a chance for them to help put Evergreen Tennis on the map because they are here quite a bit, they work hard and they invest a lot of their time and energy into this place,” Houser said. “This is a very rare and unique opportunity, and they are going to remember it for the rest of thier lives.”