Wheaton Tennis Tournament

This afternoon, my tennis team and I took part in the Wheaton Invitational Tennis Tournament. Wheaton College hosts the tournament annually and we have been fortunate enough to have been invited every year. This year was much smaller than previous years, and only four teams were in the draw; Wheaton, Bentley, Holy Cross, and Roger Williams.

This particular tournament is an individual tournament and opposed to a team one. It consisted of three singles matches and two doubles matches. Each player is guaranteed two matches. If you win the first round, your second match was the finals. If you lost your first round, you were put into a consolation bracket. My partner Leah Ribchinsky and I played at the #1 doubles position and unfortunately lost our first match 2-8 to Wheaton. We also lost our consolation match against Holy Cross with a final score of 4-8 (insert loud groan here).

Even though the Hawks didn't do so well today, we still had a blast. Our team is very close, and we always manage to have fun wherever we go.

Playing with Final Cut

While procrastinating writing a paper, I decided to open up my video interview with my coach again and play with Final Cut Pro a bit. I decided to try to add text to the video and I found out it was pretty easy. On the Browser window I clicked on effects, then went into "video generators" and then into "text." I typed in my coach's name and his job title, and put a black background behind it to make it easier to read. I dragged the icon into the window where we put our clips, and it was added into the final video.

I feel adding the text to the movie makes it look a bit more professional and clean. It allows the viewer to see the person's name while they are talking, which is what you typically see on interviews on the news.

Interview with Chris O'Brien

In an assignment given to us by Professor Scully, we were asked to interview a faculty or staff member of Roger Williams University. I chose to interview Chris O'Brien who is the Director of Retention in the Student Advocacy office, and who also happens to be my tennis coach.

Chris O'Brien has been at Roger Williams for five years and has held his position in the Student Advocacy office silmultaniously with coaching both the men's and women's tennis teams. As Director of Retention, Chris helps students who have problems at RWU and points them in the right direction whether the issue be academic or social. Chris has also been an amazing tennis coach in the five years he has been here. After teaching for 11 years, Chris believes coaching is a "horrible bug that you just can't seem get rid of" but it is something that he loves to do and doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon.

Take a look at the video for more of my interview with Chris O'Brien.

Thanks Coach for your time!