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MUSC's Harper Student Center offers tennis programs by Jo Ann Lee  Harper Student Center MUSC Harper Student Center offers a beginner tennis program beginning May 4.  Most of  the players who have been involved in our beginner tennis lessons have gone on to play league tennis in the Charleston area.  This year, MUSC had its first staff tennis league. This 3.0 tennis league consists of MUSC  employees: captain—Joanna Heaton and Joselyn Mclaughlin and team members Karen Garner, Kathleen Hogan, Janet Lawing, Dana Mizzell, Yukiko Sugi, Irene Thomas, Nicole Waybright, and Megan Williams.  These players started in a beginner tennis program in the fall and began league play in February.   “I was nervous about taking up a new sport from the beginner's level,”said Heaton.  “Most of the tennis players I know began playing as kids.  The beginner's class at MUSC was the perfect start for me.  Not only did I learn the fundamentals of tennis but it pumped up my confidence and made me believe I could do this.  In just six months I found myself competing on a 3.0 team against many of those people who had been playing tennis since high school. No one is as surprised as us because we know how bad we were that first lesson in  August.” Beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 4, —while you are taking your tennis lesson —your child can be a part of the tennis children's program which also starts at 10 a.m. Saturday.  The program is called the Cartoon Network Club and is for children, ages 5 to 7 and the Junior Future Stars for children, ages 8 to 10. The main focus of the program is fun!  Another adult beginner class will begin Wednesday, May 8 at 6:30 pm.  All programs run for six weeks.  MUSC Harper Student Center will be offering the Ultimate Tennis and Lifetime Sports Camp for children ages 7 to 12 years of age.  The weekly camp sessions begin June 3 and run through July 19.  MUSC employees receive a $15 discount on the full day camp program and $5 discount on the half day camp program.  For more information on the tennis programs, call 792-3157, e-mail leej@musc.edu or visit  http://www.musc.edu/hsc/tennis.htm.