lululemon

Here's my personal favorite in athletic apparel. It's a relatively new brand, but is finding its target market with yoga-lovers. Perhaps a female match for the more masculine Under Armour spandex? Lululemon has everything from yoga wear to tennis clothes.

Try out the the Groove series. I have the "Groovy Run Shorts"; "Groove Pants" and "Groove Shorts." They are SO comfortable and supportive. Unlike generic spandex or biker shorts, lululemon's products don't ride up, which can be crucial if you're out for a run on the roads!

It's a bit pricey, but check out sales and the factory store at the Woodbury Commons Outlet Center, as I mentioned in my prior posts.  I picked up a few items from lulu at their factory store over the summer. 

If you're just looking to test out lulu's products and not looking to spend a fortune, I recommend getting a headband. They're about $10 or $12 in the retail store; $5 in the outlets.  They have an inner lining that ensures a no-slip-grip without snagging on your hair.  They're also in really neat colors that match patterns in other apparel lines. I have purple and hot pink to match a shorts/tank duo. The material is the same as other products, so the headbands will give you a taste of what lulu has to offer before diving in.

Hopefully lulu will come up some brown tennis clothes to solve my uniform issue! We would be the most trendy team, without a doubt.



Check out the online store for more on lulu!!!
http://shop.lululemon.com/women_shorts_and_skirts/pl/c/580.html

Where's the brown?

So it's time to pick out uniforms for my tennis team this year. As I browse the internet and my coach's catalogs, I simply cannot find any athletic clothier that has any brown! Brown is a warmer tone than black or gray and looks great on a wider variety of people! It also doesn't show sweat marks as much as gray's and light pastel colors would.

Lehigh is pretty lenient with what they allow us to order because of the lack of brown apparel, so in the past few years, we've ordered white Nike border skirts with a black border and a white matching top. Last year, we got really creative and ordered the Nike Sharapova Wimbledon dress in all white and screen printed in brown "Lehigh Tennis" on the left skirt pleat. Plus, a more simple Nike white racer back top with "Lehigh" screened in brown across the chest and a black skirt.

I'm running out of ideas as I continue to look for a stylish, yet affordable uniform for my team that satisfies Lehigh's colors! Any ideas or tips?

Right now, I've decided on a Nike woven skirt that actually looks brown in the catalog - it's dark burgandy - which I think will do. Ideally, we'd like to pair it with a Nike white racer back tank, similar to the ones we used last year. For our traveling uniform, we want to get a white dress, but are still having difficulty finding a good one.

Here's what we've come up with so far:

paired with:

That's it for now! Check back soon for more on Liz's Latest

New sport to tennis competition?

 Hi again! 

Over this past weekend, my tennis team and I traveled up to U.S. Military Academy at West Point for the Eastern Tennis Championships. What a great tournament! About twenty teams came from all over the Northeast to compete in four levels of singles brackets and two levels of doubles.  We even got some free time on Saturday to check out the near by Woodbury Commons Premium Outlets for some great buys.  If you live in the tri-state area, it is a must to take a day-trip drive to these outlets. There are over 150 top designer and brand names stores, from big designers like Prada and Chanel to every day wear clothiers like Jockey and the Gap.  After you shop til you drop, check out the food court's Pasitano Restaurant or near by Friday's, Applebee's or UNO.  I feel this is the only draw back the outlet center-the crummy post-spending spree eateries. The plethera of upscale stores generally attract a type of person who would rather dine at a an eatery that matches their high-taste for fashion. Either way, the outlets definitely were an added bonus to going the tennis trip!

But, back to the tennis...On Sunday, the tournament hosted a new type of tennis competition called "One-On-One Doubles," created by Ed Krass, an accomplished figure in the tennis world. Krass led the Harvard women's tennis team to many championship titles before coaching the Clemson University men's tennis teams, where he also produced champions.  Now, Krass holds summer camps for high school students called "College Tennis Exposure Camp," offered for three weeks in July right here at Lehigh! A recruiting camp for high-school tennis hopefuls, Krass has successfully tested out his One-on-One doubles game here on our campus!

Here's how you play: In One-on-One doubles, the court is divided into two halves, basically extending the center line in the service box to the base line. Two players compete cross-court with each other, including the alleys. The server must serve and volley on both serves or they automatically loose the point and scoring is kept just like it would be in a regular match.

It's a really fun game that gets every one practicing their serve and volley, which is a really important strategy in doubles play.  My teammates and I have done a lot of One-on-One doubles drills in our practices so it's been fun to play it in competitions.

Momentum for Krass' new game has built up a lot over the past few years and top competitors can now receive a USTA ranking for the sport, just as they can for traditional singles and doubles play. It's pretty cool to be the first to play this new type of sport and I'm happy it's now apart of college tennis, especially because it's played with music in the background! Tennis used to be a "quiet sport", but at college tennis tournaments and practices, we've been allowed to play music, which really helps everyone have more fun on the court and play better.

That's about all for now! Check back soon for the next on Liz's Latest!

Interview with Coach Shook, Lehigh Tennis Program

Hi again!

So I'm back in my Multimedia Reporting class on this sunny afternoon. Our assignment over the weekend was to interview someone about their job and record the subject in action.

I chose my tennis coach, Dave Shook, as my subject. Below are two versions of the footage I took.

The first link is an interview with Coach Shook about his job. There's a lot going on up at the tennis center - check it out!




The second clip, below, is an edited version of my footage. Watch Coach Shook in action coaching the Lehigh Women's tennis:




Hope you enjoyed my videos! Check back soon for more videos and blogs about what's going on!

First day

Hi!

This is my first blog post for Journ 198 -Multimedia Reporting. I'll be updating my blog based off class projects, similar to the video in this post.  This is going to be a great course. Throughout the semester, I will work in groups to film and upload interviews and other projects to my YouTube account, update this blog and tweet updates on Twitter.

Check back for more posts and updates about what's going on in Multimedia Reporting!