Taking tennis’s temperature with Trey
Trey Weatherly, right, and Dr. Geoff Emry on the tennis courts
Photo courtesy Geoff Emry
In my youth, I spent many hot summer days on area tennis courts working on my game. So it was a bit of nostalgia when I met up with Trey Weatherly to play tennis at McEuen Park on a recent Sunday morning that was on its way to being a scorcher.
Although he now mostly plays tennis with his wife, Leah, Trey grew up playing with his family in Tennessee, so he really didn’t seem to mind the heat at all. But it’s not just the lack of humidity in Coeur d’Alene compared to Nashville, it turns out that keeping cool and calm is a big part of Trey’s philosophy of tennis and life (and it’s also why he’s so good at his job as a middle school counselor at the Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy).
While we were warming up, he explained that his dad, Robert, taught him from an early age that he should be able to play tennis with a Pringles chip in his mouth without breaking it.
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