John Olson Memorial - Tennis Tourney
Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010 07:36 AM

The 13th annual Family Fun Doubles Tennis Tournament will be held Saturday, August 7, beginning at 8:15 a.m. at the lower tennis courts at Augustana College.  Memorial and sharing memories of John will follow the tourney around 4 p.m. or so at Augustana.

The tournament is free and the only rule is the entering doubles team has to be related.

John Olson and Warren Heimbeck, two Quad-Cities tennis legends who died in the past year, will be honored at the Family Doubles Tourney and charity donations will be taken in their names.

Olson was a four-time tournament director and shared the 2004 consolation title with his nephew Tim Anderson; Heimbeck was a three-time tourney director. Both helped start the Family Doubles Tournament, each serving as directors in the first year of the tourney in 1998.

Past Family Doubles winners include Iowa state prep champions Chrissie McGaffigan, Adam DeSimone, David DeSimone and Kyle Johnson. Last year's Family champs were the brother duo of Jed Wood and Kyle Wood.

This year's Family Doubles tournament directors are Joan Allee, Kyle Feehan, Katie Jo Allee, Tawnya Hoff, Nikki Brown and Ruth Miller.

To enter, or for more information on this year's tournament, call 798-1400 or 755-5776.