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Kelly Carrington Staff Writer Tennis Sask-atchewan is looking for their next big find. And athletes in Creighton are hoping they will be among the top picks. On Monday and Tuesday, Tennis Saskatchewan will be holding clinics and tryouts for the Saskatchewan Summer Games. Tennis players will try for positions on Team North for the August long weekend event. As Creighton has one of the nicest tennis facilities in the North, tryouts will be held in the border community. Because the tryouts are for the Saskatchewan Summer Games, only Saskatchewan residents are permitted to attend the two-day clinics. While Creighton will hold the two-day tennis tryouts, Kaitlin Kirk and Kaitlyn Grant will make their way to Air Ronge this weekend for the track and field tryouts. Both girls are track athletes at Creighton Community School, where their coach, Ryan Trumbley, says he's "hopeful for Kaitlyn and Kaitlin.' Local Saskatchewan athletes have had the opportunity to try out for volleyball and soccer. Creighton Community School is not associated with the Saskatchewan Games, but Trumbley says 'it's used as a hub to communicate to the athletes.' Hosting the tennis trials is a way to boost a not-so-popular sport in the North. 'Tennis Saskatchewan is using this as a way to promote the sport,' said Trumbley. As a physical education teacher, he sees it as being another activity to introduce a higher level to the curriculum. 'It can (generate) interest with younger kids and (have a) push in phys ed,' said Trumbley. 'And more kids can (try) it in the summer time.' Tennis trials for the Saskatchewan Summer Games will be held Monday and Tuesday in Creighton. The Saskatchewan Summer Games will be held in Meadow Lake starting August 3.
