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Quann Park.  It would be impossible to write about the new experience of living in Madison, WI – with a daughter on the Edgewood varsity tennis team – without mentioning Quann Park.

Quann is a fairly amazing plot of land, situated at the back end of the Alliant Energy Center off of John Nolen and Olin drives.  It includes a vast green space known as a pet park.  Here is where people from around the city arrive to get away from their more limited doggy spaces back in the neighborhood and let their pets run free to do what dogs do best – run, bark, poop and pee.  Here is also the location of an enormous tennis court complex that Edgewood varsity tennis calls home.  The problem is that it is several miles away from the school itself, so all players have to get a ride to these courts after school by 4, and then also need to find rides home.  Some parents of players live at the very outer edges of the Madison area, such as Sun Prairie, Oregon, or Verona; so that if the player is a sophomore or a freshman without transportation, the parent would have to pick up the player at Edgewood, take them to Quann, perhaps even drive back home for the practice then come back to get them at 6:00.  Quann tennis park, in this way, becomes one of the most familiar parts of the drivers' day, often crossing the infamous Madison crosstown traffic any number of times daily.  Luckily, for most, the oft travelled route runs along a route that is very scenic, past and underneath the beautiful

white contrast of the Monona Terrace rising up from Lake Monona and on past Brittingham Beach, where, on warm days, long lines of stand up paddlers cross the blue waters and up at a glance you might catch a glimpse of the tallest building in Madison, the capital dome itself.