FREMONT, Calif. -- The foam ball sailed over the net, rattling as it bounced. Robin Patche quickly adjusted her feet and returned it with a smooth backhand, drawing praise from the sidelines.
"Robin, nice turnaround," called out Mary Alice Ross, an adapted physical education teacher at the California School for the Blind, then adding to a bystander, "She got really good really quickly."
Patche, 21, and about seven other students gather Tuesday afternoons in the gym at the Fremont school to take part in a nationwide program that may be the first of its kind -- teaching groups of blind and visually impaired students to play tennis.
