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California Dream (tennis)

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Sport
  
Team tennis

Conference
  
Western 2000–2015

Head coach
  
David Macpherson

Founded
  
2013

League
  
World TeamTennis

Location
  
California, United States

Ground
  
Sunrise Mall

Folded
  
13 January 2016

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Team history
  
Kansas City Explorers 1993–2012 Texas Wild 2013–2014 California Dream 2015

Based in
  
Citrus Heights, California

Stadium
  
Dream Stadium at Sunrise Mall

Color
  
Pantone orange, pigment blue, malachite green, cyber yellow

The California Dream was a World TeamTennis (WTT) team that played at Dream Stadium at Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, California in the United States. The team was founded in 1993, as the Kansas City Explorers. After 20 seasons in Kansas City, the team moved to Irving, Texas for the 2013 season and was renamed the Texas Wild. On February 23, 2015, WTT announced that a new ownership group had taken control of the Wild and moved the team to California, renaming it the California Dream. In January 2016, the franchise was terminated by WTT due to noncompliance with the league. Prior to folding, the Dream was the oldest continuously operating franchise in WTT.

The franchise won its only King Trophy as WTT champions in 2010, as the Kansas City Explorers.

Team history

The Kansas City Explorers were founded in 1993, and represented Kansas City in WTT for 20 seasons before moving to Irving, Texas for the 2013 season. The Explorers were 2010 WTT Champions.

The Texas Wild were based in Irving for two seasons.

On February 23, 2015, WTT announced that a new ownership group had taken control of the Wild and moved the team to California, renaming it the California Dream.

Upon the announcement of the franchise's move, WTT used a simple placeholder logo to represent the team on its website in lieu of the Wild logo.

The new Dream logo was unveiled at the WTT draft on March 16, 2015. There are two basic versions. The version including an outline of a map of the state of California (shown above) is used on both the WTT and Dream websites. An alternate version without the map (shown at the left) is used by the Dream on its Facebook and Twitter accounts.

References

California Dream (tennis) Wikipedia