{"id":233,"date":"2022-12-02T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=233"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:39:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:39:55","slug":"tennis-season-ends-on-good-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Season Ends on Good Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ariana Chaudhry <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’m proud of the work each player put in to improve and how eager players were for challenge matches,\u201d said Laura Overbeck, head coach of the tennis team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The middle school girls tennis team finished with a total record of seven wins and seven losses. There were two coaches this season: Laura Overbeck and Stuart Clemens. The team had a total of ten players, nine eighth graders and one seventh grader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amrutha Juluri<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Avery Wang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte Ahn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noor Arif<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ariana Chaudhry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arielle Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lily Fraser<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lily Blocksom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devu Bandinani <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawson Follin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noor Arif and Avery Wang were the team captains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being the only seventh grader on the team, Charlotte Ahn said, \u201cThe hardest part was trying to make a friend because there were no other seventh graders on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although she adjusted very well because she said the easiest part of the season was \u201cgetting to know everybody because everybody was really nice.\u201d Besides being the one seventh grader, Charlotte had the best overall record with only one loss out of all fourteen matches she played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hardest part of the season for other players was different. \u201cThere were a lot of coaches and opponents who were not very kind to us,\u201d Amrutha Juluri said. \u201c[They] didn\u2019t show very good sportsmanship,\u201d Devu Bandinani added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losing was also a very hard part of the tennis season, and the team did have an equal number of wins to losses, so it happened frequently. \u201cIt ruins your morale and your spirit,\u201d Noor Arif stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Laura said, \u201cThe hardest part is watching a player have a bad day. It’s part of the game. There is always a winner and loser, but when you know a player is off it’s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although there were downsides to the season, there were also a lot of upsides. The team overall got runner up in the season tournament barely trailing behind Cardinal Pacelli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amrutha Juluri was runner up for first singles. Noor Arif placed runner up for third singles in the tournament. Ariana Chaudhry and Lily Fraser were the champions of second doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every player improved in their serves and backhands by the end of the season. They all started to begin to hit stronger and more angled shots. \u201cI think everybody\u2019s serves improved after playing the first couple of matches,\u201d Amrutha Juluri said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to all the players, their favorite memories from the season were the van rides, the on-campus party, the tournament, and the main event outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of every practice, the team would play a game called Queen of the Court, kind of like the game HORSE in basketball. This was also a team favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018\u2018This was a great season,\u201d Coach Overbeck said. \u201cThere was healthy competition but each of them knew that the main persons they were competing against was themselves and improving their own game.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ariana Chaudhry  \u201cI’m proud of the work each player put in to improve and how eager players were for challenge matches,\u201d said Laura Overbeck, head coach of the tennis team. The middle school girls tennis team finished with a total record of seven wins and seven losses. There were two coaches this season: Laura Overbeck and Stuart Clemens. The team had a total of … Continue reading Tennis Season Ends on Good Note<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7hillshive.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}