Varsity Girls’ Tennis Diligently Enters Season

NATE GARCIA
Sports Editor

As the heat of summer starts to deteriorate and the coolness of fall begins to kick in, AHS fall sports are beginning the start of their Almont League season. Of the sports, the varsity tennis team heads into their singles and doubles matches with a relatively novice roster.

The Lady Moors currently maintain an Almont League record of 2-3 and an overall record of 4-9. Since this year’s team is made up of mainly JV players that were bumped up to the varsity team at the beginning of the year, Head Coach Calvin Chow asserts that the team is still in the process of unifying.

“I have one starter back, but these girls have been beginning to gel as a group and as a team. [We are] hoping to make league [finals] and California Interscholastic Federation playoffs,” Chow said.

Practice is held every day at the on-campus tennis courts from 3:15 to 5:30. They first warm up by doing cross-court ground strokes, and then move on to practicing fundamentals, including volleys, serving and practicing strokes with an automatic ball feeder. They end practice with a Moor cheer.

Team chemistry is an important aspect of sports in order to build bonds and be able to play well together. As time progresses, the girls have “become more comfortable with each other playing at a more advanced level,” according to sophomore singles and doubles player Emily Tran.

“We’ve been doing okay, we are learning overall because we are a young team. Overall I’d say we’re doing pretty good,” Tran said.

Support your fellow Moors as they play their next league match against the Schurr Spartans today at Schurr High School.