Off to State Tennis

McKenna Romick, Staff Writer

The Alliance High Tennis Girls season will come to an end with state on May 19 and 20. The top six girls on the team qualify for state, this is also considered the varsity team. Tennis has four positions: number one singles, number two singles, number one doubles, and number two doubles. For the state competition the coaches can also take two alternates.

The AHS Girls Tennis team started with around twenty-three girls and slowly dropped in number by the end of this season. Even though the numbers dropped this year brought in a lot of new faces that are progressing into great tennis players.

When you fully commit to tennis you take a lot of time out of school, your evenings, and even your weekends just to play, yet you get so much more than crazy tan lines and little time for other activities.

This season the Alliance ennis team has spent countless hours in a stinky van driving down the interstate competing in North Platte, McCook, Lexington, Kearney, and Scottsbluff and Gering, which are much closer. Regardless of the long hours, trips are one of the best parts. There is never a dull moment from when we leave Alliance until we get back into town and fall out of the van. Now eight of the girls from the team get to pile back into the van and head to Lincoln on Wednesday, May 18.

This year’s state qualifier for number one singes is junior, Courtney LittleHoop. This is Courtney’s third year on the tennis team and her third year qualifying for state.

Senior, Bailey O’Connor is the state qualifier for number two singles. Bailey has played tennis and qualified for state for all four years of her high school career.

The number one doubles team is junior McKenna Romick and freshman Elise Stoike. McKenna is on her second year of playing and qualifying for state tennis. This is Elise’s first year of playing and qualifying for state.

The number two doubles team is Ashley Fattig and Uriah LittleHoop. Ashley is a senior who has played tennis all four years and qualified for state for three of those years. Uriah is a freshman who is on her first year playing and qualifying for state. The two alternates this year are freshmen Rachael Hahn and Alivia Carlson.

Congratulations to all the state qualifiers and good luck from AHS The SPUD!