Tennis Preview

Tuesday, March 11, the EMHS boys’ and girls’ tennis teams started their seasons with a bang; girls against Turner Ashby High School, 7-2 EMHS, and the boys in their first match against Fishburne Academy, score 9-0 EMHS.

“We felt really good after the scrimmage. [There were] a lot of good things,” said coaches Jennifer Young and Christie Osbourne. We “definitely need some practice but overall it went well,” agreed sophomore captain Katy Bergey. The EMHS girl’s tennis team graduated 6 out of 13 of its players last year after a very successful season, but both coaches and players feel confident of another good year to come.

“One of our goals is team bonding,” said Bergey, including a close relationship with coaches. Even though she just finished playing a winter basketball season with Young and Osbourne Bergey says that she “really loves it,” and states, “I’m really close to my coaches so I think that it’s great to be around them all the time."

"Fishburne is probably the weakest team that we play," said boys' coach Luke Schrock-Hurst, "we won all 9 matches. I think that we will be every bit as good as we were last year,” he continued. Unlike the girls, EMHS guys tennis only graduated two seniors last year, and don’t have as much ground to cover in terms of recovery.

"The EMHS tennis program is growing," said Schrock-Hurst, "We have JV coaches Steven Stauffer and  Nate Derstine for the first time this year who also happen to be alums and the number 2 and 3 on EMU’s tennis team." The JV team is unusually large this year with 12 teammates. “We decided not to cut anyone,” explained Schrock-Hurst.

EMHS girls lost a heartbreaker to Harrisonburg yesterday, 5-4, while the guys walloped Spotswood, 9-0.

Girls Roster                                               Guys Roster
Sr. Amy Leap*                                         Sr. Eric Broderson
Jr. Linda Lim                                             Sr. Lucas Schorock-Hurst
Jr. Bethany Gingrich                                  Jr. Vincent Morra
So. Katy Bergey*                                        Jr. Junsung Choi
So. Kate Miller                                            Fr. Christophe Langouet
So. Wonsun Seo                                          Fr. Nathaniel Morra
So. Bora Jung
Fr. Olivia Deputy

- Kara Lofton