Tennis

Emily joined the Saint Peter girls Tennis team this year and had alot of fun.  Its always interesting watching 7th graders who have had zero or little tennis experience.  We do see improvement from the beginning of the season to the end so thats good!  Emily played only doubles this year but will hopefully get a chance to try out singles next year if she decides to go out for it again.  She has a super strong backhand and a pretty good serve.  It would be nice to see more volleys so she can be challenged on all the strokes.  But in 7th grade, it comes down to serving.  If you can get it in, chances are they won't return it!  

This was Caitlin's 3rd year of tennis and it was a mixed bag of feelings.  She worked hard this summer to improve and had a goal of being on Top JV.  Basically "B" squad.  The problem being is that there were only 2 varsity players that left last year and the top JV girls from last year were moved up to Varsity so it would be hard to "move up".  Caitlin did make Top JV and was told she was #14 on the roster (top 13 actually get recognition) and was told she would be wearing a Varsity jersey.  She was very excited about that.  However, she never did receive a varsity jersey, instead a pit stained one from last year and in my opinion, the coach never even ordered her one or intended to.  So she kind of went through the season with false expectations.  Not good. Not good.  She wasn't the only one though in this position.  She and 3 others were kind of in limbo on the team.  They were the ones with the "special" jerseys and they were always set apart at practice and the coach rarely watched them. I want to blame him but he was hired as the Varsity coach but has no assistant so it is hard to watch that many matches going on at the same time.  She knows what she needs to do next year if she wants to be on Varsity or even noticed.  Its all good and a learning experience both for her and for us as her parents.  We do love watching the girls and are happy that they picked a sport they can do all their lives!