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Tweet And the SM East lacrosse team wasn’t the only one to repeat as champions this weekend. The boys tennis team edged rival Blue Valley North in state 6A play in Wichita Saturday to rescuer the state title, which the Lancers won back in 2012 after a three-year string of titles by Blue Valley North. [...]
Tweet One thing was for sure heading into the Kansas 6A girls doubles tennis finals Sunday: SM East had the best team in the state. Indeed, two SM East doubles teams advanced to the finals by knocking off competitors from Blue Valley North and Blue Valley Northwest in Friday’s semi-final matches (the finals were moved [...]
Tweet More than 350 young tennis players from 24 clubs hit local tennis courts last week for the Kansas City JTL tennis tournament, the culmination of the summer season for the sport at area country and racquet clubs. The players slogged out their finals matches in 12 singles categories at Homestead Country Club Friday. Results [...]
Tweet Some of the metro area’s most gifted young tennis players are taking to the courts today in hopes of securing a spot in the KC Junior Tennis League’s final rounds, which will take place at Homestead Country Club Friday. Local clubs Indian Hills, Carriage Club, Kansas City Country Club, Homestead and Prairie Village are [...]
Tweet Fifty two aspiring tennis stars will take to the courts at Homestead Country Club in Prairie Village Thursday hoping to earn a berth in the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament. The USTA’s Missouri Valley Sectional Tournament kicks off at 11:30 a.m. with first round matches in the women’s singles bracket. The men start first round [...]
Tweet In September 2010, doctors told David Horner that we would never play contact sports again — that given the severity of his injury, he was lucky to still be functional. Less than two years later, Horner is on his way to play sports at the collegiate level. The recent Kansas City Christian graduate’s ordeal and [...]
Tweet It took him three full sets and a tie-breaker, but Kansas City Christian freshman Johnny Goodwin wound up with a pretty special Mother’s Day gift for his mom Kristin last Saturday. But knocking off Eduardo Martelli, an Italian exchange student playing for Sterling High School, in the state 1A-3A tennis tournament, he made Kristin [...]
Tweet The Lancers are back on top of Kansas high school tennis. After finishing second place to Blue Valley North in the 2011 state 6A tournament, SM East won 10 of 11 matches in the opening round of last weekend’s championships in Wichita, setting them on the path that brings the title trophy back to [...]
Tweet Homestead Country Club’s high-performing platform tennis duo has notched another major tournament win — this time taking their show on the road. Homestead pro Kevin Kowalik and member Andy Metzler went 15-0 at the St. Louis Platform Tennis Invitational the weekend of Feb. 10, ultimately taking home the title. The duo won the Kansas City [...]
Tweet Playing tennis is fun enough. Getting big recognition for it even better. State Sen. Terrie Huntington of Fairway introduced a resolution Monday commending the SM East girls tennis team for its across the board victories in the singles, doubles and team competitions at the state tournament this fall. Pictured above are (left to right) [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village duo with a passion for paddles has taken home top honors in this year’s Kansas City Men’s Open platform tennis tournament — and they have their sights set even higher. Andy Metzler and Kevin Kowalik of Homestead Country Club won the tournament, now in its 12th year, and will be competing [...]
Tweet Not a bad way to end a remarkable high school career. When SM East senior Mimi Fotopoulos beat Blue Valley North’s Madison Rhyner 6-1, 6-1 in the 6A state tournament last weekend, she not only defended her state singles title, she polished off her second undefeated season in a row and helped propel the [...]
Tweet When you’ve won the tournament so many years in a row that no one remembers exactly when the winning streak started, it’s kind of hard to get super excited about another victory. But the SM East girls’ tennis team is of course quite pleased to have brought home another Sunflower League Tournament title last [...]
Tweet If Las Vegas put out odds on Sunflower League boys tennis, it’s starting to look like the Lancers should be pretty close to 1:1. The Lancers were dominant yet again in this year’s Sunflower League championship, bringing home gold medals in the team competition, the No. 1 singles division, the No. 2 singles division, [...]
Tweet The third time was a charm for Mimi Fotopolous. After coming up short in her two previous trips to the 6A state singles championship, the SM East junior knocked of Blue Valley North junior Madison Rhyner 6-4, 6-1 to take this year’s crown. Fotopolous finished the season undefeated at 23-0. East’s top doubles team, [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission East girls tennis squad cruised to a second straight Sunflower League championship last week in matches at Harmon Park, and are now odds-on favorites to take the state 6A championship. The team came in second place in the state last year. Led by junior Mimi Fotopolous, who took the Sunflower singles [...]
