Fall Season Summary
2nd Singles Champion Montana Wilson receiving her award with SUNYAC Commissioner Pat Damore
We concluded a very successful fall tennis season last weekend at the SUNYAC Conference Championships, finishing in 2nd place and crowning freshman Montana Wilson 2nd singles champion. We also saw junior Lindsey Garyn, in 3rd singles final and freshman Alli Esposito in 6th singles final finish as runners up in their respective finals. Montana along with her doubles partner freshman Kayla DiPaulo finished runners up in a highly competitive 2nd doubles championship.
After a tough preseason the regular season got underway very successfully with a conference away with at Plattsburgh followed by the team winning the two day RPI Tennis Invitational in Troy, NY. With a very new team we acquitted ourselves very early on in the season putting together some very impressive wins against fellow
SUNYAC Finalists left to right Kayla DiPaulo, Lindsey Garyn, Alli Esposito and Montana Wilson
conference opposition Brockport, Cortland, Oswego, Fredonia and losing a highly competitive match against our conference rivals Geneseo. Outside of our conference we posted excellent wins against RPI and Western Connecticut and our first ever win against NYU. Our top 4 players competed at the ITA National Individual Championships at William Smith, which had us drawn against some of the best Div III players in our region. Leading up to the conference championships we played local rivals Oneonta in what was a very tough match up against a highly improved team and although we won 7-2 the score was very misleading in what was a very tough match. The last dual match of the fall was against cross Hudson river rivals and #21 in the nation Vassar. A very enjoyable match against some very strong players was topped with our only win of the night by freshman Kayla DiPaulo at 4th singles and although Ingrid lost her unbeaten record she should be very proud to have set a new school record, 13-0 before losing to a strong player from Vassar. The fall season concluded with the team standing at 9-2 overall a very respectable position to take to the spring season.
The team and family at the SUNYAC Conference Championships in Manlius, NY
Overall I’m very pleased about how this very new and young team has come together, about their work ethic both on and off the courts and how hard they competed in each and every match. I’m looking forward to the start of our challenging spring schedule and to being back on the courts in late February. Congratulations to each and every student athlete who participated in our fall program, good luck to our fall graduating senior Lyndsey Lovinger and I would like to personally thank all the parents who turned up at our home matches and all over New York State to support our tennis program.
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