Iowa High School Tennis

Another school year has begun and we are off to the races! Nearly two months into the new school year, temperatures are starting to drop (some places even have had a snowfall in Northern Iowa already, that is crazy, it is OCTOBER!). Luckily there are still a couple days this week that look to be warm enough to get a couple more hits in outside, so grab a buddy a get some work in. Where does that bring us? Oh yes, a big recruiting period! Players, especially seniors, are now going on more college visits, juniors are beginning to think about post-graduation plans, because it is never to early to begin the process right? With that, I am bringing out my Top 10 recruits for the senior and junior classes both Boys and Girls. One new list will be out each of the first four days this week, so stay tuned and enjoy!

pc: the gazette The summer grind is well underway with multiple tournaments having taken place thus far. Lots more opportunities this summer to get out and compete, improve your game and ranking all at the same time. Doing my best to do a summer update with the soon-to-be seniors and where players are at with post graduation plans. Players mentioned in this article were individuals that were able to get back to me about where they are currently at! There are many other rising seniors that are going to be in the recruiting mix.

Another great high school tennis season is in the books for the State of Iowa. New State Champions were crowned, players got another year of experience and for the first time it seemed like we had an indoor season! (thanks weather). As we come to a close, here at the blog I wanted to get awards out this year including 1st/2nd team selections, freshman of the year, senior of the year and coach of the year. All of the 1A/2A Boys/Girls will be listed below and you can also see the tweets with the pictures of selections posted. This is by no means state official, but blog official is the next best right?!

2019 Year End Blog Power Rankings...

Tomorrow is the last day of the 2019 high school tennis season, well I guess we do have Co-Ed state next week! Regardless, four teams in Columbus, Xavier, Shenandoah and Wahlert have a chance at a team state title tomorrow. Columbus is the defending state champions and enter the final four as the #1 seed. They are undefeated this year and have wins over both Wahlert and Xavier.

Defending Champions Iowa City West is back into the field and joined by Ames, Dowling and Cedar Falls. This MVC/CIML clash of semi-finals should be some really good tennis tomorrow and I really think all of these teams have a chance to lift the trophy tomorrow afternoon. It has been a crazy fun year, lots of great results throughout the season and we even have almost had an indoor season this spring! Ladies and Gentleman, buckle up because this is one of the last days of the 2019 season.

Defending Champs are back! Both defending champs are back into their same draw as they won a year ago. Charoenkul of Faifield enters the singles tournament as the #2 seed this year. The new rule change went into effect and allowed Charoenkul to be seeded as she was the state champion in 2018 but lost to teammate Yana Gaskell in the district final this year. In the doubles draw, Taylor Hogan from Waterloo Columbus is back to defend her 2018 crown but brings in a new partner in Elysse Trost. Hogan/Trost enter the tournament as the #1 seed. Hogan, for people that may not know, is an excellent gymnast where she is believed to continue gymnastics at the collegiate level.