The Seattle Prep tennis team has had quite the revolutionary season this year with new coaches, new senior leadership and a widely successful season. Through a dominating 16-3 season record, the team triumphed at metros finishing 2nd overall after barely losing to Lakeside in the finals. From there, one single and four doubles moved onto the district level. Doubles Matt Zech and Alex Blattner, Mary Pat Lee and Maria Philips, and single Aaron Yuan advanced to State on May 27th and 28th.
At the close of this season many players rejoiced in the success but this came bittersweet as the last season for some. Jessica Cary ‘16 reflects on her last season, “It is so hard to have a cohesive team with a sport like tennis because it is individual but somehow we manage to do it. This has been such a huge part of my Prep experience.”
The players attribute this year’s success to the new head coach, the “tennis wizard”, Mark Frisby. Prior to Frisby’s return at Prep the players took what they had learned outside of prep tennis and applied it to the season. Mark Frisby turned that around and went out of his way to improve the way every single member of the team played tennis from basic footwork to Australian doubles strategies. Matteo de Suduiraut explains, “Mark was also helpful in giving advice during a match. His devotion to the team and investment in his players was obvious to everyone.”
The tennis program looks very optimistic under the guidance of Frisby for the years to come.