AHN Tennis Team Plays Against Clearwater Central High School
April 2, 2019
(Photo credit: Katherine Rodriguez/Achona Online)
This will be Lauren Harris’s (’19) last season playing on the AHN tennis team.
Academy’s Tennis Team played against Clearwater Central High School on March 28 in Clearwater. Adriana James-Rodil (‘21) played #1 singles. Isabella Pearson, who is in eighth grade, played #2 singles. Lauren Harris (‘19) played #3 singles. Katherine Rodriguez (‘19) played #4 singles. Grace Odmark (‘19) played #5 singles. James-Rodil and Pearson played #1 doubles. Hannah Bruty (‘21) and Harris played #2 doubles. Overall, Academy won the match.
“The match today went well. We all played hard, bonded as a team, and earned an awesome win,” says Bruty (‘21).
James-Rodil and Pearson won 8-2 for #1 doubles. Harris and Bruty won 8-0 for #2 doubles. For #1 singles, James – Rodil won 8-1. Pearson won 8-3 for #2 doubles. Harris won 8-3 for #3 singles. Rodriguez lost 5-8 for #4 singles, and Odmark won 8-5 for #5 singles.
This is Robert Quinn’s first year coaching Academy tennis.
The team was released from school at 2 pm and departed at 2:30pm on a bus with the Jesuit tennis team, because Jesuit also had a match against Clearwater Central High School. Jesuit also beat Clearwater Central. The bus ride was about an hour long and the bus came back to Academy at about 7 pm.
“We played an amazing match today. Everyone did great and were full of energy. We had fun doing what we love,” says Harris.
The roster for the 2018-2019 season goes as follows:
Caitlin Neal
Abby Neal
Adriana James-Rodil
Isabella Pearson
Caitlyn Asher
Lauren Harris
Katherine Rodriguez
Hannah Bruty
Grace Odmark
Isabella Duarte
This is the first year Academy’s tennis team has a roster of 10, in the past there was 12 on a team.
“I think that we performed very well today. I wasn’t sure what to expect, seeing as I heard mixed feelings about last year’s match, so I am very proud of us for our win,” says Odmark.