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  • 4A girls tennis state tournament results

    Draws for the Class 4A girls tennis state tournament, held May 7-9 at Pueblo City Park, are below.

    All matches start at 9 a.m. each day. The first two rounds at each position will be played Thursday. Friday morning will be all semifinals, and the playback matches will start immediately afterwards. All third- and fourth-place matches and finals will be at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning.

    Should weather intervene, check CHSAANow.com for contingency plans.

    These results will be updated throughout the tournament.

    For more information on the process for creating these brackets, click here or scroll down.

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    Class 4A girls tennis state tournament

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    Information on the state tournament and draw creation

    Only those teams who qualify four or more positions to state are eligible for the CHSAA state team championship title. The bracket creation process is as follows:

    1. All 16 individuals/teams will be considered for placement on the draw.
    2. The top 4 individuals/teams will be placed.
    3. The committee shall consider the following factors (in no particular order of importance): strength of league, overall record, strength of competition, head-to-head competition and common opponents.
    4. The remaining Regional Winners (#1’s) will be randomly drawn for places on the draw.
    5. The Regional Finishers (#2’s) will then be randomly drawn for matches against a Regional Winner.
    6. All Regional Winners will be paired against a Regional Finishers.
    7. No two teams or individuals from the same Region will play each other during the first round of the state championship.

  • Girls tennis regional results and state qualifiers

    A database of qualifiers to the 2015 girls tennis state tournaments, sortable by class, position and region.

    Results are updated as they are entered from site directors at each regional.

    The state tennis draws and brackets will be available next week.

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  • Cherry Creek’s Hall carries a championship-worthy responsibility into regionals

    (Courtesy of Kalyssa Hall)
    (Courtesy of Kalyssa Hall)

    [dropcap]A[/dropcap]ct like you’ve been there before. To most athletes, it’s a saying that is designed to keep behavior on the field of play at a respectful level. For Cherry Creek’s Kalyssa Hall, it’s a responsibility that she carries with her as she heads into the Class 5A tennis regionals which begin this week.

    Hall is two-time defending state tennis champion. She’s a model student and a self-admitted intense competitor on the court. And she knows that through it all, she serves as an example to not only her teammates, but to all the tennis players in the state of Colorado.

    “After I won in my freshman year, people knew who I was and they were more intimidated to play me,” Hall said. “It’s kind of like a spotlight. People are watching me a lot closer than other people so I have to maintain my attitude on the court and my positivity and team spirit a lot more.”

    This is Hall’s first year competing at the 5A level after winning her two state titles at Cheyenne Mountain. She moved to Denver and transferred to Cherry Creek last summer.

    The change in classification isn’t as much of a factor as some would believe and she has been nothing but a model student and athlete for the Bruins.

    “She’s never satisfied and she always wants to get better,” Cherry Creek coach Christin Jacob said. “She works so hard. She works with us at practice, she’s hitting on her own outside of practice and she’s working on her condition constantly. It’s a pretty unreal thing to see.”

    There is little doubt in the minds of her coaches and her teammates that she can have a long and successful career on the tennis court, but one of Hall’s best qualities is her ability to see beyond the white lines.

    Since the age of 11, she has had her sights set on attending medical school and becoming an orthopedic surgeon. The academic workload that Hall has faced is certainly the foundation for her life ambitions, but her work on the tennis court is what has helped her learn the discipline that she will need in order to excel in that aspect of her life.

    “Tennis has done so much for me in terms of developing myself as a person,” she said. “It gives me a sense of responsibility that I wouldn’t have otherwise. Instead of having to manage just my grades and just hang out with friends in my free time for the last 10 years, I’ve had to get all my homework done after three hours of tennis, work out and get up the next morning and go to school and do the same thing all over again.”

    From an outside perspective, she seems more than capable of bearing the load that is required of her on a daily basis.

    “She has the same attitude in class as she does on the court,” Jacob said. “She works super hard and she’s been great.”

    But for the next few weeks, her focus will be directed on the postseason and trying to come away with a third individual state championship. She has gone into the last two state tournaments with plenty of confidence and after successfully defending her title once already, is anxious to do it once more.

    “My first two years were pretty solid,” she said. “I had a lot of confidence going into those two (state) tournaments. I feel good with my game right, I’m training a lot more than I used to and I’m playing better than I’ve ever played before.”

    Even so, she’s not letting herself get comfortable with her play. The last thing she wants to do is to come off as overly confident heading into state. It’s time to act like she’s been there before.

  • Photos: Montrose girls tennis tops Durango

    MONTROSE — Montrose girls tennis beat Durango 4-3 in a dual on Saturday.

  • Girls tennis regional schedule for 5A and 4A

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    Girls tennis’ regionals begin play in late April. (Tom Hoganson)

    Below is a list of girls tennis’ regional schedules for the 2015 season.

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    Class 5A

    Region 1

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Cherry Creek HS
    • Site contact: Cristin Jacob, Cherry Creek
    • Coaches meeting: April 29, 7 a.m. CCHS
    • Schools: Cherry Creek, Pine Creek, Grandview, Greeley West, Coronado, Adams City, Aurora Central, Loveland

    Region 2

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Fairview HS
    • Site contact: Frank Lee, Fairview
    • Coaches meeting: April 27, 6 pm @ Fairview HS
    • Schools: Fairview, Chatfield, Montbello, Regis Jesuit, Arvada West, Rocky Mountain

    Region 3

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: CAC Inverness
    • Site contact: Jim Flanigan, Mountain Vista
    • Coaches meeting: April 27, 6 p.m.
    • Schools: Mountain Vista, George Washington, Palmer, Columbine, Liberty, Rock Canyon, Thornton, Fountain-Fort Carson

    Region 4

    • Date: April 28-29
    • Site: Fossil Ridge and Fort Collins
    • Site contact: Ken Denning, Fossil Ridge
    • Coaches meeting: TBD
    • Schools: Fossil Ridge, Doherty, Gateway, Cherokee Trail, Hinkley, Overland, Chaparral, Legacy

    Region 5

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Denver City Park
    • Site contact: Michelle Topf, Denver East
    • Coaches meeting: April 27 (6:30 p.m.)
    • Schools: Denver East, Rangeview, Ponderosa, Lincoln, Highlands Ranch, Mountain Range, Bear Creek, Broomfield

    Region 6

    • Date: April 30-May 1
    • Site: Colorado Mesa University
    • Site contact: Paul Cain, District 51
    • Coaches meeting: April 30, 7:30 am CMU
    • Schools: Fruita Monument, Grand Junction, Grand Juction Central, Fort Collins, Smoky Hill, ThunderRidge, Boulder, Douglas County

    Region 7

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Lebsack Tennis Center at Redstone
    • Site contact: Steve Sisler, Arapahoe
    • Coaches meeting: TBD
    • Schools: Arapahoe, Brighton, Poudre, Prairie View, Dakota Ridge, Eaglecrest, Pomona, Monarch

    Region 8

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Ken Caryl Ranch
    • Site contact: Mark Koopman, Ralston Valley
    • Coaches meeting: April 27, 6:30 p.m. at RV
    • Schools: Ralston Valley, Heritage, Lakewood, Rampart, Northglenn, Legend, Castle View, Horizon

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    Class 4A

    Region 1

    • Date: April 29-May 1 (May 2, buffer)
    • Site: Colorado Academy
    • Site contact: Jenn Adams
    • Schools: Colorado Academy, Arvada, Denver North, Denver South, Denver West, D’Evelyn, DSST, Evergreen, Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson

    Region 2

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Kent Denver
    • Site contact: Richard Judd
    • Schools: Kent Denver, Discovery Canyon, Englewood, Green Mountain, Littleton, Lutheran, Machebeuf, Valor Christian, Vista Peak

    Region 3

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Mullen HS/Pinehurst/Bear Creek Swim & Tennis
    • Site contact: Vicky Matarazzo
    • Schools: Mullen, Alameda International, Conifer, Falcon, Golden, Lewis-Palmer, Palmer Ridge, St. Mary’s Academy, Wheat Ridge

    Region 4

    • Date: April 30-May 1
    • Site: Eaton
    • Site contact: Steve Longwell
    • Schools: Eaton, Greeley Central, Fort Lupton, Fort Morgan, Justice, Mead, Mountain View, Northridge, Sterling, Thompson Valley, University, Weld Central, Windsor

    Region 5

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: CU South Courts
    • Site contact: Richie Wildenhaus, Erie
    • Coaches meeting: April 28, 6:30 p.m.
    • Schools: Erie, Dawson, Berthoud, Centaurus, Frederick, Holy Family, Longmont, Niwot, Peak to Peak, Silver Creek, Skyline, Skyview, Standley Lake

    Region 6

    • Date: April 29-30
    • Site: Cheyenne Mountain HS
    • Site contact: Kris Roberts & Jackie Jones
    • Schools: Cheyenne Mountain, Air Academy, CS Christian, CS School, Harrison, Mitchell, Sand Creek, Sierra,
      St. Mary’s, Vanguard, Widefield

    Region 7

    • Date: May 1-2
    • Site: City Park, Pueblo
    • Site contact: Cherie Toussaint, Pueblo County HS
    • Schools: Pueblo County, Canon City, Fountain Valley, La Junta, Mesa Ridge, Pueblo Centennial, Pueblo Central, Pueblo East, Pueblo South, Pueblo West, Salida

    Region 8

    • Date: April 30-May 1
    • Site: Canyonview Courts, GJ
    • Site contact: Jeremy McCormick, Delta HS
    • Schools: Delta, Aspen, Cedaredge, Durango, Glenwood Springs, Hotchkiss, Montezuma-Cortez, Montrose, Roaring Fork, Steamboat Springs, Vail Mountain

  • Legislative Council roundup: Third class of girls golf, girls swim, girls tennis added

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    CHSAA’s Legislative Council met on Thursday. (Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com)

    AURORA — Girls golf, girls swimming and diving, and girls tennis will each add a third classification in 2016.

    The move was made at Thursday’s Legislative Council meeting following a vote on a proposal from CHSAA’s Board of Directors. It needed two-thirds approval as it amended the Classification and League Organizing Committee’s report which was passed in January — and got more than enough with 93 percent of the body approving.

    New enrollment splits will be determined by CLOC for 2016-18, but the breakdown of schools per class will be somewhere in this range:

    Sport 3A 4A 5A
    Girls golf 51 51 51
    Girls swimming & diving 40 40 40
    Girls tennis 49 49 50

    Now the real work starts. The committee for each sport will have to lay out postseason formats and qualifying procedures.

    “This is an exciting move for the Association because it offers so many more participation opportunities for girls sports,” said CHSAA assistant commissioner Bethany Brookens, who oversees both swimming and tennis. “The sport committees will be hard at work to determine the best playoff formats.”

    The change was made possible by the new philosophy coming out of CLOC which now seeks evenly divide teams into classifications.

    And, when a December survey of athletic directors showed wide support for adding a third class in each sport, it was evident that this would more than likely happen.

    The last sport to add a classification was girls soccer. Class 2A started this season.

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    4A basketball bracket will remain at 32 teams

    A proposal from the Tri-Valley League to return to a 48-team bracket in 4A basketball was shot down by the Legislative Council.

    The vote required majority approval to pass, but 64 percent of the body was against it.

    When discussing the proposal, those speaking out against it mentioned the fact that the change would happen in the middle of the cycle — but also that 4A has bounced back and forth between 32- and 48-team fields in recent years.

    In fact, it was just last April that the tournament went to a 32-team field from 48.

    “The basketball committee has wrested with the number of qualifiers (in 4A) for a number of years. We go back-and-forth, back-and-forth,” said Paul Cain, who chairs the basketball committee. “We’ve discussed this as a committee, and I hate to say it, but it’s one of our problem children. We need to figure this out.”

    Mike Hughes, the athletic director at Vista PEAK who also represents the Colorado Athletic Directors Association: “We don’t think the quality of competition will increase significantly enough to warrant an additional 16 teams.”

    Additionally, a proposal which would have changed specific qualifying procedures for Ponderosa to the 4A tournament also failed.

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    Wrestling will use a new weight-management program

    Beginning with the 2015-16 season, wrestling will use a new weight management plan for athletes who are trying to drop weight.

    According to the wrestling report, the Optimal Performance Calculator “permits wrestlers to descend at a rate no higher than 1.5 percent of their body weight per week.”

    Each wrestler will have their weight assessed before they compete.

    Wrestling also instituted a dress code for coaches during the postseason.

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    Notables

    • The proposal to add an eighth classification — 6A — to football failed by a wide margin. Here’s a full story on that development. It’s worth noting that the Legislative Council was so against the 6A football proposal that the vote to open the CLOC report to be able to amend it nearly failed. That would’ve meant the body wouldn’t have been able to vote on the addition of 3A in girls tennis, golf and swimming.
    • Hockey’s addition of JV, as well as the changes it made to the overtime rules, passed. The sport’s changes to period, game and roster limits were also approved. Teams will now only be able to carry 20 players on their varsity roster.
    • Baseball tried to move the start to its season, as well as its championships, back one week. Both proposals failed individually, though the push-back of the title games was 54-46. That may be back at a future meeting.
    • The proposals to expand the baseball and softball seasons, as well as the number of innings a player is allowed to play in, were both tabled by the Centennial League. Those will be back to the January 2016 Legislative Council meeting. They were tabled so that the changes, if approved, could take place at the start of a two-year cycle.
    • New members of the Board of Directors who were approved on Thursday: Doug Pfau (Weldon Valley AD), Troy Baker (Buena Vista AD), and Wendy Rubin (Chatfield principal). Additionally, the Board on Wednesday appointed the following at-large Board members: Kathleen Leiding (Lyons AD), and Kelley Eichman (Fountain-Fort Carson AD).
    • As we reported in January, Eddie Hartnett, the district athletic director at Adams 12, will become the next Board president.
    • The meeting marked the final Legislative Council for outgoing Board president Curt Wilson. “Some of the buzz in Colorado right now is somewhat negative,” he told the membership on Thursday. “Despite the tendency to frown, let us not pass by the 99 good things because we’re in such a rush to fix the bad things.”

  • Fossil Ridge girls tennis routinely among state’s best

    For a high school that has been in existence for less than a dozen years, Fossil Ridge in Fort Collins has developed a quick reputation in athletic arenas.

    Nowhere is that more evident than on the tennis court. The Sabercats have not only qualified for the Class 5A girls state tennis tournament in each of their 11 seasons, save for the school’s first year when the entire student population consisted of freshmen, they have finished in the top five. That includes four second-place finishes in the team race.

    Much of the credit goes to the program’s coach for each of its 11 seasons, Mike Scimeca.

    He developed a mission statement from the outset.

    “Our goal was, we wanted to build a competitive program,” Scimeca said.

    Realizing that there were a number of girls tennis programs in the state with rich histories, his first challenge was to develop desire.

    “To do that, we knew we had to create passion,” he said.

    He’s had solid numbers since he began the program. To help promote competition within the team, Scimeca typically rotates 18 players for his 11 varsity spots during the regular season. By doing that, more than half his team routinely letters by the end of the season.

    His second challenge was to nurture his players’ skills.

    “I’m a big technique guy, more along the college lines,” Scimeca said.

    It also helps to have talented players who are motivated to improve their game on their own. Nearly a dozen of this year’s players work on their game year round.

    Heading that list is Shawnea Pagat. A junior, she’s played No. 1 singles her entire high school career.

    She got a good head start on the game, growing up in Hawaii until her family moved to Fort Collins five years ago.

    “I started really young,” she said.

    She could play 12 months a year. In addition, she realized, “It was something I was good at.”

    Pagat had the added bonus of having her teammate, Kaitlyn Motley, to hit against on a daily basis in practice.

    “She was a phenomenal tennis player,” said Pagat of Motley, who graduated last spring. “We pushed each other.”

    Although singles tennis is often considered an individual sport, high school programs foster a team attitude.

    “(Our success) is really cool because of our work ethic,” Pagat said. “Everyone wants to play. It’s just creasting that motivation, which is awesome.”

    At under 5-foot-3, Pagat has found ways to compensate for her reach disadvantage against most opponents.

    “I’ve hear that I’m pretty quick on the court,” she said modestly.

    She uses that to her advantage.

    “I try to run every ball down,” she said.

    Pagat, one of the team’s year-round players, competes in USTA tournaments in the off-season, including a sectional tournament in Las Vegas last fall. That’s helped her improve on every aspect of her game.

    “I’ve come a long way since my freshman year,” she said. “As I look back, I had to change everything – my grip, my backhand, my serve. I did everything wrrong.

    “Looking back, I said, ‘Really, you did that?” she joked of reviewing past video.

    Admittedly, the state tournament atmosphere was a little intimidating for her during her freshman season.

    “I was freaking out,” she said of being overwhelmed at the Gates Tennis Center.

    She took that lesson into last year’s state tournament.

    “You can’t let the pressure get to you,” she said.

    As for this year, “I would love to make it to the final four (at state),” she said of one of the goals she’s set entering the season.

    That’s realistic for both her and for the Sabercats team, which always seems to be near the top of the team standings by the time the state tournament has wrapped up.

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    Girls tennis preview

    5A

    Defending champion: Cherry Creek

    Postseason: Regionals completed by May 2

    Championships: May 7-9, Gates Tennis Center (Denver)

    Returning all-state players: Tate Schroeder, Arapahoe, junior; Rebecca Weissman, Loveland, junior; Madeline Roberts, Cherry Creek, senior; Hanna Fernley, Cherry Creek, junior; Jessie Murphy, Cherry Creek, senior; Jessica Diamond, Cherry Creek, senior.

    4A

    Defending champion: Cheyenne Mountain

    Postseason: Regionals completed by May 2

    Championships: May 7-9, Pueblo City Park

    Returning all-state players: Kalyssa Hall, Cheyenne Mountain, junior; Alex Weil, St. Mary’s Academy, senior; Caitie McCarthy, Pueblo West, junior; Casey Ahrendsen, Cheyenne Mountain, sophomore; Ally Arenson, Cheyenne Mountain, sophomore; Tory Louis, Cheyenne Mountain, senior; Claire Dibble, Cheyenne Mountain, sophomore; Megan Dibble, Cheyenne Mountain, senior; Chelsey Geisz, Cheyenne Mountain, junior.

  • Majority of ADs support adding another class of girls golf, tennis and swimming

    Girls swimming 4A state
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    AURORA — The overwhelming majority of athletic directors who responded to a CHSAA survey indicated they were in favor of adding additional classifications for girls golf, girls tennis and girls swimming and diving.

    It may signal that each of those sports are ready to add a third classification as soon as 2016.

    “It would give us a chance to provide more opportunities for our young ladies around the state,” said CHSAA assistant commissioner Bethany Brookens, who oversaw the survey. “And this potential move could help schools add teams if they don’t already have one.”

    The CHSAA office sent a survey to all athletic directors around the state on Dec. 11. As of Thursday, 151 had responded. When asked if they were “in favor of adding additional classifications” in girls golf, tennis and swimming, 74.2 percent responded yes, 9.3 percent said no, and 16.6 percent responded that they were unsure.

    The question was asked in large part because of the new CLOC philosophy, which is seeking to evenly divide teams among classifications. That CLOC report is up for approval at January’s Legislative Council meeting.

    “Part of the impetus of that (new CLOC philosophy) was there are sports that lend themselves to more classes than we currently have,” said CHSAA commissioner Paul Angelico. “Using the current method (of dividing classifications), we could never get there because there aren’t enough smaller schools.”

    Currently, girls swimming and diving, girls golf and girls tennis each have two classifications. Should the CLOC report pass in January, it would leave the following splits for those sports:

    • Girls golf: 154 teams, 77 in each class
    • Girls tennis: 148 teams, 74 in each class
    • Girls swim and dive: 122 teams, 61 in each class

    It was those numbers which raised the possibility of adding additional classes. In fact, girls golf and girls tennis have the highest number of teams in each classification of any sport. The average number of teams per classification in other sports is 54.

    Should each sport add a third classification, the breakdown would be as follows:

    • Girls golf: 51 per class
    • Girls tennis: 49 per class
    • Girls swim and dive: 40 per class

    Girls swimming used to divide its teams evenly back in the mid 1990s — “and I felt there was more competitive balance then than we have now,” Angelico said.

    This move all hinges on the CLOC report passing in January, though. The three sports cannot seek to add a third classification unless that happens. Should the report pass, a league would need to then bring a proposal to add the classifications at the April Legislative Council meeting.

    If that doesn’t happen, the three sports couldn’t add a class until the 2018-20 cycle because CLOC needs to set alignment for 2016-18 at its November 2015 meeting.

    However, assuming the CLOC report passes in January, the three sports each adding a third class seems likely to happen beginning with the 2016-17 season.

    “It should encourage those programs to grow because there will be more competitive balance,” Angelico said.

    The last sport to add a classification was girls soccer, which added 2A. That begins this coming spring.

  • Tennis committee recommends penalties for lineup-stacking

    (Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com)
    (Ryan Casey/CHSAANow.com)

    AURORA — The tennis committee on Tuesday recommended implementing sanctions for teams that are stacking their lineup in order to gain a competitive advantage.

    There is currently no penalty that punishes teams found to be stacking their lineup, also known as a ladder. However, it is a strong ethical violation in the sport.

    When a team stacks its lineup, they will put a player many feel is better at a lower position in order to have a better chance of winning that match. Or, in another example, upperclassmen want to play together on a doubles team instead of playing singles because they think they’ll have a better opportunity to advance to the state tournament.

    “Many times, we hear that coaches disregard this ethical violation because there is no quantitative consequence,” said CHSAA assistant commissioner Bethany Brookens, who oversees tennis.

    The tennis committee met at the CHSAA office on Tuesday, and a main point of emphasis was the stacking of ladders. Ultimately, the committee recommended “serious consequences if blatant stacking is observed.”

    Specifically, if the stacking is not corrected, the head coach will be put on restriction — meaning they would miss the postseason — and the team would not be able to participate in regionals or qualify for state at the position where the violation occurred.

    This recommendation will need to be approved at January’s Legislative Council meeting along with the rest of the tennis committee report.

    Tuesday, the committee recommended the following process to evaluate lineups:

    • A formal complaint about the same team must by made by two separate athletic directors to the CHSAA office.
    • CHSAA will send a letter to the team in question altering them to the complaints, and will “request documentation from the challenge matches.”
    • A three-member committee (made up of members of the tennis committee) will head out “within a short timeframe” and evaluate the player(s) in question during a match.
    • If the committee “feels that blatant stacking is happening,” the school will need to fix its lineup for the next match and the remainder of the season. If this does not occur, the coach will go on restriction, and the team cannot participate at regionals, or qualify for the state tournament, at the position.
    • If the school corrects its lineup, no penalty will be imposed.

    Each season, the CHSAA office receives roughly one-to-two complaints about a team stacking its ladder. The belief is that many do not officially report violations because there is currently no penalty for a violation.

    “It’s the hope of the committee that this lineup evaluation committee will never have to go out and monitor matches,” Brookens said. “We hope that coaches are inclined to do what is morally and ethically correct. Your best player should play at No. 1 singles, your second-best at No. 2 singles, and so on.”

  • All-state girls tennis teams for 2014 season

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    Arapahoe’s Tate Schroeder is the Class 5A girls tennis player of the year. (Tim Visser/TimVisserPhotography.com)

    The 2014 all-state girls tennis teams are presented by CHSAANow.com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps.

    These teams were created based upon results at the state meet.

    The athletes who won championships at No. 1 singles were named players of the year.

    Scroll down to see the teams, or use the menu below to navigate to the class of your choosing.

    Go to: 5A | 4A


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    Class 5A

    Player of the year: Tate Schroeder, Arapahoe

    First team
    Player Year School Event
    Tate Schroeder Sophomore Arapahoe No. 1 singles
    Rebecca Weissmann Sophomore Loveland No. 1 singles
    Natalia Dellavalle Senior Denver East No. 2 singles
    Madeline Roberts Junior Cherry Creek No. 3 singles
    Rachael Scheber Senior Cherry Creek No. 1 doubles
    Mia Hoover Senior Cherry Creek No. 1 doubles
    Hanna Fernley Sophomore Cherry Creek No. 2 doubles
    Jessie Murphy Junior Cherry Creek No. 2 doubles
    Laura Wilms Senior Arapahoe No. 3 doubles
    Bridget O’Brien Senior Arapahoe No. 3 doubles
    Kara Lee Senior Cherry Creek No. 4 doubles
    Jessica Diamond Junior Cherry Creek No. 4 doubles


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    Class 4A

    Player of the year: Kalyssa Hall, Cheyenne Mountain

    First team
    Player Year School Event
    Kalyssa Hall Sophomore Cheyenne Mountain No. 1 singles
    Alex Weil Junior St. Mary’s Academy No. 1 singles
    Delaney Nalen Senior Kent Denver No. 2 singles
    Caitie McCarthy Sophomore Pueblo West No. 3 singles
    Casey Ahrendsen Freshman Cheyenne Mountain No. 1 doubles
    Ally Arenson Freshman Cheyenne Mountain No. 1 doubles
    Tory Louis Junior Cheyenne Mountain No. 2 doubles
    Claire Dibble Freshman Cheyenne Mountain No. 2 doubles
    Megan Dibble Junior Cheyenne Mountain No. 3 doubles
    Chelsey Geisz Sophomore Cheyenne Mountain No. 3 doubles
    Kate Melberg Senior St. Mary’s Academy No. 4 doubles
    Julia Chowdhury Senior St. Mary’s Academy No. 4 doubles