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These tournaments like many others are always an exciting gathering especially this year as we didn’t know if we were even going to continue with fall sports! This is our first tournament of the season because we are more eerie to being on the safe side for our students and community! At the ISL tournament we played with a total of 8 teams rather than the 7 like last year! The new team(this year) that re-joined us in the ISL was Lake Forest Academy! We were very glad to host a team that we didn’t know would come back to our conference.

This was a pretty bittersweet day as we all celebrate the seniors last year on the Elgin Academy Tennis team but we celebrate a new journey that lies ahead of all of these seniors too! Seniors are not just the group of people the other 3 classes look up too, but it also means they have been through the full experience of high school and with that each of our EA Seniors have led leadership in their own ways! My first year as head coach in 2018 is when I met all of these seniors! I’m thankful every day for being given the opportunity to guide and have each of these players trust that my teachings will get them closer to their potentials as individuals both on and off the court! They all taught me something and I’ll explain in each statement for the individuals!  

This match was a long match but we learned a lot today as we went up against our conference team, Woodlands Academy. Our tennis team continues to improve as well as ask for advice on how to! Their commitment for tennis is an all-in attitude that shows game after game. The match was watched by many parents from both teams from outside the fence as we were unfortunately not allowing spectators on the property! However, the spirit of EA was there and they knew so! Almost every match went to a tiebreaker including the persistent Sophie, whose match played till sun down.