Competition is keen for ML girls tennis

With a huge number of players graduating, there will be many new faces on Medical Lake‘s girls’ tennis team in 2013 head coach Dawn Eliassen reports.

“We graduated eight last year, so we have very few returning varsity players,” Eliassen said. The team now has just two seniors (Amy Ryan and Katie Larkin) and a junior (Becky Nix) in the top-10. The current No. 1 singles player is sophomore Rachel Hansen, a transfer from Reardan.

But competition has been fierce across a group of players where there is little separation top to bottom.

“I have a problem this year that I’ve never had before, I have...