Showdown in Spokane

Hello Whitman tennis fans.

If you're looking for the best tennis that the Northwest Conference has to offer, you should be in Spokane on Sunday at 10am as we do battle with defending conference champion Whitworth. Last year after they handled us 8-1 in Spokane we battled to a 3-6 defeat in Walla Walla including 4 three set matches.

Both teams have similar personnel returning, with each team graduating our #3 singles player and both getting some dynamic freshman. Even with Alyssa, Kate, Lauren and Dena bolstering our lineup, the steady improvement and workrate of the upperclassmen gives me great confidence up and down the lineup. People constantly ask how the team is doing and how our season looks and I must say that we have done the work and are prepared physically, mentally and emotionally. In that frame of mind, there is incredible excitement on the team to get up for this match and play our best.

If you don't want to take my word for it, look to the improved score against LCSC last weekend or the fact that as a team we do periodic fitness testing and the teams averages for both our speed and agility tests were cut by .24 and .28 seconds respectively and almost everyone improved their endurance on the beep test.

Whitworth is a scary team to play because they can win at every spot, but the preparation is there, we are incredibly excited to compete and look forward to this early measurement of where we are as a team against the top ranked team in our conference.

Go Whitman!
-Coach Hein