Awards Night

North Penn High School Girl's Tennis

Fall Awards Program

November 18th at 7:00pm

NPHS Cafeteria 

Each sport sits together, please look for myself and Coach Brady.

Varsity and JV, please return your uniforms on awards night, make sure they are clean. If you are planning on playing tennis next year, please make sure your name is on the bag so your get the same uniform.

Varsity: If you have not paid your dollar for the bus driver's bus, please stop by room k029 and give it to me. Only 2 out of the 12 people paid.

See you November 18th,

Coach Strader

Schedule for 10/11

Monday-Varsity girls (top 11) meet at the school for the Bus at 11:45am for the Team Tournament.

Tuesday-Match or practice. To be determined. Doubles only practice after school.

Wednesday-Practice for doubles only

Thursday-Practice for doubles only.

Friday-SOLs for doubles at Hatboro Horsham.

Saturday-SOLs if qualified.

Practice for 10/09

These players have practice Saturday 9-11am




Maggie Graff
Danielle Maier
Corina Davis
Vy Nguyen
Melissa Yoon
Indira Mukerji
Caroline Hentzen
Swetha Nuthulaganti
Anila Gidwani


There are the ten players that will be involved in the Team Tournament
I will give you all of the information at practice. I will explain how this tournament works.


We will also talk about the Doubles SOLs which will be next Friday


See you all Saturday.....

PRACTICE TOMORROW, SATURDAY 10/02 AT 9:00am UNTIL 11:00AM FOR VARSITY AND JV. 

COACH BRADY WILL BE COACHING PRACTICE, I WILL BE AT SOLs

Schedule for week of 9/27

Here is the schedule for the week of 9/27:

Monday: Varsity Girls Tennis at home with Perkiomen Valley


If it should rain Monday.. practice will be in doors..you must be at practice


Anyone missing practice with an excuse because of the rain, will not play against Souderton on Tuesday. Please bring a pencil with you, be prepared to discuss strategy and take a test.


Tuesday:  Varsity at Souderton  (dismissal 1:50)


Wednesday:  Varsity at home with Pennridge


Thursday: Varsity at CB East (Dismissal 1:38)


Friday:  Singles at SOLs  Bus time to leave  TBA


Sat:  Singles AT SOLs   or Practice for  singles and doubles
I am hoping to take all 3 singles to this tournament, we will know by Wednesday.


I have faith in all of you as people and as tennis players. I want nothing but the best for you as an individual and the best for our team. 


Just remember, "If you thin you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're still right." You have the power to change your destiny on the courts.


~Coach Strader




Make up day for Souderton Match: Wednesday October 6


*If it rains Thursday, there will be no practice


*Friday, no practice because of SOLs


*Check this blog Friday Night for practice status on Saturday.

Results from last week and Senior Day

Last week was a busy one, but the team did well winning 2 of their 3 matches. The scores from last week were as follows:

Score for week of 9/20

Monday: North Penn defeated CB West 4-3

Wednesday: CB South defeated North Penn 7-0

Friday: North Penn defeated Quakertown 7-0

After the match against Quakertown on Friday, we celebrated Senior Day, honoring those team members who are about to move onto college. Each Senior is honored with flowers, a small gift and recognition for their last year on the tennis team and at the High School. Our seniors will be missed.

Here are some pictures of our event.

Thank You Seniors!

North Penn Tops Central Bucks West

 If doubles were their lucky matches, North Penn Girls Tennis Team went with it.

The doubles teams carried the North Penn Girls Varsity Tennis Team to a 4-3 win over Central Bucks West. North Penn Doubles Team, winning 3 of the 4 matches, sealed the win.

The lone singles victory came from Danielle Maier, who was down the first set 4-1, but fought to the finish to beat Kristi Kong 7-6 with a 6-1 tie break win. Maier then used her momentum from the tie break to finish the second set without issue 6-3.

Schedule week of 9/22

Schedule week of 9/22

Monday: Varsity Central Bucks West (Dismissal time 1:28)


Tuesday: Practice


Wednesday: Central Bucks South (Dismissal time 1:38)


Thursday: Varsity to finish match at home against Pennridge (match to play early)


Friday: Varsity and JV at North Penn against Quakertown


Friday is Senior Day after Quakertown match.


All Senior profile forms must be in by Tuesday.

Who will be Survivor of the Fittest?

Survival of the Fittest Men's Singles Tournament enters it's championship round Sunday at Park Place in Upper Gwynedd. Who will be reigned survivor of the fittest? 

Curious? 

Come and watch them sweat to the finish.

The Championship Round Times for Sunday are as follows:

8:00am

Bobby Vo,  Rank:12, Plays 21

Mark Ferraro,  Rank:13,  Plays 20

Mark Monaghan,  Rank:14, Plays 19  

Bob Gibbs,  Rank:15,  Plays 18

Will Lapp,  Rank:16,  Plays 17 

Matt Bouknight,  Rank:17

Al-Yassa Al-Mahi,  Rank:18

Steve Oldt,  Rank:19

Matt Oldt,  Rank:20

Kevin Jensen,  Rank:21

9:15am

Dinh Vo,  Rank:6

Duoc Chiem,  Rank:7

Pete Campagna,  Rank:8

Leng Lor,  Rank:9

Chris Morris,  Rank:10

10:30am

Alex Buxbaum,  Rank:1

Patricio Paez,  Rank:2

Steve Feder,  Rank:3

Kyle Vo,  Rank:4

Steve Wherry,  Rank:5

North Penn defeats Methacton

North Penn Girls Varisty Tennis Team edged out Methacton 4-3. The teams were tied at 3-3 before heading into the last match of the day. The fourth doubles team of  Christye Hasyn and Emily Patterson fought to the finish and beat Methacton 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 to seal the win.

 

Helping with the wins for North Penn were:

 

1st   singles:  Maggie Graff (NP) defeated Mindy Arornwichet (Methacton)   6-2, 6-1

 

2nd doubles:  Indira Mukerji  and  Caroline Hentzen  (NP) defeated Angela Demarco & Mary Shah (Methacton)

 

3rd  doubles: Swetha Nuthulaganti and Anila Gidwani (NP) defeated Camilla Falcone and Katie Farman (Methacton)

 

4th doubles:  Christye Hasyn and Emily Patterson (NP)  defeated Allison Marr and Julia Tomcza (Methacton) 

 

 

This makes North Penn 3-2  overall in non-league matches.

 

Schedule for the week of 9/13

Schedule for week of 9/13

 

 

Monday 9/13     ---Varsity at Methacton

 

Tuesday 9/14    --- Varsity at home with Hatboro-Horsham

 

Wednesday 9/15 --Practice

 

Thursday    9/16 -- Home with Pennridge

 

Friday       9/17 --  Practice

 

Saturday ---- No Practice

 

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Challenging this week

 

2nd and 3rd doubles

 

5th & 6th doubles

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Seniors please hand in your senior profiles by Tuesday

 

Senior day is September 24th

Information on the Downingtown Invitational, Saturday 9/11/10

Be at HS 6:50am Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010   -------Bus leaves 7:15

Downingtown Senior High West Campus Invitational

School participating:             Coaches

Downtingtown                        Lee Morris

North Penn                             Dannette Strader

Hatboro-Horsham                 Venessa Deluca

State College                           Jane Borden

Date:               Saturday, September 11, 2010

Time:              Play – 9:00AM until 5:00PM

Location:        Downingtown High School West Campus

Events:           Three singles

·         Maggie Graff

·         Corina Davis   (injured may be     changed)

·         Danielle Maier

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4 doubles

·         Vy Nguyen & Ellen Choi

·         Indira Mukerji & Caroline Hentzen

·         Swetha Nuthulaganti & Anila Gidwani

·         Christye Hasyn & Emily Patterson

JV Doubles:

Jenna Caffarelle & Peggy Branson

Jennie Ju   & Marisa Wherry

Scoring:          Round Robin Match

                        Rules will be explained at the meeting

Bring lunch, snack, and beverage, also money

Bring some warm clothes

The format of the tournament is arranged as one match by PIAA Rules

Phoenixville Invitational Results

Here are results of the Phoenixville Invitational this past Friday:

West Chester Henderson took 1st place

North Penn took 2nd

Villa Maria  took 3rd

Phoenixville took 4th

 

Seven of our girls received trophies

 

Congratulations to: 

Stacy Chang -- took 1st place overall

 

Also 2nd places to:

Indira Mukerji & Caroline Hentzen

Corina Davis & Christye Hasyn

Swetha Nuthulanganti & Anila Gidwani

Thursday Thirteen: Excuses, Excuses

As a tennis coach, I've heard them all.

Here are the top 13 excuses tennis players give for losing:

·        Ate too much lunch

·        Did not eat enough

·        Favorite racquet broke

·        Balls too heavy

·        Net was too high

·        These strings just don’t give me the power I need

·        How can I be expected to play my best on these courts

·        This injury keeps me from playing well

·        I just couldn’t get into it today

·        Opponent was ranked

·        Opponent didn’t play tennis, just hit the ball back

·        Opponent was so bad I couldn’t play my game

·        I didn’t realize opponent was left-handed until the next-to-the-last-game

·        Tournament director didn’t seed me

·        I can only play good players

·        I don’t know what happened

When the athlete decides what he really desires with all his heart and the price that he is willing to pay for it, he stops worrying about the small pains, those things that the opponent does, and any other stumbling blocks, and he focuses on the job at hand.

Give all in practice: Risk all when you compete