Junior Varsity Tennis Team. Photo provided courtesy coach Angel Dale.
Coach Angel Dale, who has been coaching the Bryant Junior High/High School swimming team for twenty years and the BHS/BJHS tennis team for eight years, now has two players heading to the state conference.
The Bryant tennis team has played eighty matches in total this season. They have played other teams all over Central Arkansas over the span of the first nine weeks/They have won twenty-three of these matches, with the girls doubles players Kennedy Baker and McKenzie Schuetzle winning nine of their ten matches.
These two girls placed third in a local conference and are now state bound. Coach Dale has said that she is extremely proud of this feat.
Dale says, “I feel like we’ve had a really great season. All of my kids played well.”
The coach says that she is not only proud of her players that excelled this season, but also of the players from the junior high who have just started playing on the team, Ruby Tappe, 9th and John McGinness, 9th.
Dale says, “[John] is doing really well, he’s a hard worker,” and that, “[Ruby] has really, really done well.”
This season, Coach Dale and the Bryant tennis team have represented our schools well and have earned the right to celebrate.