Niki Barham and Cayman Sutton won silver medals by placing second at State in the finals match versus Senora.

Cayman and Niki at state tourney in College Station.

Regional Champs for the second consecutive year, the girls doubles team of Cayman Sutton and Niki Barham will try to bring home the gold on trip number two to the state tournament in College Station at Texas A&M on May 16-17.  Bronze medalists in 2015, seniors Niki and Cayman will have one last shot at the state championship.

Senior, Nick McFarland will make his first trip to state in boys singles after narrowly missing last year playing doubles.  He had a hard fought battle in the semi final match after suffering a shoulder injury and leg cramps.  Nick was determined to give it all he had, pain or no pain, and ended up making it to the finals where he finished second.

Landry Sheridan will be making his second appearance at the state tourney.  In 2014, as a sophomore, he and his mixed doubles partner lost in the first round to the eventual state champs.  His boys doubles partner, Dax Davis, will be playing for the first time at the state tennis tourney.  These two seniors have one final goal as high school athletes…bring home gold.

That was our motto following our District Championship when 16 out of 16 players qualified for the regional tournament in 2016.  We swept our district and all 8 girls and all 8 boys placed first or second to win a trip to the Region III 3A Tournament held in College Station.  Our JV team also won their District Championship and earlier in the season our team barely missed another TEAM tennis state qualification by placing third at the regional tournament.  So, needless to say, it’s been a very successful season.

BS – 1st – Nick McFarland  2nd – Collin Goode

GS – 1st – Addie Roling  2nd – Marie Johannsen

BD – 1st – Dax Davis/Landry Sheridan  2nd – Tyler Gill/Cameron Bates

GD – 1st – Cayman Sutton/Niki Barham  2nd – Sara Robinson/Kasey Carr

MD – 1st – Cade Palmer/Audrey Lunstedt  2nd – Conner Weeks/Allison Goll