Girls Tennis Team Plays First Home Matches This Week

Our first matches begin this week on Wednesday and Thursday when we play Whitney Young and Payton Prep respectively.  Both matches are home matches.  The Varsity matches will be played at the Lab School home courts at 58th and Dorchester and the Junior Varsity matches will be played at Stagg Field (56th and Cottage Grove).  [...]

Monday, Aug 17: We practice rain or shine

Tennis team:
Be prepared to practice today, rain or shine.  If its still wet we will practice in lower Kovler.  Practice will be shorter if we’re inside and will probably end around 11:00 today.

Gabbie Clark To Compete on Saturday

Gabbie had a long day of tennis on Friday. She started with a round of 16 match against Jasmine Minor from Mundeleine. The match was a very tense three setter that was moved indoors because of rain. Indoor scoring is No-Ad scoring, so when games reach 40-40, the next point is a [...]

State of Anticipation

In what must be something of a shocker for those elite northwest suburban tennis schools who normally dominate the State Finals Tennis tournament, three of the top four seeds in singles at this year’s State Tennis Finals are from the Independent Schools League.  Elizabeth Epstein from Francis Parker is the one seed, and our [...]

2008 Girls Tennis Team Preseason

At our preseason practices there have been lots of familiar faces returning from last year, and quite a few new players.  Our first two matches are less than a week away, and since both are ISL matches (Northridge Prep and Parker, respectively), we have to find our best lineups soon and get ready.  Varsity players [...]

Clark Leads U-High Girls Tennis to Best Ever 20th Place Finish at State Tennis Finals

Friday Matches:
Gabbie played two more back draw matches on Friday after losing her match to Mundelein’s Jasmine Minor in the main draw.  First she played Laura Shull from Springfield.  Gabbie started slowly but recovered from an early break in the first set to win it 6-4.  In the second set she stepped up her game [...]

Girls Tennis Team: Day One at State Finals

Day One at State: Thursday, October 23
The first day at state started out clear and cool without much wind, but quickly became overcast and windy. Leah and Leslie Sibener started off their first match with a straight set win over Dixon’s Hampshire and Grubman 6-3 , 6-3. In their second match, [...]

U-High Girls Tennis Team Repeats as Sectional Champions!

On the first day of sectionals U-High’s Girls Tennis team got off to a great start with dual wins by top-seeded Gabbie Clark, first doubles team Rachel Sylora and Sofia Iatarola, and second double team Leah Sibener and Leslie Sibener.  Gabbie defeated Morgan Park Academy’s Shukla, 6-0 , 6- 0 in [...]

Girls Tennis Sectional To Be Held at U-High

The Girls Varsity Tennis team will host one of the state of Illinois’ 32 sectional tennis tournaments on Friday and Saturday, October 17th and 18th.  The top four singles players and the top four doubles teams will qualify for the State Finals.
The number one seed at singles is U-High’s Gabbie Clark who finished the regular [...]

Girl’s JV Tennis: End of Season Record 13-3, ISL 6-1

With the last win of the season over Illiana Christian by 3-0, JV Tennis ends a successful season. This year marked outstanding play, competitiveness and teamwork at its best.
Deserving members: Talia Nasr (captain), Erica Jordan, Annina Wanzung, Caitlin Finn, Alica Wandel, Rose Traubert, Keira Kennedy, Hannah Constantin, Claire Schauble, as well as our freshmen: Aasha [...]