Not a lot of talk about the tennis meets here……probably should have paid more attention here EVEN THOUGH Kevin mailed it in this year. As discussed before, I went to one meet where he had been buried on the depth chart and it wasn’t fun watching him play down to the level of his competition…..Suzanne went to one meet and came away not-very-happy with Kevin’s performance (couldn’t get his serve in, etc.)
The tennis *has* improved as the year has gone on….he’s worked his way back up to #3 singles and unlike last year where he was #3 singles and would lose more often then win it’s been the reverse this year…he’s beaten everyone he’s faced. There was a JV invite in Holt a few weeks back that he won, bringing home a medal, and he’s recorded convincing wins against the other players he has faced since then.
So the big unanswered question is, what next? The varsity team is losing 5-6 players…..Kevin should have a great shot at making varsity *if* he applies himself. Mom and Dad have made it clear….we’ll pay for lessons (and we think he needs private lessons to ‘fix’ some of his form issues) but Kevin *must* put in more time than just the lesson for us to shell out the money for the lessons (not cheap!).
These pictures are from the last match; against Lansing Catholic’s JV. Kevin won 6-3, 6-2. His serve looked about 1000% better than earlier in the year when I first was watching him, and when he gets his first serve in it’s a pretty good serve and he’s going to dominate off of it. His height helps him here, and he does run better than most of his teammates (he just proved to us that he can still run a 6-minute mile without having been running in over a year)
Earned this for last year’s grades (above a 3.0) and this year’s performance.
Kevin ended up playing in two varsity invites…..so, he lettered this year as well.
