Despite the core of last year’s boys tennis team graduating or otherwise not returning for the 2020 season, the Iron Tennis program remains determined to repeat their 2019 success.
In 2019, the program won the Big 12 Conference, an IHSA Class 2A Sectional, and qualified six entries to the State tournament.
“We’ve lost a lot of key players - we know that,” Muneeth Narra (‘20) said, “but we hope to compete just as strongly as we did last year because we have a great group of younger guys coming through,”
In years past, the focus of the season has been to improve on the one prior; but after such a successful ’19 campaign, this year’s goals center around not building, but maintaining those levels.
Of last season’s varsity players, four will be coming back. Despite the turnover - which included three-year State finalist and captain Parker Honegger - the team retains key personnel from last year, who will be relied on to provide leadership throughout the season.
