{"id":847,"date":"2017-10-24T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=847"},"modified":"2018-07-24T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:36:00","slug":"girls-tennis-mid-season-2017-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/10\/24\/girls-tennis-mid-season-2017-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls&#8217; Tennis Mid-Season 2017 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Eva Schiller (III)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting off the year with a winning record of 4-3, the girls\u2019 varsity tennis team has held their own in the competitive Skyland Conference. The team\u2019s winning matches were against Hillsborough, Bridgewater-Raritan, and Hunterdon Central. Two of those victories were sweeps, meaning that every member of the team brought in a win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regarding the season, Coach Marion Weber remarked, \u201cI\u2019m very happy with the way the season\u2019s going. The Skyland Conference is very tough.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cassie Yermack (V), who plays third doubles, said, \u201cI\u2019m really proud of everyone so far. We have such a great team dynamic.\u201d Second doubles player Caeley Feeny (III) agrees, saying, \u201cThe team is really close. We love playing together and supporting each other.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On September 22nd, Pingry tennis faced off the rest of Somerset County in the counties, hosting the event on twelve new courts. \u201cThe new courts are fantastic,\u201d said Jessica Li (VI), first doubles, \u201cIt\u2019s definitely motivation to do well!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some goals for the season are to finish in the top three and hopefully win sectionals. \u201cMost of all,\u201d Coach Marian says, \u201cwe\u2019re looking forward to a fun season.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JV tennis is also doing well this season with six wins and one loss. \u201cTheir character is what stands out,\u201d Coach George Roser stated, \u201cThere is a really positive culture, and I think the results speak for themselves.\u201d Overall, girls\u2019 tennis has a bright outlook for the season and will continue to fight hard to achieve their goals. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eva Schiller (III) Starting off the year with a winning record of 4-3, the girls\u2019 varsity tennis team has held their own in the competitive Skyland Conference. The team\u2019s winning matches were against Hillsborough, Bridgewater-Raritan, and Hunterdon Central. Two of those victories were sweeps, meaning that every member of the team brought in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,55],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}