Even though the league matches have finished, the tennis team has been busy this past week. The DAL head coaches named first team, second team and honorable mention players. The team had its season ending banquet where team awards were presented. Team representatives Will Lofting and Sammy Foster joined me and attended the Acalanes Athletics & Activities event where we met some of next year’s incoming freshmen tennis players. And then Tyler Toni traveled to James Logan High in Union City to compete in the NCS singles championships representing the DAL-Foothill league and, of course, Acalanes.
The following six players were announced First Team – Singles:
Acalanes: Tyler Toni and Nick Owens
College Park: Dibyam Dikhit
Miramonte: Lucca Zamani
Northgate: Jon Lee and Ioann Timokhin
The following six players were announced First Team – Doubles:
Acalanes: Aaron Brown and Kaya Hoeberechts
Campolindo: James Martin, Aditya Kapur, Tyler Panos and Ivan Zemsky
The following six players were announced Second Team – Singles:
Acalanes: Tucker Brewer
Campolindo: Kuimars Koopah and Edgar Alford
Miramonte: Aaron Lee, Will Stokes and Cameron Berg
The following six players were announced Second Team – Doubles:
Acalanes: Riley Bonner, James Cortez, Will Lofting and Sammy Foster
Campolindo: Viggo Wirstrom, Luke Yan
Honorable Mentions – One Per School
Acalanes: Diego Ledezma
Campolindo: Jake Hammerman
College Park: Dariush Azarkish
Las Lomas: Vaughn Culler
Miramonte: Gavin Dille
Northgate: Romtin Pourzand
At the Acalanes awards banquet, the following players were recognized with team awards.
Coach’s Award: Aaron Brown (senior)
Most Improved Player: Tyler Toni (senior)
Most Valuable Player: Nick Owens (sophomore)
To all the players who won awards, congratulations!
Last but certainly not least, Coach Mike, mom Velia, and I were at the NCS singles/doubles championships to support Tyler Toni. Toni replaced Dibyam Dikhit as the automatic qualifier (AQ) representing the DAL-Foothill league. Toni was one of sixteen singles players and landed #3 seed honors. If you want to view the entire draw and current scores, click on the link below.
Toni cruised through the first round defeating Isaiah Valdivia of Richmond High 6-0, 6-0. He then ran into a stubborn and talented Elijah Cho of San Leandro High who played an incredible match edging Toni 5-7, 7-6, 6-3. For Acalanes, this concludes singles and doubles post-season play for 2023. We now move on to post-season team play. More to come on that early next week – our first round will be Tuesday, May 9, but the draw has not been set yet. Congratulations go out to Tyler Toni for earning his spot in the singles championships. He has been such a valuable member of our team all season. We are really going to miss him next year. Go Dons. Coach Rick
