Growing up in Germany, the only sport that was available freshman Nancy Benda was Tennis.
“Where I grew up, we didn’t have typical sports to play, tennis was mine to learn,” Benda said.
Luckily she fell in love with the sport immediately.
Although Benda did not start playing competitively until she was 12 years old. Playing nearly 30 tournaments a year through the United States Tennis Association, she recently performed best in local ones. However, recently her play has excelled to the Midwest and national level and playing as far as Florida.
Benda has also won five sportsmanship awards and has 35 trophies varying from first to third place over the past two years. Gathering knowledge from previous tournaments she put it to use against the Troy High School this past Tuesday winning her match 6-4 [a senior] though down 3-2 at one point.
“The whole match was so close and it was very intense,” Benda said.
Along with Benda the team won four out of their eight matches against the Colts though receiving the win after winning 10 sets out of 18.
“We fought really hard against a D1 school, and we tied,” senior captain Sammy Shebib said.
In the match No. 1 (Benda) and No. 3 (Ashley Roth) singles won and No.1 and No. 2 doubles won. No. 1 doubles is sophomore Meghan Dooley and Arielle Williams, and No. 2 doubles is sophomore Bella Levya and senior captain Kaitlyn Miller.
The Girls Varsity Tennis team is off to a seemingly decent start. With more tournaments and dual matches coming their way they’re sure to be put to the test.
