The Women's Tennis Team

The College of St. Scholastica's Wellness Center is also the main area to catch many athletic teams holding practices. I'm going to let you know about the awesome women's tennis team so that you all can come out and cheer them on.

The team has only three seniors (Lindsey Shoden, Jess Rich, Heidi Johnson), and one junior (Casey Ruberto), which allows the remaining nine players room to improve and strengthen their skills. They will be able to use the knowledge of the seniors and junior in order to become even more successful in coming years.

Wells Patten is also the coach for the women's tennis team and has a lot of experience from his coaching days over at University of Minnesota-Duluth. While coaching at UMD, he led them to their first NSIC conference championship. He has proven himself a leader and we can only look for more success this year.

So, how is the team doing? Well, they have only won one complete match up and have given great effort in the four losses. Each loss has been close and I'm sure as the season progresses, we can see the W's continue to increase. In the last match up, Jess Rich and Paula Beckerman both won their singles matches, while two of the three doubles teams won their matches. However, with the wins they were barely defeated 4-3 in the match play.

The women won't be back at the Wellness Center until after spring break. They will be playing Bemidji State and Bethany Lutheran on March 24. So there is no excuse to not cheer on the women's tennis team this year. So I hope to see you all working out or cheering for one of the great athletic programs we have at the Wellness Center, and don't forget to check back soon for more updates.