The Waller High School Boys and Girls Tennis Team competed in the off-season Bryan High School Tennis Tournament on Thursday, November 5, giving Coach Jacqueline Crow her first 1st place finish since taking over the team Fall 2008. Waller took 14 players from Varsity and JV to participate with 7 other schools, including Bryan HS, A&M Consolidated HS and Brenham HS, in 5 events - Boys Singles, Girls Singles, Boys Doubles, Girls Doubles and Mixed Doubles. It was an excellent day for the girls! Senior Haley Jones, ranked #2 at Waller High School, defeated Conroe 8-6 and Brenham 2-0 to go on to play Waller Junior Kallie McWhinney, ranked #3, in the finals in Girls Singles. McWhinney beat out Conroe 8-3, then Somerville to then play Jones. In the finals, Jones and McWhinney fought it out in the first set with Jones winning 6-4. Jones dominated the second set 6-2 to win first place and McWhinney took second. Sophomores Kim Le, ranked #4, and Alex Pretto, ranked #5, competed in the Girls Doubles Division as new partners.

They played a long first match against A&M Consolidated winning 8-6. Next they battled it out with Conroe spliting sets 4-6 and 6-2. They went on to win the tiebreaker for the third set 10-7, and made it to the finals where they were up against a strong Somerville team. Le and Pretto fought hard and ultimately lost 5-7, 5-7 to win second place medals.

In Boys Singles Freshman Nathan Johnston, ranked #5, placed higher than Waller's #1 ranked Sophomore Casey Hunnicutt taking 12th place to Hunnicutt's 15th place. Both won one out of four matches beating the same player from Bastrop HS. Both of Waller High School's Boys Doubles teams won one out of three matches. The Waller High School Tennis Team is open to new players - beginners welcome! The Individual Tennis Spring season will begin Jan. 6. Please contact Coach Crow at jcrow@wallerisd.net for more details or visit www.wallerisd.net/Athletics/Tennis/index.htm for team information.