Two Trojans Named to 2009 All Region 3-AAAA Team

The coaches of our region met on Thursday night at Clover high school with three tasks in front of us. We were to confirm playoff seedings, nominate 5 players for possible acceptance to the AAAA-AAA state singles tournament, and to select the 12 member all region team.

The Trojans were confirmed to be in 4th place of the overall standings which are below:

1) Clover (10-0)

2) Nation Ford (8-2)

3) Fort Mill (6-4)

4) Northwestern (4-6)

5) York (1-9)

6) Gaffney (1-9)

SC AAAA State Playoff Bracket: http://www.schsl.org/2009%20brackets/gte%20aaaa.pdf

Chandler Green & Maggie Orr were both selected to the 2009 All Region team in recognition of their athletic achievments on the courts this year as well as exemplifying good sportsmanshipp on and off the court. The two girls shared duties this year as the Trojans #1 & #2 singles players and teamed up to be the #1 doubles team when needed. Overall, the Trojan girls provided a strong presence at the top of our lineup as they combined for an overall 11-9 singles record against the other schools' top players. I feel that it is due to these two young women that we were able to qualify for the state playoffs and maintain our lead over both York and Gaffney. The All Region Team was as follows:

1) Kate Stewart - Clover*

2) Morgan Chumney - Fort Mill**

3) Ashley Trull - Nation Ford**

4) Chandler Green - Northwestern**

5) Molly Mieskiewicz - Clover**

6) Mady Katz - Fort Mill

7) Maggie Orr - Northwestern

8) Faith Daniel - Clover

9) Olivia Whitener - Nation Ford

10) Rylee Smith - Nation Ford

11) Sarah Tourville - Nation Ford

12) Jesse Cook - Gaffney

Coach of the Year: Phil Wingard - Clover

Co-Players of the Year : Kate Stewart - Clover, Morgan Chumney, Fort Mill

Rookie of the Year: Anna Mieskiewicz - Clover

*Automatic qualifier to state singles tournament

**Submitted for at-large consideration for state singles tournament

There are 8 regions in 4A & 8 Regions in 3A. Therefore, there will be 16 at-large spots handed out among those 16 regions. We feel that Chumney of Fort Mill has an excellent shot at getting one of those 16 slots. It has been a few years since our region has gotten 2 qualifiers in the state singles draw so we are quite excited about the level of tennis that is being played in this part of the state this year.

Go Trojans!