Brief: Girls’ tennis ends season with loss in CCS

November 21, 2011

The girls put their hands in for their prematch P-A-L-O-A-L-T-O cheer at a Oct. 20 game against Los Altos.

The Palo Alto girls’ tennis team ended its 2011 season with a loss from its two lone Central Coast Section (CCS) qualifiers, No. 1 single Aashli Budhiraja (’14) and No. 2 single Felicia Wang (’14).

This year, Budhiraja and Wang played as partners on a doubles team in CCS, contrary to their singles playing for the whole of the season. They won their first match against Cori Sidell and Christine Tataru from Carlmont High School 6-4, 6-4, but ended their run in the tournament after losing their second match to Monta Vista’s Kelsey Chong and Ruri Kobayakawas 2-6, 0-6.

Budhiraja and Wang played against Chong and Kobayakawas in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) tournament, but were still unable to secure a win against the top-seeded duo in the SCVAL individual tournament.

With only one senior, Amy Ke (’12) graduating, the team hopes to perform better next year.

“I’m looking forward to next season,” head coach Andy Harader said.

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Hilda Huang, Business Manager

Hilda Huang is a senior and joined The Viking in her junior year because of her love for athletics. After serving as a copy editor her junior year, she is now a Business Manager along with fellow Viking Michael Strong. Huang dove varsity for the Swimming and Diving team and was a part of the gymnastics team her sophomore year, but was unable to compete due to injury. Awarded 1st place in the 2012 Art Rosenbaum Scholarship Award for her story "Running After Dark," she is also an avid musician and a huge USA Gymnastics (go Fierce Five!) fan. Follow @hildaphu on twitter, or find more stuff about her at http://curiosity.discovery.com/user/hilda-huang/bio and http://bigthink.com/hildahuang.

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