Girls Tennis

At the end of every fall, Escanaba native Denny Lueneberg heads back to California after another summer in his hometown and fall coaching the Eskymos girls tennis team. A tennis instructor in Palm Springs who played at Western Michigan University, he’s seen plen...

Two of three champions awarded during Wednesday's Upper Peninsula Girls Tennis Finals are used to finishing in the top spot. For the third, the favorable finish was a first in 25 years.

Birmingham Seaholm’s MHSAA Division 2 championship Saturday was the “terminus in the odyssey of our souls,” as coach Scott Ransome described it at the team’s banquet earlier this week. In other words, it was quite a trip – punctuated by t...

A four-time track champion and a longtime state tennis power once again at the top make up this week's list of high achievers.

Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart had its first outdoor practice this season near the end of March. When co-coaches Judy Hehs and Jean Koehler showed up to the courts, their players already were in the midst of their usual warm-up routine. And when those pl...

Only three champions are back this weekend in flights they won at the 2011 Lower Peninsula Girls Tennis Finals. That means the likelihood of a lot of first-time individual winners -- and some shuffling among the contenders for MHSAA team titles.

Katie Brozovich's energy and spirit show through in how she puts her body into every shot. And they come out when she’s frustrated with herself and fires up an impromptu personal pep talk on the court. “When I’m frustrated, I’m not the one to ho...

We're a week away from our first MHSAA spring postseason events, and these contenders -- all reigning MHSAA champions -- have been playing at that elite level all season.