Tennis Tidbits July 2012

*Southwest Edgecombe's Mark McKenzie, the team's number two seed, won the Most Improved Award in tennis and soccer this year.

*Mount Airy High School senior Merry Kessler won the Presidential Scholarship to attend Campbell University.

*Haleigh Morgus of Cary Academy has been named the 2012 Raleigh News and Observer High School Women's Tennis Player of the Year.

*Tarboro High School's Ley Futrell won the Coach's Award for the 2012 Tarboro High School men's tennis team.  He also won the Eastern Plains Conference Exhibition King Tournament in April.

*Brent Darden of Greene Central High School, a 2005 doubles 2-A state champion, is now Dr. Darden after graduating from Campbell University and passing the pharmacy exam.

*Tarboro High School men's and women's tennis coach Billy Strother has resigned after 10 years at the school.  He will be the new athletic director at C.B. Martin Middle School.

*Eric Greene of Western Alamance High School has been named the Mid-State Conference 2012 Men's Tennis Player of the Year.

*The 2012 North Carolina Coaches Association tennis clinic will be held on Wednesday, July 18th at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  The clinic will begin at 9:00 a.m.  Stay tuned to our web site for more details!

*The 2012 women's tennis season officially begins on Monday, August 13th!

*Winston-Salem R.J. Reynolds men's tennis coach Brad Fisher has been named the head athletic director at the school.

*Julie Harper, a starter on Greene Central's first state finalist women's team in 1998 and a four-year starter at Barton College, will be school's new junior varsity women's tennis coach this fall.
 

*Mount Airy High School, the 2011 1-A women's tennis state champions, finished third in the state in the NCHSAA Scholar Athlete Team Award competition.
 

*Eastern Wayne High School's Cole Newsome was 16-0 in singles and 16-0 in doubles during the 2012 regular season.
 

*Northwest Guilford High School's Zach Mackenzie, Sriram Chandra, Danny Oh, and Brian Garner were named to the 2012 Piedmont Triad Men's Tennis All-Conference team.
 

*Blake Covington of Reidsville High School has been named the 2012 Mid-State Conference Men's Tennis Player of the Year.