{"id":3561,"date":"2016-04-22T08:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2016-04-22T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T12:09:39","slug":"new-tennis-coaches-plan-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=3561","title":{"rendered":"New Tennis Coaches Plan For The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coaches Vanessa Pardo and Laura Santelli pose with the 2015 boys tennis team during their first season of coaching.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lalith Gannavaram ’18
\nEE\u00a0<\/em>Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Spring sports season is upon us and the boys tennis team will be training under the eyes of a relatively new pair of coaches. Coaches Laura Santelli and Vanessa Pardo were appointed\u00a0after Mr. Breslow retired last year. Though they may have been new, the coaches brought\u00a0immediate success to the team, which reached states for the first time in three years.\u00a0Both brought solid credentials to the table.<\/p>\n

Coach Pardo is a former player,\u00a0who was a top 5\u00a0junior in all of France. She said, \u201c I\u00a0was selected at 12 years old to leave home and trained rigorously with the French Federation\u00a0for the next 6 years.\u201d This propelled her to be approached by several D1 universities, and she\u00a0ended up playing number one singles for Virginia Polytechnic. During her time there, the
\nuniversity won the Atlantic 10 tournament 4 times.<\/p>\n

Coach Santelli\u00a0possesses great coaching and leadership skills. She is a USTA player, and also works\u00a0with Boy Scouts. Furthermore, she\u00a0is a ski coach, a French teacher, and a mother to teenagers.<\/p>\n

Both coaches have a very clear idea of what they want to achieve with the team and with\u00a0the players this year. Coach Pardo said,\u00a0\u201cAlthough I do have my own goal as a coach,\u201d she said, \u201c I always incorporate\u00a0my team\u2019s opinion to formulate our goals. I want each player who will be representing the team\u00a0to gain something that they did not have when entering the season, grow as a tennis player,\u00a0gain overall experience as an individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coach Santelli expressed similar views. She hopes to\u00a0teach her players, how to be part of a team, how to succeed, and to deal with wins and losses.\u00a0She was very pleased by the fact that \u201cthe team really came together and the spirit of the team\u00a0was very developed, and each player grew in their own way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The players of the team have one more thing to look forward to after the end of this\u00a0year\u2019s season: Coach Santelli revealed that the town approved funding to put down new courts\u00a0for next year. With new courts, new coaches, and new players, the tennis team is poised for\u00a0many victories in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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