Tennis - Boys

Weather related UPDATE:  Tennis is canceled for today, thursday 5/18/2023 because of the rain.  Green team will practice tomorrow as scheduled weather permitting

4/18/2023 Update:

This is the last Friday at the fort for the season.  Please attend if you are interested!!

Here is an opportunity for all middle school tennis players from Ryan Berkas at The Fort/Fred Wells Tennis Center:  This week on Friday is our Fort Third Friday event from 6:30 - 8:30 pm here at The Fred Wells Tennis & Education Center. Court time will run from 6:30 - 8:00 pm, and will consist of high-energy drills and games. Equipment is available for all those who need it! Directly following court time pizza will be served in the main lobby area until 8:30 pm. Please sign-up ahead of time, using the link below, so we can know how much pizza to order!

Click on the following link for more                   information:  https://www.fwtec.org/fridays

Thanks, 

 The Coaches

2023  DHMS Blue Crew

Raj Aravindan   Colin Bailey    Sid Bhrmanakodu Sumanth    Jithin Bonthala   

Hunter Brandner   Mason Brandt   Alex Carda   James Ciarochi   

Muaz Diwan   Breckin Hauenstein   Evan Heilman   Erik Hugdahl   

Joshua Jebaraj    Vedansh Karnatak   Carson Knopic   Jaidan Lapastora 

 Hunter Lippolt  Ethan Mann   Rishik Nandyala   Carston Olson   

         Charlie Ostrand   Aayush Pagey   Constantin Pavlenko   Anvith Pothula 

  Liam Rasinen   Jaxson Seehafer   Prateek Roy   Harshith Sharma     

        Ari Strauss-Klein   Charlie Thaller     

2023  DHMS Green Machine

     Noah Albus   Vishnu Avatapalli   Rafael Flores   Rhys Frank   

    Aiden Fuentes   Odin Gerdes   Louie Gustafson   Logan Hanson 

            Will Harings   Eric Koerner   Vinh Kuettler   Caleb Lyon       

Avyay Mangalampalli   Alex Medina Rivero   Owen Messerich   Colton Novak 

 Nico Perez    Thomas Piper    Yojit Ray    Sawyer Redeker   

   Trey Redetzke   Jack Rockwell   Austin Schwark   Corey Sievers      

      Ayden So   Khushal Talatam   David Thomas   Luiz Trette 

            Eduardo Villarreal Chavez

April 2023

Dear Tennis players and Parents:

We are excited and ready for the upcoming tennis season and want to inform you about the upcoming events, uniform/equipment requirements, and rules and expectations of the players. Our first practice is Monday, April 17th. All players should be there on the 17th with their racquets and all of the appropriate tennis gear with them, as we will begin practice after a short meeting in H206. Please make sure the athlete’s have a current physical on file with nurse White and sign up for Boys Tennis in MyPaymentsPlus. 

The boys will be able to store their racquets, water bottles, and gear in Coach Dolney’s room.  I have cabinet space reserved for the players and they should bring their gear up and put it in the cabinet before school each day and they can pick it up after school before heading out to practice or matches.

Our practice times are Monday through Friday 3:25-4:45pm.  If it is raining and/or too wet to play, we will cancel practice or have a shortened indoor practice if the Big Gym is available for the day. An announcement will be made prior to the end of the school day. Dakota Hills Middle School activity buses will take the players home after practices at 5:00 or students can arrange rides or walk home after practice and matches.

A schedule of matches will be posted and is subject to change. When we have an away match scheduled, it is very important that the players and parents communicate to make arrangements for transportation home. If your child will take the bus back to DHMS, please be at the school by approximately 5:30 pm to pick them up as we will arrive too late to catch the activity buses. If you would like to take your child home directly from a match you may do that. In order to do this, you must sign a consent form. We will have these available for you online in the Release of Liability Form section.

 As in the past, we will be offering Wildcat Tennis T-Shirts for approximately $15.00, and the shirts are yours to keep at the end of the season.  However, the boys will be responsible for supplying their own Tennis Shorts with pockets Tennis Racquets, and Tennis Shoes.

We also are asking the players to donate a sleeve or two of new, unopened tennis balls.  Penn Championship Extra Duty Felt balls can be purchased at Target or Walmart for under $3.00 a can.  Due to budget cuts of a few years back, these are no longer provided to us for practice or matches.  Our thanks to you in advance!

If a player has an appointment or an illness, it would be greatly appreciated if the parents would email us letting us know of any conflicts. We are looking forward to a super season. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to email us at:

jon.dolney@district196.org

Coach Beyer at:  agassitennis1@yahoo.com

We look forward to seeing you at our matches!

Sincerely,

Jon Dolney and Tom Beyer

Who: 7th and 8th grade boys

Season: April 17th through May 31st

Practice: 3:25 - 4:45 p.m.  (May be subject to change depending The High School schedule and bussing)

• We will have practice or a match every day Monday - Friday.  The only exception will be due to inclement weather

Games: Matches will be held against the other middle schools and once we receive the final schedules, they will be posted on our website.

Signup: Boys Tennis is $110, payable in MyPaymentsPlus. 

Sports Physical Required: A sports physical must be on file before you can register on MyPaymentsPlus. Completed physicals which have been signed by a physician can be dropped off at the school nurse's office.

Click on The link below for the daily schedule:

Daily  Blue/Green  Schedule

It may ask you to "add" the Boy's Tennis 2023 Calendar.  Do this and then be sure to view the calendar in the MONTH viewing to see the whole month at a glance. It may default to the Day view and will need to be changed to Month.

Please see the Athletic Maps and Directions link found below for a list of the Schools and to get directions to the away Matches.

Boy's Tennis Match Schedule 2023