Tennis - Boys

***Breaking News***

5/2/2024

Today's Green Team Match at VMSS was cancelled because of wet conditions and has been rescheduled for Tuesday, May 7th. 

The BHMS Green match @ dhms Blue team match due to busing problems has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 8th.  In order to accommodate this change, the Green team's practice for that day has been cancelled. 

These have both been changed and recorded in the daily Schedule found below.

Click on the links below to learn how to score, serve, and play doubles in tennis:

How to Score in Tennis

How to Serve in Tennis

How to Play Doubles in Tennis

2024 Boy's Tennis
Here is an opportunity for all middle school tennis players from David Stingley at The Fort/Fred Wells Tennis Center:  This month on Friday, April   19th, 2024 is the "Fort Third Friday" event from 6:30 - 8:30 pm 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 they know how much pizza to order!   The last "Fort Third Friday" event of the spring will be on Friday, May 17th, 2024.  Please follow the link   below to sign up.                                                                                                  Click on the following link for more information:                                             https://www.fwtec.org/fridays

Thanks, 

 The Coaches

April 2024

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 Wednesday, 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:

Coach Dolney 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 23rd

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 2024 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 2024

You should have received a schedule and a parent letter from your son, but in case you may have missed it, click 2024 Parent Letter below to access it:

2024 Parent Letter

2024  DHMS Blue Crew

   Simon Anyanwu    Bhavesh Batchu    Jithin Bonthala    Hunter Brandner

Gabe Caulkins   Benton Chaloux   Gandiboina Syam    Logan Hansen  

 Braedon Hoang   Gabe Hubble   Sushie Juvva   Aariz Khan        

Vihn Kuettler    Srihan Kusuma   Euel Lishan   Alex Medina Rivero 

Mohamed Musa    Rishik Nandyala   Gavin Palaniappan   Max Pogatchnik 

    Anvith Pothula    Cullen Rivard     Tavish Savla    Avik Shah   Ayden So    

Davis Thomas   Ernie Tsai   Connor Whitney   Chet Zerfas

2024  DHMS Green Machine

  Noah Albus   Tyler Battaglia   Frank Bernath   Reid Boom   Bronx  Busanich 

  Oscar Chen   Carter Eilertson   Rhys Frank   Evan Frausto  Aiden Fuentes

       Louie Gustafson   Rowan Hagerty   Will Harings   Kade Heilman 

 Callan Larson   Caleb Lyon   Alex Mellema   Nico Perez   Thomas Piper

           Yojit Ray  Trey Redetzke   Jackson Robinet   Corey Sievers       

    Andrew Simonsen   Elias Sjostrom  Khushal Talatam   Connor Thomas 

   Nate Turvold   Danny Urick