Tennis - Boys

   
2026 Boy's Tennis

April 2026

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 15th. All players should be there on the 15th 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 Boy's Tennis in EduTrak Payment Systems. 

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 $12.00 - $13.00, 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 will be having a pizza party at the end of the season and the cost for that is $5.00.  

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 about $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 15th through May 21st

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 EduTrak Payment Systems. 

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

You should have received a schedule and a parent letter from your son, but in case you may have missed it, click 2026 Parent Letter below to access it:

2026 Parent Letter

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

The items below will be updated as soon as we get our final 2026 schedule from the Athletic Directors and we get our final roster from the DHMS Office.

Click on The link below for the daily schedule:

Daily  Blue/Green  Schedule

It may ask you to "add" the Boy's Tennis 2026 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 2026

2026  DHMS Blue Crew

          Daniel Aboki      Shiv Bhakta         Eli Cherner        Aiden Chow 

   Lake Collins     Max Engelstad    Logan Gabbert    Matthew House   

Luke Johnson     Kshitij Kaushal    Emmett Kocemba   Jack Krech   

Kayan Kumar      Aaron Mack     Keegan Maki      Gus Pecor 

Sahil Raghu    Harshith Rahul    Zach Rothman     Aashray Shah 

  Chinmaya Shukla    Nick Siegler     Varin Singhal     Jack Swanson

Gavin Thomas      Samar Yanamadala         

2026  DHMS Green Machine

     William Alexander    Ethan Beach    Enzo Borean    Rag Chalapali   

     Isaac Freidberg     Connor Green   Seth Hayes     George Heinlein 

   Elliot Jones     Eli Kaczrowski     Vishrut Katikitala     Sahen Kumar   

     Edwin Liu      Vivaan Mangiligay       Sid Regmi       Tyan Renner   

     Truman Riley       Saish Seth      Sam Stringer      Ethan Taylor 

       Sam taylor     Aaryn Vaddi      Brad Varpness     Shriram Tiwari