Tennis - Girls Varsity

Ella Krypel '23 and Shailee Desai '21 were among the top performers in 2020, earning 17 wins apiece and pacing Wyoming Seminary to an 11-0 record and Wyoming Valley Conference championship.

Krypel was the District 2 Class 2A silver medalist in individual play. The teams of Krypel/Desai and Christina Cikowski '21/Dominica Delayo '22 advanced as far as the District 2 Class 2A doubles semifinals.

Desai and Margaret Mihalick '22 posted 11-0 records in the regular season. Bridget Dowd '22 (9-4) and Vicky Smulowitz '22 (9-4) were also top performers for coach Raphael Cooper.

Wyoming Seminary has a long tradition of success in girls tennis and is a perpetual contender for conference and district titles. Team members also have competed at the state level. In 2013, Nathalie Joanlanne ’15 won the PIAA Class 2A state championship.

 

Prior to joining Wyoming Seminary, Head Girls Tennis Coach Raphael Cooper served as head coach of the girls tennis team at Wilkes-Barre Area. In its first season of the program, the Wolfpack qualified for the District 2 AAA playoffs.

 Prior to taking over the Wolfpack, Cooper was the head coach for the boys and girls tennis teams at GAR, where he helped transform the teams into viable and respected opponents.

Cooper, named the 2017 USTA Coach of the Year, founded the Wilkes-Barre Tennis Association in 2017. He provides free tennis instruction to youths of the Wilkes-Barre Area, within the elementary and intermediate school ages. He also founded the Quad County Classic.

A magna cum laude graduate of Wilkes University with a major in secondary English and a minor in dance, Cooper is an English teacher in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and also teaches in the Performing Arts School.

 

For more information about the tennis program at Wyoming Seminary, contact Coach Cooper at rcooper@wyomingseminary.org.