Tennis - Girls Varsity

Overview

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.

Schedule

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Opponent	Date	Time	Advantage	Result	Score
Dallas	Aug 23 2021	4:00 PM	Home	Win	4-1
Crestwood	Aug 25 2021	4:00 PM	Away	Win	5-0
MMI Prep	Aug 31 2021	4:00 PM	Away	Win	5-0
Berwick	Sep 2 2021	4:00 PM	Home	Win	5-0
Wyoming Area	Sep 7 2021	4:00 PM	Home	Win	5-0
Wyoming Valley West	Sep 8 2021	4:00 PM	Away	Win	5-0
State College (Exhibition)	Sep 10 2021	4:00 PM	Away	Win	3-2
Hazleton Area	Sep 15 2021	All Day	Away
Wilkes-Barre Area	Sep 17 2021	4:30 PM	Home	Win	5-0
Holy Redeemer	Sep 21 2021	4:00 PM	Home	Win	5-0
Southern Lehigh (Exhibition)	Sep 22 2021	4:00 PM	Home
Hanover Area	Sep 23 2021	4:00 PM	Away	Win	5-0
Tunkhannock	Sep 27 2021	4:00 PM	Away	Win	5-0
Pittston Area	Sep 29 2021	4:00 PM	Home	Win	5-0
Tunkhannock	Oct 12 2021	4:00 PM	Home	Win	3-0

Roster

Name	Class
Armeen Ali	2023
Samantha Casey	2022
Dominica Delayo	2022
Bridget Dowd	2022
Lauren Finlay	2023
Fiona Geiger	2023
Cate Griffin	2023
Ella Krypel	2023
Anastasia Martinez	2023
Victoria Martinez	2023
Margaret Mihalick	2022
Maria (Maria ) Nolte	2024
Chahat Patel	2025
Celeste Perry	2024
Peyton Popple	2023
Amarinske (Ama) Reitsma	2023
Ilana Rosenthal	2025
Victoria (Vicky) Smulowitz	2022
Emilia (Ema) Sofrenovic	2022
Isabela (Issie) Sofrenovic	2025
Caroline Sordoni	2024
Sara Stevanovic	2023
Dieu Anh Tran	2022
Alexis (Lexi) Turayev	2023

Coaches

Raphael Cooper — Head Coach

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.

Amin (Khizar) Ali — Assistant Coach

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