The tennis team wrapped up their season on October 15 with three athletes competing in Springfield at the state level.
“My doubles partner Peyton Kuechler and I won one of our matches, which was really exciting, “ junior Lucy Schibig said. “There was a lot of good competition. It’s fun to compete at that level.” Schibig and Kuelcher made it to the second round of state doubles matches.
Senior Eva Farmer finished in the top 16 in the state.
Schibig reflected on the 2024 tennis season as a good rebuilding year. “I think we all learned how to cooperate and play tennis as a team and not
just for ourselves,” Schibig said. Both teams ended the season with a winning record. Varsity wrapped up with a 10-4 record, and junior varsity ended with a 6-4 record.
The STA golf team had a successful season with four individuals, juniors Lydia Anielak and Lily Vaeth, sophomore Peyton Strupp and
freshman Meg Rottinghouse, qualifying for individual state.
“Overall, we did pretty good this season,” Anielak said. “We got second or third in most of our team tournaments. Then districts went really good, obviously, because four of us went to state. We could participate at state as a team in Cape Girardeau because we needed only four people to do that.”
One highlight of their time in Cape Girardeau for state was Strupp making a hole in one. “Overall, state went really great,” Anielak said. “We were all really excited when Peyton Strupp had a hole in one!”
The 2024 cross country Stars excelled this season.
“I think we have definitely progressed a lot from last year,” junior Ava Fugate said. “We got a lot of good freshmen, so I think they added and contributed a lot this year. We just kept getting better and better and doing harder workouts.”
The team’s progress showed at districts and state this year. The girls placed 1st at districts, beating out the second place team at state last year. On Oct. 8th on the Gans Creek Course in Colombia the team continued to do well at the state level. “At state we got fourth,” Fugate said. “It was super close. Third, fourth and fifth were all really close. We did a lot better this year. Last year we got ninth or something.”
Even with the team’s great season, the runners also had to work through lots of injuries. “We had lots of injuries this year,” Fugate said. “In cross country you start in the summer to get ready for the season, but I think a lot of freshmen and girls who didn’t do summer running were really injury prone.” Despite this obstacle, the cross country team was still able to succeed at state and have an overall great season.
