Sports

JAHS Girl’s Tennis Season 2025

Isabella Catanzarite, Editor

March 25, 2025

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From Federer and Nadal to your local summer camp students, tennis is a fairly popular sport that continues to gain fans and players. Even JAHS has their own teams, Men in the Autumn and Women in the Spring. So here is your local tennis update as the girl’s season approaches!

Over the years, tennis has been becoming a more popular sport and almost all high schools in the area have a team. NIC (Northern Indiana Conference) has been the staple for all local high school sports. Although in this coming 2025 tennis season, NIC has been taken away. The reasoning behind this decision was because some parents didn’t like that the NIC tournament took their children out of school for 2 days. However, the conference still exists. The only thing that has changed is the tournament itself. This was upsetting news to many players on the JAHS girl’s team. The NIC tournament is a Varsity only tournament. But the coaches here at JAHS still excuse the whole team from school to come support the varsity players. That aspect could be seen as problematic. However, it is still unsettling that the NIC tournament has been terminated.

Adams and most of the other high schools in the area have NIC tournaments/meets/games for every sport. Thus making the removal of it from women’s tennis more melancholic. But, this isn’t stopping the JAHS girl’s tennis team from having a blast this upcoming season! With the first match of the season (and first home game) being on April 15, 2025 vs. Lalumiere, the girl’s are more than prepared! The match is at 5 p.m., so come check it out if you get the chance! Tryouts just finished last week and only 18 players were selected for the 2025 season. With a smaller team, it is expected to be a tight-knit group this year! So without further ado, here is the 2025 JAHS girl’s tennis team:

Yoona Ahn

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Olivia Annis

Paityn Armstrong

Corriana Brazier

Lilly Brewer

Izzy Catanzarite

Lily Goulding

Kayla Handley

Nora Hoctel

Amara Hunter-Bowman

Iggy Mason

Lucy McNally

Nora McNally

Cerenity Moodie

Tyra Moody

Reese Nowak

Ruth White

Sophia Yoder

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Isabella Catanzarite

Isabella Catanzarite is a 17-year-old junior at John Adams High School and is looking forward to her first year working with The Tower. Isabella, commonly known as Izzy to her peers, is an active member of the student body and never fails to make an impression on new students. Always willing to lend a helping hand in and out of school, she has been told that she is very energetic, welcoming, and easy to talk to. Although Isabella only has two years left of high school, she has some plans for the future and is ready to start acting on them now. She has rock-solid beliefs that she wishes to advocate for; but is unsure if this could be compatible with a future career. Regardless, she is excited to finish off high school with a lasting impression and start working towards her dream life. Isabella tries very hard to be a “reader,” but struggles with reading more than one book over the course of two months. So, it would be untrue if she categorized herself as an avid reader. She is thinking about possibly pursuing a career in journalism and believes that this will help her to begin that journey. One of the most important factors in Isabella’s life is tennis. She loves the sport and is also thinking about possibly pursuing a career in it. Isabella made the John Adams women’s team both her freshman and sophomore year and has moved her way up the ladder to varsity. In addition to playing for the school team, she is a manager for the boys tennis team. Another extracurricular that Isabella is a prominent member of is show choir. This year, she is president of the show choir and she is very proud of her title. Finally, Isabella is someone who will always step up to the plate. No matter the difficulties, she will pull through and eat, leaving no crumbs. Isabella is a very hopeful person and believes that things will get better, even if she can’t make a decision to save her life. She often looks at the world through rose-colored glasses and tries to find the beauty in everything. Isabella is beyond excited to be joining The Tower and is really looking forward to growing her writing skills.