2023 Boys Tennis Season Preview
American Conference
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Head Coach: Denise Sabol
Players to watch: Andrew Stephen – Senior– Ryan Owen – Junior
Season outlook: We are low on numbers but have a couple veteran players who are very competitive.
Head Coach: Mark Ullman
Players to watch: Pramod Muthigi, Sr., 1– Diego Ugarte, Jr., 2– Ryan Lee, Sr., 3
Season outlook: Should be interesting. We have some seniors this year for the first time in a while. We’ll see how it all works out.
Head Coach: Brent Hovey
Players to watch: Zach Schutt, senior, singles– Yaromyr Zelisko, freshman, singles– Noah Hite, junior, doubles
Season outlook: This is my first year coaching the team and still putting everything together. But I’m excited about coaching at Falls since I graduated and played tennis here from 1998-2001, earning all league honors twice. Our team is really diverse in ability levels. Our top 3 or 4 have a chance to win a lot of matches. The bottom part of our roster or newer to tennis and it will be a learning experience for them.
Head Coach: Lisa Reynolds
Players to watch: Elijah Hadler, senior, first singles– Luke Butcher, sophomore, singles– John Borkowski, senior, doubles
Season outlook: Looking forward to a competitive schedule this season. We plan to travel to Columbus to play over spring break and do some team building activities while we are there.
Head Coach: Dave Heideman
Players to watch: Merit Wagstaff, grade 12, first singles– Sam Lazbin, grade 11, second singles– Colin McDonald, grade 11 and Akshay Elango grade 12
Season outlook: Revere Boys Tennis has several varsity players returning for the 2023 season.
Head Coach: Jessie Barr
Players to watch: Ethan Young, Junior, Singles– Adam Khan, Junior, Doubles– Mick Oldham, Freshman
Season outlook: This year the team is young and eager, with no Seniors on the team, and 2 returning Juniors who are solid, committed leaders.
Head Coach: Josh Gambow
Players to watch: Chris Fergus – senior– Kevin Bender – sophomore– Rasis Samal – freshman
Season outlook: After losing 5/7 of our varsity players, we have a young and hungry team coming up this year. Our goal is to be competitive in the league and have fun!
National Conference
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Head Coach: Tim Morgan
Players to watch: Henrique Sa. #1 singles (Sophomore)– Charlie Yurak Senior– Vinny Petrucelli Senior
Season outlook: We have a challenging schedule. Hope to improve each day.
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Head Coach: Dan Prihoda
Players to watch: Arnav Gopinath (Jr. – Singles)– Sandheep Ranganathan (Sr – Doubles)– Jerrel Rayen (Fr – Singles)
Season outlook: North Royalton returns 5 starters from the Varsity Team last year that finished second at conference overall. They are joined by 2 freshmen newcomers who come in experienced and ready to play. The Bears are looking to move to the top of the conference this season.
Head Coach: Selena Kim
Players to watch: Gabe Alimov (freshman, singles)– Mathew Thomas (senior, singles)– Caleb Sun (senior, undecided)
Season outlook: We are excited for this spring season. We have 6 returning Varsity players and a promising freshman.
Head Coach: Michael Porinchak
Players to watch: Jesse Grum 10th singles– Rob Prevette 10th Singles– Noah Rosenthal 11th doubles
Season outlook: We are a very young team with littler experience but hopefully they will lead to a lot of experience for the future.
Head Coach: John Hutchinson
Players to watch: Dylan Currens – Senior– Matt Jariga – Senior– Ethan Vukovic – Senior
Season outlook: Having been with this group and helping to personally coach them for the past four years, I and them as well have some very high expectations for this season. Coming off a third place finish in the conference last year and with all of the off-season work that they have put in I expect us to compete with Hudson, Brecksville, North Royalton. These young men have become students of the game.
