2006 All-Western North Carolina Girls Tennis Team announced

 

The following article is from the December 12th, 2006 edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times.

 

COACH OF THE YEAR

Carol Clark

Roberson

In her 17th season at Roberson, Clark led a team of three freshmen and three sophomores to the third round of the NCHSAA 3-A dual team playoffs after the Rams (16-4) split the Mountain Athletic Conference regular season championship with Asheville High. Five of Clark’s players were named to the All-MAC team. Her career record at Roberson is 242-78 (.775).

 

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Britney Cloer

West Henderson

Senior

Cloer became just the fourth girl in North Carolina history to win four state singles championships when she beat Ruhsona Usmanova from Durham School of the Arts, 6-2, 6-1, in the NCHSAA 2-A final on Oct. 28. For the second straight year, Cloer was the only NCHSAA state champion from Western North Carolina. She went 12-1 in singles, with her only loss coming from an injury default.

 

Amie Cloer

West Henderson

Freshman

Cloer won the Western Athletic Conference tournament in singles, compiled a 17-3 record and reached the NCHSAA 2-A tournament’s semifinals, where she lost to state runner-up Ruhsona Usmanova from Durham School of the Arts.

 

Caitlin Doucette

Reynolds

Sophomore

Doucette earned All-Northwestern Conference honors after going

11-4 in singles and 11-4 in doubles for the Rockets. Doucette forced a third-set tiebreaker against the Northwestern’s player of the year, Watauga’s Brianna Fleming, before losing 6-2, 3-6 (10-3) on Sept. 26.

 

Christiane Pheil

Asheville

Senior

Pheil was named the Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Year and led Asheville High to the 3-A quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive season. Pheil won 64 of her 65 singles matches in four years and was 40-3 in doubles. She was signed to play college tennis at Colorado.

 

MayaBlue Stauffer-MacDowell

Roberson

Freshman

Stauffer-MacDowell earned All-Mountain Athletic Conference honors after going 10-5 in singles (her only MAC losses were to player of the year Christiane Pheil from Asheville High). She also teamed with sophomore Erin Williams to capture the 3-A Western Regional doubles championship. Stauffer-MacDowell and Williams went 15-3 together. Stauffer-MacDowell shared the Rams’ most valuable player award with Williams.

 

Erin Williams

Roberson

Sophomore

Williams earned All-Mountain Athletic Conference honors after going 13-2 in singles. She teamed with freshman MayaBlue Stauffer-MacDowell to go 15-3 in doubles and win the 3-A Western Regional championship. Williams shared the Rams’ most valuable player award with Stauffer-MacDowell.

 

HONORABLE MENTION

Asheville: Nicole Powell

Asheville School: Emily Welling and Kate Evans

Brevard: Davis Clare Hyatt

Carolina Day: Candace Richardson

Franklin: Heather Bell

Pisgah: Alex Smathers and Taylor Trull

Reynolds: Cassidy Ford and Erin Bailey

Roberson: Elle Klein

Tuscola: Bethany James

West Henderson: Katie Barry and Emily Funk



 
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