Mercury All-Area Girls Tennis Teams
FIRST TEAM
Singles
Meredith Lee, Owen J. Roberts
Junior won the Pioneer Athletic Conference singles championship and made the deepest run in the PIAA Class AAA Championships of any Mercury-area player for the second straight year by reaching the quarterfinals (semifinals in 2014). Lee also reached the District 1-AAA final and finished the season 23-3, earning her Mercury All-Area Player of the Year honors.
Mihaela Codreanu, Methacton
Senior capped her accomplished scholastic career with a second straight District 1-AAA singles championship. Codreanu, a three-time All-Area Player of the Year, reached the PAC-10 singles final and qualified for the PIAA Championships for a fourth straight season. Codreanu, who will continue her tennis career at Division I Rhode Island, was 25-4 and helped Methacton to the PAC-10 team title and the semifinals of the District 1-AAA team tournament.
Julia Gumieniak, Phoenixville
Freshman impressed in her rookie season by finishing fourth in the PAC-10 singles tournament, reaching the second round of the District 1-AAA singles tournament and finishing 7-2 in Pioneer Athletic Conference play at No. 1 singles for the Phantoms.
Dina Nouaime, Methacton
Freshman went undefeated at No. 2 singles (9-0) for the PAC team champions and placed fifth in the Pioneer Athletic Conference singles tournament, finishing the season 17-6 while helping the Warriors to the semifinals of the District 1-AAA team tournament.
Doubles
Camryn Gelting and Delaney Kent, Owen J. Roberts
Gelting, a junior, and Kent, a freshman, teamed up in the middle of the season at No. 1 doubles (5-1 PAC) and put together a surprise run to reach the final of the Pioneer Athletic Conference doubles tournament and qualified for the District 1-AAA doubles tournament.
Paige MacDougall and Amanda Amornwichet, Methacton
MacDougall, a senior, and Amornwichet, a junior, went undefeated in the PAC-10 (9-0) at No. 1 doubles while helping the Warriors to the PAC-10 team championship and the semifinals of the District 1-AAA team tournament.
SECOND TEAM
Singles
Jasmine Morris, Perkiomen Valley
Tori Alexander, Spring-Ford
Elaina Lee, Owen J. Roberts
Doubles
Vidisha Pandey and Sara Maute, Owen J. Roberts
Caitlyn Hart/Bianca Caresosa, Spring-Ford
Alejandra Castaneda/Rachael Dorn, Methacton
Liza George/Maria George, Methacton
HONORABLE MENTION
Owen J. Roberts: Jacey Caplan
Methacton: Sydney Thompson, Katie Benson
Perkiomen Valley: Allison Newman
Phoenixville: Ashlyn Duda, Meghan O’Neill
Pope John Paul II: Kathryn Alvarez, Hailey Miller, Dominique Marrecau
Spring-Ford: Samantha Pollock, Elise DiGuiseppe, Camryn Jones, Madelyn Morris
COACH OF THE YEAR
Jerry Styer, Owen J. Roberts
Styer, in his 45th year coaching the Wildcats, saw his team rise up to push perennial Pioneer Athletic Conference powerhouse Methacton for the conference team title, settling for a runner-up 8-1 league finish while supporting junior Meredith Lee’s postseason that included the PAC-10 singles championship, a District 1-AAA finals appearance and place in the PIAA Class AAA quarterfinals.
