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Athletics
Girls Varsity Tennis Caps Stellar Season with
State Championship
Peter Lehmann, Coach
The Ransom Everglades Girls’ Varsity Tennis Team, under Coach Peter Lehmann and Assistant
Coach Andres Barbosa, won the Class 1A State Tennis Championship on April 17th, completing a
memorable season. The Raiders’ tournament point total was more than doubled that of the second
place team, American Heritage of Delray Beach, the team that the Raiders finished second to in last year’s
State Championships. This season’s crown was the second state tennis title in three years for the Ransom
Everglades girls.
The team had had an outstanding season even before the state tournament, boasting a record of 14-1,
including winning the Deco Turf Invitational High School Team Championships in Louisville, Kentucky beating
two-time defending champ Baylor School of Chattanooga, Tennessee in the finals – the first loss suffered
by Baylor in 46 matches. The Raiders’ season also included dominating wins over traditional powerhouses
American Heritage and St. Andrews. The girls went undefeated in their district, with the season’s only loss
being a one point loss to eventual Class 2A State Champ, Gulliver Prep.
At States, in the team competition, Allegra Hanlon ’14, Claudia MacKenzie ’14, Daniela Lopez ’15, and
Heather Boehm ’16 were State Champions in their singles brackets and Lindsey Mendelson ’14 was a finalist
in her singles bracket. The doubles team of Hanlon and Lopez were champions in the number one bracket,
and the team of MacKenzie and Mendelson were finalists in their doubles bracket. Hanlon made the finals in
the individual singles competition and the team of Hanlon and Lopez were finalists in the individual doubles
competition.
Coach Peter Lehmann, Heather Boehm ’16, Daniela Lopez ’15,Claudia MacKenzie ’14, Lindsey Mendelson ’14, Allegra Hanlon ’14,
and Assistant Coach Andres Barbosa