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Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams won a PIAA Class 3A girls tennis singles championship Nov. 1, 2025, at Hershey Racquet Club.
Mike Darnay | Mon Valley Independent
Belle Vernon’s Gabby Dusi plays against Cathedral Prep’s Paige Patsy in the PIAA Class 2A singles semifinals Nov. 1, 2025, at Hershey Racquet Club.
Mike Darnay | Mon Valley Independent
Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams won a PIAA Class 3A girls tennis singles championship Nov. 1, 2025, at Hershey Racquet Club.
Mike Darnay | Mon Valley Independent
Belle Vernon’s Gabby Dusi plays against Cathedral Prep’s Paige Patsy in the PIAA Class 2A singles semifinals Nov. 1, 2025, at Hershey Racquet Club.
Mike Darnay | Mon Valley Independent
Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams won a PIAA Class 3A girls tennis singles championship Saturday at Hershey Racquet Club.
Mike Darnay | Mon Valley Independent
Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams won a PIAA Class 3A girls tennis singles championship Nov. 1, 2025, at Hershey Racquet Club.
Mike Darnay | Mon Valley Independent
Belle Vernon’s Gabby Dusi plays against Cathedral Prep’s Paige Patsy in the PIAA Class 2A singles semifinals Nov. 1, 2025, at Hershey Racquet Club.
Mike Darnay | Mon Valley Independent
Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams won a PIAA Class 3A girls tennis singles championship Nov. 1, 2025, at Hershey Racquet Club.
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In 2022, Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams burst onto the high school tennis scene by winning a WPIAL championship as a freshman.
On Saturday, she ended her high school career in the same spot on the medal podium.
Williams rolled past West Chester Henderson freshman Erika Dunwoody in straight sets, 6-3, 6-0, in the final to win the PIAA Class 3A singles championship at Hershey Racquet Club.
“I didn’t come out this weekend with the goal to win states, ” Williams said. “My goal was just to go out and play my game and enjoy it because my high school career’s over. This was the last weekend. Definitely just try to enjoy it, and it happened to work out in my favor and it ended up in a win. It’s exciting.”
Williams, who finished as WPIAL runner-up three times after taking gold as a freshman, said that, in the summer, one of her trainers told her she was going to end her senior season with a championship, giving her a pair of bookends.
“I texted him afterwards and told him, ‘It wasn’t the WPIAL bookends that I thought it was going to be, but I did get my bookends,’ ” Williams said.
Williams overcame significant obstacles to claim state gold.
In the first round Friday, Williams faced District 11 champion Alexandria Warsing of Parkland, the same player who knocked her out of last year’s tournament in the first round. This time, Williams turned in a dominant 6-2, 6-3 win.
“A lot of people looking at it probably didn’t think I was going to get past the first round this year, so I knew there were really no expectations on me,” Williams said. “I was able to just go out there and play. That’s kind of how I played my freshman year at WPIALs, too, and it kind of ended up with the same good result.”
On Saturday morning, Williams faced the defending state champion, Addison Lindsay of Central Mountain, in the semifinals. It was Williams’ toughest match of the tournament, but she still won in straight sets, 7-6 (4), 6-4.
“The pressure — or at least maybe I was telling myself this — but the pressure was on her,” Williams said. “She was the favorite to win it. She was the defending champ. I just kind of let her have that pressure and went out and played my game. Like, if it was my last match, I was going to enjoy it.”
Belle Vernon’s Gabby Dusi, the two-time defending WPIAL champion, also reached the state finals Saturday, finishing as Class 2A runner-up for the second straight season. She lost in three sets, 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, to District 2 champion Cara Evans of Montrose.
Dusi rolled past District 10 champ Paige Patsy of Cathedral Prep in the semifinals, 6-4, 6-2.
The WPIAL Class 2A doubles champs, Veronica Zinski and Marann Buckanovich of Winchester Thurston, also finished as runners-up, falling to District 2 champs Lily Lengyel and Emma Cuck of Scranton Prep, 6-0, 6-1.
They won a three-set semifinal, defeating District 10 champions Lydia Beuchert and Ella Fetzner of Cathedral Prep, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.
In Class 3A doubles, WPIAL runners-up Brooke Henderson and Alexandra Merkel of Shady Side Academy also finished as state runners-up, falling in the finals to Downingtown East’s Brianna Litvan and Maya Shankar, 6-4, 6-3.
They beat District 1 champs Kim Chen and Ava Bograd of Council Rock South in the semifinals, 7-5, 6-4.
WPIAL Class 3A champs Jackie Tang and Michelle Yang of Mt. Lebanon took third, beating Chen and Bograd, 7-5, 6-2, after falling to Litvan and Shankar in the semifinals, 6-3, 6-2.
Tags: Belle Vernon, Penn-Trafford