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Getting to State in High School athletics is tough enough, but excelling among the best at your craft is totally different, especially as a freshman.<\/p>\n
Manitowoc Lincoln\u2019s Ava Wetenkamp has put the girls\u2019 tennis world on notice following her top 16 finish in Division One at the WIAA State Individual Girls Tennis Tournament in Madison.<\/p>\n
She began her run yesterday (Thursday) by defeating the tenth seed in senior Milana Halberg of Sun Prairie West, in straight sets, then knocked off Lauren Filpak, a senior from Arrowhead 7-5,6-0 to advance to this (Friday) morning\u2019s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Junior Andjela Bovogac, the seven seed from Greendale, was Ava\u2019s opponent. Bovogac proved she was worthy of that distinction as she defeated Wetenkamp in straight sets 6-1 and 6-4, to advance to the Division One semifinals Saturday (tomorrow) morning.<\/p>\n
Ships Head Coach Paige Cotton tells Seehafer News. com, \u201cAva did an excellent job today. She\u2019s disappointed not finishing in the top 8, but advancing as far as she did as a freshman is nothing short of impressive.\u201d <\/p>\n
Cotton says that every point was competitive, including several deuces that went Bovogac\u2019s way, which eventually decided the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe battled uphill the entire match but just couldn\u2019t get over the top; Ava made her (Bovogac) earn every point,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of her, and I can\u2019t wait to see what the next three years bring.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ships Head Coach adds that her first year at the helm, albeit hectic, was extremely fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese girls improved drastically from the beginning of the season (mid-August) until the very end. I can\u2019t thank my coaching staff and everyone throughout the program for their support,\u201d Cotton explained. \u201cAs a new mom, it got very hectic at times, but it was worth every minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ava (Wetenkamp) finishes her freshman year with a record of 18 and 4, while Bovogac takes a 30 and 0 record into the semifinals tomorrow (Saturday) morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getting to State in High School athletics is tough enough, but excelling among the best at your craft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6730,43370,2250,7056,3729,43371,3,10756,43369,99,13109,428],"class_list":["post-886640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-births","tag-broadcasting","tag-events","tag-free","tag-local","tag-manitowoc","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-seehafer","tag-sports","tag-state","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}