By Kaitlyn Goldberg – News Editor 

The Law boys tennis team is back in action this spring and is hopeful for an exciting and successful season. 

Last season, the team was undefeated during the regular season and won the SCC Championship. This season, the team wants to repeat that success and qualify for the postseason.

“As coach my goal this year is to play tough every match and work hard each practice,” head coach Mr. Maxwell said. “As a team our goal is to make the SCC Tournament and the CIAC Tournament.”

The team is having to face more challenges this year, with only two returning players and a more difficult schedule.

“My goal for this season is to create a good foundation for the future team,” senior captain Julien Roy said. “Last year, we lost seven of our starting players so we have a lot of roles to fill and with the seniors leaving after this season. That’s even more space for new talent and if we get the new players to adjust to the team and improve their skills, I’d consider this a successful season.”

With playing some more advanced teams this year, the team is going to have to have some new strategies to make sure they can play the best that  they can. 

“The team is going to prepare intensely for every match,” senior captain Dan Folloni said. “Every day we will train to fix any weaknesses. We will change our lineup depending on which schools we are facing.”

The team’s practices are also going to be very important this year, especially for the new team members. 

“We have many new players this year, so our practices will be vital to our success,” Maxwell said. 

The new players have been up to challenge so far and are becoming great additions to the team. 

“Because our team was moved up a division this year (thus facing more difficult teams), we are discussing using some advanced strategy, opposed to mostly only conditioned fundamentals than we have previously,” Roy said. “Towards the end of our last season, we faced a lot of insanely good teams with niche techniques and I feel that has naturally caused us to be more targeted/specific in our practicing, and so far our new teammates have shown a lot of passion for the sport and team (shout out to them) so I have a feeling that there will be a lot of practicing outside of what we’ve scheduled and that will help our teams preparedness.”