By Maya Rosado – Staff Reporter 

The Jonathan Law girls tennis team recently wrapped up its season with an exciting finish. 

The girls ended their regular season with a record of 13-7 and were seeded #14 for the 2022 Class M Tournament. 

Law beat #19 seed Ledyard 6-1 in the qualifying round and fell short to #3 Branford on in the first round. 

The team has had many accomplishments this season including one of senior Lucia Pino who broke the school record for career wins (59) with her victory against Ledyard in the state tournament. 

Pino breaks the record previously held by Monica Pydipati (Class of 2019) and did it in less than three years.

Law also had three girls make the SCC All-Conference team: Pino and first doubles players Caroline Doyle and Olivia Hudak. 

“I feel like the season went extremely well this year, and I’m so proud of everything we accomplished,” Doyle said. “Everyone put in 110% and I couldn’t have asked for a better team.”

The team bonded extremely well and the girls created lots of new friendships. Leading the group was senior captains Pino and Sophie Maselli. 

“The best part of the season was getting to travel as a team for states,” said Pino. 

Doyle said she was happy that the season was more “normal” than the last two years.

“The best part of tennis this year was easily being able to do things that we couldn’t last year,” said Doyle. “We had pasta parties and went out to eat after away matches, and through those we got a lot closer as a team.”

The girls are very happy with how their season went and strive to be even better next year. 

“At the beginning of the season we wrote down personal goals as a team and one of my main ones was to become more consistent with my serve,” junior Sabrina Lawless said.  “I definitely felt happy with my improvement.” 

Pino also qualified for The State Open Individual Tournament at Wesleyan University on June 6. She advanced to the second round and had a hard fought loss to the #1 singles player from Joel Barlow.

“The season went very well, as I felt I was able to succeed individually and as a team,” Pino said. 

Head coach Mr. Kulenych was very impressed with the girls this season.

“Coming into the season, we had a lot of players in new spots, and as the season went on, we had to deal with rain, injuries, and a very difficult schedule,” Kulenych said. “But the girls stay focused and continued to work hard and I could not be prouder of how the season turned out.”

Kulenych said while he is excited for next season, he will miss the team’s three seniors – Pino, Maselli, and Nihitha Kothapalli.

“Our seniors have been incredible leaders on and off the court for us the past four years,” Kulenych said. “It’s impossible to put into words what they have meant to our team. They are incredible players but even better people and they can’t be thanked enough for everything they have done for us.”