Girls tennis returns to RHS with new coach
RICHMOND – Girls tennis is back at Richmond High School after too few players cancelled last season.
Former Savannah High player Brett Terry replaces Kevin Jermain, who led the 2019 program.
“It’s just my first time head coaching, so it’s (a matter of) finding a balance of … what’s too much, information-wise … where it feels like they might be drinking through a fire hydrant,” Terry said Tuesday after practice at Maurice Roberts Park.
Sparked in part by social media recruiting, Terry’s team consists of six underclassmen – all tennis newcomers. They include first-year high schoolers Eve Tompkins and Jessie Sisco. Tompkins opted to try tennis after playing with her uncle, Jordan Rice, she said.
“I thought, ‘Hey, I might be good at it,’” Tompkins said, adding, “I really want to try and stay … (with) it all throughout high school and maybe even try and get into college with it.”
Sisco said her sister, Mackenzie Phillips, played, but that is not her only reason she joined the team.
…