Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD Athletes N Action, 14 Apr 2015

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From YouTube: "Athletes N Action" featuring the South River High School Tennis Team Spring 2015

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Host Wiley Baker highlights student athletes, coaches and various sports programs from county high schools. This month, the South River High School Tennis Team is featured.

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I'm standing in one of my favorite places down by the river hi I'm Wylie Baker, with another edition of athletes in action standing on the South River High, School tennis courts in Edgewater flying high with the hooks for hands, backhands, lobs and overheads. Maybe even a drop shot or two hey. Let's go serve and volleying with the South River Sea Hawk tennis team and my best friend and brother head coach, Wesley, Baker and.

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All are good teams head coach, Wesley, Baker and the Seahawk captains firmly believe they have the perfect mix of talent and personality to fly to the top of the standings. The.

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Team this year is gonna, be a really good team. We're gonna contend for a county championship. We have revamped boys side of the lineup and we have a lot of returning girls veterans, so I'm really looking forward to this season very.

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Excited about the season we got some real talent this year decided to end my season with such fun. People everyone's.

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Very good, everyone's, very talented, everyone has their own strategies, but it everyone just loves playing with each other I.

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Love being on teams with boys and girls, because it's so much more casual, it's sort of a lot less drama and I have so much fun. So we actually.

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Hang out all the time, I've never been on a team where I've hung out with like a team like we I can't even describe it like every weekend, we're doing something we have team dinners constantly. So we're.

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Together on and off the courts during season and offseason doing workouts or practicing tennis together, so it's just a really great big family and I'm very proud to be a part of it. We.

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Are serious when you practice, you know off the court, everyone's very energetic, and you know a lot of the kids are super funny and I like that about them very easy to get along with being an ace tennis.

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Player at South River means preparation prior to hitting the court and always.

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Being active in tennis, you have to have a lot of good footwork, and so we we use ladders and we work on the stairs. We go up the stairs and run around that and you know, there's a lot of offseason preparation for for tennis for sure.

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I enjoy being really active, so I like to have a sport. Every season I have unified sports during the fall and then swimming during the winter and tennis during the spring, and it just gives me something to do after school and a good outlet and exercise so I like to be healthy and that's. Why did it.

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Before practice, we always stretch to make sure that we don't have any injuries. We have a lot of team captains, leave the stretches and, and then a bunch of the kids do different sports. Some kids do soccer. I do rowing and I go to the gym a lot. So it's important to stay in fed offseason. The.

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Coaches instill high integrity leading to successful South River student-athletes coach.

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Baker has been with me for four years he's been with me in and out of the classroom. I had him write, my recommendations for college I mean he's just been there for me for.

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Everything you can go to him for anything item for class. He helps with my extracurriculars he's a lot of fun on the tennis team and he helps us become better leaders and players having.

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Honor-Roll grades off the court lead to honor roll performances on the courts. It's.

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Really important to be both athlete, but also a student I always try to maintain my grades. That's first priority for me: I love being on the court, but I love being in the classroom, even more I'm in.

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The stem program, and so the several other tennis players are as well and that's a program that science, technology, engineering, mathematics and a bunch of kids are in different things like engineering, and we definitely stressed the importance of school. It's good to be well-rounded, so we're very well-rounded athletes here on the south of resent the same. The.

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Student athlete the student comes first and on this team you have to have all ease and B's, and if you have a C or D, you need to be working towards improving those grades service. Yes,.

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The Seahawks spread their wings and are a smash all over the south river community. He.

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Always is encouraging us to do community activities to help our community, so we've definitely learned a lot of good morals on the tennis team and it's not just playing tennis I.

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Encouraged these guys to fundraise and and do things for the community that gives the kids a true sense of other those perspectives and that's just a great way to give back to the community and build character. Healthy.

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Hawks equal victorious games sets and matches I.

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Do a live, I've and core workout and you know sometimes I've run around my neighborhood, it's a lot of Hill, so it gets a lot of the cardio. You.

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Know try to eat healthy and like I'm vegetarian. Actually, so it's probably more easy for me because I can avoid the whole fried spectrum I.

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Always eat a breakfast, make sure fruits vegetable all of it and then after school play tennis a lot run around something.

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But I think we all really care about, and so we just focus on. We know that I'll help us play better high-energy.

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Hawks fans love to make racket for their South River tennis team over.

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My four years, we've definitely gotten a lot more friends and family to get out here and really support the team, and it's just really nice to have that support. It's.

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A lot of fun to have everyone out here and it feels really good when you have people cheering for you or helping you out. It's just a great experience.

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To net a superior Lee soaring season for the Seahawks, we.

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Have been less successful than I would have liked in the past against broad neck in Severna Park. So our main goal is to try to win a county championship, and that would mean having to defeat those teams. So if we can get past those teams this year, that that is our goal to win that county championship, I would.

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Really like to go to maybe as far as states with Tiger I think it's possible I'm just really excited to see how far we can go. This season be.

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It Severna Park and go to States with.

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My partner and killing it, and just honestly just having fun with the team and going far obviously to go undefeated, which.

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Is undoubtable work, we're definitely gonna happen and then just for the whole team to feel like they belong. I really love the team and I want everyone to be able to have a sport that they love for four years for.

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Me that a successful season would be supportive, teammates, as we've always had. We just go out there. We try to do our best and having somebody to support you, especially when you're singles player and you're, not necessarily having a partner there to keep you going having to be able to look back and see my friends. Cheering me on is really meaningful, I'm very lucky to have it I.

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Really just want to get to the States, and you know, I'd be dollar, prove to me that I'm here to compete, that we can get to its next level. Thanks.

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For tuning in I'm, Wylie Baker I'll talk to you on the court on the field or on the air with another edition of Anne Arundel County Public Schools athletes in action.

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