Slow, improvement is plan for ML girls' tennis

The Medical Lake girls’ tennis team is trying to take flight, but so far the runway has been almost too slippery.

“I think I counted and we’ve had 11 days where we were on the tennis court, and I think four of those were with shovels, and two of those were matches,” co-head coach Dawn Eliassen said. A month into the season, the team has had just five real practices, and not even that many matches.

Coming off a 0-16 season, there is nowhere to go but up, and everyone seems to be good with the plan of slow improvement.

“We had seven varsity players who were brand new,” Eliassen said of 2016. “Th...