PCHS Miners girls tennis beats Cottonwood at home 4-1

Miners Alix Finkel about to hit the ball and Poppy Rae at the net at the MARC playing Cottonwood. Photo: Sidney Hatcher // PCHS Tennis Team

PARK CITY, Utah — Four days after school started, four points are what won the Park City High School Miners Girls Tennis Team their match against Cottonwood High on Thursday night at their home facility at the MARC (Municipal Athletic Recreation Center). The final score was 4 – 1.

Lila Jacoby is a junior at Park City High School who also plays on the golf team in the spring season. Her dad, who was spectating at the MARC, was also a high school tennis player in New York. She won her match yesterday with a score of 8 to 1. Afterwards she told TownLift, “It was a pretty good match, I tried to keep moving her around the court so I could get some solid hits through. I could feel some momentum in the middle so I built on that as we kept playing. The last time I played I also won but it was 8 to 6, that was much more of a fight, so this time it felt nice to have a clearer win.”

Carol Molesky is the Miners assistant coach to head coach Miller Hales. Molesky, who also works at the MARC, told TownLift how this team is great for the student athletes because it’s a lifelong lifestyle sport that they’ll no doubt get the opportunity to enjoy even if they aren’t signed to continue competitively in college. She used herself as an example explaining how she played on her high school team in Michigan, then not in college, however has since chosen to make tennis not just her hobby, but her profession.

If Jacoby’s 8 – 1 was good, junior Miner Sidney Hatcher did one better beating her opponent Thursday 8 – 0, she then found time to take pictures of her teammates as a team photographer. She and Jacoby join other Park City High School athletes from other sports on the extracurricular Especially For Athletes (A4E) Club . Its mission, she told TownLift, “is to promote awareness and discuss how we can support and ideally improve the overall experience for the athletes at our school and their mindsets to keep on going and make our school among the best at what we do.”

Participating in that Club, that movement, that community action, that philosophy should serve all the members well as they advance in their academic endeavors, as evidenced here in what the University of Utah and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee are teaming up on.

Other notable scores by the Miners included Campbell Thomas who ended her match with a 6 – 1, and Mia Jamrich, already a standout senior going into this year after six of them graduated last year, she finished with a 6 – 0. 

Last year they made it to Regionals and some of the girls went on to play at the State Championships.

Next week they have a home match and the following week their up against Jordan High School.

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