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Seniors Kody Blankenship and Vada Stillwell lead a young Lady Lions tennis
team trying to repeat as Southern Buckeye Conference Championship.
2009 Lady Lions roster
| NAME |
Grade |
| Kody Blankenship |
12 |
| Vada Stillwell |
12 |
| Megan Tucker |
11 |
| Casey White |
11 |
| Miranda Stillwell |
10 |
| Sydney Clancy |
9 |
| Marissa David |
9 |
| Sarah Jones |
9 |
| Rachel Trowbridge |
9 |
| Alex White |
9 |
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Lions must replace SBAAC players of the year
New Richmond will be the defendiing Southern Buckeye Academic and Athletic Conference champion in both girls and boys tennis.
Terri Flamm takes over the Lady Lions tennis program this fall from Tina Grippa, who guided the Lady Lions to the 2008 Southern Buckeye girls tennis championship.
Repeating will not be an easy task for the Lady Lions, who must replace SBAAC player of the year Katilyn Reid (pictured seated second from the left).
In the spring, boys SBAAC coach-of-the-year Rylan Shebesta will be trying to repeat as SBAAC champions without SBAAC player of the year Tyler Esham (pictured standing second from left). His 2008 Lions tennis team won the SBAAC title with a 15-1 record, earning Shebesta league coach of the year honors. Read the Clermont Sun story
Also lost to graduation were first-team SBAAC selections Ethan Johnson and Calleb Theiss and second-team SBAAC picks Dan Heflin, Nick Groman and Eric Hays.
Reid has signed with Bellarmine University and Tyler Isham with the College of Mt. St. Joseph. Heflin plans to play tennis at Muskingum College.
2009 SBAAC BOYS TENNIS ALL STARS
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coaching resume this fall when she takes over the New Richmond girls tennis program. It will be the 6th sport that Flamm has coached at her alma mater, where she was a four-sport athlete.
coach in the spring tennis season. Shebesta, who teaches at New Richmond High School, coaches boys and girls cross country in the fall season.