The game took place at the Dixon Courts at 3:30pm on Friday Oct. 17 which also happened to be Senior Day. The courts were laced with blue ribbons and old pictures of Samantha Trumbo, their only senior on the team.
“She is definitely the biggest part of our team,” sophomore business major Elena Conway says about Trumbo. “She does so much for us. She loves tennis and it’s obvious!” Conway adds.
Oct. 24, 2014 at Philadelphia, Pa.-Legacy Tennis Center match starts at 12:30p.m. (Dominique DiNardo/Staff Writer)
Being the only senior, Trumbo was expected to feel challenged. However, she handles every situation humbly by saying, “Being the only senior hasn’t been a challenge for me. I am close with every girl on the team. I’m just glad that I can be a leader and role model for them.”
All of Trumbo’s teammates seem to agree with the fact that she is the perfect leader, even freshman criminology and sociology major Maggie Javitt.
“She made me feel so welcome and wanted from the very first day. She’s helped us make adjustments to this very new team and our new coach,” Javitt said.
Trumbo revieces nothing but praise from her teammates, “She has made so many important decisions and has guided us through difficulties. Sammy is so important to our team. I can’t imagine it without her,” Javitt added.
The battle for this win was a tight one. All of the matches were close and the level of talent was evenly distributed between the teams, but Gwyendd Mercy came out on top by winning two of the three doubles matches. They also defeated Cabrini by taking four of the six singles match wins. Both teams and all pairs played with all they had. Trumbo said, “This match is going to be intense, but whatever happens the team will put in a 110 percent effort.”
“This is going to be our biggest match. They’re our biggest rival,” Conway said.
“I’m expecting us to fight to the very end. Gwynedd has been our toughest competition in the past and I expect no different this year,”Javitt said. “No matter what happens, we are going to leave it all on the court.”
Despite the loss, the team is staying positive and celebrating Trumbo’s time as a leader on the team.
“These past 4 years were the best years of my life so far and a huge part of that is from the experience I had being on this team,” Trumbo says.
