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New Girls Tennis Coach Named At Greenwich High School

Greenwich High School has named a new head girls tennis coach with "decades of experience playing and coaching" tennis.

GREENWICH, CT — Greenwich High School announced this week Julie Shropshire has been named the school's new head girls tennis coach.

Shropshire replaces Neal Feinberg, who resigned at the end of last season as head coach of the Cardinals. (To sign up for Greenwich breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

According to a news release, Julie has had decades of experience playing and coaching tennis. She played number one singles throughout her high school career and continued to play for Stony Brook University, where she received multiple honors and was inducted into their Hall of Fame.

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After receiving degrees in mathematics and economics, Shropshire worked at UBS and has lived in London, Zurich and Singapore. She started teaching tennis to younger children at the University of Virginia and began coaching high school tennis in 2019.

Shropshire has been on the Greenwich High School coaching staff for several years as the junior varsity boys tennis coach and as an assistant skiing coach. She can often be found on the tennis, paddle or squash courts in Greenwich, still competing at a high level.

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