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2013 Great Valley Graduate Leads College Tennis Team Heading into Season
2013 graduate Colleen O'Keefe is leading her college team into the start of the NCAA season.
A Great Valley High School graduate is leading her NCAA tennis team heading into the fall sports season.
Senior Colleen O'Keefe, a 2013 graduate of Great Valley and a Malvern native, is competing for Saint Michael's College women's tennis team, based in Colchester, Vermont.
O'Keefe tied for the team lead with 10 total wins last season, going 4-5 in singles and 6-4 in doubles, according to the school.
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Saint Michael’s has been picked to take ninth place out of 13 schools in the Northeast-10 Conference’s preseason poll, which was released by the league office recently and chosen by the member institutions’ head coaches.
First-year head coach Mark Ellingson will lead the Purple Knights into competition for the first time on Sept. 4 as Colby-Sawyer College visits campus for a match at 11 a.m. Saint Michael’s is set to begin NE-10 play later that week when Saint Anselm comes to town on Sept. 7 at 3:30 p.m.
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O'Keefe is an English major at Saint Michael's.
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