Enumclaw Tennis Team to be Winners No Matter What Their Record

Coach Adam Ide has a great philosophy about his tennis team at Enumclaw High School.

He wants to help them become good people. He wants to teach them respect. He wants to help instill values in them that will help them throughout their lives.

And he wants to teach them how to win and lose with pride.

With an attitude like that, it would be impossible for his team not to be winners, no matter what their record.

Ide expects to have a good team. He has his No. 1 singles player back in Dan Millat. He and Tyler McCarthy are four-year lettermen.

They and Andrew Bass are tri-captains. Ide said Bass will have to fight to be on varsity, but he's a leader nonetheless.

The squad lost five seniors off its top eight that finished third in the South Puget Sound League 3A division last year.

"We've got a lot of holes to fill," he said, adding that no one on the team will be cut. "But we've got a lot of junior varsity players back who pushed the varsity bubble last year."

Ide said varsity spots are wide open and will be determined by challenge matches each week. He lost one player to the football team, but picked up one from their squad.

He expects Lakes to have the best team in the league, and Auburn-Mountainview to be tough as well.

The Hornets start the season April 6 at White River starting a 3:30 p.m.