Choate Tennis

Team members in Shanghai with the local professionals. The tennis season traditionally begins with optional spring break training trip, open to all interested in playing for Choate tennis teams; this week-long session represents an intensive effort to sharpen strokes and accrue match play experience before the formal beginning of the season. The te... am has traveled to South Carolina and Florida on the Eastern seaboard and to Indian Wells and Los Angeles in California. Choate Tennis has traveled internationally in recent years as well. In 2006, the squad toured Beijing and Shanghai, and trained at the Shanghai Racquet Club. In 2008, the Coral Beach Club in Bermuda hosted the Wild Boars for their spring break training. Between 2009 and 2011 the squad prepped for the season in Montego Bay, Jamaica. At the varsity level, we pursue as rigorous a match schedule as we can arrange during the course of the spring. Our regular season opponents include other schools in the Founders League--an athletic association of Connecticut independent schools--as well as those private and public schools throughout the Northeast with strong tennis programs. We get some of our strongest competition in early April at the Kingswood-Oxford Invitational Tennis Tournament in West Hartford, an event we have won repeatedly. Post-season play has included the New England Prep School Team Championships and the New England Prep School Invitational for standout singles players and doubles teams. The Choate players also enjoy a season-ending tradition: Hall of Fame Day, when the squad spends a day near the close of the school year in Newport, Rhode Island, visiting the International Tennis Hall of Fame and playing tennis on the grass courts where the first U.S. Championships were contested. Players on the team also vie for the Upshur Moorhead '30 Cup in the All-School Tennis Championships in late May. Head coach Ned Gallagher has taught history and English at Choate for over twenty-five years and has coached athletes in a variety of sports at ...Read More