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Monica Stark, Larry Stark’s
wife for 27 years, has been
the Frankel boys tennis team’s
assistant coach for two years.
Matthew said Monica dish-
es out the tough love players
on the team need when
they’re struggling and need
encouragement.
This was Matthew’s fourth
year on the team. He said he
started experiencing the fam-
ily atmosphere when he was
a freshman.
“It was great back then get-
ting to know the older guys
on the team,” he said. “Plus,
watching them and hanging
out with them gave me a
perspective of what the next
couple tennis seasons would
be like.”
The Jaguars had a solid
regular season this fall. They
went 6-3-1, facing much larg-
er schools, and finished sec-
ond in their Catholic League
division with a 3-1 record.
They qualified for the
state tournament by scoring
12 points — two more than
needed — while finishing
third among nine teams in a
regional tournament Oct. 6 at
Grosse Ile.
Frankel battled Grosse Ile
to a 4-4 tie Sept. 1 in a reg-
ular-season match at Grosse
Ile. There was a reason for
the Jaguars’ trip there.
“I wanted our kids to get
used to the venue because we
were going there for region-
als,” Larry Stark said.
All the Oct. 15 matches in
the Division 4 state tourna-
ment were played indoors at
the University of Michigan
because of bad weather.
Frankel scored three points
at state, winning three match-
es in the single-elimination
competition, and finished in
a three-way tie for 13th place.
Larry Stark is confident
Frankel’s state tournament
run will continue.
“It’s a tradition on our
team now. The kids want
to go to state every year,”
he said. “We’re losing three
seniors from this year’s team,
but we have some good play-
ers coming up from Hillel
Day School.”
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Season
Summary
This was Frankel’s lineup
this season, with facts
about the players includ-
ing their season record:
• No. 1 singles — Junior
Ethan Grey (8-6).
• No. 2 singles — Junior
Max Charlip (11-3).
• No. 3 singles — Junior
Aidan Charlip (5-9).
• No. 4 singles —
Freshman Hayden Dean
(9-5).
• No. 1 doubles — Senior
Eli Gordon and sopho-
more Tony Carson (7-6).
• No. 2 doubles —
Seniors Matthew Kay and
Caleb Kleinfeldt (6-7).
• No. 3 doubles —
Juniors AJ Goodman and
Gabe Gordon (11-4).
• No. 4 doubles —
Sophomores Jonah Miller
and Harry Shaevsky (10-4).
• Grey, Max Charlip and
Goodman/Gabe Gordon
each won their first-round
match at the state tourna-
ment.
• Team MVP Max
Charlip won all four of his
Catholic League matches
and was named to the All-
Catholic League team.
• Aidan Charlip, Dean,
Goodman/Gabe Gordon
and Miller/Shaevsky
played in regional champi-
onship matches.
• Eli Gordon was named
the team’s most improved
player.