NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 33

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.

