By Ed Piper
La Jolla's girls tennis team opens its 2016 season at home Wed., Aug. 31, under new coach Darice Carnaje, who is also the Vikings' girls basketball coach.
LJHS's courts have been newly resurfaced as part of the campus-wide renovation of sports facilities. Athletic Director Paula Conway said last week that a tennis pavilion will come "later".
The Vikings played Santa Fe Christian in a scrimmage Tues., Aug. 30. "We played very well," said Carnaje.
La Jolla Country Day is the opponent in the season opener. "They are very good, so it will be a tough battle for us," said the coach via text.
Carnaje coached for over a decade at OLP. She is an accomplished tennis player herself who plays in senior USTA tournaments around the country. Soon after she was hired to coach basketball at La Jolla a year ago, she was playing doubles in a USTA tournament in Houston when a reporter contacted her for an interview.
In her prep days, she was an All-CIF player in tennis and basketball at her alma mater, Mount Miguel.
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