Rancho Cucamonga, CA — JSerra's 2024 girls season came to an end today on a blustery wind-driven day at Los Osos High School. Postponed from yesterday due to impossible weather conditions, the Lions traveled up to the base of the mountains at approximately 1200 ft in elevation and battled in the toughest of conditions.

Fountain Valley, CA — The Lions opened up the first round with a 4-2 lead only to drop 5 of 6 sets in round 2. The third round was a tossup which left the Lions with only 8 total.

Laguna Hills, CA — Laguna Hills was kind enough to host JSerra in this late season non-league contest. The Hawks lost five good seniors from last year's team and definitely are in a rebuilding phase.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lions opened the 2nd round of Trinity League play with a hard-fought gritty comeback over OLu by way of total game count; 73 to 65! This avenges a previous 8-10 loss at OLu 2 weeks ago.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — CVCHS AD and coach were very kind to come down the street and play us today, we have played only a handful of times in the past 10 years.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — SM is a tough place to win, JSerra has done it before but was not as fortunate today.

Huntington Beach, CA — JSerra scored best at the end vs Banning Pilots, this school has a weak team, but they were brave, competed hard, had fun and were polite and we were polite to them!

Huntington Beach, CA — JSerra opened up the 2024 Pete Brown tournament with a hard-fought victory over Redondo Union HS, 4-2. This event is round robin pool play, playing an 8-game pro set vs the other 3 teams in your pool: top team from each advance to finals.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra ladies battled today and narrowly missed out on a victory. Our doubles teams picked up six sets as singles added two, vs. two highly ranked Monarchs. KOach Kirk and captains Scarlett and Ellie studied recent results, came up with a good lineup and guessed right. Good plan.

Anaheim, CA — Fielding five freshmen starters, JSerra traveled to Anaheim to face OLu, who fought tenaciously and defeated the Lions 10 to 8.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lions received a gift today as Laguna visited at less than full strength. Again, as yesterday, our team's scouting report was not fully funded, so we went with our gut... and stacked doubles. The Breakers #1 girl was unbeatable, so Scarlett and Brookelyn were moved to the other side of the ledger, paired with Ellie and Aerin respectively; both duos swept two sets easily. This left Naomi, Isabell and Ava in singles where they picked up 5 sets. Peyton/Milana and Scarlett/Ellie pick up substitute hat tricks as Kylie/Juliana and Chiara/Elliana were victorious in the 3rd round. Cecelia helped earn a singles hat trick, winning at line#2 in place of Isabella.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Historically, this cross-town match is always close; many 9-9 total game counts have been in this history the rest 10-8 or 8-10.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — The Lions opened up the season with a "tougher-than-it-looks" victory over the Oilers in Surf City a couple of weeks ago. Followed by two matches they schedule yearly (think Notre Dame vs Northern Illinois! jk)....Dana Hills and El Toro, to pad our "W" column. A handful of schools that would usually play us, have declined due to the new qualifying rules for CIF playoffs, Rosary drops out of our league so there goes two easy W's. Hanging on to 3 early wins is probably going to get slippery, but the girls are getting stronger every day.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Aliso brought a top-heavy singles squad today, in the form of sisters, and handed the Lions their first loss of the season. Our singles 'triage' today, Scarlett, Brookelyn and Naomi were completely stymied at line 1 and 2, but were able to pick up easy "W's" at line 3. These were their first losses of the season.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Finally, dodging heat flames and smoke; the lady Lions netters were able to get another match in today.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Two years in a row, the Dana v JSerra match was cookin', literally. We were the better chefs in the kitchen today, sweeping 8 of 9 doubles sets and 7 singles. The Dolphins were down this year, their team was much stronger last year, which is strange, because we beat them at their courts 18 - 0.

Huntington Beach, CA — Fore shadowing! This picture was taken before the match; fortunately, we were this happy afterwards too!

San Juan Capistrano, CA — "We had a group of ladies that BATTLED in this match. The girls fought right up to the last ball

Santa Barbara, CA — The Lions traveled to Santa Barbara to play the #1 team from the Channel Island league, San Marcos, who earned a 15-2 record this year. KOach Kirk adds, "We never really know the strength of the CI league teams because we do not have 'like' opponents. Two of their girls have 6+ UTR's is all we knew. We traveled far, battled well, ate well and had fun coming home on the bus. Great day to be a LION."

Anaheim, CA — When the Trinity dust cleared, there was a 2-way tie for 3rd place. JSerra was adamnat about playing off this game, which are the Trinity Bylaw Rules; but, OLu wanted a coin flip. No way were we going to settle for a coin flip for a CIF trip, it was understandable why OLu wanted that option.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — What a great day at the JSerra Tennis Complex, thanks to Dr [Mrs.] Aftabi and Mrs Hetland. Their vision and creativity made this the best ever senior night we have ever had! By Far!

Mission Viejo, CA — The Lady Lions fall to St. Margaret's 11-7 today, dropping them to 3rd place in the 'mythical' San Juan Capistrano Championship. San Juan Hills defeated JSerra earlier in pre season and handled St Margarets in the same fashion. The match was played at the beautiful new Saddleback CC tennis complex and the weather was perfect. KOach O played entire squad present, 20+, rotating a few in at start of round 2, and 8 of 9 subs in line 3.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — Expectations were definitely exceeded today as the Lions were able to garner 5 more sets than our first match Sept 28. SM subbed out their line 3 player which gave us the set Neeka won, but, that was the only difference this change made.

Fullerton, CA — JSerra Lady Lions took their last road trip 'ever' to play Rosary at the Fulleeton Tennis Center and KOach couldn't be happier! [due to driving, distance and early start at a public facility].Rosary is dropping out of the Trinity League....

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Every once in a while, stuff happens. We simply move on.

Fountain Valley, CA — The Lions traveled to Ftn Valley today for their 2nd league match of the year. This Mater Dei team lost in the finals of the elite division last year and JSerra battled today for a respectable finish 6-12

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra Lions 2023 Varsity opened up league today with a 12-6 home victory over OLu.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Our battle for the city championship was upended today on our own courts. San Juan Hills is just a strong team with top end strength and depth.

Aliso Viejo, CA — Our neighbor to the west of us was not too neighborly today, muscleing out 15 sets to our 3.

Laguna Beach, CA — This score was a total surprise to all of us, definitely not the same team we faced last year. Their coach did a great job of rebuilding / bringing former players back in to the fold.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — All of the girls competed well in this victory. Again, KOach used every sub, 18 players in all, as this time, the victory was secured at the completion of the 2nd round, 11 - 1.

Huntington Beach, CA — Pretty good outing for only having 8 days of workouts and challenge matches. If we played strength vs strength, JSerra comes out a winner

Anaheim, CA — JSerra’s JV team won Trinity League for the 3rd time in school history, 2nd time as undefeated in league play.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Mathematically and officially, JSerra’s JV team is now the 2022 Trinity League Champions. With one easy dual match remaining vs Orange Lutheran, the team should remain undefeated in league for the 2nd time in school history.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA — JV takes commanding lead in Trinity League standings, undefeated after 6 matches, w Orange Lutheran and Rosary left on schedule. MD has 3 losses, SM has 2 - they play again next Thursday.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — Huge win today for our girls and the program, started out slow though….the “photographer” didn’t get a lot of pictures, spent more time coaching, watching and cheerleading. 🤪🚫📸

San Juan Capistrano, CA — It’s been awhile since we’ve played the visiting Gaels from Las Vegas’ Bishop Gorman High School. We’ve beaten them a few times in the past at the varsity level in the Sage Hill Prep Classic.

San Juan Capistrano, CA — JSerra JV team took an early season Trinity League lead this afternoon after posting their 2nd straight Trinity win, this time against the defending league champs: SMCHS Eagles.

Laguna Beach, CA — We added Laguna Beach late to give their new varsity coach more pre-league matches. This also gave us an opportunity to put in the A & B travel squads before the super competitive Trinity League matches begin on Thursday. Coach Nick and the Breakers were nice hosts - he wanted to play all doubles, so we did, except for 1 line of 3 singles sets, because we only had 11 players.

Huntington Beach, CA — After a squeaker first round win, the Lions picked up a round 2 win, 4-2 over the host school, Marina Vikings. Capturing wins in this round were Cordelia and Cecilia in singles with Olivia/Neeka and Kate/Sophia in doubles. Our respective scores were 8-3, 8-2, 8-0 and 8-3. So at this point in the tournament, Cecilia had won 16 games with only 2 losses and Kate/Sophia 16 games with 7 losses. Individual game talleys are only important if the set scores are tied 3-3. Julia had a tough tiebreaker loss 7-8 at line #2 singles while Ellie and Natalia ran up against the best 2 players on this team and took a 4-8 loss. KOach thinks they had the score tenders incorrect and thought they were cruising to a win. Their opponents were playing an advanced "I" formation, which we do NOT use for several good reasons. We discussed how to beat this arrangement, but, it was after the set. KOach takes the bullet for this.

Huntington Beach, CA — Whew! A close one! USUALLY, the winner of this 2-card pool play, goes undefeated; losing you first match doesn't bode will in final tally. The Lions dodged a bullett by refusing to give up. There were 3 matches in this category...Pictured above, Cecilia gives up no games, which is difficult in this format because one tends to let up when they are winning by such a margain. Not Cecilia!