[ColoradoTree]

Colorado Tree you have been awesome. Thank you

However let’s talk next year please :). :)

Ha! Well, from what we saw from Choy and Madurawe in the NCAA tournament, I'm pretty optimistic about how they'll settle into the lineup, assuming one of them doesn't get jumped by our incoming freshmen, Angelica Blake and Nicole Mossmer. 

In doubles, you can safely assume Arbuthnott/Gordon will be the #1 pair, but the fall season will be a time for seeing how the rest of the roster plays together and who has chemistry. Your guess on the #2 and #3 pairs is as good as mine, but both Shin and Madurawe have shown themselves to be good doubles players, so I'd expect them to be somewhere in that lineup. 

In singles, Gordon is your clear-cut #1 and Arbuthnott your #2, and I assume Shin will play #3, but after that it gets a little murkier. Do you play Higuchi at #4, knowing how much she can struggle against bigger hitters? Does the current ordering between Madurawe and Choy stick, or does one player take a bigger leap than the other in terms of development this summer and fall? (Recall that Lampl played #5 as a freshman and Lord played #6 when we beat Oklahoma State in the final, but Lord improved faster than Lampl did.) It's hard to know how that'll shake out, but I think we should reasonably have more confidence that they'll be just fine in regular lineup spots next year. 

But we lose three big contributors. Not just the on-court talent, but Lord with her clutch gene, and Lampl as the hardest hitter and the heartbeat of the team. Yee may have only played doubles, but she did it well, and her chemistry with her classmate was evident. The team will have to settle into new roles, and new leaders will need to step up. 

Losing great players to graduation happens, of course. And Stanford has survived it better than most. In 2016, we won a national championship behind two great seniors, Caroline Doyle and Taylor Davidson (who is another all-time competitor whose passion always seemed like a catalyst for team success). We made it to the NCAA final the very next season, and won it all the year after that.

[ColoradoTree]

Colorado Tree you have been awesome. Thank you

However let’s talk next year please :). :)

Ha! Well, from what we saw from Choy and Madurawe in the NCAA tournament, I'm pretty optimistic about how they'll settle into the lineup, assuming one of them doesn't get jumped by our incoming freshmen, Angelica Blake and Nicole Mossmer. 

In doubles, you can safely assume Arbuthnott/Gordon will be the #1 pair, but the fall season will be a time for seeing how the rest of the roster plays together and who has chemistry. Your guess on the #2 and #3 pairs is as good as mine, but both Shin and Madurawe have shown themselves to be good doubles players, so I'd expect them to be somewhere in that lineup. 

In singles, Gordon is your clear-cut #1 and Arbuthnott your #2, and I assume Shin will play #3, but after that it gets a little murkier. Do you play Higuchi at #4, knowing how much she can struggle against bigger hitters? Does the current ordering between Madurawe and Choy stick, or does one player take a bigger leap than the other in terms of development this summer and fall? (Recall that Lampl played #5 as a freshman and Lord played #6 when we beat Oklahoma State in the final, but Lord improved faster than Lampl did.) It's hard to know how that'll shake out, but I think we should reasonably have more confidence that they'll be just fine in regular lineup spots next year. 

But we lose three big contributors. Not just the on-court talent, but Lord with her clutch gene, and Lampl as the hardest hitter and the heartbeat of the team. Yee may have only played doubles, but she did it well, and her chemistry with her classmate was evident. The team will have to settle into new roles, and new leaders will need to step up. 

Losing great players to graduation happens, of course. And Stanford has survived it better than most. In 2016, we won a national championship behind two great seniors, Caroline Doyle and Taylor Davidson (who is another all-time competitor whose passion always seemed like a catalyst for team success). We made it to the NCAA final the very next season, and won it all the year after that.