Men's tennis team wrap up successful year Brahmas win conference title in doubles, compete in Ojai state tournament

Darvel Lossangoye and Gavin Dail who together won the conference championship in doubles.

Dao mentioned that Siraj Dail who was number three on the depth chart had a great season.

With the most successful season in two years, tennis secured second seed in the Western State Conference with a 7-4 record overall and 6-2 in conference, a major step up from last season, where they finished last.

A lot of the rapid success the team has experienced this season, according to Tennis Head Coach Coach Long Dao, is the commitment and talent the team has obtained this season.

Dao said some of the players that truly stood out this season were

“I felt like Siraj could've played higher up on the lineup but because Gavin and Darvel were there he kind of stayed at number three the entire year. He had a really successful year, he really could've done as well playing higher up on the line up,” Dao said.

Dail shared that he believes the teams success primarily stems from Dao’s scouting process.

“He recruited a lot better players this season, so the standard itself started at a much higher level. We had like six completely new players and our top four players could beat our previous number 1 from last season,” Dail states.

Dao said there were difficulties when trying to assemble a great team locally because of the allure from four year universities and that there's a lot to learn when entering a season on a college level straight from high school.

“This team here is mostly freshman players, so there’s a lot of learning involved with them, but more than half of them will be returning next year to play so just by knowing what's going on and what happens give them an ability to focus on what needs to be done,” Dao said.