Jay Senter
Jay Senter
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Lancer girls tennis celebrating second straight Sunflower championship

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The Shawnee Mission East girls tennis squad cruised to a second straight Sunflower League championship last week in matches at Harmon Park, and are now odds-on favorites to take the state 6A championship. The team came in second place in the state last year.

Led by junior Mimi Fotopolous, who took the Sunflower singles championship without losing a game, the team will head to a regional tournament this weekend before state tournament matches start Oct. 15.

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About the author

Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Johnson County Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

His reporting has appeared in the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and The New York Times, among other publications.

Senter was the recipient of the Johnson County Community College Headliner Award in 2023.

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