Allison Kowalke '21 Recruiting Profile

My name is Allison Kowalke and I am a Freshman in high school. Tennis has become a big part of my life since the age of 9 as I had to talk my Dad into letting me try Tennis.  My Dad who never played Tennis helped me get the good foundation (with a few private lessons but primarily all his help) and look forward to High School and College helping to build upon that foundation for me.   My Dad did whatever he could to be there for me and now he has helped to give Tennis lessons to little kids to develop that same love he helped me all those years ago.  I help him out now as well, so we can help even more kids.  I am undecided for a major, but it is still early.  One thing I am a little interested is sign language interpreter as I have been studying some on my own.  For this most recent summer and the summer before I have played some girls who have or will qualify for state and some have even won some matches at state, so I am excited to see what develop during the season.  USTA rankings haven't quite been updating correctly but I am basically in the top 300 for 14's, 16's and even 18's for the whole Midwest as my Dad helps to find some challenges for me.  For Freshman year I will be playing #3 singles and #1 Doubles for a very good team that have 2 girls returning who won multiple matches at state last year.  I haven't had a lot of experience in doubles, but I'm sure I will improve greatly through the year.  To start off my doubles partner and I have gone 17-5 in a tournament play and 33-7 overall with a several matches against State class AA and going 4-2 at State to finish in a tie for 7th place.  4 of our losses came  in a Super Tiebreakers where 2 were 12-10.  We finished as Sectional champs in both doubles and team title.  Then I am 1-2 in tournament play  and 2-2 overall with another girl who was on our #2 doubles at #1 doubles as main partner had to miss a couple of days and our 1 loss came in a super tiebreaker and the other to a class AA team and I am 3-1 in tournament play and 14-1 in #3 singles (only match lost was to someone in the class AA). Since we have such a strong team we won't do singles and doubles every time out.  But I know that I can beat some of the top players from other teams.  Power is my game as usually get some aces and others that are basically aces and I can play a game with a mix of slicing in addition to the power, but just need to get better at how to use it all in my game.  I am looking forward to finding a school that will continue to help me grow and find what I am meant for in life.