While we can point to a decades-long lineage of individual talent in Kent County High School’s tennis program, the 1994 girls and boys teams stand alone.
Each team went 18-0 and captured Bayside Conference championships — Kent’s girls blowing by James M. Bennett, 7-0, to three-peat and Kent’s boys defeating a Stephen Decatur squad led by a state champion singles player, 4-3, to successfully defend their title.
Five athletes and the 1994 tennis teams were inducted into Kent County High School’s Hall of Fame on Saturday, Oct. 18. The Evening Enterprise has been telling their stories, one at a time, and this story wraps up our coverage of the 2025 inductees.
Collectively, Kent’s girls and boys took the team trophy in a talent-laden Region VII that included all the schools from Harford and Cecil counties.
On top of that, numerous KCHS tennis players received All-Mid-Shore honors.
Senior Anna Goodall and freshman Derek Schreiber headed the all-star contingent as Players of the Year in the five-county area of Kent, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Caroline and Dorchester.
Also, Holly Bramble and Fred Wyman were selected as Coaches of the Year in voting by their peers and area sportswriters.
Anna Goodall (19-1) won the region singles title and lost just one set all season up until the state tournament, where she was eliminated by a German exchange student attending Class 4A Severna Park.
Kate Goodall, the Trojans’ No. 2 player, also was a first-team honoree after piecing together a 16-0 record in singles and reaching the finals of the region’s mixed doubles tournament.
Schreiber (11-1) and teammate Tyler Barrell (16-2) went one-two in the voting for Player of the Year on the boys side.
Pairing with fellow freshman Jamie Karns to win the region doubles title, Schreiber finished with a 17-2 overall record.
Also named to the elite first team was the undefeated boys doubles team of junior Brandon Mills and senior Brad Loller.
Placed on the second team were freshmen Karns and Megan Bramble, junior captain Matt Cousineau, and doubles teams of senior Chris Hodgson-sophomore Rishi Singh and juniors Sarah Goodall-Heidi Pope.
Earning honorable mention were freshmen John Wubbels, Daniel Sherwood, Charlie Athey and Tracy Harding, and juniors Erica McDowell and Erin Gillin.
Kent County qualified entries for the state tournament in four of the five events. The duos of Bramble-McDowell and Schreiber-Karns advanced to the quarterfinals, while Anna Goodall and the doubles team of Kate Goodall and Cousineau exited in the first round.
That was back in the day when there was no breakdown based on school enrollment. It was an all-inclusive tournament, with players from large schools competing against players from small schools like KCHS.
Kent’s entries were eliminated by eventual state champions or runners-up — all from larger schools in Anne Arundel, Howard and Montgomery counties.
