BACK, left to right: Assistant Athletics Director Jill Allen, Nancy Rie Adams ’30, Ellie Willson ’29, Maggie Mavar ’28, Margaret Campbell ’28, Ann Smith ’28, Leighton Lanaux ’29, Stewart Dobbs ’29, and Coach Jorge Woog | FRONT, left to right: Leni Jane Johnston ’29, Martha Kate Palmer ’29, Caroline Jefferies ’29, and Zoë Young ’29
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Middle School Tennis Team Wins State Championship, Several Local Titles
The Hutchison middle school tennis team finished strong as Shelby League and Tennessee Gold Division Champions!
The team won in the gold division at the Tennessee Middle School Tennis State Championship event hosted by USTA Tennessee and TMSAA in Murfreesboro over the weekend. Over 20 schools participated in the tournament. Eleven Hutchison girls competed at state, and the team that earned first place included Ann Smith ’28, Ellie Willson ’29, Maggie Mavar ’28, Margaret Campbell ’28, and Leighton Lanaux ’29.
The state champions posed for a photo with Hutchison tennis coaches Jorge Woog and Phil Chamberlain.
The team also ended as the undefeated middle school Shelby League regular season champions. In the Shelby League tournament, our girls won the team, singles, and doubles titles. Ann Smith ’28 and Maggie Mavar '28 placed 1st and 2nd in singles, and Margaret Campbell '28 and Whitney Bricken ’28 won doubles.
Left: Shelby League singles winners Ann Smith ’28 and Maggie Mavar '28 Right: Shelby League doubles champions Margaret Campbell '28 and Whitney Bricken ’28
Carly Gubin ’12 played tennis at Hutchison and learned the importance of being part of a team. As a dentist, she relies on a team when caring for patients.
When our girls come together to serve, amazing things happen. During their service retreat, our 10th graders built strong bonds while making a positive impact across Memphis.
For her myExperience capstone project, Maya Pentecost ’26 adapted Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” into a one-act dark comedy. She wrote the script, designed the production, and collaborated with a cast and crew of Hutchison students and faculty in our arts program and the Institute for Responsible Citizenship to bring it to life.
Hutchison Now highlights recent graduates early in their careers who embody how a Hutchison education can lead anywhere you can imagine. We spoke with Morgan Murdock, a senior project manager at W&A Engineering in Atlanta.
Through hands-on experiments and collaborations with the Design Lab and Dobbs Farm, teacher Christine Groves is helping our girls in junior kindergarten through fourth grade grow their curiosity, critical thinking, and resiliency.
Through the performing arts, Hutchison inspires girls to become strong communicators, creative thinkers, and compassionate leaders in every part of their lives.
Four rising seniors participated in high-intensity summer programs in subjects including international studies, technological innovation and business, education, and visual arts.
Hutchison Now highlights recent graduates early in their careers who embody how a Hutchison education can lead anywhere you can imagine. We spoke with Dorothy Oehmler, who works for Mischief Comedy in London.
Rising juniors who are part of four myExperience cohorts in Hutchison’s Institute for Responsible Citizenship – global civic engagement, entrepreneurship, STEM, and art and design – explored their respective fields of study on a trip to Miami.