Munising Youth Tennis Program

08/28/2026

The season is in full swing! Shout out to our #1 Singles Kinley Hall for her win over Kingsford the other day. Our next match is scheduled for Monday 8/31 in Gwinn at 4pm 🎾🎾

08/26/2026

Due to forecasted rain/thunderstorms, our girls tennis match today has been rescheduled to Monday at 4 pm in Gwinn. 🎾🧡

08/23/2026

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In tennis, familiarity matters. Just like in any sport, you start to learn the little things only those who know home base would notice: the cracks, the dead spots, the way the wind moves through the fence. It's why home-court advantage exists in the first place.

The 2015 Munising Mustang girls had none of that.

In fact, they had two tennis courts to practice on. No, not two tennis courts designated for the team. Two tennis courts. Total.

There weren't enough courts to host a high school meet, so Munising simply didn't have one. Every meet meant getting on a bus and playing somewhere else, on somebody else's surface, in somebody else's familiar surroundings.

Eventually, the Mustangs stopped treating that like a disadvantage and leaned into it.

They called themselves The Road Warriors.

The irony was that while Munising lacked the infrastructure, tennis itself was growing there. The program had been trying for years to expand its facilities, while participation continued to outgrow what the community had available.

By 2015, coach Rod Gendron finally had something else the program had been building toward: depth. Munising had produced strong individual players before, but this group was solid throughout the lineup.

That mattered at the U.P. Division 2 Finals.

Host Iron Mountain actually won more individual flights, four to Munising's three, but the Mustangs kept collecting points throughout the bracket. Kelsea Ackerman won No. 4 singles, Bailey Downs and Marissa Immel won No. 2 doubles, and Sydney McInnis and Morgan Flynn survived the No. 4 doubles final, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5.

When everything was counted, Munising had edged Iron Mountain, 16-15.

The first U.P. tennis championship in Munising history belonged to a team that hadn't played a single home meet all season.

Maybe the Road Warriors didn't know the cracks and dead spots of their own courts.

They learned everybody else's instead.

08/20/2026

Meet the Mustangs for the fall 2026 season! 🧡🖤

08/03/2026

08/03/2026

Girls Tennis season starts 1 week from today! Grades 9th - 12th for Munising & Superior Central Students. Just show up! 🎾
Please make sure to have your physicals turned in before the first day of practice!

07/25/2026

Go get your physicals today! Season starts in 2 weeks!

06/22/2026

Middle/ High school Summer Camp 2026 🎾

06/22/2026

Elementary Summer Camp 2026 🎾