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La Salle’s Girl Tennis Team Defeats Parkrose on Their Senior Night

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Rowan Bienapfl, Staff Reporter
May 14, 2025

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl

  • The girls tennis team celebrated Senior Night surrounded by their friends and family.

    Rowan Bienapfl
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On Thursday, May 9, the girls tennis team celebrated seniors Bella Buss, Avalon Donnelly, Kennedy Harris, Joanna Perez-Hernandez, and Rita Tran prior to their home match against Parkrose High School. The varsity team’s final score was a win of 8-0.

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About the Contributor
Rowan Bienapfl
Rowan Bienapfl, Staff Reporter
Senior Rowan Bienapfl has lived in Oregon her entire life and enjoys the rain that comes each season. She enjoys walking her chickens and adding to her plant collection, but spends most of her free time hiking, reading, painting, listening to music, and napping. Her current goal is to learn basic Russian and Ukrainian so she can better understand the people affected by the war reaching out for help at the church she serves at. At La Salle, she runs varsity cross country and track. She is also a member of the swim team. Her favorite part about sports at La Salle is the strong sense of family within the teams. Rowan’s favorite classes at La Salle are Honors English II and Honors Chemistry. She hopes to pursue a career in biology, becoming either a plant or surgical pathologist.