Alexis Czapinski

The college champion tennis player Alexis Czapinski was made an All-American doubles player in 2018 and 2019 and All American singles player in 2019. She graduated from Washburn University in May 2019, ending the season ranked third in the nation in division II singles and first in the nation in division II doubles. She is now an assistant coach at the US Military Academy, West Point.

As well as assisting the coaching of the West Point women's team, Alexis has a strong following of civilian players at West Point where she holds clinics and private lessons. This is where I met her.

With firmness, tact, and wit Alexis takes apart your game and puts it back together with the clearest of instructions. As Alexis is only 23 you do not hesitate to use your new found shots to  place the ball to make her run. It is galling, though, that when you angle a shot for a certain winner, she moves across the court at an impossible speed and reaches it ― and it is she who makes the winner.

We also see her here with her dog Bowser whom she rescued in Kansas and brought
north with her.