The Knoxville Girls tennis Doubles Team of Jadyn Streigle and Olivia Maasdam are preparing for the class 1A state meet this weekend. They drew the #16 overall seed which means they will play the #1 seed and defending state doubles champions from Cedar Rapids Xavier Ally Burger and Courtney Carstensen. Both Streigle and Maasdam did not start out playing together in doubles, but after an early season win over a Pella duo, they knew they had something.

Jadyn: “At the beginning of the season I didn’t really see us here, but when Olivia and I started playing together we started to realize we could beat those hard teams, and I just want to win every match and advance as far as we can.”
Olivia: “A couple meets in, he (Coach Nick DeMoss) decided to put us together, and it just clicked and the Pella match comes to mind. We just played very well and I think we both realized we have something here and we could go far.”

Jadyn and Olivia will head to the University of Iowa Tennis Complex in Iowa City on Friday for their first round match. Hear a complete interview with Streigle and Maasdam on KNIA KRLS dot com in Today’s Local Sports which aired during the Radio Sports Page Wednesday at six and Thursday at ten on KNIA/KRLS.