Posted: Jul 21, 2022
The 2022 Rams Reflect is the seventh in a series of annual collections. Senior captains and representatives of Suffolk teams have been invited to contribute viewpoints based on personal experience from both their senior seasons and full varsity careers at Suffolk.
For a complete listing of past and present Rams’ Reflections, click here.
Kendall Smith, Women's Tennis| Hometown: Stuttgart, Germany | Major: Politics, Philosphy & Economics
Playing any college sport in a city can be challenging, and tennis in the city is a particularly interesting challenge. With a large amount of space required for several tennis courts, other facilities’ tennis courts became our home the last three seasons. But each season, the team always made any court truly feel like a home. North Reading High School, Buckingham Brown & Nichols School, Winchester Tennis Club, the Boston Common Public Courts, and our home for the longest: Belmont Hill School. It always seemed to be a surprise to opposing teams that they never truly played us at our home in Boston. But it didn’t matter where we practiced or played matches, with all the moving around to different courts, the girls always knew how to make a home wherever we played.
As much as I dreaded the commutes to practice or the traffic we would always hit at five o’clock, or the fact that there was never a banner that read “Suffolk Women’s Tennis” across the back of the courts like other schools had, I will never forget the conversations and laughs the team shared in the van during those hours driving around New England, and I will be grateful that I chose to play tennis at Suffolk University.
Kendall Smith
Class of 2022