Waldron Jr-Sr High School

This season and beyond looked to be the start of a special run for the Waldron Mohawks tennis program. The year was talked about, dreamed about, thought about, and finally, worked hard on in the offseason. The work paid off, as the squad had a historic run through the season. The 2025 team completed the sweep of all major championships in the 2025 season. The run started with a Shelby County Championship victory at Waldron. The Mohawks defeated Southwestern in the first-round match. The finals came down to the doubles squads. TC’s #1 & Waldron’s Lincoln Fischer won easily. TC #2 singles player played well, and Waldron’s Cash Young gave him all he could handle. In the end, TC #2 won the match, giving the Tigers a 2-1 lead. The tide turned at #1 doubles. After TC’s #1 doubles team took the first set easily and looked to take set #2 in the same fashion, Waldron’s #1 doubles team of Jackson Kuhn & Caige Sheaffer roared back to win the 2nd set to push the match to a third set. The Mohawks dominated the 3rd set to tie the game at 2-2. #2 doubles was the deciding match, and ended just ten minutes after the #1 doubles match finished. Waldron’s Noah Mitchell & Owen Hartman dominated the first set and looked to do the same in set two. BUT, as Waldron’s #1 doubles did, the Tigers roared back to push the match to a 3rd set. After the first few games in set three went back and forth, Hartman & Mitchell took control and went on to win the 3rd set, giving the Mohawks the 3-2 victory. The next major championship the Mohawks were able to win was the individual championships at each spot in the MHC. All members of the Mohawks varsity team are in their positions, with all three singles & #1 & #2 doubles positions wearing 1st team All-Conference and outright championship honors. The team won the team title after going undefeated in the regular season. The final hurdle the Mohawks had to cross on the season of championships was the IHSAA Sectional at Shelbyville. The Mohawks were forced to go through the most challenging path to get to the tournament, three matches in three days with the first two days were a rematch with Triton Central, a rematch with the host Golden Bears of Shelbyville, with whom they lost 4-1 earlier in the season, and then a possible third match with Southwestern or 2nd match with SES-Rival Morristown. Waldron took down the Tigers in night one, 3-2, once again. This time, Charlie Fischer dominated at #1 singles, as did brother Lincoln at #3 Singles. The #1 doubles combo of Kuhn & Sheaffer won convincingly as well. This set up a rematch with the host Bears, and once again the match was tight, with the Mohawks coming out on top, 3-2, in this match that would send them to the championship. This time, it was the singles that dominated the night for the Mohawks, as both Fischer’s & Cash Young at #2 singles won in straight sets. This set up the Mohawks for the championship match on Friday night against SES-Rival, Morristown. While Morristown put up a tremendous battle, the night belonged to the Mohawks as they won 5-0 over their rivals, securing their second title in four years and their third in the last seven. For the 2nd time, the Mohawks would be matched up against a quality opponent in the regional before the daunting task of facing the host Center Grove Trojans. In their way was the Royals of Roncalli. The Mohawks put to rest any doubt about the myth that they couldn’t compete, with a convincing 4-1 victory over the Royals to send them to the following night’s Regional Championship. Center Grove was as great as advertised. HOWEVER, so were the men of Waldron. The doubles squads sprinted out to an early lead on the Trojans, with the #2 doubles combo of Noah Mitchell & Connor Ping getting up as much as 4-0 in the first set, and the Kuhn/Sheaffer combo shot out to a 3-1 lead. However, the doubles teams in red found their groove and fought their way back to take down the Mohawks in two sets. The singles players for Center Grove were arguably the best our men in blue would see all season long. However, all three, Fischer, Young, and Fischer, pushed their opponents to the limit before falling as a team to the champions, 5-0. The men of Waldron finished the season 15-4-2 overall. The two ties came with the Mohawks looking to win the matches outright, but were called due to darkness. The Mohawks bid farewell to a great group of seniors who were outstanding in all the years they played tennis: Cash Young, Connor Ping, and Noah Mitchell. Young is the ONLY Waldron player that we know of who competed at all five varsity positions in his career. These were also the first pair of ties in the same season for any Waldron tennis team. The future of Mohawk tennis remains as bright as it ever has been, with an outstanding 8th-grade group coming in for next season. The JH Tennis team finished 2025 with a 16-3 overall record, so the pedigree is there for another great run in 2026!