Our Suffield High School Spring Athletic Teams in Action
Class S State Boys State Tennis Champions
During the Spring 2025 season, the Suffield Boys Tennis Team made school history, winning the first state championship in varsity tennis. During the season, they made progress throughout their matches at all singles and doubles spots. A little past the halfway point of their season, they scored two big victories over Haddam Killingworth (with an exceptional comeback by junior Tommy Bishop at #2 singles) and Morgan that showed their promise and helped to build the confidence needed to go all the way in the state tournament.
In the state tournament, after wins over Westbrook and Granby, the team was facing off against defending state champion and number 1 seed Stonington, a tennis powerhouse. In an intense match, the team showed early promise with a strong showing by Niko Kappen and Nayan Tummalapally at #3 doubles, winning 6-1, 6-0. At #4 singles, Harrison Stauffer played his best Suffield High School Athletic Cornermatch of the season, taking the win at 6-2, 6-4. Suffield’s #1 Josh Zenczak and #2 Tommy Bishop lost against the very strong top two players from Stonington.
In the three other matches – #3 singles, #1 doubles, and #2 doubles – Suffield lost the first set only to fight and come back to take the second set. At #3, Nate Burke lost in a hard fought third set, which meant Suffield needed to take the last two doubles matches to win. At #1 doubles, senior Donovan Burrows and sophomore Jackson Davis showed all the progress they had made during the season by playing their best tennis and beating a stellar #1 doubles team, taking it 10-7 in a third-set super-tiebreak.
Now it was all down to the #2 doubles team of senior Nick Diana and sophomore Joe Zenczak. After losing the first set, they rallied and took the second 6-4. In the third set super-tiebreak, Joe and Nick actually fought back from a four set-point deficit and later fought back a fifth to win 13-11. The entire team swarmed onto the court, cheering and lifting them up for their win.
The next day, the team faced off against Northwest Catholic in the state final. Once again, the team showed its doubles dominance, winning all three of the matches in straight sets, which meant they needed a win in singles. They got two victories from their #1 and #2 singles, Josh Zenczak and Tommy Bishop. Tommy won his match in straight sets and Josh came back after losing the first set, winning with a strong performance and securing Suffield’s first ever state championship in tennis and the first state championship trophy for a Suffield varsity team in several years. Congratulations to a stellar team that worked together all year to improve with every one of its players. The boys tennis team was coached by Carl Casinghino.
The team was coached by Dianne Remington, first year tennis coach.
The baseball team is coached by Bill Gaynor.
The girls lacrosse team is coached by Becky Klein.
Fall Sports
Suffield High School fall sports season kicks off on Monday, August 18. The fall schedule for each team can be found on the CIAC (ciac.fpsports.org) website or the Suffield High School Athletic website. Come watch the following teams play supporting our athletes as the tackle conference and then state competitions.
* Girls Soccer led by our new head coach Tracie Kelly
* Boys Soccer led by interim coach Mark Cervione
* Girls XC led by Caitlyn Howes
* Boys CX led by Dom Casolari
* Girls Field Hockey led by Chase Lambert
* Girls Swimming led by Kim Marker
* Girls Volleyball led by Larry Plano