Westhampton Beach boys tennis earns Scholar Athlete Team honors

Westhampton Beach boys tennis earned a place in the district’s spring athletics roundup with a Scholar Athlete Team honor, a recognition that tied the program’s on-court work to the academic standard that still shapes how the Hurricanes are judged.

The district’s spring athletics highlights also showed just how wide that season of success ran. Multiple Westhampton Beach student-athletes were recognized across the board as All-State, All-Island, All-County, All-Division, All-League and All-Conference selections, placing boys tennis inside a larger schoolwide celebration rather than isolating it as a one-sport note. For a program that lists 60 interscholastic athletic teams, the nod showed that tennis remained part of the spring conversation alongside the district’s other honored teams and athletes.

That recognition carries added weight in Westhampton Beach because the district says athletics should be a broadening experience, with sportsmanship, health and scholastic attainment factored in, not victories alone. The district also noted that many of its teams have been recognized through the NYSPHSAA team Scholar-Athlete program, and Westhampton Beach High School went a step further by being named a Scholar-Athlete School of Distinction for the 2024-25 school year. To reach that mark, 100% of the school’s varsity teams had to post a GPA above 90%, a benchmark that makes the boys tennis honor look less like a standalone award and more like part of an established culture.

That culture has been reinforced by recent tennis-specific success as well. In April 2025, senior Giancarlo Volpe was named to Newsday’s Top 30 Long Island Boys Tennis Players list, recognized as part of a rising doubles team after already collecting All-Long Island first-team honors in 2023 and second-team honors in 2024. That kind of regional attention gives the Scholar Athlete Team label more substance, because it shows Westhampton Beach boys tennis is drawing notice both for competitive results and for the habits that support them.

The program also sits within Suffolk County’s organized postseason structure through Section XI tennis, which includes individual and team awards and the Suffolk Boys Varsity Tennis Awards Dinner. Add in the local coaching pipeline, including Williams with the junior varsity boys and girls teams, and the picture that emerges is of a tennis program with depth, continuity and official school support.

For Westhampton Beach, the boys tennis Scholar Athlete Team honor fit squarely into a spring season where the court is still part of the school’s larger identity, and where academics remain as visible as any match result.