Meet the Manager: Mya Doyle

Rocky Hill High School senior Mya Doyle (left) has been the team manager for the girls tennis team for the past two seasons. Doyle is pictured with senior tennis player Lejla Bestovic. 

Behind every successful high school sports program is a great team manager, and Rocky Hill girls tennis has one of the best. 

Mya Doyle has been working her magic behind the scenes for Terriers tennis the past two years, making sure that team activities are smooth in both practice and during matches. 

“It’s a lot more work than I originally thought it would be,” said Doyle. “It’s a lot of organizing, but I really love organizing.”
 
A four-year cheerleader at RHHS during both the fall and winter season, Doyle was looking to join a spring sport as a junior and originally planned to try out for the tennis team before coming to a realization. 

“I went with my friend to the tennis courts and I wasn’t very good at tennis,” joked Doyle. “I wanted to stay involved and decided to be the manager.”

Rocky Hill tennis coach Mike Dudis stated that Doyle “has a great attitude and has been an awesome team manager.” 

Outside of managing the tennis team, cheerleading took up a bulk of her time and became a passion of hers since she first entered the high school. 

Unfortunately a concussion prevented her from competing during her final cheer season this past winter, yet she leaned on her experience from being a team manager to help out the cheer team in whatever way she could. 

“I kind of took on the role of manager,” recalled Doyle. “I couldn't partake in cheerleading, but I went to practices, I went to competitions, and I had knowledge that I could share with them.”

Outside of athletics, Doyle was part of the De-stress Club and The Young Investors Club at RHHS, bettering herself both mentally in the present and financially in the future.   

Doyle will take all of these skills to her next destination where she will attend the University of Connecticut to study political sciences on a pre-law track. 

Doyle said she is “excited to meet new people and come across new opportunities” at Storrs, yet is feeling a little nostalgic at the thought of being away from the place she has called home her entire life.   

​“I’ll miss all the connections I’ve made with other students, teachers and administrators at the school,” stated Doyle. “Smaller schools come with a sense of community within the school, so you know everybody and everybody knows who you are.”