Palmetto’s Ameia Sorey, True North’s Brennon Chow are Dade Tennis Players of the Year

Palmetto’s Ameia Sorey and True North’s Brennon Chow brought home historic hardware for their schools this tennis season.

It’s why the two are the Miami Herald’s Dade Tennis Players of the Year.

While Sorey was instrumental in Palmetto winning its seventh overall team state title, the sophomore also became the first girls’ tennis player in Palmetto school history to win an individual overall singles title when she won the Class 4A crown.

Sorey didn’t drop a set in her four singles matches at state, rolling through matchups against Stoneman Douglas’ Tania Dumke (6-1, 6-0), Boca Raton Spanish River’s Blanka DeMicheli (6-0, 6-4) and Lake Mary’s Jessica Maras (4-0, 4-2) before beating Apopka’s Alyssa Novoa (6-2, 6-2) for the Class 4A singles crown.

And this came one year after Sorey finished as overall runner-up in the singles field during her freshman season.

Chow, a junior, was part of True North’s first individual tennis title for either boys or girls when he and teammate Gabriel Valdez won the Class 1A doubles title. The march to a title included wins over Boca Raton St. Andrew’s Ryan Nash and Hugo Vaigel (6-3, 7-5), Out-of-Door Academy’s Robert Zhang and Prithvi Sudhakar (8-6), Pensacola Catholic’s Justin Lyons and Evan Fisher (9-8) and Bradenton St. Stephens’ Max Pettingell and Ricardo Perazzolo Da Silveira (6-3, 6-3)

Chow, for good measure, also finished as runner-up in the Class 1A singles championship and helped the Titans qualify for state as a team for a second consecutive year.

Chow faced a similar cast in his singles run, beating St. Andrew’s Nash 6-2, 1-0 (retired due to injury), Out-Of-Door Academy’s Zhang 4-1, 4-2 and Pensacola Catholic’s Lyons 3-5, 4-1 (10-7) before falling to Jacksonville Christs Church Academy’s Chase Healy in the final.

The team run, however, ended in the quarterfinals to eventual state champion and perennial power Boca Raton St. Andrew’s.