Updated Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, at 5 a.m.
MSHSAA Class 3 District 5 Girls Tennis TournamentÂ
Dates: Oct. 10 (Individual) and Oct. 13-15, 2025 (Team)
Location: Top-Seeded Venues and Gillenwaters Tennis Complex
Bracket: Click here.
Individual Results: Click here.
State Tournament Information: Cooper Tennis Complex, Springfield, Mo.:Â
Date Individual: Oct. 23-25, 2025
Date Team: Oct. 30-31, 2025
Singles/Doubles State Bracket: Click here.
State Information: Click here.
For the individual district tournament, the top two singles and doubles finalists (district winner and district runner-up) will advance directly to the state tournament. 16 singles and 16 doubles will qualify for the individual state tournament.
Individual Tournament Outcome:
The doubles team of Emily Peterson and Paige Morris continued their undefeated run, capturing first place and qualifying for the state tournament by defeating Republic's Maitlyn Carpenter and Aubree Tinsely 6-2, 6-1. This marks the second consecutive berth for the two, but their first competing as a pair. Peterson was a singles qualifier, and Morris competed in doubles with Jocelyn Cosgrove.
June Hronek narrowly missed out on qualification but had a strong showing and an overall solid season, placing third and falling to Kickapoo. Â
Peterson's and Morris' first-round matchup in the Class 3 state doubles tournament will take place on Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield, Mo. Their opponents and time are TBA.
Click here to view the Class 3 state doubles bracket.
For the team district tournament, the team district champion will advance to the team quarterfinals. The team quarterfinal winner will go to the team state tournament.
The competing teams in the district are Branson, Glendale, Kickapoo, Nixa, Ozark, Republic, and Waynesville. Quarterfinals are set for Oct. 13, quarterfinals on Oct. 14, and the championship on Oct. 15.
After defeating the entire field in the regular season, Nixa received the top seed in the district and received a first-round bye. The Eagles will face No. 4 Kickapoo in the semifinals on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 4 p.m.
Nixa concluded the regular season as the COC East, Nixa, and Republic tournament champions with a record of 13-1. The squad defeated Branson 6-3 and 7-2, Kickapoo 7-2, Glendale 6-0, Ozark 8-1, and Republic 7-2.
Other first-round matchups and seeds entail No. 2 Republic vs. No. 7 Glendale and No. 3 Branson vs. No. 6 Waynesville. All top seeds won 5-0 and advanced to the next round.
Click here to view the Class 3 District 5 tournament bracket.
Team Tournament Outcomes:
Semifinals
In the semifinals, Nixa defeated Kickapoo in a tightly contested matchup 5-3. The win sends Nixa to its fourth straight district title, seeking to regain the throne after falling to Ozark a year ago, 5-4.
Nixa got singles victories from Emily Peterson, Paige Morris, Hannah Schiman, and June Hronek, and in doubles, Peterson and Schiman.
The Eagles will face Republic, who knocked off Branson 5-1 in its semifinal, on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at Nixa High School. The two clashed in the district title tilt in 2023, with Nixa edging Republic 5-3.
Championship
After falling to Ozark by one match in the district title tilt a year ago, Nixa regained the district throne, prevailing over Republic 5-1.
The Eagles won all their singles matches and dropped the No. 2 doubles match in a tiebreaker to help lead the Eagles to victory.
The district championship marks Nixa's third in the last five years and sends the Eagles to the Class 3 state quarterfinals, where the squad will host and face a big test in the Liberty Blue Jays on Monday, Oct. 20.
Liberty (20-3), the top seed in District 8, knocked off Staley 5-0 and Lee's Summit North 5-2 to secure its fourth straight berth to the state tournament.
The two squads met in the 2022 quarterfinal, and the Blue Jays swept the Eagles. Liberty has reached the Final Four in the previous three seasons, placing fourth in 2022, second in 2023, and third a year ago.
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