David Crockett High School - Texan Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Winners Tennis Team Wins By Achieving Goals Goals...something we all try to set for ourselves to achieve and that's just what the 1984-1985 Boys Tennis Team did. We ended the full season with an 11-7 record, which I believe was as well as we could have done since we were a pretty young team. Other teams like Anderson and Austin High have always dominated the high school tennis in the District and for Crockett to place fourth right behind them is great, said Coach Jim McHan. Senior Eddie Colfax explained, This year was different from other years in that we didn't have one dominating player, sort of the 'John McEnroe' of the team. We had four different seniors who were the number one player at one time or another on our team throughout the ear, while other teams in the District did not have this problem. Eric Carver, Quang Ngyen, Eddie Colfax, and Tim Lupton could all take the number one s ot at any time. The team faced, many hard and long obstacles before they could make their goals become reali- ty. The team basically wanted to build a broad power base without the problem of having to de- pend on a few hot dog layers. They stumbled at the begining when they lost to Johnston 3-6 and were crushed by Austin Hi h 1-8. They didn't let this get them down and they worked extra hard to bounce right back from their first two loses to defeat Lanier 7-2 and smash L.B.J. 6-3. Their most important victories included their shut-out of Travis with a perfect score of 9-O and their narrow victory over the tough-playing Westlake Chapparals 4-3. McHan said the team obtained their set goals. These goals were not out of their reach and were very achievable. We didn't pull any major surprises, but we did beat a couple of teams we idn't expect to. Next year should be a very interesting one since we have a good number of promising young players returning, added McHan. James Erben We didn't pull any major. surprises, but we did beat some teams we didn't expect to. Coach Jim Mchan. Right: Junior Lee Gwynn serves the ball during a warm-up drill during one of the team's many after school practices. It takes incredible concentration to play top notch tennis. In many com etitiue sports, the intensity of concentration and physicaf exertion is only necessary in brief spurts. Where a tennis match can sometimes last four hours, this becomes a major factor. 104lBoys Tennis 'f if 4 N02 'Q is X ' If .bQc:Qmln:i .1

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