Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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A IN HIS WIND UP, Andy Hondo prepares for a spinny forehand. As his first year on Varsity. Andy played 2 doubies. Boys Varsity Tennis Sports 143

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o Boys Varsity Tennis fool a ® nd We wanted to show the Valle Vista League that we ' re no push-over, — Coach Greg Dutton % A WITH FEET IN POSITION. Carl Miller opens up in attempt to hit a topspin forehand. As a |unior, Carl played »3 doubles. Mustangs realize that discipline is the name of th s this boot camp or just another hard working team? Skills and practice are the main factors in training a sports team. For the 1986-87 Boys Varsity Tennis team, discipline was enforced more than anything. We had good prac- tices, but if anyone fooled around, they payed for it, said third year coach Greg Dutton. If there was any foul lan- guage, back talk, or play, the players were sent on a run around the tennis courts. The discipline was meant to improve the atti- tudes of the players. Just running around isn ' t even enough punish- ment. We ' re not out there « , ► KEEPING HIS EYE ON THE BALL, Jeff Manzi demonstrates his slice backhand. This type of backhand was commonly used. 142 to fool around, we ' re out there to practice, said second year varsity play- er, Brandon Garcia. Discipline wasn ' t all that the team counted on. Working hard helped us improve from last year, and we want to impress the Valle Vista League, said Coach Dutton. We want to show them that we ' re no push over. The team had only two returning players, but the squad had good attitudes and wanted to win. We need organization and hard tennis skills in order to achieve our goals this season, said sophomore Jeff Manzi. A unique addition to the team were two exchange students: Mark Otterbom, from Sweden, and Erik Klein, from Holland. Both are in the top five on the team. I would love to go to GIF playoffs, and I love playing on the team, said Erik. With our hard work, and the strength of our number one singles and number one doubles teams, we should achieve our goals, said Dutton. story by Julie Wishner: layout by Lynn Fujioka; photos by Brad Linenberg and Douglas Lin. LEAPING INTO THE SKY, Erik Klein extends his arm to get the power behind a high volley. Erik, visiting from Holland, was one of two exchange students on the Sports Boys Varsity Tennis

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JV TENNIS «. - . •- ■C u s SM Tennis I ooWs r o ■ hp nl?i pr ?irp Pood thi ; nl?ivpr ; nnt nnlv nppHpH tn ;nn he players are good this players not only needed to son ■ In order to achieve these goals we ' ll need to give all players chances to play matches under pressure. — Coach Sparks year, said JV tennis coach Jeff Sparks, ■ it ' s not just the starters ei- ther. The doubles will keep Walnut a front-run- ner in tennis. Most teams just put the leftover play- ers in doubles, but we ' re gonna be strong all around. Coach Sparks had some good feelings about the JV tennis team this year, but there were two minor weaknesses also. The first was that a lot of the JV players moved up to Varsi- ty. Also, this was Sparks ' first year coaching JV ten- nis here at Walnut. But Sparks believed that this would not stand in the way of winning. At the beginning of the season a lot of goals were set. Becoming champions of their league was their main goal, but Coach Sparks had others too. He wanted to prepare the younger players for future seasons on Varsity. These A JV BOVS TENNIS. Front Row: Rick Castillo, Matt Simich, Rob- ert Choi, Mike Mizukami, Ctiad Marshall, Kevin George, Chris Walsh, Eric Peng Back Row: Tony Lui. June Woo, Eric Jameson, Chen Chow Chang. William Su. Anthony Hernandez, Coach Sparks. Aaron Ayala. Change name. Nikkil Verma. Mark Estrella, Tommy Bargthamai. Collins Lu. test their skills under pres- sure, but needed to build their confidence by win- ning. In order to achieve these goals we ' ll need to give all players many chances to play matches under pressure, said Sparks. With the move from 3-A Sierra League to 2-A Valle Vista League, the JV ten- nis team had major confi- dence going into the sea- The Walnut tennis tra- dition still has spark, but this year we ' re looking for the flame, said Coach Sparks, Story by Michelle Garay: layout by Robbie Davis: photos by Brad Lin- denberg. T PREPARING TO USE HIS BACKHAND Nikhil Verma con- centrates on the ball. This was Nikhil ' s second year in the pro- gram. 144 Sports JV Tennis