Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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■4 WAITING FOR THE PERFECT MOMENT, Aaron Ayala prepares to up a backhand. This is Aaron ' s third year as a JV member. T GOING THROUGH ANOTHER PRACTICE SERVE, Andy Suzuki and Chad Marshall practice their technique. Practices was a daily routine in the tennis program. JV Tennis Sports 145

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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

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▲ BOYS TRACK. Front Row: Jim Foster, Ben Chua. Sean Fieldler. Mike Jokerst. Tommy Sturgeon, Tony Smitti. Rico Garay, Paul Enriquez, Ri- cardo Freeland, Second Row: Sheldon Watson. Matt Hempill, Steve Fielder. Robbie Ortiz. David Tabaczynski. Bruce Steel. John Lyden. Monty Henson. Carlo Pitallano. Robert Abulon, Third Row: Scott Hem- pill. Oino Mendoza. Bernard Chua. Jeff Jacobs. Brian Crockett, Marty Nichols. Darren Honda. Miles Santos. Bryant Van Braom Morns. Fourth Row: Ryan Polite. Randy Abulon. David Cooper. Jason Cooper, Gregg Tswago. Deylon Phillips. Robert Hill. Last Row: Coby Poliet. Erik Klein. Eddie Gross. Brad Williams. Erik LeConte, Jack Elliott. 146 Sports Boys Track