On September 2nd, the Jesuit Varsity Tennis team took on Sunset High School in their first match of the season at The Hockaday School. An extremely successful outing, the Rangers brought home a victory without losing a single game.
Mr. McDaniel, one of the varsity coaches, explained that the team simply "dominated", as Jesuit's newly-aligned UIL district "is not very...
The Jesuit Tennis Team recently held their annual tryouts in which the coaches, Paul McDaniel and Anthony Civello, critiqued the abilities of the novice freshman and evaluated their skills so as to determine whether or not they are natural tennis players. With more talent coming in every year, it has become a tougher decision of who makes the team.
Following...
In the world of tennis, the debate for the title "greatest tennis player of all time" has raged on for years, with names such as Roger Federer, Rod Laver, Björn Borg, Rafael Nadal and more continuously surfacing in these discussions. In this article, I am going to evaluate 5 reasons as to why at age 36, Novak Djokovic is...
Clark Shannon ’17 gently tosses the bright yellow Wilson tennis ball into the air. With perfect form, he brings up his blue racket and hits the ball delivering a 98 MPH ace. The referee yells “Point.”
The Jesuit Ranger Tennis Team increased their record to 2-0 with another win this past Tuesday. In their season opener against Plano East last...
"Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it." - Andre Agassi
Jesuit recently played three tennis matches towards the end...
In case you've been wondering what all the racket was, the Jesuit tennis team kicked off the beginning of the fall season with a win against the Richardson Eagles in District 6-10A.
“We played five freshmen who were bouncing off the walls all day they were so excited to play their first school match,” said Coach Paul McDaniel.
Jesuit reigned over the...
On a very wet and rainy Sunday night, the Jesuit tennis team arrived at Baylor University in Waco tennis with all six players who managed to qualify from the district event just less than two weeks prior. Facing some of the most serious competition the team had ever seen, the road to victory would be a long and arduous...
Hayden Kissee '17 lines up, calm and collected, acting normally. His partner, John Lindberg '18 stands at the net, gazing fiercely into the returner's eye. The ball shoots past him, and he moves forwards to smash down a volley, but there is no need, as the ball does not come back.
The Jesuit tennis team fires up its Spring Season...
