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The Jesuit Tennis team did not let Spring Break extinguish the flames of its season-long hot streak, as the team rolled through the second half of the spring season. The athletes returned to participate in the Jesuit Spring Invitational tournament at Hockaday. The tournament was created four years ago in order to expose the Rangers to an array of...

As per tradition, the Jesuit Tennis team took on Houston's Strake Jesuit on Friday, October 17th to conclude the fall season, winning decidedly by a score of 11-7. Rebounding off of a tough loss to Allen in their previous match, Jesuit started off with a bang, dominating the singles rounds in which they only conceded four losses and nearly clinching the...

"Our practices, hard work, and teamwork paid off." Quoting Freshman Nico Elizondo '18, the Jesuit Tennis program truly has lived up to it's goals this season, improving their record to a perfect 6-0 with a sweep of the White Longhorns on September 30th. Surprisingly, only freshmen participated in this Varsity level match, proving to Head Coach Paul McDaniel that the...

On September 16th, the Jesuit tennis team faced Irving High School in their third match-up of the season. Jesuit continued building on their early season success, blanking the Tigers 15-0. Clark Shannon’17 dominated in his single match, sweeping his opponent 8-0. Easily winning, Clark was “pleased” with his performance, but knows “these early matches serve mainly as practice for the tougher competition...

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...

Muscles clenched, hands firmly grasped on the racket, eyes locked on his opponent, the tennis player ran abruptly to the left to send the green fuzzy tennis ball back to his competitor, sending the ball to the very corner of the court, just out of his opponent's reach, to clinch the win. Such a description portrays the success the...

The early morning rise. The short, quiet bus ride to Hockaday. The sweat that drips down from your scalp as you work tirelessly to beat your opponent in practice. Another bus ride back to barely make it to homeroom in time. ​These all describe the hard-working, talented, and committed Jesuit tennis team. This team, after putting in long, hard practices,...