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In the NCAA, where they play six singles and three doubles, it makes a tremendous difference ifyou are missing your No. I player, or if the players are not ranked in the order of their ability. We have seen tennis tournaments all over the world (Wimbledon, Forest Hills, Paris, Rome, Sydney, Johannesburg etc.) but probably the most exciting matches we have seen have been the CIF Southern Section team playoff matches in the Los Angeles area. We believe the reason for this is that the individual is_ playing for himself, but he is also playing for his team. What makes it so exciting is that anything can happenin one set._ Especially when you add the pressure of a possible team championship that may be determined by the individual's performance when the climate is always right for an upset. The United States Tennis Association
Senior Robert Van't Hot, Downey, C_alifornia.
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has an excellent method of ranking all of the top players in the country. It is based on the results of nationally sanctioned tournaments. A national individual championship is held in every age group IS's, 16's, 14's and 12's for both boys and girls. There are also sectional tournaments all over the country that do the same thing for each section. The USTA has established a national team tournament based on sections of the
country. Unfortunately because of cost limitations there is no national high school team championship. It is sometimes very difficult to determine the ability of an individual athlete in football, basketball and baseball because -
the evaluation is primarily subjective. This is not so in tennis because the national rankings are based on tournament results against players from all over the country. The 1977 National Prep Sports High School AJI-American team:
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Tennis AII•Americans ANDY ANDREWS, Woodberry Forest, Virginia ................... senior JEFF ARONS, Palo Alto Gunn, California ......................... junior BILL BARTLETT, Honolulu Punahou, Hawaii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior JOHN BENSON, Englewood Cherry Creek, Colorado .............. junior MIKE BENSON, Ogden, Utah .................................... junior BOBBY BERGER, Hollywood Hills, California ...................... junior PAUL BERNSTEIN, Fullerton Sunny Hills, California .............. senior SCOTT BONDURANT, Miami Palmetto, Florida ............. ~ ..... junior SEAN BRAWLEY, Newbury Park, California ....................... junior TOMMY CAIN, Richmond St. Christopher, Virginia ............... senior ANDY CHASE, Cumberland, Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior ROBERT CONNELLY, Peoria, Arizona ............................ junior RICK COWDEN, Palo Alto Gunn, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior DOUG CRAWFORD, Fort Worth Southwest, Texas ................ junior PAUL CROZIER, Corpus Christi King, Texas ................. sophomore BRENT CRYMES, Chattanooga McCallie, Tennessee .............. junior DAVID DOWLENS, Houston Robert E. Lee, Texas ............ sophomore SAM FOTOPOULOS, Shawnee Mission East, Kansas ......... sophomore MARCEL FREEMAN, Port Washington Schreiber, New York ....... junior BRAD GILBERT, Piedmont, California ....................... sophomore LANCE GOOD, Newport Beach Corona Del Mar, California ........ junior ANDY GORDON, Coronado, California ........................... junior GREG HING, Scottsdale Saguaro, Arizona ....... _............... senior MATT HORWITCH, Highland Park, Illinois ....................... senior MIKE INMAN, Sioux City North, Iowa ........................ sophomore DON JAQUA, Palo Alto, California ............................... junior PHILLIP LEHNHOFF, Moraga Campolindo, California ......... sophomore JONY LEVINE, Phoenix Central, Arizona .......................... frosh WILLIAM MOSS, Malibu Santa Monica, California ................. junior MATT MURPHY, Alameda, California ............................ senior BILLY NEALON, Chattanooga McCallie, Tennessee ................ junior RANDY NIXON, Coronado, California ........................ sophomore DONALD POMPAN, Encino Birmingham, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior MEL PURCELL, Murray, Kentucky ... , .......................... senior LELAND PUTTERMAN, Houston Memorial, Texas ................. junior KEVIN FOBBES, Corona Del Mar, California •..................... junior JOEL HOFFMAN, Topeka, Kansas .............................. senior JON LAPIDUS, Princeton Lawrenceville, New Jersey ............. senior MICHAEL LEACH, Weston, Massachusetts .......... -~ :· ............ junior PAUL MANLEY, Palo Alto, California ........................ sophomore JOHN McENROE, Douglaston Trinity; New York ........... -....... senior JOHN McFARLAND, Mesa Mountain View, Arizona ....-.-· ...... _... junior CRAIG MORRISON, Salem Sprague, .Oregon- .................... senior JACK PATE, Las Vegas Clark, Nevada ........................... junior BLAIR ROBERTS, Phoenix Brophy Prep, Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior JEFF ROBBINS, Los Angeles University, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior MURRAY ROBINSON, Philadelphia Northeast, Pennsylvania ...... senior DAVID SIEGLER, Agoura, California ......................... sophomore DWAIN SMITH, Tucson Canyon del Oro, Arizona ................ senior TED STAREN, Hinsdale Central, Illinois .......................... senior JOHN STIEPEL, Los Alamitos, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior MORRIS STRODE, Grossmont, California ......................... junior ELIOT TEL TSCHER, Palos Verdes Estates, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . senior JEFF TURPIN, Dallas St. Mary's, Texas ........................... junior ERIK VAN'T HOF, Downey, California .. -..................... sophomore ROBERT VAN'T HOFF, Downey, California ....................... senior BLAINE WILLENBORG, Miami Shores Arch Bishop Curley, Florida . junior CORY WALDMAN, Miami Shores Arch Bishop Curley, Florida .... senior TIM WILKISON, Chattanooga McCallie, Tennessee . ____ . ___ .. _ senior DAVID ZIMMERMAN, Abilene Cooper, Texas ................. _. senior Compiled by National Prep Sports Network, 4707 N. 12th Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85014
PREP I FEBRUARY-MARCH 1977