Athletic Hall of Fame—Continued 1979-1982 TENNIS PLAYERS: Amy Abraham Bacal George Baker (Coach) Jennifer Beardsley Kent Berk Mike Bernstein Cathy Best Gordon Nancy Best Johnston Laurie Bienstock Bill Bollinger Holly Brown-Burns Julie Burgess Sullivan* Malcolm Clendenin* Fran Cole Toro Liz Dashnaw Robert Dees* Andy Dreyfuss Evan Dreyfuss Sabrina Espinoza Havard Jimmy Friend Greg Grant Eric Hagstrom Katy Ligon Carolina Lopez Krista Magnusson Martin Sean McElheny Lesley Micuda Jeff Miller Greg Nelson Sue Pitre Bushor Karen Polite Sullivan Robert Ranucci Beth Richey Jim Rigberg Leora Romney Roz Romney Laurence Schreiber Wendy Scurr Rodriguez Eddie Shanken Bob Simonds Ellen Smith Brennan Stacy Stone Patti Valenti Breedlove Tina Walters Angle Farley Weiss Jeff Weiss Mark Weiss * In memoriam
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1979-1982 STATE CHAMPION TENNIS TEAMS Rather than inducting a single team into this year’s Hall of Fame, we honored four consecutive years of state championship tennis teams who played from 1979-1982. The inductees were joined by their former coach, George Baker, who flew in from Hawaii for the occasion. As a result of his induction into the Hall of Fame as a 1979-1982 tennis player, Jim Friend ’82 shared the following: “ From a poor memory, scanning nearly 35 years, a few things come to the forefront. From 1979-1982—the four years I was in high school at PCDS—tennis was a rising sport. But, at a small private school in Paradise Valley, Arizona focused on academics and the liberal arts, athletics was not necessarily a focal point. For the Weiss family, with three brothers all one year apart in age, tennis was an everyday occurrence, and the same was true for me. Regionally, the four of us had been competing against each other for many years by the time we got to Upper School. We all trained after school, on weekends, and some of us traveled and competed nationally. In 1979, the “perfect storm” came together when all four of us, along with many other students who loved the game, found ourselves on the same school team. I don’t remember the choice to play being a difficult one. I remember thinking that playing for the School with my competitors, instead of against my competitors, sounded like a good change! Four years later, PCDS tennis had four state team championships and several individual state championships. With a continued commitment to excellence and the attention to alumni relations, PCDS has reached back to antiquity and pulled us out of the past, for what, I hope, stands as a symbol for future Eagle tennis champions.” n
Associate Athletic Director Bob Kosower, Jim Friend ‘82, Wendy Scurr Rodriguez ‘83, Coach George Baker, Mark Weiss ‘83, Amy Abraham Bacal ‘80, Carolina Lopez ‘82, Jeff Miller ‘80, Sabrina Espinoza ‘83, Head of School Andrew Rodin