The 2011 season for the Greenville Boys' Tennis Team was emotional to say the least. We lost our leader and #1 player, Jimbo Saxion, in an automobile accident at the beginning of the school year. Everyone loved Jimbo. It was hard to think about starting the tennis season. However, as we got closer to the beginning of the tennis season, I heard some of our seniors (like Kenny Surano and Sebastian Estrada) talking about how they couldn't wait to get the tennis season started. This motivated me to see if we couldn't find the strength within us to capture a 4th consecutive championship season. In the end, the team overcame the obstacles and stayed focused to go undefeated (12-0) in Region 1 and to capture our 3rd consecutive Region 1 Championship. Then the team battled to become Tri-County Champions for the third time in four years. Fittingly, we were co-champions of Tri-County with Kennedy Catholic. I will never forget this group of players who completed
4 for Jimbo.
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| GHS Boys' Tennis 2011 |
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| GHS Boys' Tennis 2011 |
Jimbo was Garrett Fisher's best friend. Garrett has captured his thoughts on the loss of Jimbo (nearly one year later) and the amazing tennis season on his blog ripjs1.tumblr.com.
http://ripjs1.tumblr.com/post/8136779831/4forjimbo
http://ripjs1.tumblr.com/post/8136976621/this-was-after-zack-and-dans-win-against-their
http://ripjs1.tumblr.com/post/8081290306/remembering-a-legend
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