All Area : Girls Tennis
Player of the Year
BCHS's Lyndsay Cooke selected All-Area Girls Singles Player of the Year for a third straight year
Lyndsay Cooke certainly didn’t make things easy on herself. She had finished as the Central Section’s girls tennis runner-up for each of the past two seasons, agonizingly close to the top, and her senior year at Bakersfield Christian was her last chance at No. 1.
But, instead of spending hours and hours on court, Cooke — a well-rounded student who excels in the classroom, in sports and in the arts — took a job as a camp counselor on Catalina Island.
There were no tennis courts.
Coach of the Year
Garces' Johnston Hill named Girls Tennis Coach of the Year
The story of this year’s Garces girls tennis team really starts with last year’s defeat in the Division II Central Section championship, a 7-2 loss to Visalia-Redwood.
“It was our first year in Division II, and we were intimidated by Redwood, because we knew how good they were,” Rams coach Barb Johnston Hill said. “But we said, ‘Hey, we were in every match. We literally could have won all the other matches (we lost) but maybe one.’”