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1975
San Diego State
Women's Tennis Team
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Linda
Sandler Wagner (1973-76): I’m a teaching
pro at the Val Vista Lakes sports complex
in Gilbert, AZ.
 My
daughter, Kacie (left), is a 12-year-old
competing in USTA Southwest District. She
just won the Sportsmanship Award for all
the girls in the district. I’m more proud
of this than anything else she’s won. She’s
a great kid.
 My
son, Dusty (right), played for Scottsdale
Community College, was an All American,
now attends Arizona State, and strings racquets
in Tempe.
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Carol
Tammen (1972-77): I’m an actress and
singer living in New York City. After college,
I taught special education for a year in
San Diego, then in Los Angeles. In 1984,
I enrolled at Chapman College to study for
a music degree; I auditioned and waited
tables, then worked my way to Broadway (while
holding a corporate job for four years).
Not long ago, Bruce Weber, a critic for
The New York Times saw a show I was in (Splendora)
and wrote: “The casting is spot on and with
eight unassailable singers on the one-car,
garage-sized stage, there is probably more
vocal talent per square foot here than anywhere
else in New York.”
In addition to waiting tables across from
Lincoln Center, I work in corporate training
and development and sit on the board of
the Association of Psychological Types.
I don’t have much time for tennis, but recently,
at a 5 a.m. audition, I ran into gal who
plays at a Manhattan tennis club and we’ve
started hitting from time to time. I enjoy
it so much I went and got my certificate
as a teaching pro! I was the pinch hitter
on the SDSU tennis team, a very consistent
player but not as strong as our best players
(Ann Lebedeff and Karen Reinke) in 1974,
the year we were third in the nation. We
won the league title over UCLA and USC.
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Lisa
LaRussa Zapf (1975-77): I’m teaching adaptive
physical education to autistic children in
Temecula. It’s my first year (I went back
and did graduate work at SDSU). After college,
I got a teaching credential at Fresno State,
met and married my husband, Paul, in 1977.
We stayed in Fresno and I coached high school
tennis, then moved to San Diego in 1987; I
taught elementary school physical education
in San Marcos for a year, then worked in my
husband’s golfing business for six years (he
owns a store in Encinitas). I have one son,
Eric, 19, who attends Palomar College. I play
golf tournaments as well as competitive tennis
for a club in Palomar, which competes against
the Bobby Riggs Club, Rancho Penasquitos,
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Joan
Whitby (Coach): I’m a professor emeritus
on the Exercise and Nutrition Science faculty
at San Diego State University. |
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Debbie
Turner (1972-75): I’m on the audit team
at an accounting firm in San Diego. I played
the women’s tour for eight years, specializing
in doubles. My partner and I won our first
tournament right after college in Kansas
City. What a wonderful way to start the
tour! Our biggest moment was the doubles
final at Beckenham, England, in 1980, where
we lost to Pam Shriver and Sue Barker.
I was head pro at Rancho Arbolitos Swim
and Tennis for 13 years but hung up tennis
on Oct. 18, 1996, after a hip replacement.
Our proudest moment as a team during my
years at SDSU was beating UCLA, 5-4, for
the league championship. UCLA had not lost
a title in five years. We were pumped up.
It came down to the last match. They had
scholarships and we were digging it out
on $4 a day for meals!
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Patti
Palmer Crane: Many of my San Diego friends
showed me your article on the women's team
of 1975 in Vol. 4, Issue 3. They knew I wasn't
lost! In fact, I haven't even left San Diego.
Here's what I've been doing the last 25-plus
years: After graduating from SDSU with a BA
in physical education in 1976 and then a teaching
credential in 1977, I started teaching physical
education for San Diego City Schools in adaptive
PE. At one point (for 7 years), I stopped
teaching school to be a Mom and taught tennis
at the Pacific Beach Tennis Club. I did go
back to teaching elementary physical education
(and physiology). I recently changed to teaching
science at Dana Middle School in Point Loma
(all 5th and 6th graders). I teach tennis
just part-time now. I was married in 1978
and divorced in 1991. I have two great athletic
kids: Jill, 21, a snowboard instructor in
Mammoth Lakes, CA, and Jeff, 18, starting
in engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
this fall (2002). I went back to SDSU and
got my masters in education in 1998. I still
play a little tennis and teach part-time at
PBTC, as a certified USPTA member. I round
out my time by playing women's soccer and
enjoying the San Diego weather. |
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Judy
Abrams: My teammates recall my name but
nobody knows where I live. Can you help? |
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