Page 14 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1980
New coach offers experience
By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
Jan Cannon is a part-time coach
with full-time experience.
She has 31 years experience in
organized tennis and is the new
coach of the women’s tennis team at
Texas A&M University. She has be
gun programs for other schools,
added to existing programs at some
and has coached a Davis Cup finalist.
Cannon began her coaching career
at Edinburg with six new courts.
Fresh from Texas Tech she did not
know what to expect, she said. “At
Tech, we had to begin the women’s
program on a shoe-string,” she said.
“There were no funds for the prog
ram and the first year we recruited
intramural players for the team.”
She said the team played with its
own personal gear without much
help from the university. The new
courts were hard to get at Edinburg
but a nice way to start a team. She
didn’t know, she said, that it would
be the beginning of many uphill
fights.
She moved on to Abilene High
School two years later and her teams
won the district championship three
of the five years she was there. At
Monterrey High School in Lubbock,
she coached nine district champion
ship teams and one player who
reached the Davis Cup finals when
he later attended college.
Bobby Joyner was a three-sport
reject when he tried out for the ten
nis team at Monterrey High, Cannon
said. He was a tall, gangly youngster
who had been cut from football, bas
ketball and baseball.
“When we got him he could hardly
walk without tripping over his own
feet,” she said. “But he had the most
fantastic hand-eye coordination I
have ever seen.”
She said he worked harder than
anybody on the team and gradually
improved. After a year, all the teams
that had cut him wanted him back.
Joyner went on to play tennis at Trin
ity University and made it to the fin
als of the Davis Cup in doubles with
Chuck McKinley.
After 14 years at Monterrey, Can
non moved on to Amarillo, where
she remained for 10 years, Bryan and
ultimately, Texas A&M.
One of the reasons she came to
A&M was because of tennis coach
David Kent.
“We have known each other since
he (Kent) was in high school,” she
said. They have always coached in
the same areas and have kept in
touch, she said. Cannon attended
many of the camps in West Texas and
even played in some of the tourna
ments Kent organized.
He has a tremendous reputation in
West Texas and deserves it for the
work he has done out there. “We
have a good rapport and work
together very easily,” she said.
Coaches have to work together,
she added, if a program is to succeed.
“He will come over to help my girls
and I can go over to help the guys if
needed,” she said.
She said she had been at too many
schools where the two tennis teams
had been as far apart as possible. It
did not produce good results, she
said, and sometimes went as far as
antagonism toward the other
program.
She said one of the things that
makes coaching fun for her is watch
ing her “kids” grow. “It is a good
feeling to watch them go on,” she
said. “Like with Bobby (Joyner), you
can never tell just how far they will
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A coach is like a second parent, she
said. They have to help the youngs
ter adjust. “Amy Gloss is from Ore
gon and had not been very far from
her home, so coming to A&M is a big
adjustment for her.”
It is a big adjustment on a good
athlete to begin competition at the
college level, she said. Many of her
freshmen have never played lower
than the top spot on their home
teams. Sonja Hutcherson never lost
a set in University Interscholastic
League (UIL) competition.
“I have told the girls they will have
to work hard and that the competi
tion is different here than they are
used to,” she said. They cannot get
discouraged, she stressed, because
they will have to get used to the
situation they are in.
That is one of the reasons all the
freshmen will be going to the Galves
ton Adult Open Tournament Satur
day, she said, for the experience. “It
will be a lack of experience that will
hurt us early in the season,” she said
“not a lack of effort. ”
The girls are very coachable, she
said. That makes it very easy to pre
pare for the competition.
She added that all the girls want to
play and need to learn.
“It will be done my way though. I
do have a little more experience than
they,” she said, “and any mistakes
will be mine as well.”
She said she is trying to add to the
schedule to try to make it even
tougher. “I believe, and always
have, that quality competition pro
duces quality teams.”
She said she will make sure that
when Southwest Conference com
petition begins, the Texas A&M
women’s tennis team can swing a
racket with anybody. “Above all,”
she said, “I want it to be fun for
everybody on the team.”
The team will leave Friday and
begin competition Saturday at the
Galveston Open. The team will con
sist of freshmen Amy Gloss, Laura
Hanna, Sonja Hutcherson and Mary
Hise. They will be led by sophomore
Liliana Fernandez and junior Ferol
Hinkle. Top contenders University
of Houston and Rice will be at the
competition. “It will give the fresh
men a lot of good experience, ” Can
non said, “and right now that’s most
important.”
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