Julian Mark Baccash '02

Hometown: East Hampton, New York

Birthdate: 5 July 1984

Favorite Academic Subjects: history, mathematics

Other Interscholastic Teams: JV soccer (fall)

Choate Tennis Career: JV team 1999, 2000; varsity team 2001

Style of Play: versatile all-court player; increasingly comfortable at net; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: red clay

Positions on 2001 Team: #6, #7, #8 singles; #3 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 6-1 in singles; 12-2 in doubles

Favorite Quotation: "A bigger head means more brains." -Julian Baccash

James Alexander Elsworth '01
Captain

Hometown: Hamden, Connecticut

Birthdate: 13 September 1983

Favorite Academic Subjects: mathematics, science

Other Interscholastic Teams: varsity ice hockey (winter)

Choate Tennis Career: JV team 1998; varsity team 1999, 2000, 2001

Style of Play: all-around attacking player; right-handed

Favorite Surface: hard courts

Positions on 2001 Team: #3, #4 singles; #2 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 14-4 in singles; 13-3 in doubles

Future Plans: will attend Brown University

Favorite Quotations: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -Albert Einstein

"It's a fine line between stupid and . . . clever." -Spinal Tap

Mark Hayden Goldberg '03

Hometown: Westport, Connecticut

Birthdate: 27 April 1985

Favorite Academic Subjects: English, Spanish

Other Interscholastic Teams: JV soccer (fall); JV squash (winter)

Choate Tennis Career: JV team 2000; varsity team 2001

Style of Play: versatile all-court player; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: grass

Positions on 2001 Team: #4, #5, #6 singles; #2, #3, #4 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 10-4 in singles; 7-0 in doubles

Favorite Quotation: "Losers always complain about their best, winners go home and get the prom queen."

Andrew Laurence Jacobi '01

Hometown: Pacific Palisades, California

Birthdate: 18 August 1982

Favorite Academic Subject: history, economics

Other Interscholastic Teams: manager, varsity basketball (winter)

Choate Tennis Career: varsity team 2000, 2001

Style of Play: hard-hitting baseliner; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: hard courts

Positions on 2001 Team: #1 singles; #1 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 15-4 in singles; 13-3 in doubles

Future Plans: will attend Middlebury College

Favorite Quotations: "Good things don't end in '-eum.' They end in '-mania' or '-teria.'" -Homer Simpson

"And remember not to act afraid. Animals can smell fear. And they don't like it." -Homer Simpson

Mauricio Osorio '04

Hometown: Bogota, Colombia

Birthdate: 18 July 1986

Favorite Academic Subject: physics

Choate Tennis Career: varsity team 2001

Style of Play: hard-hitting, heavy topspin baseliner; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: clay

Positions on 2001 Team: #4, #5, #6 singles; #2, #3 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 13-3 in singles; 13-2 in doubles

Favorite Quotation: "Knowledge is power. Imagination encircles the universe." -Albert Einstein

John Fair Oster '03

Hometown: New Haven, Connecticut

Birthdate: 18 September 1984

Favorite Academic Subject: history

Other Interscholastic Teams: varsity cross country (fall)

Choate Tennis Career: JV team 2000; varsity team 2001

Style of Play: steady baseliner; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: Har-Tru

Positions on 2001 Team: #6, #7, #8 singles; #2, #3, #4 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 5-2 in singles; 7-0 in doubles

Favorite Quotation: "If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, and--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son." -Rudyard Kipling

Stefan Theodore Patrikis '02

Hometown: Hamden, Connecticut

Birthdate: 3 June 1984

Favorite Academic Subjects: mathematics, Latin

Other Interscholastic Teams: JV soccer (fall)

Choate Tennis Career: varsity team 1999, 2000, 2001

Style of Play: baseliner, heavy topspin; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: hard courts

Positions on 2001 Team: #3 singles; #1 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 13-5 in singles; 14-4 in doubles

Favorite Quotation: "Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit." - Vergil

Sean Carr Robb '01

Hometown: Brattleboro, Vermont

Birthdate: 15 October 1982

Favorite Academic Subjects: science, history

Other Interscholastic Teams: varsity soccer (fall)

Choate Tennis Career: varsity team 2001

Style of Play: baseliner; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: clay

Positions on 2001 Team: #7, #8 singles; #4, #5 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 2-5 in singles; 4-1 in doubles

Future Plans: will attend Skidmore College

Favorite Quotation: "If you can walk you can dance; if you can talk you can sing."

Jeremy Jacob Van Fleet '01

Hometown: Yarmouth, Maine

Birthdate: 20 May 1982

Favorite Academic Subject: physics

Choate Tennis Career: varsity team 1999, 2000, 2001

Style of Play: aggressive baseliner; two-handed backhand; right-handed

Favorite Surface: grass

Positions on 2001 Team: #4, #5 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 4-1 in doubles

Future Plans: will attend Bowdoin College

Favorite Quotation: "None. None more black." -Spinal Tap

Jeremy Michael Zuidema '02

Hometown: North Haven, Connecticut

Birthdate: 20 December 1983

Favorite Academic Subjects: chemistry, Spanish

Other Interscholastic Teams: varsity basketball (winter)

Choate Tennis Career: varsity team 2000, 2001

Style of Play: all-court player: aggressive groundstrokes, serve-and-volleyer; right-handed

Favorite Surface: Har-Tru

Positions on 2001 Team: #2 singles; #2 doubles

2001 Varsity Results: 15-4 in singles; 15-4 in doubles

Favorite Quotations: "If we go out and half-ass it 'cause we're scared, then we'll always wonder if we were really good enough. But if we go out there and give it all we've got . . . that's heroic. You guys wanna be heroes?" -Johnny Moxon, Varsity Blues