By Hayden Swope

Andover Central’s Trevor Sagehorn had a traumatic injury just a few years ago, and after he was healed he knew he had to make a switch. 

“I’ve always been into tennis,” Sagehorn said. “However, it wasn’t until sophomore year after I broke my back during soccer season in which I really started playing. After having a poor season, I decided to start training at Genesis. I met some amazing people playing which is a large reason why I play. My coaches have put so much into me I feel it only fair to give this season everything I have.”

An early season tournament sent a shockwave through the team, but Sagehorn is confident it only made them stronger. 

“We lost by seven to the O’Donnell’s in Ark City,” Sagehorn said. “It is just memorable because it stung and has made us work even harder. After training hard all off season we thought we were close, and got our butts kicked. But ever since that day, we have been working hard to hopefully get them back later in the season. Thankfully, it was an early tournament so we could tell what we needed to work on and still have time to change it.”

After injuries and losses, Sagehorn is ready to give this season his all. After countless hours of training, Sagehorn is going for gold. 

“We have been really focused on playing against better people in the offseason so that way when we play against the best of the best through the season then we will have seen it before,” Sagehorn said. “We have been working a lot on crashing the net and becoming more effective at the net. We are also wanting to get our first serve percentage to around 70 percent to build better doubles points. And of course we are going for the title.”