This has been a slow but steady process, but this spring it became a reality: Beacon owns boys tennis in New York City. The Blue Demons won a fourth straight PSAL Class A title and claimed its second Mayor’s Cup in June, behind Wisconsin-bound… Read more
Quinton Vega didn’t see high school team tennis in his future before attending Beacon. The area’s best prospects rarely play team tennis and it would cut into his training time. His mind abruptly changed upon arriving at the Upper West Side… Read more
Bayard Faithfull never faulted Quinton Vega for missing last year’s Mayor’s Cup, the end-of-year tournament featuring the best Catholic, public and private-school teams in the city. Vega was playing in a USTA sectional tournament that was… Read more
Quinton Vega is ranked No. 29 in the nation, was as high as eighth as a junior and the Beacon senior has signed a National Letter of Intent to play college tennis at Wisconsin, choosing the Badgers over Florida State and Michigan. But Vega’s… Read more
Bayard Faithfull understands how young tennis players feel. They want to be like who they see on TV, like Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic. In other words, they want to play singles. Doubles? That’s not even part of the… Read more
