There are 3 seasons that stand out as the most successful (on-court) seasons in Bethany Christian history. Those seasons are 1998, 1999, 2008. Those are the 3 seasons that are recorded on the plaque in the gym lobby.
There are some similarities in these programs, so let's take a look at how the number 3 runs through them.
The regular season records of the teams, 16-3, 12-3, 15-4. It may look as if the 2008 team is throwing off the theme of 3, but keep in mind that those four losses came to only 3 different teams, as 2008 team lost twice to Concord.
At least 3 players who played college tennis (or are considering it)
1998: Aaron Wieand, Andrew Lanctot, Aaron Lehman
1999: Aaron Wieand, Andrew Lanctot, Andrew Kauffman
2008: Jonny Shenk, Daniel Buschert, Luke Hostetter?
3 positions with over 75% winning percentage:
1998: #1S, #2S, #3S
1999: #1S, #2S, #1D
2008: #2S, #3S, #2D
3-2 wins over Fairfield
2-3 losses to Concord
3 players on each team who go by Biblical names without shortening them.
3 is the favorite number of the coach.
3 teams in which Andrew Lanctot is involved.
#3S was a position that won a lot for each of these years, compared to other lower achieving teams (Mike Mallot was 18-1 for 1998, Andrew Kauffman played 1999, Jonny Shenk 17-5 in 2008)
3 (x2) - okay, this is stretching it but these teams combined for 6 trophies (2 LaVille, 2 Lakeland, 1 Wayne, and 1 Sectional)
I'm sure there is more and more and more... but I'm running out of concrete knowledge, so I'll stop now.
(P.S. Notice how more was repeated three times, I'm so tricky!)
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ReplyDeleteWell, 19 is my favorite number, and you can see how it is apparent in the three seasons. Jared had 19 wins in the 2008 season, most of any 2 singles player, the 3 singles guy from the 98 season was 18-1 (18+1=19), our regular season record was 15-4 (15+4=19) and if you add up the losses from the regular seasons of all 3, (10) and add that to the number of seasons (3) squared, you get 19. I'm sure there is more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more. (notice how I used more 19 times there, I'm even trickier than matt)
ReplyDeletelol oh yeah daniel...well my favorite number is 2001 and 2/3...and if you add up 1998, 1999, and 2008 you get 6005. And if you divide 6005 by 3 you get 2001 and 2/3!!!!! Can you believe it?!?! Also if you look at the number 2001 and 2/3 you will see that by taking 2001/(2*3) then you get 333.5. Not only is there the number 3 in that but there are exactly 3 3's!!!!! and if you take the remaining .5 and multiply it by 6 (which is 2x3 from before) then you get another 3! Oh man!!! (3 exclamation marks too)
ReplyDeleteOh fun with numbers:-)
ReplyDeleteJohnny Kauffman plans on playing tennis next year.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Kauffman, I did not know this was official. And that is awesome! Maybe I should find all the fours that were in common now...
ReplyDeleteJohnny Kauffman plans on playing tennis FOUR years in college, I would assume this is the same for Daniel Luke and Jonny. Zing.
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