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tennisBy Raheena CharaniaThe MosebysOn a Winning Streak!Jason Moseby was having another good year. The Newport tennis team hadgone undefeated all year, and he and his doubles partner, Frederick Walsh,had won the Class 3A Kingco district title. He was on a winning streak. Andthat was just tennis.Jason was also the leadoff batter for the Newport High baseball team and wasthe 3A Kingco batting champ. Batting 510, he holds the record for secondall-time batting champ in Newport history. He finished the season with a .500average, 44 hits, 27 runs scored, and 25 RBIs.The Newport Knights had been having a great season, making it all the wayto the state playoffs at Safeco Field. Jason hadn’t been planning on balancingtwo sports. After all, tennis is a fall game, and baseball a spring game.However, the state tennis championship playoffs had been scheduled for thesame weekend.“At the beginning of the year, he warned his baseball coach that if theyqualified, he would play in the state tennis tournaments,” says his father andtennis pro, Paul Moseby. “They had 16 seniors on the team, and Newporthad a really good shot to win the state baseball championship. But Jasonwas committed to tennis first. Hopefully, we live by our convictions, and oncewe start something, we see it through. If Jason didn’t play in the state tennischampionships, Frederick Walsh, his doubles partner couldn’t play, whereasthere were 15 other kids on the baseball team who could play in Jason’sspot.”Fortunately, even when it appeared that the game times would overlap,Jason never had to make that sacrifice. When the baseball finals and the20 <strong>PRO</strong> PULSE SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2006
tennis finals were both scheduled for 4 p.m., the tennis coaches and playersinvolved graciously agreed to move up the starting time of their matches toaccommodate Jason.On Friday, Jason played his first tennis match at UW and headed to SafecoField to play baseball. Coming into the game in the fourth inning, he wasescorted onto the field with a standing ovation from the crowd. His first timeat bat, he singled home a run and tripled in the sixth. That evening, he playedand won another tennis match. The next day, he played a morning matchand won in two straight sets. That afternoon, he played and won the Class 3AState Tennis Boys Doubles Championship with Frederick before rushing off toSafeco Field once more to play in the state baseball championship. When itwas all over, Jason Moseby had two state championships – one in tennis andanother in baseball – all in one day.He was honored as one of the three finalists for the All-Eastside Player of theYear, and got drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 19th round. This fall,Jason will attend BCC, where he received a scholarship to play baseball.Jason spent a lot of time at the club while growing up. Personal trainer ErikNelson, remembers working with him. “We set up a strength and conditioningprogram for Jason, and he just got to it,” says Nelson. “He stuck his mind toit, worked hard, and it obviously paid off.”“Erik was just a really good friend in general,” says Jason. “He was there forme if I had any questions. I remember when he was teaching me how to liftweights to start out. I just watched him put 400 pounds on a machine andbench press. I was awestruck. We had a good time together.”When asked how he managed to stay so focused during the tournaments,Jason replies, “Tennis was a bit more nerve racking than baseball just becauseit’s you and another person, not an entire team, so you have to depend onyourself. But it wasn’t really hard to switch between them. It seemed liketennis really helped my hitting in baseball my entire life. So it seemed like anormal thing to me to go from one to the other. I had to drink a few energydrinks in the car. I remember at the baseball finals I was trying to eat bananasin the dugout and running around, and telling everyone, ‘If I have to be thisexcited, you guys have to be as well because I’m dead.’ It worked out prettywell.”On the same day that Jason won his state championships, his sister, Kristin,a sophomore at Newport High, was playing for the Class 3A State Girls TennisDoubles Championship. Kristin and her doubles partner, Casey Roh, wonthe Class 3A Kingco title. Her team went undefeated in the season, beatingMercer Island for the first time in 10 years. She went on to win in districtmatches and placed second in the state championships.You may have seen Kristin at Discovery Bay this past summer workingalongside her mother, Donna Moseby. She enjoys caring for children andhopes to get into nursing when she finishes school.Having a tennis pro as a father, both Jason and Kristin naturally grew upplaying tennis. “I’ve been playing since I was three years old,” says Kristin.“I played a lot at the club and went through JET league. I used to do dancewhen I was younger, but I quit so that I could focus on tennis. My dad hashelped me a lot through the years. He’s my coach. He can really be stern withme, but he’s also very caring and loving. It’s nice to have that combination. It’sfun hitting with him. We do a lot of drills that help me during the season, butwe also goof around. We’ve done everything from hitting beach balls when Iwas young to whacking the ball at each other. He always made me feel reallycomfortable. He’d tell me when I needed work or improvement and how to fixit. But he always told me that playing tennis is for fun. It’s not as if you have towin, as long as you’re having fun at it and play your game.”photosBy Gerald Pope<strong>PRO</strong>CLUB.COM 21
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