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Published November 21, 2009 03:20 am - Paying another visit to the variety store... Raising the bar If you follow these pages on a regular basis, you probably checked out Tom Harris’ most excellent profile on Geneva’s Courtney Thompson. Thompson, a senior, is the 2009 Star Beacon Ashtabula County Tennis Player of the Year... again. A Don McCormack column: Courting history Geneva great did just that this fall DON McCORMACK Star Beacon Paying another visit to the variety store...
Raising the bar If you follow these pages on a regular basis, you probably checked out Tom Harris’ most excellent profile on Geneva’s Courtney Thompson. Thompson, a senior, is the 2009 Star Beacon Ashtabula County Tennis Player of the Year... again. As in, not for the first time. However, what we failed to recognize is that young Miss Thompson — now hard at work preparing for the season as a key member of coach Nancy Barbo’s most excellent girls basketball program at Geneva — made some Star Beacon history this fall. The daughter of Vern and Rhonda Thompson, Courtney is the first athlete — female or male — to earn Star Beacon Ashtabula County Player of the Year honors in a single sport for four consecutive years. Previous to her doing so this fall, two of the famous Kapferer sisters — Kelly and Haley — had set the standard by being named Star Beacon Ashtabula County Player of the Year in three consecutive seasons, both doing so for legendary coach Rod Holmes at Jefferson. Kelly did it from 1997-98 through 1999-2000 and Haley matched her older sister, doing so in 2004-05 through 2006-07. Kelly remains the only county athlete to earn Star Beacon Ashtabula County Player of the Year honors in three straight years — in two sports — having also been named Player of the Year in volleyball in 1997, 1998 and 1999. With only four years of high school eligibility allowed in Ohio (some states, such as Kentucky, allow an athlete to play at the varsity level starting in the seventh grade, as former Browns quarterback Tim Couch did), Courtney has set a standard that can only be matched and never surpassed. Courtney’s coach for her career — which encompassed an individual record of 78-18 (.813) at Geneva — was Scott Torok, the Star Beacon Ashtabula County Coach of the Year, who led Geneva to the Premier Athletic Conference championship in its first season in the new loop, becoming the first Geneva team to win a PAC championship. Terrific trio While we’re on the subject of Geneva, Barbo and her most excellent staff of her husband, John, and junior-varsity coach Rob DiPofi, will have three, count ’em, three, girls who earned Star Beacon Ashtabula County Player of the Year recognition this fall on the Eagle hardwood this winter. 
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