Freshman tennis stud Luke Smrek’s father is a two-time NBA champion, the first Canadian to ever win a ring and played with some of the greatest the sport has ever seen (he refuses to choose a favorite former teammate between Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan).
But if you followed Luke around, you would never know it.
In the fall, when men’s tennis is mostly just cruising through occasional pre-season weekend tournaments, head coach Steve Rodecap subjected his team to conditioning boot camp twice a week. As the fall season wrapped up, so did the conditioning sessions.