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Jean Hoxie
Jean Hoxie was a Hamtramck, Michigan tennis player and coach. In 1965, she was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
Biography.
At the Class A level in Michigan under the banner of the Hamtramck High School Cosmos, Jean Hoxie and her husband Jerry Hoxie developed 16 state titleholders in singles tennis, and 13 state titleholders in doubles tennis. At all levels, members of their program won 18 boys state championships between 1949 and 1969 in high school competition.
Male players coached by
the Hoxie program included Ken Angyal, Chuck Brainard, Pancho Castillo, Jerry Dubie, Al Hetseck, Ted Jax, George Korol, Fred Kovaleski, John Lamerato, Tony Lamerato, Jerry Parchute, Bill Petrick, Dick Potter, and Ray Senkowski. Winning national honors, Hoxie-coached female players included Peaches Bartkowicz, Elaine Lewicki, Joyce Pniewski, Stephanie Prychitko, Phyllis Saganski, and June Stack.
In the 1940s, Jean Hoxie and her husband Jerry established the first tennis camp in the United States.
Jean Hoxie