It wasn’t the kind of season Lorens Knudsen expected. The Columbine boys tennis coach had an experienced, but still a relatively young team. And Chatfield, for years, has been the perennial favorite in the 5A Jeffco League.
But Columbine beat all those odds, scoring three shutout victories in league play, winning two matches by a 6-1 score and scoring a come-from-behind 4-3 win over Chatfield, in which the Rebels’ doubles team won all four matches, to take home league supremacy.
So, was winning the league championship a surprise? In a word, yes.