In 2025, for the 4th consecutive season, Saints Varsity Tennis found themselves in the Open Division playoffs as one of the Top 8 teams in all of San Diego. This was a great follow up to an historic 2024 season where the team made the CIF championship match and was invited to the State Tournament for the first time in school history as one of the Top 16 teams in all of California.
Saints finished 2025 with an impressive 11-2 record highlighted by wins over multiple local Catholic schools (Cathedral Catholic, Mater Dei, and Vincent Memorial) and strong public-school programs (Patrick Henry, Point Loma, San Diego, etc.).
Three players participated in the prestigious Ojai Invitational in April. Mattie Gosling played singles while Javier Guillot & Jacques Allende teamed up for doubles.
Saints players continued their outstanding individual performances in 2025 which add to an impressive decade of accolades in the 2020s:
The St. Augustine varsity boys’ tennis program maintains a focus on lofty goals, whether it is wins over quality opponents or a significant postseason presence. We have a rich tradition of conducting a competitive tennis program that has produced local, regional, national, and international tennis champions over the last seventy-five years.
The Saints program is committed to nurturing the development of ranked tournament-level players as well as beginning and novice players who progress steadily over a four-year period. Saintsmen have won numerous local, Southern California, and national championships. Chief among them are Franklin Johnson, Carlos Carriedo, Walter Redondo, and Noah Zamora. Johnson in the 1950s won the national boys doubles and later became an All-American at UCLA and president of the United States Tennis Association. Carriedo, Saints Class of 1965, won national boys hardcourt titles and was a finalist in doubles at the National Boys Championships in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Redondo, a 1976 Saints alumnus, won many national singles and doubles titles, including the National Boys 16 Championships and represented the United States at the Junior Wimbledon Championships.
In 2021, Noah Zamora became the first Saints player since Ignacio Martinez in 1990 to win the San Diego CIF Individual Championship. He had a successful college career at UC Irvine highlighted by 3 Big West Team Championships. He was also named the Big West Player of the Year in 2025 as well as UC Irvine’s Male Athlete of the Year. By his senior year he was ranked as high as #31 in the nation.”
Head Tennis Coach
