Vanguard tennis nets pair

Rachael Sessum, an Orange Coast College product, and Amy Brown, from

Redding, are the newest additions to the Vanguard University women’s

tennis team, Vanguard Coach Mattias Johansson said

Johansson hopes the recruits improve his women’s tennis team that

reached the second round of the NAIA National Tournament last season

and returns the majority of its players from that squad.

Sessum, a Newport Beach resident, graduated from Calvary Chapel

High School in 2002 and joins the Lions from the community college

courts at OCC. She competed one season for OCC, compiling a 7-3

record in singles and a 10-0 mark in doubles action. Sessum plans to

continue her degree work in biology at Vanguard and will have three

years of eligibility remaining.

Brown comes to Vanguard from Redding, where she competed for

Foothill High. She was an all-league selection for Foothill and

completed a successful prep career in singles and doubles. Off the

court, Brown graduated with a 3.94 grade point average for Shasta

Secondary Home School in 2003. She will major in exercise sports

science at Vanguard.