Dave Benson, Class of 2016

Ranked among the top 30 players in the nation in Boys’ 16s, Dave was a standout at Cherry Creek High School, pocketing back-to-back No. 1 singles titles and helping his Bruins squad to the school’s first ever state team championship title in 1972.

As a junior at Trinity University, the team narrowly lost the NCAA Division I National Championships title 5-4 to Stanford in 1977, the same year he received team MVP honors.

Dave captained the US Junior Davis Cup squad in 1978 and ’79, traveling with the nation’s top ten boys. He returned to become the head coach at Cherry Creek, capturing six state titles in as many years.

Dave and his brother, John, founded Benson’s Tennis Camp in the 1980s, working with junior players for more than a decade before selling the program to NIKE.