Blue banners are family heirlooms for the Isaac family and Tuesday afternoon, one of the Sac-Joaquin Section’s most decorated coaching families had a day that will be hard to top.
Just hours apart at the University of the Pacific, mother-daughter coaches Jen and Ashley Isaac each led their high school girls tennis teams to Sac-Joaquin Section championships, turning the annual finals into a family celebration.
Ashley’s Placer Hillmen rallied from early deficits to defeat No. 1 Rio Americano 5-4 for the Division III title, securing the first section crown of her coaching career. Not long after, her mother Jen guided Del Oro to the Division II championship with a 7-2 victory over Cosumnes Oaks, adding yet another trophy to the Golden Eagles’ proud tennis tradition…