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John Mullins Varsity tennis coach, John
Mullins, who has been with the tennis program for 33 years, retired at the
end of the 2010 school year. The 2010
tennis team honored Coach Mullins at their annual banquet for his 32 years as
varsity coach at La Porte High School.
Coach Mullins assumed the head coaching job at La Porte in the fall of
1978. Since the fall of 1978, the
tennis program at La Porte has produced numerous district champions and
regional qualifiers in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles and a number of
team tennis championships. Coach
Mullins was named the 2006 Texas Tennis Coaches Association/Wilson 5A High
School Coach of the Year. In 2009,
Coach Mullins was named the National Grassroot
Umpire of the Year by the United Sates Tennis
Association. To cap off his
illustrious coaching career, Coach Mullins, along with Coach Shope, was named 2010 District 22-5A Co-Coach of the
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