Sam Zausner, a 16-year-old junior at Tenafly High School, has been playing tennis since he was 5. He plays at the Tenafly Racquet Club, is on his school team, participates in tournaments, and also volunteers as a coach in a tennis program for local kids.
His brother Eli, a 15-year-old freshman at Tenafly High School, also has been playing tennis most of his life. Eli also competes at the Tenafly Racquet Club and in tournaments, and he hopes to join the school team in the spring.
Eli volunteered at a program for neurodivergent children at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. “It originally started as my bar mitzvah project,” he said. He chose that opportunity because “my mom once shared a quote with me that ‘no man is as tall as when he bends down to help a child.’ I really wanted to incorporate that into my project, and I couldn’t think of a better way than by helping kids who might have trouble doing things that an average kid could do.
