“Fast” Eddie Fasolo, all grown up and responsible and stuff, with girlfriend Alexa Glover.
#45, always with the rock in his hand.
Ken Stange hangs out with his tennis players. (Wendy McCormick photos)
I’m contractually obligated to run this photo with any story about Stange. Fact.
They are the wild ones. The renegades. Individuals, through and through.
So, it’s kind of fitting that Ken Stange and “Fast” Eddie Fasolo share a birthday today — one day to honor two dudes who have always done it their way.
Stange is the barefoot-tennis-playin’, goatee-rockin’, dance-move-droppin’ net guru for the Wolves, a man who has made tennis the go-to sport at CHS for everyone from seasoned vets to green newbies not even sure which way to hold the racket on the first day of practice.
He’s had state meet participants under his watch, most recently Ben Etzell and Aaron Curtin last season, but it has always been his ability to bring in the player who had never thought about being an athlete in the first place that cements his rep.
The Wolf tennis squads have blossomed under his tutelage and grown by leaps and bounds. The deepest rosters of any sport at CHS and also the only ones where the coach is willing to recreate a Beyonce video with his players.
Across town, the legend that is “Fast” Eddie never grows old. He just gets more stories to tell.
The son of legendary OG surfer/coolest man to trod the Earth Bob Fasolo, Eddie starred on the hardcourt from the first moment he picked up a basketball.
Playing with brother Rob, the Fasolos laid down the smack (and, in the case of Eddie, talked a lot of it, too.)
But, while he could trash talk with the best of them, Eddie could also back it up, draining jumpers and playing the way his dad taught him — all out, all the time.
As he and girlfriend Alexa Glover await the arrival of their first child, the boy has become a man — and one his father would be proud of.
Can one day survive two legends celebrating their birthday at the same time? It’ll have to, because the dudes abide.
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