Point Loma grad and UCLA national champ returning to San Diego for ATP event
Keegan Smith remembers when his world went dark. He was riding a skateboard down Gayley Avenue, snaking along the edge of UCLA’s campus. He was listening to the song “Lauren” by a band named Men I Trust, gliding home from a friend’s place.“Next thing you know, I wake up in the ER,” Smith said. “I was throwing up. My head was ringing. It felt like my back was broken. My whole body hurt. I couldn’t move my eyelids without excruciating pain.
Unpeeled, it’s more about rare and powerful perspective of which most his age are oblivious about while happily skipping through early days.“People get caught up in their lives and get down about their situation, their job or whatever it is,” said Smith, 24. “The fact that we’re all here today and breathing is pretty special.”, beginning Saturday at the Barnes Tennis Center, out-points special.
Keegan Smith, right, and partner Nicholas Monroe play a men’s doubles match at the U.S. Open on Sept. 1 in Flushing, N.Y. Smith’s father Jim, now a professor of accounting at USD, played in college at Tulane. In a wink from the sport universe, Smith grew up a massive USC tennis fan because his uncle Peter served as the long-time head coach.“I grew up always wearing USC gear,” he said. “But when it came to deciding on a college, I kind of wanted to do my own thing.”
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