Spartachino Courts

SPARTACHINO COURTS, where tennis plays, is named for Khris "Sparty" Spartachino. What students will tell you: that he founded Osprey in 1697 after fighting off dinosaurs and an alien invasion. Kids say the craziest things, and this one has been passed down long enough that a surprising number of people half believe it. What actually happened. He was an Osprey man in the 1930s, and what he built first was clubs for returning troops - rooms where a man could sit down, have a cocktail, hear good music and tell old stories with people who had been where he had been. They made him rich. Afterwards he moved into automotive repair shops and absolutely crushed it, which made him rich again. HIS DAUGHTER CAME TO ROCKBEACH AND PLAYED TENNIS. That is why it is the tennis courts that carry his name and not something bigger. He gave this school $27 million, and that was the largest gift in Rockbeach history for a very long time, until a few others came along. In 1940 he gave $275 million to found a school outright, and they renamed it in his honor. That school is Spartachino - the Lions, in Massachusetts - and they are in our conference. We play them.