David Sherbeck (born December 2, 1955) is an American former professional

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player. Sherbeck, the son of Fullerton College football coach Hal, grew up in

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and attended El Dorado High School. His younger brother,

Eric Sherbeck Eric Sherbeck (born August 7, 1957) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography Sherbeck was born in Missoula, Montana, the son of Hal Sherbeck, an athletics coach at the University of Montana. Early in his childhood the family mo ...

, was a tennis player who competed professionally in the 1980s. A graduate of the

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, where he played from 1974 to 1978, Sherbeck featured briefly on the professional tour. Most notably he was a mixed doubles quarter-finalist at the

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partnering

Jane Stratton Jane Stratton (born August 10, 1953) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Biography Stratton grew up in Utah and was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship to the University of Utah. She played collegiate ten ...

, another former University of Utah player.

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