Chaminade Team Photo During its 2009 spring season, the Chaminade High School tennis team won its 3rd consecutive league title and its record 25th tennis title in the Nassau Suffolk Catholic High School Athletic Association league. For the last 37 years, Coach Jim Quinn has been at the helm for Chaminade, and has guided his tennis teams to 25 League Championships. This past season, senior, Peter Colgan, played 1st singles for Chaminade, and 16 year old twin brothers and juniors, Patrick and Christopher Brosnan (Garden City, NY), played 2nd singles and 3rd singles. All 3 players went undefeated for the Flyers during the NSCHSAA regular season. Additionally, in each round of the post-season playoffs, including the finals against St. John the Baptist High School of West Islip, Pat and Chris won their respective singles matches, helping Chaminade capture the Championship on Thursday, May 14 at Hofstra University. But the Chaminade singles trio wasn't done yet!

Going into the post-season NSCHSAA Individual Championships the next day at Hofstra, the top 4 seeds consisted of the four 1st singles players from Chaminade, St. John the Baptist, St. Anthony's and Kellenberg Memorial. Peter Colgan earned the no. 1 seed, while Pat Brosnan was seeded no. 5 and Chris Brosnan was unseeded. After winning their first, second and quarterfinal round matches, each of the Brosnan brothers advanced to the semifinals, as did Colgan. In one semi-final match, Pat Brosnan faced off against Chaminade teammate, Peter Colgan. In a grueling 3 set match of high quality tennis, Colgan emerged with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, victory, handing Pat Brosnan his first and only loss of his NSCHSAA season. In the other semi-final match, unseeded Chris Brosnan was doing battle on the adjacent court against St. John the Baptist senior and the tournament's no. 2 seed, Eric Dietsche. Playing nearly flawless tennis, Chris Brosnan served and volleyed his way to a 6-1, 6-0 victory, setting the stage for an all-Chaminade final the next day between the unseeded Brosnan and the no. 1 seeded Colgan.

L-R: 2009 NSCHSAA Singles Champion, Chris Brosnan, Finalist, Peter Colgan, and 3rd Place Winner, Pat Brosnan. On May 19, in a close and hard-fought finals match in which Brosnan attacked the net and made few mistakes, Brosnan defeated Colgan 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, to capture the NSCHSAA 2009 Singles Championship. According to Chaminade coach and League Chairman, Jim Quinn, Brosnan is the first unseeded player to win the Individual Championships in NSCHSAA league history. As a result, Chris Brosnan was the only player in the NSCHSAA league to have a perfect record during the 2009 season -winning each of his matches during the regular season, the team playoffs and the Individual Championships. In the third place match, no. 5 seeded Pat Brosnan defeated no. 2 seeded Eric Dietsche. This was only the 3rd time in NSCHSAA history when the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place singles players were from the same high school, with the previous 2 trios also being from Chaminade during Coach Quinn's tenure.

The Brosnan twins are also avid platform tennis players during the fall and winter months, and compete as doubles partners in the American Platform Tennis Association's junior tournaments throughout the Northeast. They finished the 2008-09 platform tennis season ranked no. 3 nationally by the APTA in the Boys 18 & Under Division.