A grand slam against hunger: Lafayette teen serves up tennis lessons so seniors can eat

Like so many, then-Campolindo High School ninth grader Jake Hammerman was at a loss when the pandemic shut down life as we knew it. But he understood that, suddenly, people everywhere needed help.

“I wanted to find a way to help out and do something important,” said the 17-year-old Lafayette resident, now in his senior year. “The first part was finding a cause to support and second part was finding a way that I was capable of supporting it.”