CARLSBAD — The large plastic bin, stored in the garage, was filled with tennis trophies Chloe Katz had earned. She was 10 years old at the time and the family was moving to Rancho Santa Fe.

Somehow, the trophies never arrived.

“I kept waiting for that box,” said Katz, now a 16-year-old sophomore at La Costa Canyon High School. “And it never quite made it.”

Chloe’s father told her the trophies must have been lost in the move. Years later, he leveled with his daughter. He tossed them in a recycling bin.

“Downsize,” explained her father, Mark Katz. “Less is more, that’s my motto.”

Sitting in the first row of bleachers on the Mavericks’ No. 1 court last week, a wistful Chloe said: “It was kind of heartbreaking.”

Chloe’s solution? Restock. By her estimate, the new trophy count is up to 40

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