Acalanes High School - Aklan Yearbook (Lafayette, CA)

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Arched entry. An arched back adds the sprint events, the dive often determined extra heighth Chris Kirwin needs to gain the winner a slight lead on his opponents. In the I ' ve been swimming on an AAU swim team since I was twelve years old. The best part is seeing my times steadily de- creasing. Aside from the Na- tionals, the N.C.S. meet is the most important meet to me be- cause there ' s something spe- cial about high school swimming. It ' s a great feeling to be contributing to a team. Sara Linke Girls ' Varsity Swimming We They Opponent 106 63 Las Lomas 87 79 Miramonte 112 59 Campolindo 127 19 Alhambra 102 69 Carondolet Won 5, Lost FAL Champions North Coast Champions Girls ' J. V. Swimming We They Opponent 7072 8572 Las Lomas 43 115 Miramonte 70 86 Campolindo 102 53 Alhambra 87 49 Carondolet Won 3, Lost 2 Boys ' Varsity Water Polo We They Opponent 11 3 Las Lomas 9 4 Miramonte 14 3 Campolindo 12 3 Las Lomas 7 6 Miramonte 11 5 Campolindo Won 6, Lost FAL Champions North Coast Champions Frosh Soph Boys ' Water Polo We They Opponent 9 6 Las Lomas 7 8 Miramonte 9 6 Campolindo 7 6 Las Lomas 6 8 Miramonte 5 7 Campolindo Won 3, Lost 3 56 WATER SPORTS

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Grounded. In a pre-season scrimmage, Ernie Sponzilli leaves a Balboa player on the ground with his lightning-fast moves. The Varsity met Balboa twice more, once in the FAL Cup final and again in the Tournament of Champions, beating them each time. Goal-Oriented Chris Hausser. After the game, parents from the other team came over to our side and said they thought we should have won. Few people can remember the last time a frosh-soph soc- cer team lost a game, and this year ' s squad maintained the winning tradition. Unbeaten in league play for the fourth con- secutive year, they pushed the frosh-soph winning streak to forty-seven games, along with winning the FAL Cup. Since Mr. Klier ran most of the Var- sity practices, Mr. Thurling was free to concentrate on frosh-soph, mentioned Jeff Biggs. If frosh-soph successes were indicative of future Var- sity chances, then the soccer teams have a promising future. The frosh-soph still have a few years ahead of them, but for the Varsity, this year repre- sented the culmination of many years of experience. Many players had travelled to such exotic places as Europe, Hawaii, Las Vegas, and beauti- ful Fresno, trashing motels, harassing waitresses and gen- erally being a nuisance in be- tween competing in tournaments. Ron said, We ' ve been playing on the same team for seven years, and it has given us the chance to go places we never would have seen otherwise. It was sad this year, since this may have been the last time we ever played to- gether. Varsity Soccer Bottom row: loe Parlette, Patrick Wickens, George Pastor, Ron Hansen, Kevin Sargent, laime Ponsford. Second Row: Peter Isola, Jim Parlette, Mike Worthington, |ohn Farrell, Ian McRae, Jim Holden. Top Row: Al Thurling, Scott Hoetker, Rick Biro, Drew Peterson, Doug Hamilton, Todd Morrish, Chalo Berrocal, Fred Leach, Rich Klier. Frosh-Soph Soccer Bottom row: Joe Millette, Brad Goldblatt, Mitchell Hurtz, Carlos Caicedo, Harry Kamian. Second Row: Derik Rost, Brian Tuemmeler, Doug Bea, Don Marshall, Alvaro Pastor, Rick Iverson, Mark O ' Neill. Top Row: Jeff Biggs, Dave Olkkola, Brad Gamble, Dan Sullivan, Greg Holmes, Mike Embree, John Guess, Cesar Gronning. Punishable offense. Fred Leach is fouled by a Campolindo player as he goes up for the ball. Referees used cards to sanction violent players; a yellow card was a warning and a red card meant the ejection of the offending player. 55 SOCCER

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Making Waves In what was considered one of the nation ' s top water sports ' counties, both of the swim teams and the water polo team boasted superior talent and excellent seasons. Talent alone, though, did not lead the water sports ' teams to great seasons. Hard work, good coaching and lots of practice (many sunrises found swim- mers and water polo players doing laps in the pool) were the other elements needed for vic- tory. Coming off their fourth straight North Coast Cham- pionship, the water polo team was considered the pre-season favorite to win an unprece- dented fifth consecutive North Coast title. Although we lost three All-Americans from last year ' s team, we still had four returning starters and four very good replacements for the three open spots. We really thought we had a chance to up- set Newport Harbor, the num- ber one team in the nation, commented Jim Ross. The team showed its strength by outclassing a thirty-two team field in the John Schmidt Me- morial Tournament. After we won so easily, 11-1 in the final against Tokay, Coach Heaston kept stressing the point that we had to avoid a let down and keep improving because all the other teams would be shooting to knock us off, mentioned Bob Gonser. After stringing thirteen con- secutive victories together, the moment the team was waiting for arrived. At 8:00 am on an overcast October 11th, the showdown between Northern and Southern California ' s top two teams took place at Inde- pendence High School in San Jose. Last year they beat us 11-1, but this year we made it a lot closer. They got ahead 3-0 early, but we played them even after that and lost 6-3. The game was even closer than the score showed, said Jim. After the loss to Newport, the Varsity won its last eleven games to end the season with a 24-1 record and FAL and North Coast Championships. Since we got to play in four tourna- ments, we faced all the top teams in Northern California and a couple from down South. This gave us an oppor- tunity to play teams with a va- riety of styles and to prove we (continued) n amf i ' -M. r 1 t AA % - ifv, fc Spotted. Bruce Perry waits for a teammate to get open before making i pass. Bruce was the team ' s leading scorer and was named a first team All-American. Soggy sideline. The storage shack for the pool covers provided an excellent between-event resting place for swimmers Jeff Hyde, Jeff Huber, Kendall Sparks, Jim Ross and Joe Schafer enjoy the view from the shack during the FAL Relays. Back splash. Senior Karen Nelson pushes herself on the last lap of her 1 00 yard backstroke. A string of flags was ig five yards away from each end so that backstrokers knew how close they were to the wall. 57 WATER SPORTS