Aragon High School - El Tesoro Yearbook (San Mateo, CA)

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VARSITY FOOTBALL: 27 Alex Aguirre, 9 Al Bernal, 64 Bobby Bianchi, 40 Shannon Carrithers, 36 Boyd Kiefus, 22 John Eke, 82 Chris Fex, 25 Marc Friedman, 42 Mie Giaco- mino, 56 Terry Gordon, 1 Mike Hendricks, 3 Ray Gambol, 88 Adrian Hines, 47 Bill Hos- kins, 4 Lee Jones, 54 Alex Jun, 4 Joe Lah- louh, 30 Mohu Latu, 32 Larry Lealao, 33 Richard Lealao, 35 Armand Leiro, 85 Gary Leonard, 80 Ryan Lilomaiava, 59 Marty McMahon, 79 Todd Mefford, 76 Will Meyer, 46 Soakimi Ongolea, 38 Penisimani Pahulu, 24 Goerge Pineda, 87 Venscky Rodino, 77 Peter Scatena, 7 Brian Schuler, 2 John Stiles, 57 Patrick Svoboda, 45 Mac Ferguson, 8 Greg Tateosian, 12 Simon Tomanogi, 34 Tai Tonga, 72 Nick Tsivikas, 55 Sean Wester, 19 Jim Wilkinson, 20 Victor Wu, 35 Josh Yager, 67 Dave Yarne, 5 Andy Zelms, Robert Dou- gherty. Aragon's punter demonstrates his aerobic abilities with his high kicks. The Aragon varsity football team plays ag- gressively to win. Players get stepped on, sat on and knocked down for the ball lwherever it is.l ,,V. J 5 , 9 ,,,,,, 7 rrr, , ' 7 fflr 7 ttir 5 l.Zfgf22f4f Q fe op L94 ' I --, ,,,, , A5 ssrr fx T' 7 f ,irr 2 , 1 f -neun ff W, . if 4.11 ,V , -,5,,w,e,, 4? , ,,,, My .. Y , 'fr ,,,' I'-W mymm ,, r ,

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T.V. SET FOR F COTBALL EXCITEMENT Dons Give New Meaning To Football The players take alignment on the field, you are on the edge of your seat, heart racing, palms sweating, the concentration of the crowd so intense you can feel it. The players scramble and the ball is thrown. Slowly, it makes its end- less trip, sailing gracefully into the hands of an Aragon Don, standing inches away from a touchdown. The crowd goes into hysterics, you are able to tell as the popcorn rains in the stands, and all control is lost. No, this excitement wasn't only limited to Pro-football, but was al- most guaranteed to be observed at the local Aragon Varsity football games. The team was packed with enthusiasm as the Dons strove for A determined Don dodges dexterously to the distress of the dumbfounded defend- er. One of the most devastating detriments of this year's team was their uncanny ability to tackle each other instead of the opposition. 36 f Varsity Football excellence with each play. Strenu- ous and sweaty practices were not considered hard work, but merely as necessary steps toward that precious goal of stomping each opposing foe. This goal was soon realized. The players are extrememly op- tomistic about this year, com- mented Coach Britt Williams dur- ing pre-season. There is a stron- ger desire to win, and the players support for each other will prob- ably make it happen. And, indeed, it did. The Dons played their hardest, displaying beautifully executed play after play, always managing to get the ball into their territory. What made the year special? 7 Most likely the originality of our plays, and the unity between us all. It's a different world when you're out there . . , it's survival , commented Greg Tateosian. A primary focus of the Don's game was a very strong defense, sup- ported with newer graphics and well-designed plays. So, when your family feel that burning desire to experience sports excitement at its best, don't pay the expense of a 49er ticket. Instead, save your money, pack up popcorn, hamburgers and soft drinks and head for the Aragon football field. Anyone can safely say, It's the best sport in the world .

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HEADS! The Main Vocabulary Of The Girls Volleyball Team When entering the girls gym last volleyball season, watch out! Balls were airborn everywhere and al- though someone usually had con- trol of it, the possibility of it sud- denly changing direction was al- ways there. The fourteen girls on varsity and fourteen on frosh-soph volleyball practiced five days a week until four in the afternoon. Their matches were held weekly against the other schools in our district. The most important things, began their coach, Ms. Thompson, are team work and team unity, if they do not play as a unit, it doesn't work. During the season they worked hard on serves, basic skills, and court stratagies. They need to have total communication, and know where the players are and where the ball isf' commented Ms. Thompson. That will be essential to their success. Last year the teams season was hurt by player injuries but this year they got through it smoothly. The team is a year more experienced than it was last year and we have a lot of new talent that will bring up our standings in the league, admitted varsity player Diane Bertagna. The matches are when all their hard work pays off. Each Tuesday and Thursday the girls got to show their stuff and hopefully come out the winner. For varsity this meant Sophomore, Soko Ofahulu concentrates on teamsmates play. As Soko's first year on the volleyball team, she proved to be a valuable asset to the team. 38fG1rls' Volleyball winning three out of the five games in a match while frosh-soph only had to win two out of three. This may have sounded simple but it wasn't! Volleyball took a lot of team work to produce something to write home about. The group rightnow has a potential of being a good team if they work on their skills and develop them through the season,', noted Ms. Thomp- son during pre-season. Volleyball is a tough sport but it is also re- warding. Connie Sullivan added from years of experience that volleyball was really funli' Heads up!