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

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VARSITY VOLLEYBALL: FRONT ROW: Angela Hotchkiss, Holly Waid. SECOND ROW: Nicole Lee, Sarah Per- ish, Samantha Senett, Erica Cauchi. BACK ROW: Katie Koch, Charisse Lee, Barbara Bertagna, Cheryl DeI.eon, Diane Bertagna, Karen Roady, Dianne Pineda. FROSH-SOPH VOLLEYBALL: FRONT ROW: Dierdre Murtaugh, Julie Johnson, Karen Tensfeldt. SECOND ROW: Mikala Lauridsu, Janet Olimpo, Ilene Wilkins, Carin Craig, Debbie Dou- gherty, Alma Arreris. BACK ROW: Catherine Kenny, Paula Welch, Karen Ja- cobsen, Debbie Jang, Jenny Laisser, Jen- ny Long. Another diligent Don practices service, to prepare for challenging meets ahead. Freshman Karen Tensfeldt and sopho- more Aimee Grant, show their serving styles. The long hours spent after school paid off in their triumphant season.

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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!

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The Don's Keep On Treading WATER BABIES While most Aragonians were warm and sound asleep in bed, a small portion of high school life could be found on the seemingly deserted Aragon campus. Bobbing up and down in the deep blue wa- ters of the pool were thirty-four very dedicated guys in funny caps. They were polo players, but where were their horses? They did not have horses, for they were the talented members of the 1986-87 water polo team. Under the third year of direc- tion by coach Bob Greene, a for- mer Aragon student and water polo player, the thirteen seniors, thirteen juniors, seven sopho- mores, and one freshmen learned skills critical to their success in wa- ter polo. Endurance was a key ele- ment, and a great amount of swim- ming, about twelve hours a week improved their strength and stam- ina. A much needed element to survive ten league games plus 7 tournaments. The success of the team could be given in part to key returning players, Mike Janney 11985 var- sity all leaguel, Ted Gourvitz l1985 frosh-soph all leaguel, Jim Peterson C1985 honorable men- tion goaliei, and Chris Noa C1985 frosh-soph honorable mentionl. We have an all-star team this year, claimed coach Bob Greene. The team certainly had Wheaties potential! Varsity Back Row: Lester Knok, John Welson, Ted Gourvite, Dave Mathisen, Mike Tanney, Brad Klapper, Mark Vas- quez, Mark Conney, Chris Noa, Front Row: Torrey Sullivan. J.V. Back Row: Barry Stinmetz, John Gill, Mark Dowling, John Yardley, Scott Hausworth, Alex Pao, Front Row: Chris Agdahl, Jikash Kataroka, Mike Yager, John Keiffer, David Bart- feld, Paul Ring. 40 Water Polo