Capistrano Valley High School - El Gato Yearbook (Mission Viejo, CA)

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T IT TAKES TWO — Dana Hills players attempt to block Holly Anderson from -eceiving a pass. Anderson led the Cougars in scoring and rebounding. Coack, %om we- mdu I love him to death! Juliet pining for her lost Romeo? Scarlet fawning over Rhett? Maybe Maddie get- ting starry-eyed over David? Would you believe some girl talking about her basketball coach? Nah, can ' t be, you say? Well, say again, because that ' s just the way Lainie Spence, and for that matter the rest of the girl ' s varsity basketball team, felt about their coach, Stan DeMag- gio. I know I wouldn ' t have had as much fun playing basketball without him coaching, said senior and three-year varsity star Shelley Zierhut. He ' s really personable and our team really likes him. Perhaps his girls admired him so much because Coach De- Maggio was more than just a coach. He was like a father fi- gure to us, reminisced senior MVP Holly Anderson. He talked to us when we were down, anytime. While Coach DeMaggio was available whenever any of his girls were down, as far as bas- i M A ■ m ifTn 5-1 tJ p 1 • ' ' f ' i lot pv . m SIT B.ASKFTBALt - lop ro Susan Call Third row: Holly jw: Erin Grondzik, Bridget B; Stan DeMaggio, Alisa Farr. !, Teresa Doesburg, Peggy :ierhut, Rachel Dunn. Sec- Front row: Deena Zerbe, ketball was concerned, down didn ' t come very often. The Lady Cougars finished third in a tough South Coast League and advanced to the second round of the C.I.F. playoffs before los- ing a squeaker to Ocean View, a team the Cougars felt they should have beat. It was a fluke that we lost that last game in C.I.F. lament- ed junior Bridget Baker. But the major victories col- lected by the team were any- thing but flukes. The girls stormed through the Costa Mesa tournament, capturing the team title and placing three players on the all-tourney team: Spence, who collected a triple- double in one of the games. Ba- ker, who was selected to the team as a guard, and Anderson, who garnered MVP honors. Despite winning MVP in the tournament, Anderson didn ' t rank it at the top of her high- light list. That honor went to the league victory over El Toro. It was down to the wire at the end and we won! The team played really well together that game, Anderson remembered fondly. Not all the memories of the season were fond, however. The girls failed to beat Mission for the fourth straight year. As seniors, said Zierhut, we felt like it was our last chance to do it, and it was our year. Yet perhaps the greatest dis- appointment is yet to come. That will be next year when the returning varsity squad starts its new season without Coach De- Maggio, who said he was hang- ing it up. I ' d like to thank him for be- ing there when I needed him said Anderson. Sadly for future teams. Coach DeMaggio won ' t be there, anymore. KETBALL Girls Varsity Basketball 181

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i m ► FANCY FOOTWORK — Alisa Farr and Susan Call counter their oppo- nents every move with quick, flexi- ble footwork. VARSITY 180 Girls Varsity Basketball

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Piaqmi b(j iMMp uMce r here ' s an old saying that close only counts in horseshoes. And hand grenades. And nuclear war. Well, it ' s time to add something new to that list: JV girls basket- ball. The girls may not have won very many games (only a hand- ful) but considering the fact that they fielded a team made up of several first time players, just managing to keep the score close almost every time out is pretty impressive. This was especially true of the game against San Clemente, a team which dominated the JV division. The second time we played ' em, we really gave them a run for their money, said Coach Theresa Aldrich. Aldrich believes that if her team would have had just a little bit more experience, the results might have been different. A lot of the girls were first-time players . , that was our biggest problem. Sophomore Jennifer Avery echoed her coach ' s sentiments when she said, It was my first year ever playing basketball. That make it kind of hard. That ' s not to say that the team ' s inexperience prevented them from achieving at least some success. As the season progressed, so did the team. We were good as individuals at the beginning, but we came together as a team at the end and played better, said Avery. But inexperience wasn ' t the only thing the girls had to over- come. Some of the players were felled by injury. I was hurt in the second game of the Irvine tourna- ment, said junior forward Sarah Semelsberger. But, like the team, she got better. I even came back to score 12 points in the next game, she said. So maybe the team didn ' t win a ton of games. But they came close, and maybe next year, they ' ll get there. A DON ' T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT — Junior Summer Fields jumps to block a shot with a force that would prevent anyone from attempting a basket. ► I COT IT! - With the ball still in mid-air, junior Sarah Semelsberger braces herself to haul down a re- bound before her opponent. BASKETBALL BAS 182 Girls )V Basketball