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

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SURROUNDED — Jennifer Avery ▼ ONE ON ONE - Anne Montero quickly passes the ball while simul- races down the court in an effort to taneously trying to fend off a school keep her opponent from retrieving of Dolphins. the ball. GIRLS JUNIOR VARSITY BASKETBALL — Top row: lulie Harbecke, Jennifer Avery, Jill Quinton, Aman Thind, Stephany Morrison, Erica Victorson, Joanna Gonzales, Summer Fields, Sarah Semelsberger, Niyati Parikh, Coach Theresa Aldrich. Front row: Jaimee Bush, Summer Lehman, Alison Whitacre, Lavender Whitacre, Kerri Ernisse, Anne Montero, Betsy Blate, Meredith Llolbrook. Not pictured: Lucy Jacobs. BALL BASKETBALL BASKETBALL Girls ]V Basketball 183

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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

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Rodof Hjofd ifuuk Hr ClfHAb Blazing their way to victory, the girls ' varsity team advanced from winning the South Coast League Championships to their showdown against Simi Valley in C.l.F. Although they worked long and hard, they would never have gotten to where they were without their unquencha- ble desire to win. A lot of the girls came to the team with different backgrounds and beliefs, but after a few crises, we became family, and the team sky- rocketed from there, said senior Laurinda Mulhaupt. Laurinda was right. After a few mi- nor problems, the girls came to face their biggest challenge and happily, their biggest victory: BEATING MISSION!!! After looking back at the season. Coach Steve Bignol said, The victory was important psycho- logically because after it we were first in our division and we knew we were going to be league champs. Before the C.l.F. championships. Coach Steve Bignol summed up their chances, There are no sloppy teams out there, and any of those teams can win on any given day. All we need to do is to play our best all the time and we have an excellent chance of ending our season as num- ber one. The girls eventually went on to the C.l.F. championship game and in double overtime they defeat- ed Simi Valley 4-3. GIRLS VARSITY SOCCER - Top row: Cindy Attaway, Sue Staab, Sarah Stoney, Amy Doherty, Nicole Props, Cheryl Artim, Jen Sparano, Becky Linhart, Coach Steve Bigno, Second row: Robyn Kobayash,, Monika Larsson, Brenda Gastelum Gmger Frank, leanie Kent, Gretchen Fleischli, Laurinda Mulhaupt, Samantha Kemp. Front row: buzi Bone, Kathy Szafranski. IVARSITY SOCCER V mikxJK