Deming High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Deming, NM)

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I f I. Coach Rex Smith congratulates Steve Sheldon, George Cardona, Oza Marshall and Silas Wilson on qualifying for state in the 400 meter relay. 2. Oza Marshall gets set to start the 400 meter relay. 3. Coach Rex Smith lectures the track team on the do ' s and dont ' s of training. 4. Coach Rex Smith gives George Cardona his winning time in the 400 meter in the Cobre Invitational. 5. Sopho- more Ernest Wilson prepares to throw the discus. 119

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Tracksters win District and place 8th in State. Boys track season started February 2 with 25 boys participating. Deming ' s first meet was the Deming Invitational in which the Cats took first place with 104 points. Next Deming traveled to Silver for the Silver Invitational and placed 2nd with 76 points. Deming placed 2nd again in the Cobre Invita- tional with 63 ' ' 2 points. Deming next traveled to the home of their arch rivals and won the Hendrix Memorial in Sil- ver City with 97 points. The ' Cats next traveled to Animas to compete in the Hidalgo Relays and took first and scored 120 ' 2 points, missing the school record by only 6 points. The tracksters next participated in the Rose Relays in Tularosa and took first with 73 ' 2 points. Deming qualified in the 400 relay and the discus, but missed quahfying in the mile relay by two one-hundreths of a second. They still won the meet with 97 points. Deming next traveled to T or C for another qualifying meet but half of the meet was rained out. Deming ended up second with 63 ' 2 points, but only because their strong events were rained out. The ' Cats also won district with 97 points and Silas Wilson was high point man. At state, Deming ' s Oza Marshall, Steve Sheldon, George Cardona and Silas Wilson placed first in the 400 m. relay. Silas Wilson placed 4th in the 200 m. dash and 5th in the 400 m. dash. Oza Marshall placed 5th in the 100 m. dash and George Cardona placed 5th in the 800 m., Joey Flores broke the school record in the 1500 meters and 3000 meters at state by beating Jose Rios ' 1974 record in the 1500 meters by 1.34 seconds and in the 3000 meters by .30 seconds. 1. Boys ' track; Bottom row: Paul Reyes. David Aranda, Javier Ramos, Mike Borrego. Joey Flores, Michael Prevail, Tony Polish. Middle row: Tercero Pnnce, Ernest Wilson, Armando Reyes, Mike Davalos, Doug Forbes, Silas Wil- son. Top row: Coach Rex Smith, Oza Marshall, Benny Young, Mike Thurston, Robert Canton. Rey Canton. George Cardona, Coach Sim Willis. 2. Doug Forbes sets the pace for the 3000 meters dunng the Therman Jordan-Relays. 3. Tracksters who participa ted in the stale track meet in Hobbs are kneeling: Joey Flores, George Cardona, Armando Reyes, Sieve Sheldon. Standing: Coach Rex Smith, Ernest Wilson. Rey Canton, Oza Marshall, Silas Wilson, Coach Sim Willis. 118 ■ ■

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Lack of participation plagues girls ' track Under 2nd year Coach Sim Willis, girls ' track had a disappointing season in 1981. Coach Willis thought the rea- son was lack of participation. The season opened in March with the Deming Invitational. The team placed third out of a field of three. Spunky Rodriguez placed first in the mile run with a time of 6:02.98. In the Silver High School relays Deming placed fourth. The 400-meter team, which consisted of Terry Knipps. Polly Taylor, Patsy Aranda, and Lourdes Anchieta, came in 2nd. At the Cobre Invitational, the team placed eighth out of ten teams. Carol Hooten, the only girl that placed, was third in the shot put. At the Hidalgo County relays in Ani- mas, the girls came in fourth place with five teams competing. Carol Hooten took third in the high jump clearing 4 ' 2 and also placed first in the shot put with a throw of 33 ' 5 . The team did a lot better in Animas than anywhere else, said Coach Sim Willis. m ' 7; 1. Standing: Rex Smith, Alice Acosta, Kathy Knipps, Carol Hooten, Mary Ruiz and Sim Wil- lis. Kneeling: Patsy Aranda, Celena Goret, Polly Taylor. Sandra Flores, and Antonietta Vargas. Sitting: Terri Knipps, Yvonne Pinson, Rosario Anchieta, and Lourdes Anchieta. 2. Mary Ruiz winds up for the shot put while Coach Sim Willis watches. 3. Polly Taylor. Tern Knipps, Kathy Knipps and Lourdes Anchieta prepare them- selves for the 400-meter relay. 120