Diamond Bar High School - Taurus Yearbook (Diamond Bar, CA)

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Facing the Challenge restling: one of the most challenging sports of all, with two men, alone, engaged in battle. Unlike other sports where it was team against team, wrestling pitted one man against another. As head coach Jack Cooprider said, You have to be 'tough as nails to wrestlefi Another thing that made wrestling more challenging than some other sports, is that everything relied on ability, there was no favoritism with the coaches. Cooprider explained, You have to be as tough as nails to wrestle, stated Jack Cooprider. It doesn't matter if a coach hates a kid, it just matters if he wins . . . there are no politics involved. Every week before a match or tournament the team had wrestle-offs and whoever won got to wrestle at the match. Every week before the wrestle-offs everyone works especially hard, because they want to win their wrestle-offs, stated senior, Leon Monzon. Coach Jack Cooprider and assistants, Lance Gross and Paul Reutzel, worked to get the team in both physical and mental shape. They made sure that the team was condi- tioned correctly and were fully Hpsyched-up for each match. Alex Ballan, senior, said, The coaches were tough, expected a lot, and wanted us to reach the top, and because of them we're going to. Ballan also noted, The team was progressing and getting better every week. There was one last thing that set wrestling apart from the other sports at Diamond Bar. The wrestling team was the only sport that didn't have on-campus training. Every- day at 2:45 the team lugged their equipment down to Cas- tle Rock Elementary School were they held their practices. Aside from the aggravations of having to go to Castle Rock everyday, Cooprider estimates that he lost V4 of the team every year because they didn't like having to travel to their practices. Cooprider hopes the team stays together because, They are a very promising Varsity team. IN A PINCH r Freshman, Ron Masis takes down a Charter Oak defender. The J.V. team won the match 53-20. ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS - Coach Jack Cooprider and Assistants Lance Gross and Rick O'Braitis watch intently as the J.V. Wrestlers take on Charter Oak. The coaches spent many hours getting the team into winning form. J. V. and SophfFrosh WrestlingfSports 113

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Striving to Win occer is the world's most popular sport, however, in America the sport has not received nearly as much attention as football, baseball, and basketball. Nevertheless, soccer does have many of its die-hard fans here in the USA, more specifically here at DBI-IS, who love watching a good game of futbol. Over the course of the season the boys, varsity team provided many a good game to the NONS in the stands. Tough teams such as Nogales and Wilson provided strong opposition to the varsity team. With the loss of the third leading goal scorer in American high school history, Craig Eleven different players Karel scoring goals this year, said coach Don Garrett. Turley, the team had to fill up a scoring void. This void was filled however by, eleven different players scoring goals this year, said varsity coach Don Garrett. Players such as Ahmed Meguid, Kyle Shuler and David Morlan. With such a strong team coach Garrett was poised to go undefeated in league and be the first team to win two straight CIF 3A Championships. Although coach Garrett had high expectations for his team, he didn't feel that out- side pressure for a championship team was too great. - -it NEJX ,sm ,Z -MB V. C Q ag: i,xQ.QN-F .it - . I 1-V344-,1.r-rwgggsael-+E3igf-Nr I '3,1L,,x N. ps..-Q.+.'.v,,g, My-p X few- - - at--golf 14 v 'V . Q I - w-- ' I I, ,...vn., uh, . , V. I. wr: . f'.' 1- r... f. re, - .foo fmeshfa - mf... fy: .- sk A r W I WWC, 5,71 .fm-yxffmr, I V I NV W f' P 5 WWA vfmw, ,H f 'wfmyy i Wrzzmrwf .,-44'jgw,gif . .,,,. , ,.. fffwwwwu-'fffifffffiwafffwmrmffi-W, I ff uh' 1' 'ft wg 44 1 WM LOOKING FOR THE OPEN MAN - is Senior John Barton. The Varsity team faced tough competition from both Wilson and Nogales. WITH THE BALL - is Senior Ahmed Meguid. Going undefeated in league and winning a second straight C.I.F. 3A Championship were two goals of this year's team. IN THE OPEN FIELD - is Sophomore Chris Cardoza. Cardoza was one of several return- ing players. fx ' x , ' . i .A X - I it c-, 1 ,fi XX i XT! ill. 'J ,f T-if - I l. 1 i' ff, ' I X471 , Sl l' It ' - lily' V XX A X xii, X. X l FN, JX I-t Xxkx XX A I cf' fi N --fx . 1 P X l K' , X 1, xx.. I ' l r ' 4 I 3 , , Cf., ik! if ' 1 . x.: X-X X lf, f . , , .i , V lfQ?f'f5 7 R rj fa X1 XX F J l ' ln l-,I T I T Kjnx XT-ji! 'N X, fi ' N r 1 , X Y - , Nxf -NX pt XJ' -X fx .A .X . ff is ,X . -for Us X X or X ,al ff' 5' f ,sf-X K, Y-arf 4. ' 'T .qpf wb , i-1 V r ' X lf, '--sf tx SX-jx 1 l-N , f f lj Yi .K Q M J i tx OX ,bl 1 X ffxxxd- 'X , J' l ,' Y J ,Qi V ki! on .. J ,NX ft-.KXXKKX OHJAM bi :W Q, xy lr NN it if .ff sf - E 'D - .f f i , i '. ' ' rx-X ,,- GQ J X 7 C Ji X! XJ AJ 114 Sportsflfarsity Boys Soccer 9 af