East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Girls ' cross country ' best so far ' i Senior Jennifer Hultman: I thought cross country was a good experience. I had a lot of fun and enjoyed working as a team. SEASON RECORD Valley, Roosevelt, East 2nd Urbandale Classic 8th Hoover Invitational 6th Karpen Invitational 6th Nevjton 2nd Augustine 5th Urbandale 6th Ankeny nth Metro Conference meet 7th District meet nth Senior Karia Erickson cruises past an opposing runner in a cross country race. The girls ' cross country team had an outstanding season. They began the year with only three returning girls from last year, but had eight girls on the team. The four top runners were senior Jennifer Hultman, sophomore Jen- nifer Fuller, freshman Stephanie Ripley, and senior KarIa Erickson. They all registered the best times ever at East. About the season, Coach Phipps had this to say: It was probably the best girls ' cross country team ever at East. I ' ve been with the East pro- gram for 1 1 years. There has been a girls ' team for only nine of those years, so I ' ve seen all of the teams. GIRLS ' CROSS COUNTRY. ROW 1: Dawn Herman, Jill Shepard, Stephanie Ripley. Coach Richard Phipps, Natali Justiniano. Jennifer Fuller, KarIa Erickson. FRONT: Jen- nifer Hultman. GIRLS ' CROSS COUNTRY 29

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31 runners ' go the distance ' The cross country team had a very respectable season. A large number of people, 32, went out for the team. They finished the season with 31 runners still out. Mr. Don Graves, head coach, thought that this was by far the largest number of students ever participating in cross country. Mr. Graves felt that the best meet of the year was the Urbandale Classic. The number one runner of the year most of the year was senior Chris Zal- lek; however, a few times it was sophomore Bob Rice. One other out- standing runner was sophomore Jeff Howe. Mr. Graves was pleased that such a large number of students participated, 14 of them freshmen. Also, he was pleased with the improvement shown during the season. Senior Allan Shepard runs in the Newton Invi- tational. Those who were there know that it was extremly cold! Senior Chris ZaIIek: Cross country has been a lot of hard work the last four seasons, but it was also a lot of fun. It was more of a good time than hard work. ' SEASON RECORD Roosevelt, Valley, East 3rd Urbandale Classic 1st, 2nd, 8th Hoover Invitational 7th Karpen Invitational 8th Cardinal Invitational 7th Augustine Invitational 9th Ankeny Invitational 2nd, 9th, 10th Urbandale Invitational 9th Metro Conference Meet 8th District Meet 13th CROSS COUNTRY TEAM. ROW 1 : Kelly Fef- tkether, Jeff Gratias, Jack Shannon. David Chamberlain, Trent Lumley, Don Robinson, Billy Jensen, Kit Cline, Robert Smith. ROW 2; Chris Heiting, Don Mechem, Jeff Brookes, Del Ray Smith, Steve Swan, Kent Larson, Bob Rice, Mark Johnson. Brian Mapes, Jeff Howe. ROW 3: Coach Don Graves. Francis Locquett, Gunnar Loohagen, Paul Jensen, Brad Hiatt, Jack Kose, Derek Lewis. Chris Freeman, Joe Cummings, Allan Shepard, Chris ZaIIek. NOT PICTURED: Bart Bray- man. Kevin Swenson. 28 BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

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1 goes to State, 1 gets award Twenty-two girls competed in girls ' varsity swimming. The team competed in 10 dual meets and fin- ished their season with a 2-8 record. Even though their record was not a winning one, they did send one diver to state. Debbie Smith, senior, com- peted in the state diving competition and placed seventeenth out of 20. Heidi Ricks, junior, won the All- Around Swimming Award for being the most valuable swimmer. She led the team in fourfreestyle events, the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard butterfly. The year ' s most improved swimmer, chosen by the coaches, was sophomore Gwen Cunningham. Among the 22 swimmers who com- peted, three were chosen as top newcomers. They were Beth Ray- mond, freshman, in the breaststroke event; Missy Moore, freshman, and Michaele Gallagher, sophomore, in diving. The co-captains for the season were seniors Stephanie Hohl and Debbie Smith. Two graduating seniors and 12 girls earned letters. Junior Rikke Paulsen: I think we did better than last year, but we could have done bet- ter, which I hope we do next year. Mindi Palmer, junior, looks as thoughshe has really good form as she strokes to the finish line. GIRLS ' VARSITY SWIMMING SEASON RECORD 2-8 East 37 Roosevelt 136 East 93 Indianola 71 East 34 Ames 136 East 43 Hoover 128 East 52 North 120 East 46 Dowling 122 East 49 Valley 122 East 71 Lincoln 101 East 91 S.E. Polk 81 East 64 Urbandale 107 North Invitational 6 S.E. Polk Invitational 8 GIRLS ' VARSITY SWIM TEAM. SEATED: Patricia Holtorf. Sherry Hutson, Sherry-Car- dis, Bonnie Allison, Michelle Stephens, Cody Sewell STANDING: Kim Hackett. Stephanie Hohl (Co-captain), Mindi Palmer, Heidi Ricks. Donnella Miller, Andrea Sachs. Beth Raymond, Rikke Paulsen, Heidi Raymond. Gwen Cunningham, Lori Myers. Mindy Bishop, Mr. Stan Thompson (Assistant Coach), Mr, Ken Gaeth (Head Coach). ON DIVING BOARD: Debbie Smith (Co-captain). Missy Moore, Michaele Gallagher. NOT PICTURED: Darci Brumbaugh 30 GIRLS ' VARSITY SWIMMING