Lutheran High School - Paw Prints Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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1. One last convulsive jerk gives high altitude to clear the bar. 2. Sky above strains for extra inches before landing faces of coaches Lowell Goecker and satisfying meet. jumper Kirk Briggs just enough and sand below, Ventress Mosely ;. 3. Optimism paints smiles on Bob Barnes after a rough, but Bulging, aching muscles pushing overworked sprinters legs into piston-like action. Heaving, sore ungs spit out air the runner didn ' t think he had left. Eyes of a long jumper view a distance his mind tells him he shouldn ' t risk. A last convulsive jerk pushed a vaulter past a bar seemingly out of reach. One ath- e quits track completely because mind gives into the body ' s conviction that it just isn ' t possible. This is the problem that must be overcome. Mind over matter is victory. Who is to say if it ' s possible to push yourself till you ache, or twist your body into pretzel-like po- sitions to gain conquest over that bar looming above you? It ' s a personal matter! Here you can ' t wait for a teammate to cover for you, because it is you that either succeeds or fails against yourself. Many of this years team have used past experi- ences to find out what their mind can make their flesh do, and have thus conquered the hardest part. 2 There are not many flashes of outstanding individual accomplishment, only a combined mass of consistent talent which should make for an outstanding season for Lutheran ' s speed freaks.

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Track A Team, Front Row: Richard Mack, Ray Cobb, Baird Steptoe, Kevin Smith, Alfred Parker, Gary Phillips, Gary France, Chris Baker. Back Row: Coach Lowell Goecker, John Garza, Michael Daniels, Bill Ward, Henry Strick- land, Darryl Young, Chris Malone, Jimmy Dukes, Andy Aoyama, Doug Luebbe, Cliff Anderson, Tim Swain, Mike Nagata, Coach Robert Barnes. Track B Team, Front Row: Warren Scoggins, Eric Smith, Darrell Felix, Alan Reynolds, Jim Williams, Dwayne Edison, Wes Evans, Kirk Briggs. Back Row: Paul Lang, David Barnes, Jordu Sherrill, Steve Hilpert, Chester Clark, Dwight Morgan, Richard Reaser, Robert Fairchild. Track C Team. Front Row: Darrel Wilson, Ventress Moseley, Zachary Parker, Roosevelt Matthews, Leon- ard Elzey. Back Row: Kenneth Hampton, Reggie Ben- nett, Ron Coleman, Elbert Martin. 1. Hoping to cut critical seconds off their finishing time Mike Daniels and Baird Steptoe stretch in unison while exchanging the baton. 2. Timing and co-ordination needed to clear the hurdle can be the difference between a medal and a nose full of dust for Jim Dukes. 3. With a last umph Darryl Young sends the shot skyward, hopefully destined to land with a thud somewhere far away. 4. The effort and pain of getting into shape finally pays off with a first place for sprinter James Williams.