Lyman High School - Eagles Flight Yearbook (Lyman, WY)

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I every event and Swimmers shaped up eams improved strokes tage of You meet swim. I school Hoopes. In swimming, one is good, but hard. A swimmer ticipated in. All Verley in we did worked at State. 78-Swimming Swimmers took their marks before the start of their race.

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As thc struggle began, the determined Carl Mcnck went for thc pin. Squad used team work Wrestlers raised ranking On January 13 the wrestlers start- ed training. Their efforts were well worth the work. At the beginning of the year they were rated fifth in state. At the end of the year they had moved up to fourth place. In regionals the wrestlers took sec- ond place. The Bridger Valley Pio- neer reported, Lyman suffered some upsets, but created some of its own as the team was evenly split with six in the championship finals. Four wrestlers in each final won to give the Eagles four firsts, two seconds, four thirds and two fourthsf' Out of our 21 wrestlers, seven came out placing. Lance Walker at 119 placed second with 24 wins and five losses. Gordon Young at 155 also took second place with 24-1. Robert Platts in the 105 pound class and Jace Ferguson both placed third at the tournament. Platt's season ended at 19-5 and Ferguson had 23-3 record. Victor VanGieson at , 98 pounds took fourth place with 16-3. Placing sixth were Todd Covolo and Carl Menck. Menck at 185 pounds had a 14-8 record. Covolo at 138 had an even 12-12 season. Most of the wrestlers said that it was a good year, and they received a lot of support from their friends and families. Lance Walker stated, My family supported me a lot and pushed me, but not so much that I got sick of it. My friends helped a lot too. The wrestlers did not get as much I recognition as many people thought wrestling should have. I thought the school could have had cheerleaders and some more publicity. It would have given us more confidence, said Darrin Ferguson. Spinner Jones ad- ded, I thought we should have had more home games so that Lyman could see how good we wereff All the boys agreed on one thing - they had great coaches, Alan Lords and Rick Hanson, who knew what they were doing. Lords said, It was a really good year. We had young team. We had lots of support. Our strength is in being a team. Hanson said they had both good light weight and heavy weight classes. We look forward to next year, I think we'll have a chance for statej' said Lords. Andy Hewitt said, The team will benefit from the good wrestlers coming up. I You made the difference What made Gordon Young good was his aggressiveness and willingness to get up for the match no matter what. He was a team leader as well as being talented and good in wrestling. He was team oriented even though wrestling is an individual sport. Although he was the best, he cared about the other members of the team, said Coach Alan Lords as he explained why Young made the difference. Wrestling-77

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Anxiety was strong during meets. To relieve tension, Cy Campbell stretched and John An- derson and Rex Verley prepared for a relay. Above: Girls swim team left to right are Dana Vercimak, Chris Hofeldt, Betsy Weldon, Heather Jeans, Natalie Larehick, Kris Hoopes, Terri Al- len, Kari Hoopes, Teri Ashton, and Annette lsom. Right: Boys' swim team members included John Anderson, Rawdy Rollins, Harold Neuenseh- wander, Rex Verley and Cy Campbell. U sf, ,J,, 0 fl, ,Q ..' H I On block two, the girls' freestyle relay team prepared for their race, Stroke -- breath - stroke - breath, Cy Campbell swam the 100 breaststroke. Swimming-79