Northwest High School - Viking Yearbook (Grand Island, NE)

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t e f fH Top: Front: Tony Swanson. Conn Narber, Mike Larmo, Brad Woldmon, Middle: Ty Arndt, Todd Mitcliell, Mike Hoith, Kevin Leggit, Darin Mensik, Kevin Boitz. Back: Coach Hook, Todd l?onne, Jeff Mattke, Mark Drelier, Perry Kober. Bob Barlow. Above: Senior Todd Mitchell along with fellow golfers, practices on the greens. Right: Darin Mensik attempts a putt during regular season connpetition. 78 Golf

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- ' , Top: Brent LInd runs his leg of a relay for the Viking tracksters V Bottom; Jeff Baxter finishes his portion of the state qualifying 3200 meter relay. Tracksters weather grueling year I rack is perhaps the most gruel- ing of the sports at Northwest. Why? Maybe it ' s the workouts, sprinting until your whole body aches and running miles and miles and miles. Maybe its the actually competing, one on one, no teammates, no one to depend on but yourself. Maybe its the weather, seldom is there a perfect day for a track meet in Nebraska, it ' s either raining or the winds blowing or as this year it ' s snowing. Bad OS it may seem. Northwest found their share of those willing to work and succeed. Both the boys ' and girls ' teams had excellent seasons. The boys ended their year by winning both conference and district meets and qualifying eleven for the state track meet. Those qualifying included Jeff Baxter, Roger Knight, Greg Mora, Scott Bradley, and Mike Reuss, Mark Sims, Kevin Clark, Russ Heins, Jeff Smith, Karl Quandt, and Dove Keil. The girls ' team also did well at both conference and district they placed second and qualified Deb Keil, Sue Quandt, Shelly Jardine, Traci Daberkow, Joannie Kryzcki, Chris Hodtwalker. and Heidi Hoogland for State. Scores BOYS ' RESULTS Conference Reloys 2nd Conference 1st Districts 1st GIRLS ' RESULTS Conference relays 3rd Conference 2nd Districts 2nd Track 77

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bove: Senior Jeff Mattke concentrates on a crucial putt for par. Strokes of success for golfers INorthwest golf fans have seen some lean years in the past but behind the guidance of Coach Rick Hook the program is beginning to pick-up. At one time Northwest planned to drop their golf program but because of the interest shown it was kept. Golf doesn ' t take a lot of strength or quickness or endurance, but there are many characteristics that a golfer needs. A golfer must have patience, a golfer must be very skillful, and like all sports he must have the desire to work and to improve. With these things in mind the golfer takes to the course with one goal in mind, to put a little white ball in a small hole with minimal amount of strokes. Coach Hook ' s team was able to do this very well for the most part, though there was vast improvement this year in the sport, of course there were the ups and downs. But the suc cess out weighed the failures and overall Northwest became a respect- ed and competitive element in golf this year. Perhaps the highlight of the season was having Tony Swonson, a senior this year, qualify for the State golf meet; something that hasn ' t happened at Northwest for a long time. With the individual achievements of the team and its growth as a whole, golf should be at Northwest for years to come. Scores Ord Invitational 6th Lexington Invitational 11th Aurora Invitational 8th St. Cecilia Invitational 4th Central Catholic Invitational 3rd Conference 5th Districts 5th Golf 79