Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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.IV and sophomore Go 0 d C 0 G C h ' n ' basketball players claim What made the Patriots a winning team? The individual and his at- titude. You have to have a good attitude on and off the court. Of course, the coaches help, too, said junior varsity postman Harry Cald- well. Rip is the best. He really knows what he's doing. You've got to have respect for your coaches. If you don't have respect for your coaches, you can't get along. I need a coach who fusses at me, so l'll do what l'm supposed to .... he's prepared me for life. The Patriots added to their faculty of coaches Eddie Choate. A graduate of Southern Arkansas University, Coach Choate taught typing and clerical record keeping, as well as being junior varsity coach. One junior varsity player said, Coach Choate was kind of quiet at first. But now he lets you know how he feels and where you stand. I respect that in a coach. School didn't end with sixth period for Patriot teammates. Practice was help Monday-Friday, 2:30-5:30, in the gym. Junior varsity and varsity games were scheduled on Tuesday and Friday nights. Sophomore games were scheduled separately. Although the coaches thought their players came to Parkview with very little experience as one team, team- mates had played ball for a long time. l've played on a team since I was six years old, said Roger Spratlin, junior. I would like to get a scholarship and have a future in basketball. Players and coaches agreed that the 1977-78 junior varsity team would be a competitive team the following year. However, as one junior said, We are going to be a small team. There won't be any 'Big Pete's', but we'll be in competition. Take It away. Junior varsity player Keith Jefferies controls the ball even though surrounded by Fort Smith Grizzlies. Junior varsity 412625 I coaching is success key 'S . Q I. . . ,, i ' ?, rg+f f Q, gf :ii g l ggi.: '. V rg 'T xv . . . .3 K . t j , F. if

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Lonely road. Sophomore Carl Presley strug- gles past Catholic tackler. 5 . g 1 - In 5 . 1-4 tu-J , A v - , 7 ,Q if a 1 tts ff W i'f,2'g5'nt1 5 at if 5' . 4, , In ,2 'nt K . -. fa. 'ft T' Q fc ' G- T j if - -- 'E F et us pray. Coach Ripley and Carl Lowe ssess the opponent's power prlor to the -team game. B-TEAM: llront rowl J. Holloway, D. Dokes, B. Johnson, G. Barnes. F. Graggs, D. Scott, M. Floyd, J. Wllllams, lsecond rowl D. Hawkins, K. Elkins, C. Cashen, J. McDowell, P. Walker, B. McElroy, K. Shook, V. Garland, C. Slater. llhlrd rowl M. Davis, D. Brown, R. Kimbrough, J. Banks, C. Lowe, S. Woosley, G. Hickman, D. Williams. Parkview's B-Team achieved an undefeated 1977 season. Donnie Cox, junior varsity coach, said, Next year's varsity team will be the most inexperienced team we have ever had. They're smaller and don't have as much speed. What they lack here though they make up for in spirit. These guys are hard workers, and they're strong. I feel sure that during off-season they will work hard to make a competitive team next year. Although next year's varsity will depend on this past year's junior varsity team, sophomores had an independence all their own. They had a completely different playing sched- ule and practiced on the op- posite end of the field from varsity. The one exception was sophomore Carl Lowe, who played on all three teams. Sophomore and junior varsity did not practice together, but the tech- nique was the same. Sophomore Coach Eddie Choate said, During the week before a game, the scout team runs the opponent's plays. We get these play patterns by exchanging Now hear thls!!! Rob Daniels, with a broken finger, hears it from Coach Choate Block thatlineman! two game films with our opponents. This is what Razorback Coach Lou Holtz calls a Kodak Team. You get a perfect picture. Even though the sophomore and junior varsity players did not receive top recognition, their dedication will pay off when they become next year's varsity team. Football if

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.33 li l at . i X y A . Nl 'gi N, ' .Q Y 2 i f, Q vw, 6 . :r: '-- Junlor Varsity: left to right- Byron Dillard, Reginald Sutton, Gregg Jones, John Rhodes, Keith Jefferies, Carl Lowe, Harry Caldwell, Ricky Nelson, Kerry Parker, Dwayne Ricks, Mahlon Stewart, Carl Rlce, Roger Spratlin, Kelly Holloway. Coaches: Charles Ripley, and Eddie Choate. Workout. Roger Spratlin and Reggie Sutton find practice can work up a real sweat. l l . , , ,..Q,,., ' ,. V . ,,,, . yylyg ,,,,,o ,,r,. . 5 f -fir, . ' 1 'J t 1,1 ' 'Zena it fffwtfaxluumitsv rili l L ,al'ill pvfaqfsia-luxe 1 J L ?fiil'roPV56EfL J ..-- f-wavy ---t' .v ww' W f' we , .ty Sophomores: Left to right- Larry Sheard, Kurt Rosa, Renaurd Kendrick, Darrel Parks, Carl Lowe, Kevln Smith, Paul Schwartz, Tommy Staggers, Lee Littleton, Phillip Wilson, John Hayes, Stanley James. Mgr. Lyndon Lovelace. Not pictured: David James. Basketball 27