Poudre High School - Impala Yearbook (Fort Collins, CO)

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L--If e TQ , ... , or T M it W, it ,,,, Michael Madrid by Photo we , Poudre Goes to State! Eric Morrison, beating everone here, also put his best foot forward in having a great year. He went undefeated until state and broke 3 records including the school record, during the year in Cross-Coutry. ' WMgm,pefmaslrsterfi-s::erWrmesrmeaeirfmiiiw 3-23.57 if ii' M......... ,,,,,,.,-f -1 Wa-. Nr-ramp? We ' N'eme Wr:r'feL's t'W N Hit- L...-s-... T' W ' We-m - :::fI22f2agf 5::g 2:52 25:-S:i.-sr get 'i' 'f w E ,,... ,. ,.. ,,.:.,:,,5 ts., X sgsasss ssgssggrsss , , r N..Q,rarfa-,,.,.,s.,..7,2rf.......aM.,....sw.w1,-f- ,Ma ar.. W-ate-, Boy's Cross-Country had an im- pressive year. Everybody put his best foot forward and helped the team come out with a winning sea- son. The team started well when Eric Morrison came up with a new coarse record, Bret Bonenberger came in third at Thornton and the team had a second place finish. At the Lobo Invitational everybody gave it their all, but came up a little short with a 4th place. At the Li- berty Bell meet it was the same old thing even though Eric Morrison had a great race and coasted to a hundred and fifty yard victory in a 15:35.9 time to take overall honors, 55-Z:5:E:,.E,::.. ....-.-. H: ..-. .r ,....,,,. ..., ....,....,, ....,. . , - ,.,,.,. . .,,, ,, ' We -..: .. 12' and record the fastest time of all divisions. In the Poudre Invita- tional, the lmpalas were challenged all the way by runners from all teams and wound up with a fourth place finish. Eric Morrison set a new invitational record with a 15:51 time. At the Loveland invita- tional the lmpalas were said to have the best performance of the season. A great team effort, to give the Impala boys a 2nd place finish, just 3 points behind the Lobos. At Smokey Hill, the Impalas so called Ripped , Everybody ran one of their best races and the effort no doubt was due to Coach Potters in- ffgg- -angie ...wr r..a.. M .2..,,M,, ,..,. , r,,,, spirational talk on confidence. To a runner, each had to responed to the challenge, and each and every one ran a personal best time. Eric Mor- rison set a new school record with a 15:14 time, beating the old record by an entire seven seconds, which was set by Nathan Wright last year. In the city meet Poudre took second place over Fort Collins. In the district meet you had to be sec- ond or better to go to state and that just what the lmpalas did. The lm- palas went to state and took a 16th place finish. ... :.g-...:-:-:-::f:sg25-g:-: :,::-:-:-::r-.::::gsi:5

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5 Girls Cross-Country Thornton-Rotello Park Lobo Invitational Liberty Bell Meet Poudre Invitational Aurora Invitational Loveland Invitational Smokey Hill- Expo Park Sophomore Meet 4fI'l of 17 teams Tied for 10th No Score Qnot enough runnersj No Score Qnot enough runnersj No Score fnot enough runnersj No Score fnot enough runnersj 19th place No Score 85 points 556 points Iolo Dressel looking on to see if any other Poudre runners are coming in. W-qs. unsung.. Melinda Wigget running her hardest for, and being one of Poudre's finest. City Meet Conference Meet Knot enough runnersj 3rd place 4th place 86 points 118 points Christie Brackin, If only I wouldn't have tripped coming around the corner, I could have won.

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iaiiiiffltkitli 741. ' Sadiq Abdurahman shown here leading the pack over cross-town rivals Fort Collins and Rocky Mountain, proving that Poudre is number 41. At the city meet it was the same old thing. Eric Morrison wins in a great time and the team had a great effort to put a second place on the board. In the conference meet the All and all the team did very well. They got off to a slow start, but then came back strong at the end to take them to state. The coaches would like to thank the team for their great effort all year and as a Boys Cross-Country Thornton-Rotello Park Lobo lnvi tational Liberty Bell Meet Poudre Invitational Aurora Invitational Loveland Invitational Smokey Hill-Expo Park Sophomor City Meet Conferenc State e Meet e Meet 2nd of 8 teams 4th place 7th place 4th of 7 teams Sth of 20 teams 2nd of 17 teams 3rd place No score Knot enough runnersj 2nd of 3 teams 2nd place 16th overall 47 points 116 points 202 points 78 points 155 points 64 points 137 points 42 points 49 points boys shined as they took second, which enabled them to go to state. The state meet was an awesome meet. It was competitive all the way from the beginning. Eric Mor- rison ended up with a third place, which was his first loss of the year and the team ended up sixteenth. gift to the coaches all the members of the team pitched in a few dollars here and there and came up with gift certificates for all the coaches. A quote from Coach Yaussi at the banquet . . . the team made more progress, covered more ground this year than any other year. get ,.......-,ss Back Row: Coach Yaussi, Rodney Collins, Tim Murphy, Bret Bonenberger, Doug johnson, Scott Brian Taladay thinking of that last lap so that McDonald, Hector Avalos, Jeff Potter. Front Row: Derek Cookerly, David Houdeshell, Eric he Can get some rest. Morrison, Sadiq Abdurahman, Brian Taladay.