Skyline High School - Wingspread Yearbook (Longmont, CO)

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arsit Grapplers In the Falcons first debut they started off with a big win against Niwot which gave Mickey DeRock high hopes for a successful season, with a lot of young wrestlers. The season proceeded on slowly until the team posted another big win against Westminster, and then they were on the march for districts. Berne Mendoza said, The teams been gearing up for districts and hopefully we will do well As a wrestler builds up for districts, he has to go through many hours of long, hard practices. Along with all of this agony, he must also do plenty of running and conditioning, so he can be physically ready to last a complete six minutes. Coach DeRock said, I have been closer to wrestlers of other years than I have been this year, due to the disciplining which draws a natural line between people. This may have caused the team to receed from forty-five wrestlers at the start of the season to fifteen at the District Tournament. 4-guns? J' . L Wres tiers. Four wrestlers placed in the District tournament Brent Loomis, Doug Grove, and Larry Gartrell were all placed fourth. While Rick Lee placed third and earned the right to compete in the state tournament. Larry Gartrell stated, At the end of the season the team grew into more of a team. The leadership of the seniors took hold and we all started to improve. Coach DeRock helped me a lot and made me improve every day. Although I wished that I had wrestled my sophomore and junior years, it would have helped a lot. I had great fun this year and I will never forget my last wrestling season for Skyline. Over all the wrestling season for the Falcons turned out to be three wins and six losses with a lot of young wrestlers which looks bright for the future and for more state champions to reign at the top for the Skyline Falcon wrestling team. Y 4 Larry Gartrell raises his hand in Victory at 185 lb. weight class. Coach Jim Hanson looks over his j. V. Wrestling 49

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Coach Mickey DeRock and Falcon grapplers ponder over the out come of the match. 138 pounder Doug Grove receives directions from Coach DeRock and jim Hanson between periods. WWVQYN my was--...,, 'fi ax. Names And Numbers Niwut Dough: County Steriim Stronghold Greeley Longmont 'Fort Morgan I Greeley Centra! Fort Collin: YTIOIIIPIOII Vetley Thornton Inn Westminster Loveland Greeley West I Wins Losses: i I Wrestling 3626 Tournnnzent 8-4? Tournament 6-57 0-55 35-26 Tournament L56 Tournament 34.31 23-37 16-35 3-5 , 5 4 I With the biggest Win over Niwot Coach Mickey DeRock had high hopes for a successful season with a for of young wrestlers. Row 1, L-R: Coach DeRock. johnny Silva, Larry Meadows, Brian Strand, Chris Medina, JJ. Eaton, Brent Loomis, Doug Grove Coach Hanson. Row 2: jay Shockley, Luke Smith, Brian Petty, Kent Shafer, Pete White, Bobby Allison, joey Eads, Ignacio Gonzalez, Leonard Casias, Mike Zamore, Row 3: Brian Smellage, Bernie Mendoza, Sandy Blackburn, Kurt Dahlgren, Larry Gartrell, Rick Lee, Freddie Mendez, jeff Stewart, Scott Hayden, Jason Bealmear, Paul Mars 48 Wrestling

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Varsity Nets .500 Skyline varsity basketball team led by Coach Mike Flynn made up for a lack of height by their consistency and ball con- trol. Coach Flynn stated that, In the seven years I've coached in this conference, the teams have never been so balanced. There are no weak sisters, which means you must win on the road. The senior leadership on this year's Falcon basketball team was very evident with Gary Kloster, Tim Brunelle and Doug Shumway providing excellent guidance for the underclassmen. Doug Shumway said, This year's team has a lot of talent. If we can put it all together, we can be in contention for the Northern Conference Title and our third State playoff bid in the last four years. The team is right in the thick of the conference race in a year where parity seems to be the ' Tim Brunelle gets encouragement from his teammates before attempting a free throw. 50 Boys' Basketball Kim SCIZOCII goes up for the opening tipoff against Thompson Valley. case. Of the nine teams in the Northern Conference, eight could vie for the Championship. Senior Tim Brunelle commented that, Since there are so many good teams in the Northern Confer- ence, we have to be at our best every time out in order to win. I feel that we have the talent to beat anyone on any given night. Brunelle, Shumway and junior Basil Mays all have plenty of varsity experience, and with Senior Gary Kloster having started at the varsity level since his sophomore year, inexperience cannot be used as an excuse for this years squad. The Falcons started off with a couple of impressive wins in non-conference play over Broom- field and Poudre, then started their conference play with three straight losses, this got them off to a slow start and put them in the cellar of the Northern Conference.