Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Y 41 Gi I I winnings 'l li i W By spiking The ball To The Elsik Team, sophomore Karen Burns llbl secures a poinT Tor The varsiTy Team. Accornplishrnems came in a big way Tor The varsiTy Tigers as The Team combined in The righT proporTions The necessary ingredienTs To Tie Tor TirsT place in boTh halves oT disTricT, and by deTeaTing The STraTTord SparTans clinched The semi-Tinal round OT disTricT baTTled in The Coliseum. Finishing The season wiTh an impressive I l-3 record, The underaTed neTTers were picked TourTh in The disTricT polls during The pre-season, however, The girls wrapped up a sTrong second place Tinish Thanks To sTrong leadership, Team uniTy, solid skills and a conTidenT winning aTTiTude, Thus changing The minds oT Those who had earlier pushed Them inTo The no ThreaT caTegory. Their sTrong leadership was spelled S-Y-L-V-I-A OR- T-I-Z, head coach Tor The veTeran volleyballers. OrTiz ran a Tough program pushing everyone To Their maximum poTenTial. iunior ChrisTie Rees said. She TaughT us a loT abouT winning. WiThouT her we couldn'T have done iT. Knowing They could do iT added To The degree oT Team conTidence which had been previously lacking. Moreover, uniTy in The group provided a posiTive TacTor. l'The uniTy was real High up in The air iunior Ann Greae son l4l spikes The ball during The playQTT maTch. big. senior Randi Reid said. Perkins added, We did a loT oT sTuTT TogeTher all The Time. We really were able To use ThaT To our advanTage. Tool Having an advanTage helped, buT possessing solid skills and TalenT made The diTTerence in iusT winning or being a winner. We work hard on our skills. OrTiz believes in ThaT, buf more imporTanTly, while working on our skills, she insTilled a conTidence in us, Toof' Rees said. This conTidence paved The Tigers' way To many impressive vicTories. I Think beaTing PorT Neches Groves was really someThing because They wenT on To win sTaTe. Reid said. AnoTher big maTch came aTTer The regular season ended when The Tigers maTched Their abiliTy To ThaT oT The STraTTord SparTans. There was deTiniTely a rnenTal block in exisTence. buT we had losT To Them Tour Times and we knew whaT we had To do, senior Ann Greason said. The Tigers did iusT ThaT, breaking STraTTord's spell and winning The semi-Tinal round oT compeTiTion. AlThough The big maTch againsT The SparTans came during posT season, The regular season deserved a beTTer TiTle Than merely regular. The Tiger neTTers Trounced Elsik, WesTchesTer, Memorial. NorThbrook and l-TasTings noT only in The TirsT halT buT in The second halT oT acTion as well. vsfsiiyvaiie-,sail T09

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ref Of progress W, ,. , .,,. .AV .0 wi, ..u, sf V. vsnunnny-'I-I-Uh Junior VarsiTy I8 wins, 6 Iossesl SWHS Opponen+s A 2 O Elsilr WesTchesTer 2 I Memorial O 2 NorTI'1brooIr O 2 Spring Branch 2 O STraTTord I 2 I'IasTings O 2 Elsilc 2 O WesTchesTer I 2 e Memorial 2 I NorThbrooIx 2 I Spring Branch 2 I STraTTord I 2 HasTings 2 I Engaged in a maTch wiTh Elsik, Treshman .IaneT Phillips dinlrs The ball To reTurn iT over The neT. Wi+h TeammaTes all looking on. Treshman Suzanne Ryan TighTs To save The Tiger serve. The sub-varsiTy volleyball season proved To exciTe Tans and build up Their programs as The iunior varsiTy compiled a TirsT round Tie Tor Third place wiTh I'IasTings and a second round solo claim Tor second place. The Treshman squad combined Tor a 4- I O record ending The season by pulling TogeTher Tor Two sTraighT vicTories. These Temale aThIeTes designaTed Time daily To pracTice and polish basic ' serves, sTraTegy, and slcills as well as sTreTching ouT and exercising, Too. Due To These schedules, boTh coaches, Susan ShopTaw and Sylvia 0rTiz TeIT all oT The girls had greaTIy improved. Team members saw prooT oT The accompIishmenTs and progress made by boTh groups and used This as an inspiraTionaI means Tor maior conTesTs. The Tive iunior, Tour sophomore iunior varsiTy Team, led by capTains Jane I.eJune and Susan Kamas commenTed abouT Team aTTiTude. We had a real good aTTiTude, especially in The second round. I.eJune said. Yeah, we Icnew we had noT clone as well as we wanTed To in The TirsT round. so we iusT Tried To Iceep The aTTiTude up and accomplish our goals in The second round, Kamas said. On The Treshman level, Twelve TirsT year Tigers handed losses To INIorThbrooIc I5-I3 and I7-I5. Memorial 7-I5, I5-8, I5-2, STraTTord I2-I5, I5-I2, I5-I I, and I-IasTings I5-I3and I5-IO. We were exciTed abouT our IasT Two wins. IT was a greaT way To end our season, Team capTain Lisa Gonzales said. rf---,,,4---f-' oi 'ss Xb JV and Freshman Volleyball I I