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

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,J Trarlc The Asfrodome proved fo be a fasf A Hack with no wind and qreaf condiiions f due io The indoors, junior Tommy Sum- mers said. The miier conversed wifh 5 Q compefifor from San Anfonio cf fhe 1 Brooks lnvifational Indoor Track Meer. i .. mcggsz' H U Saga YQ? r f 'iii if s I f- , i 1, f .279 iffqgig, 4 :,4,,i.,,i i . . if 1, , lr' ' One of fhe younqes? members of the Track fe-am. freshman Rachel Rosenfeld Coricenfrafes on fechnique as she prec' fices huriinq the discus. Wifh a fime of l:57 senior Peter Wil' lerns finishes vicforious at rhe firsf meer of fhe year in fhe 880 yard dash. I75

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nd theyle Gff I Back in The warm and humid locker room The coach gaThered in The sweaTy. exhausTed aThleTes who were sfill Tired up enough To cdnquer any Team and vigorously congraTulaTed Them on Their ouTsTanding vicTory. IT was all due To your Tine Team play and Team eTTorT, he said. However. Track provides an individual alTernaTive To oTher convenTional sporTs. ln Track, a kid is rewarded himselT, The Team comes second, VarsiTy boys coach KurT Poole said. FirsT we praise ln order To make finals iunior Glenn Graham sprims To quickly Tmish The 440 yard dash. A mid-February Memorial Track meeT gase senior S'ese Mocre ar opoorm- nm 'C fur an WCVSSSNE 2:02 in The er a '3B0 esert The individual and Then The Team. ThaT's opposiTe Trom all oTher school sporTs around here. . The new Track program sTressed sTrengTh and speed which helped TooTball players as well as volleyball players and many oTher sporTs parTicipanTs improve Their endurance. IT keeps you in shape during The oTT season when normally you'd be siTTing in TronT oT The TV or eaTing, Treshman Don Fogle said. IT also builds you up and leads you righT inTo spring Training Tor TooTball. ApplyingiThis new approach To The spring Track program Tremendously increased The ToTal number oT parTicipanTs. The Track group consisTing oT approximaTely eighTy boys began The year wiTh The Brooks lnviTaTional meeT in The AsTrodome. Senior PeTe Willems placed TourTh in The mile and Two mile relay consisTing oT seniors Mark Brewer. STeve Moore, Mike ReiTher, and Willems Took a Third. Junior David Jones placed Third in The high iump aT The Memorial lnviTaTional. OTher winners were iunior Tim BrundreTT, TiTTh in The pole vaulT and senior Tom ArThur TourTh in The IZO high hurdles. The Two mile Team Took TirsT in Their relay and Willems placed TirsT in The 880 yard dash. WiTh The TemperaTure in The l0s The JV Team Traveled To KaTy and Tared well. Junior Bill Gardner placed TirsT in The l20 high hurdles and The 330 hurdles. Fellow Team member Chris Duliban placed second in The hundred yard dash and long iump, and sophomore Bill Bloomer placed TirsT in The shoT puT. JV resulTs aT The AlieT meeT were pleasing, iunior STeve Barosso said. Freshman Bobby SundquisT placed sixTh in The 330 hurdles and second in The high iump. Freshman Andy Dacovich Tied Tor TirsT in The pole vaulT, and sophomore James De La Cruz placed Third in The mile. Coached by Bill Miller, The Treshman Team capTured The Team championship aT Memorial. FirsT place ribbons were awarded To BerT Ward in The 440 ya rd dash. - 1 1 ,1 ZS-- ,. l Train

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nd they 're off .. Dacovich in The pole vaulT, and 5undguisT in The high iump and l20 high hurdles. Winning second place ribbons were Ward in The A long lump, Doug l-lowey in The high iump, and PeTe Ramirez in The shoT puT. OTher sTandouTs were Dacovich. Don Fogle, John Morris, and Carlos Avila. AlThough Tewer girls Than boys Took advanTage OT The Tiger Track program They Too lmmediafely afier ThrusTing The dis- cus senior Troy PorTer Tollows his Throw OT 50'6 and laTer received second place aT The Memorial BoosTer Relays. had numerous sTandouTs including seniors: Susie lv1andrell,TerriROwan, Tracey Williams, and Laura WrighT. AT The Memorial meeT WrighT displayed The TasTesT qualiTying Time in The 440 yard dash, a :57.5 and also placed TirsT in The Tinals. LaTer The Team Traveled To parTicipaTe in The La PorTe- Bayshore Olympics. Sophomore Karen Burns placed second in The shoT and sixTh in The discus. A sixTh place was awarded To Junior Viclci Burda in The Triple iump while lvlandrell K Tw., is- .-L., LB- I uvq-1 gf -Q.. 2.4 placed sixTh in The long iump. In The Conroe TigereTTe relays, Burns received a Third place in The shoT while Treshman Kim Ehrlund placed TourTh in The discus. WrighT Toolm TirsT in The l00 meTer dafh and broke her own record in The 400 meTer dash wiTh a Time oT .56. Finally, aT The disTricT meeT, The sprinT relay Team consisTing oT Mandrell, Rowan, Williams, and WrighT placed TourTh. Freshman Rachel RosenTeld placed sixTh in The VarsiTy shoT. Burns placed TirsT in sha+wi+I-1 a puT oT ThirTy-Tour TeeT. WrighT nabbed TirsT place medals in The l00 and 400 meTer dashes. No one was close as she ran an l l.8 in The IO0 meTers, and a personal besT oT 55.1 in The 400 meTers. AbouT To 'finish The lasT sTreTch oT The mile run. senior Cheryl McClung sprinTs ahead oT a Tellow WesTchesTer compeTiTor. Over The bar sophomore Bill Gard- ner clears a jump oT 5'8 receiving second place in The high iump aT The disTricT meeT. i l Tracli