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

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.il 4 XJ, cs. . 1 , -2 , V Wk QQ,W4 9f , w V news Abouf fo break The fape senior Laura Wriqh? won firsf place in fhe 440 yard dash al The Memorial Boosler Relays. An injured hamsfring was lhe con- sequence for junior Tracey Wil- liarnsi collision wilh Elsilcis second leg in The mile relay. Las'r leg of The mile relay learn, sen- ior Terri Rowan finishes rhe race and claims sevenlh place al rhe dis- trict meer. Concenirafion on clearing The hur, dle iunior Milce Church 'ralces fhird place af The Memorial JV 'rraclm meer. Q. is

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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

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the long run WiTh boTh The boys and girls cross counTry varsiTy divisions placing TiTTh in disTricT and The boys junior varsiTy Team winning second, iT was evidenT ThaT Track members were working As e devofed member of The cross counTry Team, in addiTion To morn- ing pracTice freshman Gene Garza runs up To an addiTional Ten miles a day. afTer school, Cross counfry Team pracTice includes an early morning run of al' leasT five miles around The school campus, and members offen ran five or more miles on Their own after school. Running in a pack sen- iors Sieve Moore, John Sfeils, PeTe Willems, iunior Tommy Summers, sophomore Billy Keene, and fresh- man Carlos Avila and Gene Garza sTarT Their run around The school. harder Than ever. A cross counTry meeT is a Two mile course usually consisTing oT grassy Tields, wide diTches, and hills To climb: a sorT of haphazard obsTacle course. The girls cross counTry Team improved Tremendously This season according To girls Track coach Susan ArmsTrong. One oT The main reasons The girls did beTTer was The TacT ThaT I TelT like l knew more abouT whaT l was doing This year Than lasT. This is ArmsTrong's second year To coach cross counTry. The girls workouTs were harder and included running 4 , 1-, kg' ., ,Q T' ' fi. , A 1 aff- ' '17zE'.J:L- . K I - Track