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

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quciziic aces Cie -. . 1. .1 T ix as . Fl Junior Rhonda Hamn signals The number ol laps compleTed bi. Team, 'fmTe Kane Winn, ln The S00 vards Tree-sTi,le a lap counrer proses valu- able as 'nam lose counr in The mid- dle OT The 20 lar race. Because a beTTer form earns more meTamorphosis, The soliTude is shaTTered by The splashing oT The chlorinaTed waTer caused by swimmers clad in Their 'TavoriTe pair ol goggles and brighT yellow cabs and The bellowing ol The coach s voice as she gives The TirsT parT ol her 4000 To 6000 vard workouT. WiTh The deparTure oi Coach Jamie STewarT emerged Debbie Conrad. The new head coach Tor The swim Team wiTh a sTricTer policv oldiscipline. 'Discipline . . . ThaT is The main Thing ThaT has made a diiierence beTween The Two said sophomore CvnThia Paal. The posiTive eTTecTs of The sTricTer polici, were explained bv sophomore Julie Hobkirk. People are acTing beTTer. Thev care more abouT swimming Than iusT having a good Timef Besides swimming hard sprinTs and long disTances The Team members worked wiTh weighTs Twice a week aTTer Their pracTices. The workouTs are harder. buT Thei, pav oTT aT The meeTs, iunior KaTie Winn said. Indeed They did, as The girls Team Tinished TiTTh and The boys I 3Th ouT oT I9 Teams aT The Cv-Fair lnviTaTional Swim Meef. AT The Spring Branch lnviTaTional, The girls Tinished TourTh and The boys Tinished TenTh overall as senior Wendy Wells Tinished TirsT in The l00 yard buTTerTlv. OTher ouTsTanding swimmers were seniors Teri Bunnell, Arlene l-louse. Leslev Packer, junior Rhonda l-lamm and sophomore Julie l-lobkirk. Meanwhile across The pool, anoTher kind OT pracTice was in session. WiTh onlv Two bovs on The diving Team, senior STuarT Lindow and sophomore Tim Brewer. Thev achieved excellence as Lindow capTured Two TirsT places and The opporTuniTy To go To The sTaTe meeT in San AnTonio. Soaring high above The waTer, sen ior STuarT Lindow execuTes a Tor ward dive wiTh a half TwisT. Lindow wenT on To win TirsT place in the Spring Branch lnviTaTional Swim TvleeT. D: rfs ssphsniare Tim Breise' 'ries ii- ': Je' 'he besf 'ufn oosfble Bras-ie' eis:ne:T ewscdiser 'T XO 'Gi Y ' I .. ,, Q- T- Beicre 2:IS :ft 'ne 4 ' Na'a'3rf- .-.a'e- scam Y, .i 'r'nea'aQe'an31 - 'true' b. he se ru' :'se':Tf-'r Defies -e ' -ge r:,.a a':'a ' , I 0

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racking GVGH -ul in--fr 1 ff' ff . , . JC.. . . . ,..,f's f WiTh a plunging leap cenTerTieIder Doug Hooks slyly slides inTo home- pIaTe scoring anoTher run in The sec- ond game OT The double header wiTh The Memorial MusTangs. In The only game I-lasTings IosT dur- ing The second haIT oT disTricT. soph- omore piTcher STeve Hope winds up To deliver his TasT ball. On The 'follow Through Treshman piTcher Glen WoITe eyes The sTrike as iT reaches Treshman caTcher Bobby Maas' awaiTing glove. Focusing on The TasT approaching piTch, sophomore Third baseman John Morris connecTs wiTh The ball Tor a solid single in a make-up game wiTh Memorial. + fri up 2 -. X , 1, , Passing The vacanT bleachers he ThoughT, AT game Time Tomorrow These bleachers will be as empTy as They are now. Then hurriedly he posiTioned himseIT aT TirsT base and began To warm up. As pracTice progressed he paced Through each drill. BaTTing, Tielding, sliding, reading signals everyday - ThaT was his JV duTy in preparaTion oT varsiTy. JV is deTiniTeIy a sTep ThaT prepares you Tor varsiTy, sophomore ouTTieIder Bryan Peska said, iT's noT very glorious buT ThaT is iusT parT oT iT and as Tor The empTy bleachers and low aTTendance, iT's noT The besT buT ThaT is The way iT is in mosT JV sporTs. CuTTing down on errors meanT puTTing whaT The Team learned inTo pracTice. This uniTied Team eTTorT resulTed in exceIIenT games againsT NorThbrook, l'lasTings, and On The dusTy mound Treshman Mike Jones winds up To Tire a piTch To The NorThbrook Raider baTTer whose Team IaTer losT The conTesT To The Tigers IO-I. JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL SWHS OPPONENT 3 I'lasTings 6 20 STraTTord IDI-ll 0 2 7 5 Memorial 7 6 Elsik 5 8 NorThbrook 9 3 WesTchesTer IDI-ll 6 I 6 8 I'IasTings 7 8 Memorial 7 9 Elsik 8 IO NorThl::rook I STraTTord. We seemed To iusT noT have as many misTakes in any oT These games, Treshman ouTTieIder Glen WoITe said. The absence oT error showed iTselT clearly in The second game oT The season when The Woodsmen swepT The STraTTord SparTa ns 20-O. Good piTching by STeve I-Iope really helped, Peska said. In mid-season The JV beaT The previously unbeaTen l'IasTings Team 8-7 in exTra innings. I was very pleased ' wiTh Them and Their eTTorT in The I-lasTings ball game. They really played The caliber oT ball They are capable oT playing, Cook said. Tiger baTs were hoT once again producing IO runs and beaTing NorThbrook IO- I. IT was a greaT way To end The season, I-Iogge added. I-IaITway lisTening To The coach's consTrucTive criTicism as he walked Toward The Tielcl house To Turn in his uniTorm, The TirsT baseman reTIecTed back on The IasT game Ibarely wonl and on The season as a whole. NOT very many people came To waTch. I guess if we had won more To sTarT wiTh . . . BuT nexT year will be diTTerenT. We all have goTTen so much beTTer in The pasT year and when we are on varsiTy we will play like clockwork. For This ball player, The mediocre season didn'T mean deTeaT buT symbolized a learning sTepping sTone To a vicTorious varsiTy record. Junior VarsiTy Baseball I

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