Alief Elsik High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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flexing his muscles, guy mcclaren lets everyone know he’s a stud. missy mitchell goes for the gold. 'what do you mean you don’t like the water?” lays coach tick to jeff phillips. “away we go. brian ward and mike nadolski waiting for the bathing suit competition to end, greg kelly looks forward to the talent por- tion of the pageant. , , a water sports 193

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aqua squad on September 1, 1979, the a.i.s.d. natato- rium was expected to open its doors, but plagued by problems, it was delayed until after the new year, even then, the first elsik swim team was unable to use the pool because of the lack of heat, but these difficulties did not daunt most of our swimmers, we lost over half of the kids that first tried out for the pleas- ure to work with,” said coach fick. they were limited to training with weights and working on dryland drills” throughout the winter, it payed off, but at the time it seemed worthless — we wanted to be in the water,” said lora parker. and apparently it did pay off, because at their first meet, the elsik swimmers splashed to a victory over their arch rival — hastings. the next week the district meet was held and again the rams shone with guy mcclaren, boys’ team captain, qualifying for regionals in two events, this year, of course, was only a beginning — just wait until next year. look! he lost his bathing suit again!” says blair thomas to jenise jensen. team pictures: left to right: front row: karen gremminger, mike nadolski, greg kelly, anthony wood, andy forgay, mike arrington, billy grabowski, lora parker. middle row: tracey bush, missy mitchell, staci hail, ingrid daaboul, lisa harr, mary deckard, crystal duncan. back row: shauna mar- quardt, mark baker, guy mcclaren, jeff phillips, barry hill, brian ward, todd hill, robyn scott, coach fick. 192 water sports

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swan divers the elsik diving team, affected by the a.i.s.d. natatorium’s delay, did well on the whole during the season, the team, which was approximately fifty percent smaller than it was when first formed, was forced to use dry- land drills and trampoline exercising to train during the fall months, then, the trampoline privileges were taken away because of insurance difficul- ties, “the divers had only two and a half weeks to learn dives and to develop the timing and form needed to be competitive,” claimed coach lie- berFb'ut even witlv extremely lowered morale and little experience, tn|Jram divers competed against hastings — and word the team is not expected to grow much larger next year, but less difficulties will surely result in a much improved diving squad. i mam i’ll give her a 10, says coach lieber... 194 water sports A W , for originality! — corby jansen