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

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Senior Art Waggoner, the ran Into some tough luck at Photo by B. Mitchell District Diving Champion, Reglonals and finished 10th. Junior Penny Rosen led the girls with a first In the 50-yard freestyle and a 2nd place in the 100 yard backstroke as they finished 6th out of 37 teams in the Texas Coaches Association Invitational Swim Meet. Photo by L. Cates In a tri-meet against Memor- ial and Northbrook, Senior Cathy Boyd took 1st place in the 100 yard backstroke. Photo by L. Cates Swimming Coach Eugene Watson coached his swim club to a 6th place over- all at State. The Rams were represented in Austin by Junior Penny Rosen, Sophomore Kim Lazorwitz, and Seniors Cathy Boyd and Karon Hernandez. Photo by E. Lee Swimming and Diving 97

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Four Girls Qualify For the State Swimming Meet While Diver Art Waggoner Takes 1st in District At the Klein Forest meet, the girls made a 2 0 record, led by double lsts from Senior Cathy Boyd, Junior Penny Rosen, and Freshman Kim Lazorwitz. Sophomore Janice Simms walked off with one 1st. The girls team won in dual competition, 111-56. while the boys lost. 67-104. to make an even record of 1 and 1. Senior Chad Pollock posted two lsts. and Sophomore Billy Hamlyn, one. Senior Art Waggoner won one meter diving. The girls went on to State, but with the injury of Chad Pollock, last year's state champion backstroker, the boys team fell into a dismal season. Also, fan participation was down. Coach Eugene Watson explained. We have some of the best swimmers in the state of Texas, but we are lacking the students and faculty members to watch our meets. Well, it all pays off anyway, either through team recognition or simple self-satisfaction.” In the Bellaire High meet, the girls won again. 102-61, that is, 7 out of 11 events. Kim Lazorwitz. Cathy Boyd, and Penny Rosen were the leading scorers. The girls advanced to 4 wins and 1 loss, as the boys eeked by with an 83-75 victory to advance them to 2 wins and 3 losses. Chad had two lsts and set a new AISD At the Bellaire swim meet, Junior Bill Mitchell snatched a 2nd place score in the one meter diving event, second only to Senior Art Waggoner. Photo by M. Spiller record in the 100 yard butterfly. With Olympic aspirations, Yeah, if I keep swimming, I'd like to be there in 1988,” Chad found himself unable to compete at the Hasting's meet. And with Chad, fell the boys team. At State, the team was represented by four girls. Cathy Boyd placed 2nd in the 100 yard free style and 8th in the 50 yard free style. Penny Rosen placed 3rd in the 50 yard free style and 3rd in the 100 back. And Kim Lazorwitz placed 8th in the 100 fly. In the free relay, the four girls came in 7th. All of the times were All-State. As for diving. Senio Art Waggoner placed 1st in District and then 10th at Regionals. According to Coach Bob Leiber, The swimming and diving teams concluded a very successful season. B L. Baroski, Sports ! Editor Advancing the boys team’s record to 2 wins and 3 loses, Sophomore Billy Hamlyn won the 100 yard free stylo against Bellaire. Photo by M. Spiller Freshman Kim Lazowitz’ arched diving style helps her to get off ahead in this KlelmKIein Oak-Elsik tri- meet at the Alief Natatorium. Kim Is one of the four gi who qualified for state as s placed 3rd in the 100 fly regional competition. Ph by L. Cates 96 Swimming and Diving

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Boys Golf: Front: K. Barge, B. Bycr. Back: P. Payne. D. Smitherman, McDaniel, M. Marriott), K. White, B. Bageant, P. Logue, Coach Howe. Johnson, B. Bennett, J. M. Molloy, J. Glasgow, B. Anxiety Leads To Higher Scores Than Expected When any team loses their star player, the team that follows may not be expected to do as well. But not in golf. The loss of Jay Meyer really hurt us. but then again, the five returning lettermen had the experience and picked up the slack well, stated Senior Joel Mathiason. Those five golfers are Joel. Mike Molloy. Vic Mehra. Bill Payne, and David Smitherman. “The addition of Peter White. Jeff Glasgow. Bryan Bageant and Mike Marrioti all contributed to the success of the team, even though we didn’t start that hot.” explained Mike Molloy. All the golfers felt the pressure of living up to Jay and that hurt us in the beginning, but we finally relaxed and came through in the end.” commented David Smitherman. The point of relaxation came at just the right time. The team shot an excellent 347 at their own tournament at Green Meadows. That tournament came just in time for us to hype-up for district.” said Peter White. At the district tournament, which was held April 15 at the Stephen F. Austin course in Sealy, the team finished a disappointing sixth out of 18 teams. “The district tournament was terrible for a couple of us. but for some of the others like Peter, Jeff and Mike Marriotti it went alright.” stated Joel. After joining the team during mid-season Senior Jeff Glas- gow helped the team to a sixth place finish out of eighteen teams at the district tournament by shooting an 89. Senior Peter White hitsa nine iron at the team's practice sight, the Houston Golf Academy. After only one year on the team. Peter was selected as the M.V.P. by his peers. Mike Marriotti was low score with an 83 while Peter and Jeff shot 87 and 89 respectively. By Billy Payne. Reporter 98 Boys Varsity Golf