Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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The Spiker team includes Dawn Brammer, Tracy Bell. Kristin Peterson. Vikki Curtiss. Vanessa Curtiss. Brenda Dobson, jaimi Moravek. Renee Bills, Melanie Drumheller, Ranae Reynolds. Teresa Blaylock, Ronda Hofmann, Carey Firestem, Angie Brown, Coach Sandra Pilfold, Stephanie Shelmadme. Courtney Fritzler, Michelle Sutton, Hope Kamerzell, Becky Schnell, Ronda Loutzenhiser, Kristy Beagle, Blanca Vazquez, and Coach loni Schlatz. TEAM SCORES Scottsbluff 15-6,8-15,15-13 Mitchell 15-5,15-4 Torrington 15-6,15-12 Kimball 15-7,15-2 Sidney 3-15,15-7,15-12 Gordon 15-5,15-6 Gering 9-15,15-11,15-12 Wheatland 15-4,15-8 Chadron 16-14,15-3 TOURNAMENT PLACE Torrington 1st Sidney 2nd Mid-Plains — Alliance 1st Western Conference 1st Districts — Coach: Sandra Pilfold Record: 20-3 Senior starter and leading blocker Dawn Brammer blocks the ball as Mitchell opponent Dee Jay January watches anxiously In this game. Alliance defeated Mitchell 15-4, 15-12. Varsity Volleyball 19

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Players Have First Twenty Win Season Ever Pride is the Sign of Alliance High Spikers Throughout the year, volleyball player could be seen in their royal blue 'volleyball' jackets, a symbol of their pride and satisfaction with their tremendous 203 record. The 1987 Spiker team was the first team in the history of Alliance High volleyball to ever win 20 games in a season, and this team was also rated as high as third in Class B in the Omaha World Herald. This alone showed the team's dedication, and when one realizes that this team also won the Torrington Invitational, the Alliance Invitational, the Western Conference Tournament, and never lost two games in a row, one begins to understand and see what a determined group of young ladies this team was. The season began with Alliance racing to an 8-1 start, losing only to Ogallala, the eventual district champion. Coach Pilfold commented, This team hangs together and will keep on improving all season. And this team did exactly that by soundly defeating then tenth ranked Kimball, and avenging an earlier loss to then second ranked Sidney. The Spikers could often be heard making positive comments, such as I believe in you; I belive in our team, or We can do it, or hitter Dawn Brammer's somewhat infamous, DOOOO IT!!! The Alliance Spikers finished the season rated eighth by the World Herald. Starting senior setter Vanessa Curtiss expressed her feelings, At the beginning of the season, one of our goals was to never lose two games in a row, and because of lots of teamwork, we reached that goal. Her sister, and other starting setter, Vikki Curtiss, added, We had a great season, and although I am disappointed with how it ended. I'm proud to have been a part of this extra special team. All in all, this team was a group of close, hardworking athletes who had an excellent season that stimulated pride for everyone involved. Concentration and determination fill senior Brenda Dobson's face as she passes the ball. Brenda, along with teammates laimi Moravek and Kristin Peterson, was named to the All-State Honorable Mention team by the Omaha World Herald Setters. Vanessa Curtiss and Vikki Curtiss discuss the next play during the pre-season scrimmage. At the end of the season, Vanessa was named Honorable Mention in the Region by the Scottsbluff Star Herald, while Vikki was named to the All-State First Team in Class B by the Omaha World Herald. First server senior laimi Moravek breaks through the paper as her name is announced, laimi was selected to the All Conference Team and was an Honorable Mention player for the All Region Team in the Scottbluff Star Herald. 18 Varsity Volleyball

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Experience Pays Off! Harriers Are Successful, But Small Cross country was a sport for any guy or girl athlete who liked to run, whether it was for getting in shape, for competition, or just for fun. In running cross country one had to want to run in order to make it enjoyable and fun. It was not like running around a track ten times. It was much more like running a trail around a few trees, through creeks, on golf courses, through pastures, around lakes, and on roads. A practice consisted of mile repetitions or just a stretch of road lasting three to five miles for the girls and three to six for the boys. Mile repetitions were hard paced running for one mile with three big sand hills. This was done repeatedly over the same mile, three to five times. To run in a meet, a team of four or more runners had to be in the same uniform and look exactly alike, except for one. No watches or time pieces were allowed to be worn, and wearing a tag stating one's name and school was required. In order to place in team standings, a team needed to have four runners. If there was no team, they could run for individual places, to earn medals. The top five runners of a team were varsity, and the rest were novice runners. Only the boys had a novice race and the girls all ran varsity. In order to have earned a medal the varsity runners had to place in the top ten. Coach Kuehn wrapped up the year by saying, We had the smallest team ever, but we still showed improvement from last year. Our major objective for next year will be finding more runners. Freshman |im Hood shows how fun running can be while competing in the boys novice race. The 1987 Cross Country runners include, from top to bottom, |im Hood, Rhonda Nemechek, Teresa Stephenson. Coach |im Kuehn. Michelle Zumbahlen, and Mark Schafer. Not pictured: Ty Watson, and Carmen Littlehoop. Varsity Novice Boys Girls Boys MS CL RN TS MZ TW IH Gering NP NP 28 30 34 NP 62 Morrill NP NP 24 12 37 NP 43 Alliance NP NP 27 30 46 NP 75 Torrington 35 NP 30 45 49 NP 76 W Conf. 12 16 5 6 14 NP 22 Kimball 9 11 4 5 13 24 29 District 32 21 12 21 27 10 15 Coach: |im Kuehn 20 Cross Country