Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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Reaching for a slammer. Tony Wallin hits it hard. With pain and hard work the track things. team accomplished many Moving swiftly. Pat Brady returns his op ponent's serve. Boys Tennis And Track O 193

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o A £ CL TJ tf) V O) O) so. 0- - c m E -c to £ £ o' H a z: CO z: z: UJ H C ) O CQ 192 TRACK: Row I: Sharon Seibold, Dave Barrett, Alisa Whitney. Janelle Davidson, Shaeline Saergent, Ashley Rust. Michelle Stewart. Tony Elggren, John Tenney. Troy Loader. Dino Frabrizio. RayLevitre. Row 2: Becky Schnidt. Jenny Wood. Jill Munch. Sharon Knott. Lori Meyer. Loyd Chow. Cheryl Picher, Mike Jimes. David Buntor. Jay Holeman. Eric Knowles. Karl Hirschi. Row 3: David Mead. Mark Jones. Craig Laraabee. Rich Absheri, Ray Hirshi, Russ Perry. Troy Walker. Rich Robert. Bond. Doug Berry — coach. Row 5: La- Dee Jensen. Mynde Aringotn. Melanie Pace. Kirsten Aure. Mike Miller, Vince Lopez. Greg Olsen. Brent Sundberg, Mike Taylor. Bruce Gibbons. Dan Holliday — coach. Row 6: Jay Jenson — coach. Randy Rassmussen. Kim Wolfe. Randy Smith, Jim Cloward, Lance Eddingotn. Nathan Servie, Maurice Fidel. Jim Kearns — coach. Row 7: Darrin Knowles, Jason Petit, David Newman, John Peterson. Eric Swenson. Wayne Working on the perfect form. Scott Pugh whams the ball. EVOTED “SPINGSTERS” BRAVE ARCTIC ue to the bad weather, the track team wasn’t assembled until well into March. They say snow and Arctic winds are hard to run through. But for devoted track members of years gone by, cold, snow and more snow was braved, making our track team one of the finest in the state. Under the direc- tion of Coach Jensen and Coach Holliday they practiced sixth peri- od daily, enduring and striving in order to better themselves. Competing in both indoor and outdoor meets, the Hawks really showed others what they were made of. With approximately nine- ty athletes, and girls' distance as their strong point, they prevailed over other teams, with Sharon Sie- bold becoming one of the top three shotput throwers in Utah. At the Simplot meet in Idaho (which is considered to be one of the toughest in the nation), Alisa Whitney took first in High Jump. Kirsten Aure first in the 1500 me- ter and Jenny Wood took first in the triple jump. Also stifled by the disappointing weather was the boys tennis team. The team this year consisted of only 14 boys including only one returning varsity player; most of the players this year were fresh- men which only means our team will get better. They were led by Coach Yamishiro. They were in- deed dedicated, practicing at school for two and one half hours every day plus what time they could put in themselves at home. The team this year is an improve- ment over the team last year, and I suspect that with the new talent we will do much better.” com- mented returning member Tony Wallin. ‘' V Sticking with the pack. Mike Taylor eases by. Row 4: Jana Rassmussen. Brad Rentfro, Mick Goertzen. Doni Wilde. Lavoy Whit- more. Bryan Jewkes, Sean Arnett. Calvin Lewis. Craig Chidester. Row 8: Davis Park. Davis Stock. Kelly Jenson, Pete Ross. Mike Ashby.

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ro c ( ) V o JB ) E .22 vc •w' ■D ( ) “ CJ £ I o 2, 05 ° - - £ CO J £ 5 e 194 LACK MACHINE ack in black! The re- turning state cham- pion Hawks tried to defend their title, but came up short. They start- ed off against Granite in perfect championship form; the whole team placed well. The game be- longed to us the entire way, as the final score reflected, 43-0. The next state game, the quar- ter-finals, was also ours all 48 minutes of the game. We drowned the Bonneville Lakers Surrounded by fierocious Bengals, Mark Frkovich gets clawed by Brighton's defense. 38-21. The Cottonwood Colts, however, provided more com- petition, but were still no match for the awesome Big Black. The final score of our semi final game was 28-14. Ev- erything was looking good. The Hawks were on a roll with only one team, the Olympus Titans, standing in their way to their second consecutive state championship. There was only one problem; the Titans were standing so rigid that we couldn't roll them over. As a matter of fact, it looked more like Oly was doing the rolling. Despite the fact that we gained nearly twice as many yards of- fense than the Titans (312-174), our eleven turnovers killed us. We didn't hold on to the ball long enough to put it in the end- zone on most drives. There were a few moments of hope, however, like the 54 yard op- tion pass from Troy Long to Steve Hardy for a touchdown, and our only other score, a Chad Ogden run from the 3. Preparing for a powerful punt. Dave McQ himself to push back the opponents. The final score of our second consecutive trip to the state fin- als was 13-39. Even though the state finals were somewhat disappointing, the team had their best season ever. All through the school this year you could always hear something like: Hey, did you see that diving catch Troy Long made for the fourth touchdown the other day?! . . . Yea, but did you see Steve Hardy's interception right be- fore halftime?! or, Oh my heck, that Darren Handley guy is HUGE!! . . . Yea, and Pat McGinnis sure seems a lot big- ger this year too!” The fact of the matter was that this year's team combined good talent and (continues on page 198)