Benicia High School - Panther Yearbook (Benicia, CA)

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1. Carla Kibby swims for winning time. 2. Cindy IViciVIahon tightens up on that backstroke. 3. Heather Milne nnishes her last lap. 4. Kathy Kilgore races to the finish. 5. Danny Kidson shows good form. 6. The 1980-81 Swim team. 7. Coach Woods informs swimmers of winning time. ,P 'IH '1 l Y' E F my in Q- swf., i'o.- - . . 3 .nf 4- . Q' H Z ' Hfqflffix., f t 5 i -,.-.1 .ape 11 A Swimming-111

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S . . . The 1980-1981 swim team consisted mostly of newcomers. Thanks to the professional coaching skills of Coach Woods, the new members were able to complete the season with great success. Though only in his first year instructing for B.H.S., Woods' swim team was destined to have a great season from the beginning, improving their new found skills as the season progressed. The twelve members of this years team included: Captain, Heather lvlilne, Carla Kibby, Ali Behnam, Kathy Kilgore, Lisa Ross, Lisa Yokoi, Monique Hunt, Tammi Weyburn, Kelly Barthelmess, Cindy iVlclVlahon, Danny Kidson, and Jennifer Hunt, with Tammi and Danny returning with over a year of this tough sport. Home meets were held at Benicia's city pool, where the team held practices everyday. Their competitors this season were Liberty High, Dixon, Vallejo, Fairfield, and St. Helena, of which Coach Woods named St. Helena and Fairiield as their toughest competitors this year. 110-Swimming mg . . . Splashmg Cffu-

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1980 and the beginning of 1981 can certainly be described as a year in sports. We each could be found involving ourselves in national and local sports to a greater extent. The year started out with a boom in February when the United States hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid,. New York. There was joy, and there was heartbreak during the two week period that the Olympic Hag and torch shown brightly. Americans will always remember the unfavored US Hockey team going in and winning the gold medal. The American spirit was truly back as the nation watched the team skate around the rink carrying the Hag and singing what they knew of t'God Bless America. Then, gold medal when the Phillies went on to defeat Kansas City in the World Series. Mike Scmidt of the Phillies was later named as the league's MVP Jim Plunkett, after six unsuccessful seasons with both New England and San Francisco, led the Raiders on to Superbowl XV victory in January of 1981. Plunkett led the attack with a final score of 27-10 in favor of the Raiders. Ron Jaworski of the Eagles was a bit disenheartened with the outcome of it all. And lastly, Jack Nicklaus hnally showed his face to the world when he began touring with the pro circuit again. No one knew what had happened to the man until he showed up in late 1980 YEAR I PORT favored and world champion figure skaters Tai Babalonia and Randy Gardner had to drop out of competition when Gardner received a groinal injury while practicing. Many of us will remember the tears streaming down Babalonia's face as she left the rink. America also had its hopes up for another gold medal in figure skating from Linda Fratianne, but none of us were discouraged when she came up with the silver medal. At the summer games, many countries were not represented due to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, the USA being one of those countries. Though we heard little about those games, the one story that stands out was about ' Nadia Commenici, the 1976 olympic sweetheart that gained nearly all perfect scored in gymnastics during competition. In Moscow, we saw Nadia take a tumbling fall and receive disputable marks. Nadia took the silver medal, taking second to a new girl from the Soviet Union. After the Olympics, many events were held where American gold medal hopefuls were matched against the actual gold medal winners. The Americans came through with shining colors, breaking olympic and world records. Evonne Godagong won her first wimbledon final match since 1971. Chris Everet Lloyd was able to show that she still had it by defeating Tracy Austin in the hnals of the US open. The big tennis match of the year had to be when Bjorn Borg defeated John MacEnroe in the Wimbledon finals. MacEnroe handed Borg his fifth consecutive Xkllrnlnlnnlnn 1-H-:rnninnrhin A ' Wigs ' wir Q: JW .