Billings West High School - Westward Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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JUNIOR VARSITY — First Row: Collette Kramer, Beckie Zanto, Stacy Fanning, Libby Hamilton, Angie Minor. TOP ROW: Michelle Carstens, Kristy Doney, Andra Swenson, I awni Graham, Kristin Broeder, Marris Harbrecht. SOPHOMORE — FIRST ROW: Kendra Johnson, Cyndie Frier, Joann Davis, Richele Riechert, Heather Olson, Tonya Kiser. TOP ROW: Jennie Kinsfather, Edic Schneider, Lisa Abfalder Bccki Paul, Pam Paul, Kelly Gaston, Tony Barz. Palmer gets 150th career win Coach Marty Palmer was very excited the night that the golden girls played Bozeman High at West. Little did he know this game would make it 150 wins in the books of his career. When the Golden Girls had traveled to Bozeman the first time they lost by a score of 40-42, but it was a different story when Bo- zeman came to West to play. The end score was 68-30, and with that the coach smiled, A LOT! The Golden Girls didn’t lose a game at home since the season started, and Coach Palmer was pleased about this!

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Kim Eskro “Overall I think we had a great season even though we may have had our down games we pulled together and itshowed, we took first in divisional and fourth in state.” Robin Reiger “We lost intensity and weren’t conentrating.” Tracy Takala “The ride home [ from state ] was the worst four hours of my entire life “ Amiee Romeijn “I think we improved both on offense and on defense. We started to really play like a team with no competition between us.” Kris Platt ‘Everyone was fighting, some weren’t playing as a team and they were just playing for themselves. We all lost our confidence. We didn’t really care if there was a game or not. The attitude was oh, we have a game tonight, so what. It was almost like we had to do something wedidn’t want to do.” JodiEhert “Afterstate I felt let down and thought of all the things I could have done to change the weekend.” Kristy Doney “I thought that we could have done better at the tournament [state], but durning the season I thought we did good.” Jill Montgomery Playing in the off season. Making a lot of sacrafices and commitments and just wanting to get after and win.” Stormy Weppler After our win at Divisional,we had hopes of winning the state title. That was our goal. All year long and I don’t think we were prepared for losses at state.’ Allison Redenius As a team we worked super hard on defense because Mr.Palmer’s philosphy is that ofTense sells tickets, but defense wins the games. He always told us that there isn’t an “I” in team.” 23

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Low attendance at girls games hurts spirit Spirit — can you hear it? Sure, you could hear the parents, but was that enough? Usually at the girls basketball games there were only a few students yelling and clap- ping. If the girls were lucky thery would get half a section of the bleachers full. The cheerleaders were trying, but it was just thte lack of students at the games. Some of the girls said that if there were more kids at the games, they would have been more excited themselves, and it would have helped them win games. mtiLitiGToh SPIRIT — Jill Scarbrough,senior, Andra Swensonjunior, and Kristin Broeder, junior, hang up a Good Luck Bears sign made by future students at West, Burlington school kids. FRESHMEN — FRONT ROW: Julie Rehrig, Carrie Haworth, Marianne Sims, TifTaniSamsal,Laura Lustig.ROWTWO:RickiKetterIing,CliaroletteChauncey, Carleen Freier, Shannon Murray, Heather Sieler, Stacy Rec lin. BACK ROW: Anya Soriya, Rohna Kesler, Janie Lahey, Krista Paulson,Michelle Hink, Bobbie Erbacher. WE GOTIT — Stormy Weppler,senior, and Alison Redenius, senior, share the Bear power in grabing a rebound during West’s Oct. 24 60-54 victory over Sky view.