Booker T Washington High School - Hornet Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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Synchronized swimming Laurie Burdette, Tresa Gates, Kristin Manhart, Becky Clark. row: Cheryl Watts, Roxanne Roundtree, Monica Sanders, Dovie Wolford. Back Coach Rosemary Harper, Sarah Cox, Lynne Parkinson, Tammy Deshazer, Neeley. Our biggest problem was having too few participants. Although we had some promising freshmen and a few drifters floating in on activity periods, we still weren't overcrowded. A whopping number of six people composed our actual class. Coach Rosemary Harper had wanted to have a water show, but our small numbers sank that idea. We did practice for a local competition held in April, though. Synchronized swimming is basically water ballet. We were ballerinas, but we held our breath a lot longer. row: Paula Raines, Kim Goodnight, Dianne Duncan, Cheryl McGill, Melissa Simmons. Back er , Softball We were a young team with only two seniors, but we considered this our greatest strength. By working all winter indoors and out, we were able to increase our speed a great deal. We also made plans to attend a pitching and catching clinic in March. All this work went in preparation for the YWCA spring league, but the league was not our only goa . We wanted to insure a strong team for the future, so we helped junior high schools organize a softball program. 55

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430W Ah, the country club sport of golf- lazy days in the sunshine exchanging bets. Not so with us - we drilled consistently and played strenuously. ln years past we've had numerous problems, but through word of mouth we recruited a few good players who helped give us a different attitude and a little more recognition. Before this year, the tournament planners really didn't know that BTW had a golf team, but our hard work paid off. Our playing schedule doubled and we acquired a home course- the Mohawk ll golf links. Having our own greens meant more practice time for us to prepare our 14 matches. Our coach, Sybie Lambert, was as excited as we were about our successful year. As far as golf is concerned at BTW, we've made it out of the sand traps. VoHeybaH 54 Golf: Front row: Jay Vinir, Sybie Lambert, Mark Stoi wuslnlluulyl David Ballance. Back Row: Jim Kincaid, Jeff Stone ie, Flicky Kelley. Volleyball: Front row: Patrice lsom, Shandia Townes, Carla Carey, Payne, Sharoi num for us. This was the first year that Tulsa S Bl three speng a lot of time just learning basic skill Aft in thg Michelle Saulters, Leola Collins. Second row: Donna Low, Coach Nilda Reyes. Back row: Nan 1 Allen, Kim Chiles, Denise Adams. ith a new coach, Nilda Fleyes, and plans f ing rous meets, things seemed to be look chools had a girls' volleyball league, and planned to host a meet in Jt we still had setbacks. Of the 18 of us, players returned from last year, and we ha . . . . . S. eyes felt that we were handicapped proper volleyball is not taught in r hours of doing our best just to keep the air, it didn't matter much whether we bt and spiked our way to stardom or d

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Varsity baseball Baseball at BTW didn't get the attention that other sports did. ln the past we hadn't been very successful, but this year we planned to change all that. During the summer we spent a couple of weeksrat Oklahoma State University's baseball camp, We were a very mature team. Since most of us were seniors, we played more as a team than ever before. We felt that over the years our attitude has been wrong - instead of thinking about what we were going to do to win, we thought about what we were going to do to keep from losing. One player said, We used to invent ways to lose. Despite jock stereotypes, we were students as well as baseball players. Many of us exceeded the 2.0 grade point average, required to play baseball. Our coaches wanted us to achieve in the classroom as well as on the baseball diamond. Front row: Robert Herring, John Pierson, Mike Jones, Mark Barre, Scott Rooks, Robert Payne. Second row: Richard Hasting, Rico Foshed, Wayne Pense, Mike Moan, John Hall. Third row: Coach Tim O'Halloran, Johnny Merrick, Kevin Davis, Scott Marrs, Assistant Coach Al Wickham. A LM.. Q N ' lf A Q x YW .. ,Q ' 9 -Ai 1 1 4. W Q- ,v.-,YQ-4,V.5 5 '4 xc .lfdltf . 4 'wr fr- tomb? ,, K 4 56 A 'it -3 F-'fsgu .. ' . . 5' .5 ..,,gZj1g,4f-fr -