Brookfield Central High School - Legend Yearbook (Brookfield, WI)

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Tnekkens UN Tlmouqli Rebuilding SEASON The 1980 Boys' Cross Country team completed its season with a disappoint- ing record under first year head coach Charles Turner. The rather dismal record was due to an abundance of holes left by talented runners who had graduated. These emptied places were filled by less experienced underclass- men. Though the team failed to win a single meet, Coach Turner did an excellent job of pulling the team together. Drawing from his own experiences as a runner, Coach Turner guided the young team, pulling the most from each individual. Junior Kevin Kellems remembers, Coach Turner really helped the team because he is an experienced runner himself. He helped to consolidate the team, and he got us to help each other. Senior Co-Captains Doug Roerden and Kurt Bechtold provided the team with stability, consistency, and numer- ous respectable performances. Junior Roger Hamilton, voted most valuable by his teammates, led the team through its rebuilding season. Also heading the team were senior Scott Semb, juniors Jim Elliott, Ken Meister, and Bill Michal- etz, and sophomore Rod Anderson. Since there was no completely domi- nant runner capable of carrying the entire team, the Lancer harriers became a team rich in the depth of the runners, with its top runners often placing very near each other. Competition within the team itself enhanced the feeling of unity that the team members shared, and provided a reason for optimism when other signs were bleak. Senior Doug Roerden states, The team was a group of intense individuals trying to bring an overall unity to the team. The highlight of the season came with the Grafton lmdtational, in which the team took fourth place overall. In that meet, junior Roger Hamilton led all Cen- tral runners with an eleventh place finish and teammate, sophomore Rod Ander- son placed second for the team in 23rd place. Injuries towards the end of the season kept the Lancer harriers from placing any better than eleventh place at the Braveland Conference Meet. Roger Hamilton was top runner for the Lancers with 31st place, thirteen seconds slower than his previous time on the same course. The remainder of the team was well back in placing. Some consolation might be found in the fact that the other teams in the conference were of unusu- ally high caliber. Hopes for next year hinge on the already shown talents ol the young runners. Roger Hamilton pre- dicts, We should be fairly tough next year if we can avoid the injuries. 52 X Boys' Cross Country f B i 5

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. , X t X . Xu, ' L 1, x X, x . W 1980 Girls' varsity Golf Wauwatosa East Won Brookfield East Lost l Port Washington and Homestead 3rd Waukesha South N N Won Menomonee Falls East Won Wauwatosa East' ' Won Menomonee Falls North Won Port Washington and Homestead N 2nd Nicolet and Kettle Moraine . 2nd Brookfield East and Brown Deer Q ' - Won Port Washington Invitational i W 1 11h Appleton West Invitational 6th Conference Meet ' 3rd L Sectionals rf tv h 4th Waukesha South Lost Wauwatosa'East, Menomonee Falls North, and Brookfield East , 2nd Braveland Conference Meet 3rd Girls' Golf! 51

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