Caddo Magnet High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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Members of the girls cross country team are Elizabeth Winberry, Kristina Owen, Susan Murphy. Jill Stokes. Kathleen DeSoto, Lara Tietz. Shayne Berry. Ms. John son. The boys team consists of Michael Offerty. Mark Winberry. Joe Ferguson. Mr. Chase (Joe s grandfa ther), Chris Bullock. Jimmy Gray. Curtis Bias, Scott Wilcox. Kevin Gust, Bryan Patterson. Track Team • 21 1

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Running with the wind rack picks up Track, a sport requiring endurance, speed and most of all a willingness to do one’s very best. At Magnet there are two separate branches of the track orga- nization. They are Cross country and Track and Field. Cross country takes place in the Fall while Track and Field events are held in the Spring. The Cross country team is made up of people with the dedication to work hard and practice hard. Lara Tietz, a member of the Cross country team States, “Track is a lot of hard work and you have to be interested in it, but it all pays off at the meets.” Cross country’s first meet of the sea- son, Regionals, proved to be a great suc- cess. There, they ran off with a boys first place team and the girls came in first, second, third, and fourth individual places. At their second meet, State, they did well again. At the meet there was particularly one person whose dedi¬ cation paid off; Joe Ferguson was ranked seventh in the state. The state meet, of course, brought their season to a close. Track and Field, the second branch of the organization is held in the spring and includes the sprints, distance run, jumps, and throws. Last Spring, the boys team was small, but scored more points with its small team than most larger groups who were not as well qualified. The girls did extremely well; three of them qualified for State. In the years to come, track is expect- ed to grow and become an important part of the sports program at Magnet. The Member of the Boys Cross country team are Sponsor Coach Collins. Mark Winberry, Scott Wilcox. Chris Bullock, Bryan Patterson. Curtis Bias. Joe Fer guson, Jimmy Gray.

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Dominating district toumaments, Debators win ali Members of the Varsity team are (row one) Amy Levine, Stephanie Williams, Karen Trahan. Elizabeth Lawrence. Greg Shivel. (row two) Tyson Hackenberg. Rob Lindsay, Erin Ennis. (row three) David Emory, Felicia Williams, Nicole Peatross, Romney Norwood, Larry McCoy, David Moore, Don Harold, Lisa Beard, (row four) John Vasser, Jennifer Dobson, Rocky Rockefeller. Meil Hohmann. Keith Crow, (row five) Mike Strahan. Harvey Giblin, Steven Stanley. Jeff Bradley. Webstefs dictionary defines debate as a public argument on a topic. At Magnet, debating is defined as winning, and to win you must prepare. Debaters began to prepare early in the summer by attending camps which they affec- tionately refer to as “shops”. The next step in the preparations was to research the topic of water quality. They acconrv plished this by spending a great deal of time in Caddo Parish’s finest libraries. The third step was to compile the infor- mation they had researched in the li- brary. This information was placed on index cards and categorized into a work- ing order. The final step in preparing their case was to familiarize themselves with it and prepare a presentation that would allow them to win. Debator Lisa Beard says, “You prepare to win, and you win because you have prepared. Of course, to win debates you have to enter debate toumaments. Each year the Debate Team entered many tourna ments and headed for the top. These finally brought them to a series of com petitions which resulted in the Debate Team receiving the kind of recognition of which they were worthy. When !Ar. Belanger told them to clean up their act President Steven Stanley, Secretary Tyson Hacken¬ berg, Treasurer Neil Hohmann, and Vice President Harvey Giblin took him seriously. 212 • Organizations