Cardinal Newman High School - Accolade Yearbook (West Palm Beach, FL)

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Varsity ABOVE RIGHT: Varsity Team; Coach Wisniewski, Ron Oen, John Raich, Todd Erikson, Pat Maloy, Allen Stevens, Drew Meyerowich, Frank Myles, Tom Glancey, Chuck Coats, Ed Beerman, Tippie Mayes, Rich Guida, Kurt Dapsos, Kevin Mullen. Robby Acosta and Mark Simon. ABOVE LEFT: Newman wrestlers show different attitudes while waiting for their matches. CENTER RIGHT: Drew Meyerowich shows his skills while working for a take down against Benjamin Sports 285

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Wrestling 1982 The Mat Is Where It ' s At Wrestling at Newman is a sport that attracts athletes of all shapes and sizes. This is true because the sport relies more on balance, technique, and conditioning than on strength and size. Four year veteran of the Newman Var- sity team, Robby Acosta, was the captain of the 1981-82 team. Robby has gone to the state championship all four years. He will definetly be missed from next year ' s team. Other four year veterans were Ronnie Oen and Robby Neher. The out- standing wrestlers of last year were Robby Acosta, Ronnie Oen, Todd Erik- son, Kurt Kapsos, John Raich, Pat Maloy, Drew Meyerowich, and Tom Glancey. Coach Wisniewski stated, Last year ' s team had a successful year even though it was expected to finish with only a 500 season. The competition we faced last year in the county was really stiff. This is going to help us n ext year even though we lost some of our outstanding senior wrestlers. Mr. Wisniewski owed success to a sol- id senior lineup backed up by some de- cent wrestling especially on the under- class level (Freshman and Sophomores). The addition of ex-Newman wrestler, Bob Matyskiel, to the coaching staff and the aid of Chris Hulme and Bobby Oen totalled up to a great coaching staff. This made Coach Wisniewski ' s job much ea- sier and allowed more individual coaching attention for the wrestlers. One outstanding point about last year ' s J.V. team was that they held the best record of any Newman J.V. team yet. ABOVE RIGHT: Left to Right: Robert Wilde, Jim McDonnell, Ross Brown, Tom Polack, Matt McGrath, Hal Murphy, Pete Jones, Paul Scheller, Bob Raymond, Andy Kissner, Bob Rossome, Greg Brown. Brian Kildea, Pat Charles, Darren DePas- quale. Rick Hutchinseen, Tod Neary, Alex Piazza, Pete Plikitis. ABOVE LEFT: Assistant coaches Bob Matyskiel and Bobby Oen and Head coach Mike Wisniewski CENTER: Eddie Beerman prepares for action against Benjamen ' s Bruce Bechtel. Junior Varsity 284 Sports

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Up And Over — Newman Volleyball! What would you have called a group of girls bouncing up and down slapping at a silly white ball? A punk rock dance right? Wrong! The right answer w as the Cardi- nal Newman girl ' s volleyball team. Vol- leyball was much more than that and playing encompassed mastery of many different skills. Miss Lila Veekner, assis- tant coach said, The most important skill would probably be the serve, be- cause if you can ' t serve, you can ' t score. Liz Ann Butler, senior, claimed, Bump- ing is really important to return the serve and is the best asset to have. Head coach Miss Courtney comment- ed, Graduation definitely hurt us and we lost a lot of varsity players. Right now there are more underclassmen than Sen- iors. We ' re definitely a young team. Be- sides their inexperience, the team mem- bers were tough competitors and when defeat came, they licked their wounds and came out strong at the next game. Both J-V and Varsity were not teams to be toyed with. Team spirit was another big factor with the ' 81-82 teams. Senior Tish Howell said, We have one thing over all the other teams in the conferece because we relate like one big happy fam- ily. Whenever there ' s a birthday or some- thing, there ' s always a cake or cards. We all celebrated personal triumphs and loses as well as the team ' s. RIGHT: Debbie Poumakis gives it her all to get the ball over the net. BELOW: Miss Courtney looks on anticipating a victory.