College of Idaho - Trail Yearbook (Caldwell, ID)

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the college of idaho men ' s tennis team ended its season with a strong 3rd place showing in the treasure valley community college tourney, and a 7-9 over-all record. members of the team, in ranking order, were mark heleker, chet wood, dave guyot, ted Stanley, phil dougherty, andy loyst, and kevin taylor. making great strokes for the j.v. team were graydon Stan- ley and dave spurling. of the nine men four will not be returning: Stanley, taylor, spurl- ing, and heleker. despite illness and injury, mark heleker had a good season, and along with team mate chet wood, ended the season with an invi- tation to district play on the 9th and 10th of may. the results of the competition were disappointing to the pair, and they re- turned non-victorious. 50

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Volleyball Team Overcomes Inexperience October 4th concluded the pre-season activity for the coyote team inland valley league play began with a game against northwest nazarene college in nampa. don braunecker, the volleyball coach, expressed his appreciation for the tremen- dous support the college community has shown and he hopes that students will continue to support c. of i. athletics; not only for team morale, but for the morale of the school as well. about the recent losses the team has suffered braunecker remarked that youth and experience are the biggest reasons in the game against boise state September 28th, the c. of i. girls lost by a narrow margin, it was an exciting 2 Vi hour match that lasted all five games, braunecker said that he wasn ' t disappointed in the playing at all. bsu hosted a tournament in which the coyotes beat tvcc, but lost to boise state, at one point in the bsu game, c. of i. ' was ahead 11-4, but boise came back to win. braunecker re- marked probably the biggest thing in the boise game was poor coaching. braunecker went on to say that there is a lack of leadership on the floor, and that ' s something they have to work on. braun- ecker has been happy with the bench support and substi- tutes, my substitutes have been playing up to my expecta- tions and i ' m verv pleased with that. he said that attitude on the team is good and the girls work very hard, he described them as the best team i ' ve every been associated with. he is also pleased with the well-rounded players he has. many of the girls are active in several other aspects of college life and many of them have high g.p.a.s. one important asset on the team is a high level of communication between the team members; also between the team and braunecker. coyotes traveled to pullman, Washington, to participate in the Washington state tourney, c. of i. won three matches and lost two. at pullman they played better than they had all season, lasting all five games in the two matches that they lost. on november 10, the c. of i. team participated in the eastern Oregon state college tourney in lagrande. the coyotes lost the first two matches but won the third against o.i.t. coach don braunecker said he was extremely happy with the girls he coached this year, he said that improvement was consistent and he described the season as gratifying. he looks forward to the 1980 volleyball year as very competi- tive with an older and more experience team. 49

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Tennis Season Turbulent •WW WW • ' r» • Iv ll 51 » !? I Hid n! ■H - - jH ..- I Time And Injury Hurt Wo mens Team!! ib s ■ «• -a »■•»• the college of idaho women ' s tennis team had a disappointing season, due in part to injury and scheduling prob- lems, members of the team were mona tucker, kelly rose, renee rem- brand, shane rose, nancy mcintosh, wynn beers, rose igitol, sam Constan- tino, karin najarko, and toni bondi. despite a strong individual showing by many team members (rembrand won all but two in her 3 position) the season ended with 4 wins, 7 losses. in the doubles department, mona tucker and kelly rose competed well for the first half of the season; then the pair split and tucker - rembrand finished with strong placements. although it is not necessary to qualify in order to attend regional competition, coach nadine maggard and lynn crossett felt that the time and money necessary to go to the competition would be better used building the program. according to assistant coach crossett, the season was a bit of a disappointment, we just didn ' t do that well; we just didn ' t play up to our potential. of the team members eight will remain to provide the nucleus for a stronger more experienced 1981 team. 51