Dana Hills High School - Mast Yearbook (Dana Point, CA)

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down and dirty • buckie ' s babes • run fast! Cross Country 1 3

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Trio Leads Pack □ With all but two of the previous year ' s runners returning, the varsity girls ran the competition ragged, capturing their second straight South Coast League crown. Then in mid -November, they placed an all-time high of seventh in the top-ranked CIF 4-A division. Colorful signposts on the road to the championship were a first at the St. Louis Invitational in Hawaii, a seventh place in the Mt. Sac sweepstakes race, and a well-earned fourth at the O.C. Championships. In Coach Buchheim ' s eyes the unity, consistency, and continual improvement ot the team overall helped them go undefeated in a dual -meet season which was to be spent tor the most part without the ' 85 Most Valuable Runner, Kelli Lewis. Lewis returned from her toot injury, however, to lead teammates Lisa Eck, Kirsten Quigley, and Maryanne Matus to a 1-2-3-4 sweep of league finals. She also set a school record of 18:58 for the formidable Mt. Sac. course at CIF finals. During the regular season, however, it was Quigley, the ' 86 Most Valuable Runner, and Eck, a senior first year runner, who took up the slack in Lewis ' absence by splitting wins in virtually all of the team ' s races throughout the year. In a season to be remembered for its vacations to Jalama Beach and Hawaii, the J.V. team equalled the outstanding showings ot the varsity team in every invitational and league meet. They were led by MVP Cassie Simmons, Lisa Leonard, and Rochelle Clark (most improved runner), who finished second, sixth, and eighth in league finals respectively. Second - ranked in Orange County, they too savored the sweet smell of success without the bitter taste of defeat. The frosting on the cake for both teams was the sweeping defeat of perennial powerhouse Mission Viejo. Coach Buchheim looks favorably toward the tuture and the possible emergence of a true dynasty because of the return of Quigley, a junior, and the sophomores who lettered this year: Matus, Kathy Kelly, Deonna Collins, and Helen Crowe, all of whom should be back for the next two years. With the addition ot Simmons, Leonard, and Clark, the team seems destined to remain well in front of the pack. 1 A they round the Ust corner in the meet against Irvine, Deonna Collins and Sheila McEveny start the spnnt to the finish. VARSITY 6-0 OPPONENT SCORE Laguna Hills 16-42 Capo Valley 17-46 Irvine 25-34 Mission Viejo 20-36 El Toro 23-34 San Clemence 19-39 J.V. 6-0 OPPONENT SCORE Laguna Hills 15-50 Capo Valley 16-47 Irvine 19-44 Mission Viejo 22-33 El Toro 25-31 San Clemente 18-45 -e.y. 1. CROSS COUNTRY- C Fleig. R, Schudl.ch. K, Ar ast. K Hauer. K, Yoshino. M. Dnessen; (second row) Mr Hoover. S McEveny, K, Quigley, L. Eck, L. Leonard, M. Meading, D Collins, J. Brayton. Mr Buchheim, (third row) C. Simmons. E. Falcone, A. Natale. M Matus, D. Wronka. K. Lewis; (back) S, Walker. B. Alexander. R Clark. M Welsien. M. Caudillo, A. Leverett, K Burns. H. Crowe 2, Durmg the S C L, finals Lisa Eck, Kelli Lewis and Kristen Quigley formed an elite pack which led t ' rom the start of the race to the finish 3- Junior Amber Leverett ' s painful determinat ion typifies the spirit of the whole team. This is the hardest working gf up I ' ve ever been fortunate enough to work with. -Coach Buchheim (ywC4 (yru nt tA health food only 122 Teamwork

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' j n riidJ - Worst to First Trampled one year and triumphant the next, the varsity tennis team literally turned their record around in 1986. Owing much of their success to depth and experience (with five seniors and five juniors), they volleyed the previous year ' s win column (one) into this year ' s loss column. The result. Girls ' tennis won the South Coast League championship and a trip to the playoffs. After warming up for the season with a summer getaway to Santa Barbara, the team showed its strength in league play by defeating long-dominant Capo Valley not just once, but twice. They then rode the crest of a 9-1 record into the post -season match against Canyon, where they served up their first play-off win in over eleven years. The bad luck of the draw, however, brought the season to a close against second -seeded Corona del Mar. 1 it ' s o.k. • the sunroofs stuck I ' ll always worked wcl not to give The queens of the court were led by the singles play of sophomore Kristin Green and senior Cindi Hamnquist. Green, ranked on the So. Cal. juniors circuit, formed a 1-2 punch with Hamnquist, an outstanding athlete who penetrated her opponents with abusive serves and ground strokes. Kim D ' Arcy added a touch of power with her ball -flattening serves at no. 3 singles. Talented and often victorious were the three solid doubles teams of Leslie Stockton and Stephanie Marks ( 1 seed at SCL finals), sisters Pam and Julie Watson, and Kelly Lynch and Michelle Michaels. Junior varsity also made a quantum leap to the top of the standings this year. Splitting matches with Capo and losmg none to the rest of the league, the J.V. team earned a league co-championship for the second time in three years. The young champions were led by Naoko Nakagawa in singles and Lisa Brzezinski and Lorraine Hanna in doubles. Brzezinski and Hanna, who won about 99% of their matches, capped the season by placing second at league finals while singles stand-out Susan Walti placed fourth. -e.y. remember how they I together and chose up. -Coach Granger 1. V «i771 ' .(lront) K. Green, P. Watson, B. McLean, K. Lynch, M, Michaels, C. Hamnquist; (back) Coach Leander. L. Stockton, J. Watson, S. Richards, K. DArcy, S. Marks. 2. JUNIOR VARSITY-((mm)]. Harris, N. Fogelson, S. Walti.J.Jay, L. Brzezinski, J. Butland.J. Mills; (back) M. Smith, N. Nakagawa, L. Hanna. C. Mullen, J. Talley, J. Ammon, D. Dolphin. 3. All in the family: sisters Pam and Julie Watson brought almost twenty years of tennis experience to the varsity team. 4. Newcomer Kristin Green, a sophomore, led the singles players by winning 38 out of 44 matches during the regular season. 5. She ' s better than most guys : Kim DArcy kept all of her opponents off-balance with her deadly arsenal of serves. 6. Having played since the age of five. Sarah Richards held her own while splitting time between singles and doubles play.