El Toro High School - Amanecer Yearbook (Lake Forest, CA)

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VARSITY ATTENDS RELAY MEETS This year's Girls' Varsity Swim Team was coached by Miss Sherri Ross, who helped the swimmers develope their ability as the season progressed. They attended Relay Invitationals as well as regular ones. In the Relay Invitationals. it was a dual swim meet, no individual events and the boys and girls earned points collectively to get an overall score for the team. Trophys were given to fifth place at these meets. The return- ing members on the team were Helen Garvey. Laura Cohen. Tharine Rudon. Barbara Coffman. Janet Williams. Dana Barnes. Stephanie Parker, and Patty Makens. The girls practiced an average of five hours a day. two in the morning before school and three after school. Their main goals were to win league and improve their skills both as a team and individually. 1. Girls' Varsity Swimming — Top row: Stephanie Wong. Barbara Coffman. Lisa Baziaks. Amy Morris. Erica Wilson. Stephanie Sommers. Dana Barns, and Bren- da Gossman. Front row: Helen Garvey. Janet Williams. Laura Cohen. Stephanie Parker. Johnna Boylan. Tharine Rudon. Kris Mink, and Patty Makens. 2. Helen Garvy prepares for a dive as other swimmers look on. 3. Swimmers begin another tiring lap across the pool towards the end of the practice. 4. Kris Mink improves her butterfly before a meet. 5. Swimmers warm up in the pool before a meet. 6. Erika Wilson prepares for a back dive to start her back stroke during practice. 7. Janet Williams swims laps with a board during practice to practice her kick- ing. 8. Stephanie Wong does the breaststroke during afternoon practice. 9. Dana Barns looks up quickly from her breaststroke. 10. Kris Mink awaits direc- tions from Coach Ross before beginning the workout to prepare for an invitational. 11. Johnna Boylan practices her crawl over and over again to perfect the techniques needed to win a competitive race. 12. Coach Ross in- formes the team what will be happening at the meet the next day against Edison. 13. Tharine Rudon. Helen Garvey, and Laura Cohen show liveliness even after a three hour workout after school. Sports 153

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JR. VARSITY SOFTBALL SLIDES BY OPPONENTS The J.V. Softball Team this year had three main goals: to construct a winning team, develope each players' individual skills, and improve on last season's record. They practiced after school every day and their coach was Mr. Paul Beidler. They were basically a young team with four returning players: Bar- bara Despain, Tracy Dickey. Diana Puckett, and Kirsten Stalcupp. Each of these girls were potential varsity players. 4 1. J.V. Softball — Top row: Shannon Meyer. Barbara Leipper. Kelly Decker. Vicki Walton. Debby Jackson. Kym Dilorio. and Coach Paul Beidler. Second row: Diana Puckett. Tracy Dickey. Kathleen Garvey. Monique Brass, and Vicki Mallett. Front row: Susan Okerlund. Kirsten Stallcup, Danielle Austin. Barbara Despain. and Shannon Block. 2. Tracy Dickey and Kirsten Stallcup ready themselves for the oncoming ball. 3. Tracy Dickey and Vicki Mallett go for a double play. 4. Barbara Despain catches the ball just in time as an opposing team member slides into home. 5. Monique Brass slides in- to the base and is safe. 6. Shannon Meyer follows through as she pops one out into the outfield. 7. Shannon Meyer catches the grounder as Vicki Mallett runs up to assist. 152 Sports

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