Evergreen High School - Forester Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Sfriding For Success As The weafher Turned warmer and The flowers sTarTed To blossom, so did The con- fidence and abilily of The boys Track Team. There were many seasoned runners on The Team, buT a few new faces had a big impacT. The mosT noficeable of The newcomers was freshman DwighT WheaTon. ln his firsT year of varsily compeTiTion, he broke Two school records for The half mile. l expecT To send quiTe a few people To The sTaTe TournamenT , said coach Turner, and I expecT DwighT To be There. Coach Turner aTTribuTes The success he had This season noT only To The number of people who Turned ouT buT, also To The TaIenT of The individuals. For insfance. Evergreen was very Tough To beaT in many evenTs, especially The high jump, where junior Mario HousTon broke a school record wiTh a jump of six feeT six inches. He also placed in The Top Three in The high jump in every meef. Mario HousTon sTaTed, I felT really good This year in every evenT I enTered, whefher iT be The high jump, Triple jump, or The relay. I Think aloT of iT has To do wiTh The confidence ThaT l have in myself and my TeammaTes. The season didn'T have Too many highlighTs for The Team overall, buT one was Their vicfory over Kenfwood, which was Their firsT win in Three years. l'Track is an individual sporT, sTaTed Coach Turner, so even Though we only had a single vicfory for The Team, many of our individual aThleTes should qualify for The sTaTe Tournamenf. Buf iT all depends on how dedicaTed They are and on how much They wanT iT. lf dedicaTion's The auesfion, Then The oTher Teams in Regionals and STaTe beTTer look ouT, said discus Throwers Terry Bunn and Pani Roe. Through The dedicafion and pride of The individual aThleTes, and The supporf of The resT of The Evergreen Track Team, a sTaTe Tifle in any of a number of evenTs was possible. As senior Ramon Alvarez summed up The Team, Don'T underesTimaTe us. and waTch ouT!! by Jim Yong Top row- Coach Fenfon, Moi Masaniai, Floyd Dorry, Terry Bunn, Tony Keane, Brian BenT. John Morris. Coach Forfner, and Coach Day. Third row- Larry Mae, Kelly McElroy, Cliff Bailey, Robert DeWifT, Kevin KilsTrom, Devon Houston, and Todd FairweaTher. Second row- Ramon Alvarez, Randy Nunez, Dan MaT- Thias, Shawn Jennings, Miles Frame, Jay Richards, Mike Ryan, Gregg Nease, Moeurf Klok. Coach Turner and Kevin Rodriquez. Fronf row- Deanna Dickerson, MaTT Lemen, John Enego, Kenny Lundeen, Kevin Lundeen, Jimmy Yi, Pani Roe, and Angie Huffaker. NoT picfuredz Ronnel Garner, Darren Haag, Aundre and Mario HousTon, Ty Tribble and DwighT WheaTon. Boys' Track 57A

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vPicTured are: Debbie Abraham. Vicki Carson and Julie Beleiciks NoT picTured: Leslie McKay, Suzy NesTer and Theresa Tuliau. Team Size inspires Closeness lf we had more people, we would have scored more poinTs and so we would have been a beTTer Team, ex- pressed junior Leslie McKay, buT because we were a small Team, we were closer and we goT along really well. This sTaTemenT sums up The T987 Wolverine girls Track Team. They were small in number, only 6 members, which limiTed Their chances of success. More imporTanT, however, was The closeness of The Team and individual successes ThaT were achieved. Under The coaching of JaneT BunTin, pracTice Took place every day afTer school for TV2 To 2 hours. The Team sTreTched and jagged as Their half hour warm ups, Then They performed The daily rouTines of running hills, prac- Ticing charges, or working ouT in The weighTroom. MeeTs occurred once a week on Thursday or Friday. DifferenT evenTs Iduring The meeTs included disTance running C800-3200mj, sprinTs GOO- AOOQ, hurdles, long and high jumps, shoTpuT and discus. Because of The small number of players, The Team was unable To compeTe in The relay evenTs. One of The highlighTs of The season was when senior Suzy NesTer broke The school record of i3.2s in The TOOm dash wiTh The Time of 12.9 seconds. AnoTher season highlighT Took place when Evergreen almosT beaT KenT- wood. According To BunTin, The girls were real compeTiTive and spiriTed so The meeT was very exciTing. The Team probably would've won The meeT, which ended wiTh The close score of 62-AO, excepT one member was sick. Looking back on The enTire season, one can see ThaT iT was noT very suc- cessful in comparison wiTh oTher schools. YeT The small number of girls on The Team allowed Them To have fun and geT To know each oTher beTTer. One way This was accomplished was by alTending a poT luck spagheTTi din- ner aT The coach's house on The nighT before The firsT meeT. by Jennifer Hale is s 4 Suzy NesTer lisTens inTenTly as The 0 Freshman Debbie Abraham soars coach gives some suggesTions. Through The air during a long jump.

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