Gateway High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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Bots' socctii- SOCCER TEAMS REBUILDS Due to on ooundonce of youth ond o locls of vorsity experience, the boy lsiclsers suffered through o very disoppointing seoson, going O-10-1 for the yeor. The teom hod only three seniors storting this yeor ond it greotly offected the woy they ployed. Goolie Steve Brown, forword Jeff Noylor, ond co-coptoinfstopper Ken Jensen were the only seniors storting, ond the teom wos further hurt by Jensen's onlsle injury which kept him out for holf the yeor. Brown hod expressed high hopes for the seoson soying, We were 8-i in the pre-seoson ond we beot Regis, who went to stote lost yeor. I reolly thought thot we'd go to stote ogoin this yeor. We worlsed greot in proctice but fell oport during the gomesf' The forwords, who hod scored so well in the pre-seoson, went cold during the yeor ond only monoged to score five gools in 11 gomes, ond the young defense wos inconsistent ond orolse down severol times in lsey situotions. One time this hop- 'We worked great in procrice but fe!! oporf during the games, pened wos in o gome ogoinst Overlond in which the defense ollowed the Troilblozers to score with only seven seconds left in the gome. Ken Jensen wos voted the Most Voluoble Ployer ond the Best Defensive Ployer, Jr. Mike Jensen wos the Best Offensive Ployer, ond Sr. Milse Murphy wos the Most improved Ployer. The only good thing obout this yeor is thot the returning Jr,'s ond Soph.'s will hove' o lot to lools forword ro, os next yeor's teom figures to be o store contender, The JV. teom experienced the some problems os the vorsity1 no experience. We hos three freshmen ond the rest were sopho- mores, soid Soph, Dovid Gollogher. Most of the guys who ployed on JV. lost yeor were with the vorsity this yeor ond becouse of it we were very inexperienced. The young teom didn't do too oodly, finishing with o 4-7 record, ond figures to be improved next yeor, Some of the outstonding ployers on the teom were Soph. Jeff Chodwicls, who wos nomed Best Defensive Ployer ond Soph. John Fountoine, who wos Best Offensive Ployer. 'lie i s W

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BUYS' ETEIXIIXIIS INEXPERIENCE HURTS TEAM After hope of o successful vorsity seoson, the Gotewoy boys' teom finished with o 1-10 seoson, the second yeor cooch Ron Solozor's teom did show improvment over lost yeors' O-11 seoson. The moin problem wos experience, but l wonted to see the teom win to build confidence for the future , soid John Henderson. The number one vorsity singles were both sophomores. The teom hod seven sophomores, two juniors ond two seniors. Cooch Solozor stoted, We didn't do os well os I thought we would. The teom hod three 4-C3 losses which would hove improved their seoson to 4- 7. This once ogoin shows how the inexperience of the teom hurt them The teom finished third in City this yeor ond hos o very good chonce to win the city chompionships next yeor. l wanted to see the teom win to build conHdence for the future. The teom suffered o mojor set- bock during the district tournoment when the number one singles ployer, Dovid Fields, wos forced to defoult during the motch becouse of o cold. The teom's number three ployer, Bog Shultz, wos olso sick ond offected his ploying greotly. These two ployers were seeded best out of onyone on the teom. If these two could hove won their first motch, they could hove hod o chonce to go to store. The other teom members suffered losses due to their lock of tournoment experience. The seoson wos o success from one stondpoint. lt gove the sophomores ond juniors experience for next yeor ond yeors to come, The Gotewoy teom should hove on overoge seoson next yeor ond holds high expecte- tions for the future. The Gotewoy J.V. teom finished with o C3-7 record. The heod cooch Rick Hughes did o fine job of building skills ond experience for the upcoming vorsity seoson. The number one doubles teom of Chris Hoffmon ond Dorrin Pinkhom look forword to the upcoming versity seoson next yeor. Boys Tennis 121

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Lf lv W Cloclrwise from lefr: Sr, Doug Morse dribbles rhe ooll im procrice. The J.V, Boys' Soccer Teom. Sr. goalie Steve Drown cleors rhe bolt our of his oreo during o procrice. During o gome, Soph. goolie Joe Poquer booms one ro his recirnrhores, The Vorsiry Boys' Soccer Team. Sr. Chris Woshingroh defends during o gome ogoinsr Aropohoe. Boys Soccer 123