Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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Sue Barker Dede Benefield Sally Boyle Leigh Moore To appear bright. Besides The leadership of This years capTains, lVlaThis and Hodgins, many oTher individuals make noTable conTribuTions. Tammy WaTTs qualified for The STaTe Championship diving fin- als in whaT is only her Sopho- more year. The Team even had help from Sweden in The form of exchange sTudenT Mariann Hansson. The mosT im- proved swimmer award wenT To Jean Johnson who simply led a general Team improve- menT. This lisT of individuals who made major conTribuTions To The Team conTinues wiTh lvlosT Valuable Swimmers, Senior - Charlene Elmore, Junior- Sue Barker, and Sophomore- Tammy WaTTs. The Team can look back To some exciTing and TrlumphanT compeTiTive momenTs. The vicTories over Jefferson, Ar- vada WesT, and Bear Creek were especially rewarding. Be- sides The four league meeTs in The 1979 season, The Team also compeTed againsT several Teams from oTher parTs of The sTaTe. Along wiTh The vicToryh aT Bailey, were meeTs aT NorThglenn, Loveland, and HeriTage Schools. NexT year is coming and leading Green MounTains resurgence as a swim power will be Tammy WaTTs and Sue Barker. Shelby Sloaf Karla Reed Marianne Hanson Linda Hodgins Linda MaThis Charlene Elmore .000 p ' Lrr:-A. Q.0 Pt, ' A V M if -'guts ri if

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GIRLS SWIMMING Green MounTain swimmers are To have The kind of season Teams workufor. For The firsT Time, we could see The kind of depTh developing which wins swim meeTs. so many girls have shown improvemenT ThaT The Team can now, enTer mosT meeTs knowing They can be compeTiTive in all evenTs. In The well run world of swimming meeTs, The evenTs follow one immediaTely upon The oTher like clock-work and a Team musT have enough resTed swimmers To compeTe effec- Tively in each meeT. lT should noT be forgoTTen ThaT many people made sig- nificanT conTribuTions This year. The girls swimming coach Cheryl CarTin insisTs ThaT iT is The loyaITy of This years seniors in- cluding capTains Linda MaThis and Linda Hodgins which helped This years Team begin To be a real Team , Coach CarTin has, said ThaT while The Green MounTain Girls Swim Team has had some ouTsTand- ing individual performers in The pasT, iT is only This year ThaT The girls have had The depTh and experience To develop a ToTal Team conoepT. The improve- menT of The individuals along wiTh The emerging Team bal- ance cause fuTure prospecTs Tammy WaTTs Denna Vernon Kari Piske Cindy Parker ., xi, , 1. Sabin Czembereing Jean Anderson Terri Carroll Connie Grove Tara Keenan Bev Rufledge Jean Johnson ps-- ', W- nm

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STATE BASKETBALL All Right, Rams!!! The 4080 Green Mountain High School Boy's Varsity Bas- ketball Team stomped out every op- ponent's team on their way to the State AAA Championship. The guys fin- ished their best season ever with a 23- 2 record to win first place in the state of Colorado. During pre-season, the Rams were rated first, but the ranking was soon destroyed when Wheat Ridge came to our school ancl beat us by four points. The loss didn't destroy the team's hopes for the rest of the sea- son, so they went out and walked on Pomona, Jefferson, Evergreen, Gold- en. and Bear Creek. The streak lasted up until we played Alameda at home. The Pirates couldn't, and didn't miss that night, and they downed the Rams by twenty-one points. The next four games against Columbine fa make-up game because of snowy, Lakewood. Arvada, and Arvada West assured us a place in the Sub-District Tournament. The Rams had to beat three teams to win the Jefferson County Cham- pionship. and they did. Their first game was against Evergreen, and you'd have thought that the Cougars had stayed home that night, like they prob- ably wished they had done, after our team won by forty-six points. A little bit tougher team to beat was the sure- shooting Alameda guys, but the Rams pulled it off by beating them by four points in over-time. The next game was for the Jefferson County League Championship and we went to Wheat Ridges gym and teamed up against the Farmers, who had never been beaten by a Green Mountain team. Both teams played very intensely and the game ended in a tie, and over-time resulted. The television news cameras had been covering segments of the game and catching crowd shots, but none of the film was as excit- ing or important as the part of our Ram team coming out on top to win the Jefferson County Championship and, after the game, taking down Wheat Ridge's nets. This win gave Green Mountain top seeding going into the state tournament. The first opponent was from Pueblo Central High School, and the Wildcat team proved to be worthy of a state seed: although the Wildcats hopes for first were wiped out after a Ram victo-