Laurel Park High School - Koine Yearbook (Martinsville, VA)

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Girls Have More Meets LEFT: Team coach Ms. Barbara Boswell and man- ager Gracie Martin give the team a last pep talk.

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If you want to win, you ' ll have to learn to hustle. How often the girls on the track team heard those words and used them to place high in their second season of meets. The hustle did not come easy, however. It meant staying after school every day and running until they were sure they could never run again. ( 22 laps? All at once? I ' ll never make it! ) Also, with more meets than before, it meant constantly aching muscles. Still, with all this (plus a little urging from Coach Barbara Boswell) the team pushed on to an impressive season. The girls finished their season with the Pied- mont District tournament at F-C. A cold rain dampened the field, but not the spirits of the team and their fans. Several of the girls went on to regional competition. Track also offered the girls a little character building. Sometimes you ' re not racing against other schools, you ' re racing against yourself. You always want to do better than you have before. This spirit of self-improvement helped make the ' 75 girls track team. Members of the TRACK TEAM are (FRONT ROW) Mary Moyer, Iris Moor- man, Cindy Nixon, Sandy Martin, Lorene Morrison, Dana Dalton, Phyllis Cole, Kim Fleming, Leisha Nolen, Dee Dee Wade, Kim Grey, Coach Barbara Boswell (BACK ROW) Barbara Watkins, Linda Moorman, Leiliar Gravely, Kathline Gravely, Shirleen Perkins, Hilda Watkins, Jackie Kitts, Vickie Hairston, Gracie Martin, Melanie Walton, Donna Hylton, Pam Stegall. RIGHT: Straining with the effort, Lorene Morrison gets ready to hurl the discus . . . and Shirleen Perkins releases it. PC 72.5 LP 47 BHS 44.5 FC 33 CWI PC 69 LP 33 THS LP

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RIGHT: The fastest runner at the district meet, Squeak Thompson is first in the winners ' chute. BELOW: At the Piedmont District meet, Mr. Don Merriman hands out medals to the win- ners. For the sixth consecutive year, Laurel Park won the Piedmont District in cross country, and they were led by Elbert Thompson in his first year on the team. Squeak Thompson took first place in every regular season meet and the district meet. Then his fourth place in regional running qualified him for State competi- tion. Seniors on the team were Sammy Jamison and Tyrone Hilton. Girls joined the team for the first time and made the Lancers one of two co-ed teams in the district. The JV team had an impressive record, also. With only one loss for the season, they promised to keep Laurel Park num- ber one for several more years. ' - Members of the Cross Country Team are (FRONT ROW) Todd Grant, William Niblett, Patrick Pettie, Willie Dallas, Barry Clark, Calvin Eggleston, Leisha Nolan, Kim Flemming, (BACK ROW) Coach Jim Summey, Boyd Jamison, Randy Pritchett, Elbert Thompson, Tyrone Hilton, Sammy Jamison, Douglas Schmidt, Darlene Hall. LP-19 MHS-37 LP-18 PC-37 lP-19 PC-37 LP-16 MH$-39