Logan High School - Aerial Yearbook (Logan, OH)

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Across the Country Logan's cross country team expe- rienced a disheartening year with a record of 1-13. One of the reasons for Logan’s unsuccessful season could be the lack of people willing to give the time and effort needed to excel in cross country. Anyone can be a cross country runner if that person is willing to give up the time this sport requires. Practice consists of running up to eight miles a day in relays. Summer programs usually require the mem- ber to run up to 800 miles a day during the summer. This is then used as a requirement to be on the cross country team in the fall. Running is not a sport in which many people enjoy, but it is very rewarding. By maintaining your determination and increasing your time each meet, you will eventually experience success. Within the past few years, young girls as well as women have become interested in cross country running. This sport also allows women to be on a equal footing physically with men due to the requirements, determination, and the desire to run. Logan's runners increased their times every meet, but still faced defeat at the finish line. Our course is 2.3 miles long and one of the toughest courses in the league. Determining the winning team is done by adding to the placements of the runners, and the team with the lowest score is the victor. Crossing the finish line first demands keeping up a steady pace according to the junior cross coun- try runner, Kelly Helber. Kelly also believes cross country is the most strenuous of all sports. Coach White hopes to improve Logan's cross country team by encouraging more people to try out for the team and hopefully is get- ting up a summer program in the future. Support from the students might help increase our team’s chances of winning and could possibly open a whole new athletic event to many people who might find it as enter- taining as going to a football game. FRONT ROW: John Jeffrey, Kelly Hel ber, Kelly Proctor, Kevin Eberst. ROW TWO: Coach Harry White. Dick Fuller, Dave Tucker, Joe Chambers. ABOVE: Junior, Kelly Helber, takes the lead determined for an LHS vic- tory. RIGHT: Harrier, Joe Chambers, assists his fellow team mate in warm- ing up before a grueling run. 16 Sports

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UPPER LEFT: Senior gridder, John Kemper breaks loose to score another touchdown. John broke the record for most points scored in a season previ ously held by his brother Chuck Kem per LOWER LEFT: The pride of LHS! The 1912 football team. ABOVE: Scott Gasser lays one up for two. Gasser played a major role in helping the chiefs to their champion ship season. LEFT: Terry Woltz tells it like it is! ABOVE: The LHS baseball team of 1912. Sports Feature 15

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'A Game of Love ABOVE LEFT: A determined Jamie Mara concentrates on perfecting her backhand. ABOVE RIGHT: Positive she won’t miss, Becki, convincingly returns the serve. ABOVE: Team work is a very important factor in a game of dou- bles as shown here by Jennifer Bell and Shirley Gay. Girls’ tennis is finally getting rec- ognized in our school. Since it started here in 1975, there has never been more attention put on the game. The team has grown from last year’s seven to this year's twelve. The girls feel there isn't enough emphasis being put on their team. If the team is to increase in popularity, we must get more stu- dent participation. “We need peo- ple's support as spectators just as we need more people for the team.” One of the major reasons there aren’t many tennis matches is because not enough schools offer girls' teams to compete with us. According to our athletic director, Mr. Stilwell, if at least three more schools obtain girls’ tennis, our team will be considered in the All- Sports T rophy! Coach Bridgewater is pleased with the team's progress. She said the team has improved, but they still need work on their concentra- tion and conditioning. Coach Bridgewater said she has really enjoyed working with the girls and hopes they will improve their record even more next year. The girls are satisfied with this year's record because it is better than last year's, and that was their goal! The team feels they must work on their strategy and confi- dence. The girls definitely do not want the boys' and girls' teams together! The girls feel the two teams aren't equal. According to the team one needs a lot of patience and concentration to be a good player. They say they practice on the average of fifteen hours a week. ‘‘Practice only interferes with our soap operas!” says the team, laughing. In playing tennis most of the expense comes in on equipment. As far as the players are concerned, Spalding, Head and Wilson make the best equipment. These talented young ladies intend to make tennis a life-long hobby rather than a profession. Any girl who wishes to be on the team must be at least a freshman. FRONT ROW: Julie Bell, Denise Cullison, Jamie Heinlein, Nancy Fox, Beth St. Clair. ROW TWO: Jamie Mara. Jennifer Bell, Coach Bridgewater. ROW THREE: Cindy Tom, Beth Poling, Trina Sparks. Shirley Gay ROW FOUR: Becki Kuhn. Sports 17