Lowell High School - Lowellian Yearbook (Lowell, IN)

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Because of a limited eight game schedule, freshman team members played and rested with the JV team. The Freshmen ' s first season gave them a break-even season record of 4-4. Even Record in First Try The Freshman Team finished their season with a 4-4 record. “This was very good,” com¬ mented Coach Joy Hafer, “since it was the first year we have had a freshman team.” FRESHMAN VOLLEYBALL—Coach Joy Hafer, Joan Searle, Challa Brown, Jackie Gerner, Lisa Schutz, Stacy Jones, Stacey Gray Freshman Volleyball 29

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Inconsistency Plagues JV Lowell moves to assist Sue Green ' s return play.over the net. JV VOLLEYBALL—ROW 1: Kim Felder, Bridget Spaw, Michelle Bafia, Michelle Baker ROW 2: Coach Joy Hater, Becky Polihronis, Carla Shipley, Susan Sykes, Susan Green, Cindy Skorka. 28 JV Volleyball This year’s JV volleyball team was a very winning team with a record of 14-8. During the season two girls quit, but the rest of the team pulled to¬ gether when this happened. Their weak point as a team was not being able to play consistently throughout the match. Team positions and players were: servers, Michelle Bafia, Su¬ san Green, and Becky Polihronis; setters, Kim Felder, Susan Sykes, and Cindy Skorka; spiker, Bridget Spaw; defensive players, Michelle Baker, and Carla Shipley. Weight training, vigorous sprints, running a mile under eight minutes, and diving drills were some of the training the girls com¬ pleted. Becky Polihronis ' spike slips past Calu¬ met ' s attempt to return the ball.

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Runners Surprise Thomas It ' s Not Only a Man ' s Sport! How would you like to be the only girl on an all boy Cross Coun¬ try team? It wouldn ' t be easy. That’s for sure, but junior Jennifer Zukley did fine. “Everything worked out real nice,” said Coach Bob Thomas. The guys would tease her and all because she was a girl, but mostly they just treated Jenn normally.” It was an experience I’ll never forget, commented Jennifer Zukley who finished thirteenth with an average of 12.13. All right girls! Hurry and get out there and show those guys what you can do! As Coach Thomas said, I would like more girls on the team; maybe we could start an all girl team. After four senior Cross Country runners graduated last year, Coach Bob Thomas was not too optimistic. I didn’t expect the team to do as well as they did. They were a fantastic team; they worked hard.” The Cross Country team proved they were better than they looked by posting a 14-8 season record. According to Coach Thomas, the freshmen joining the team were the best this school had seen since he had been here. The most valuable runner for this year was senior, Tim Rigg. Ray Rosachi, a transfer student from Griffith, was the most improved runner. Training for the Cross Country Team started on June 1, with practices once a week. By July, they were practicing twice a week. In August, the team was up to daily practices. August training had the team concentrating on distance run¬ ning, averaging 10 miles a day. The team camped out and prac¬ ticed at the Indiana Dunes. Veterans on the team like Steve Feddeler and the incoming freshmen did b etter than Coach Thomas expected. JV CROSS COUNTRY—ROW 1: Angie Lagacy, manager; Tony Novak. Jennifer Zukley, Bill Lynn, Coach Bob Thomas ROW 2: Dave Childress. Mark Broe, Tom Immonen. Keith Spencer, Greg Tucker, Cliff Fleener 30 Cross Country