Muscatine High School - Auroran Yearbook (Muscatine, IA)

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The wind-up. julie Powers hurls the softball quickly and forcefully over her head in hopes of a first place in this event. Taking it almost to the limit, Melissa Hart receives the baton from jill Crouse just before crossing the finish line, avoiding disqualifica- tion. GIRLS TRACK MHS OPP Burlington 93 50 Washington 104 39 I.C. West-Bettendorf 2nd Pantherette Relays ist North Scott Invitational 2nd Davenport Relays 2nd Cedar Rapids Washington 80 63 Fairfield Relays 151 Iowa City City High 82 60 District 4th Pleasant Valley 104 39 MVC Meet 3rd Burlington 119 24 Drake Invitational Mile Relay 6th State Tenthalon 4th FRONT ROW: Lynette Adams, Lauri VanEst, Ann Mitchell, Linda Mittman, Michelle Oveson, Gail Neff. SECOND ROW: jill Shelangoski, Mary Hart, Lori Harris, Teresa Harper, Sherri Cook, Rose Yerington, Vallory jones. THIRD ROW: Carol Rininisland, Diane Vanerlinden, Sue Pribyl, Kathy Fruits, Diane Kraklow, Nancy Madden, Sue Roth. FOURTH ROW: Robin Phillips, Sally Brown, Mary Laeser, Cynthia Sayles, Lori Stuhr, Rhonda Henry, Lori Tiecke. FIFTH ROW: Vidette Longhurst, Sue Schroeder, Stephanie Sayles, Lisa Chittick, julie Powers, Sylvia Carroll. BACK ROW: S. M. Lorine Keller, Kris Boehme, S. M. Vanessa Sloat, Melissa Hart, Brenda Mente. ABSENT: Margaret Brink, Linda Burr, jean Byrne, jill Crouse, Robin Lohse, Carie Stych, Michelle Stych, janis Ward, Kim Wiegand. Girls Track 89

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Ordinarily, the objective of any track team is to break previous records, and ordinarily several are broken yearly. But when a track team sets eighteen records in one Melissa Hart running their share of the meet. While in the distance medley, runners Iill Crouse, Melissa Hart, Brenda Mente, and Teresa Harper ran to finish third, field season, that's not so ordinary. Coach Ierry Lorimors girls track team accomplished this feat, The long hard February practices soon paid off as eight girls qualified for state. Sue Pribyl, Teresa llarper, Brenda Mente, and Melissa Hart ran in the mile relay to place second and became eligible for a fifth all time best. The 880 relay also placed second with lean Byrne. Laurie Vanlist, lill Crouse, and Upandoverwith speedandagility,RobinLohse strives over the third hurdle in the shuttle hurdle relay. A fight to the finish between Lori Stuhr and Nancy Madden resulted in two victories for the Muskies in the 100 yard dash. 88 Girls Track events sent one person, Iulie Powers to finish sixth in discus. This field event victory gave the Muskies the needed points to tie for fourth. Completing the season with 6-0 in dual meets, two and two in invitationals and third in Trojan Relays, the girls felt pride in a season of hard work and more than the usual amount of accomplishments, Ready, aim, fire. Rhonda Henry prepares to hurl the discus during the field event at Heinz field. Q I' I 2, I ISM'

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The Cirls Tennis team got an early start at their season as practice began at the beginning of March. Prior to this the majority of the girls worked out by doing exercises, running and lifting weights. New Coach Dan Beer psyched the girls for each meet by holding several pep talks. The season meets consisted of seventeen dual meetings, none of which were at home. Despite gallant efforts, the girls battled tough competition and won only one meet The team won an overwhelming victory of 7-2 over Burlington. Conquering all their opponents, Ice Kolar, Ieff Allen, Brian Litten, Scott Fisher and Mark Lawrence won in singles. The first Muskie Invitational held at the high school was made up of four teams: Muscatine, Camanche, Fort Madison and Burlington. Placing first was Camanche with ten points, followed by the Muskies with eight points. against Fort Madison. The varsity team consisted of six players. Throughout the season Diane Weis played first position, Martha Riley number two, and Mary Williams and Lovella Slot held spots three and four. The number five position was played by Sue Richmond and number six by Meg Lande. The next positions were between Teri Koehrsen, LuAnn Tietge, Traci Timmons, Laurette Slot, Meagan Conway and Ianet Pearson. Surviving a small tornado and rain storms, the 1977 Boys Tennis team came through with a winning year, the best one since 1968. Opening the season with a 5-4 win over Fort Madison, Coach Ron Kiser's team withstood threatening weather conditions while winning 4-2 in singles. In Ottumwa on April 1 the netters played out a 5-2 meet. Ionathan Knott won the only match of the day, despite the rainy weather. Practices after school on the high school courts usually lasted from 2-2 1!z hours a night. Commenting on their favorite rackets, some expressed that they got best results from Borgs, Wilson T-2000's and Davis Classics. Pressurized Dunlap tennisballs helped to bring victories. Boys! Girls Tennis This season has been the first winning season in a decade for us, quoted Coach Ron Kiser, two years ago the team had only two wins out of 23. 7 . 4 , , , , , f 'ieff7f'Wtf'1'i'ff'0Lm13fSQxxru.- vDwwusg.t if , K 4 A. ' .J ,fl-, K... f W 'KT' .4 .ia,,5..,Qagg,,,QrQ-gg2i15.,,5f-t'.r'qie? j ez if f .... .. ., . fifrfgf, ' :QQ-2 -f fax V ,.:'--RQQs'1,f-ff'-.k.V.x.,kh,... A gg: .gi V 2, .t.,ivx, , K 155252: .za is 1 fy-,N .. NV.-tax. WSWS? 'V K ,4 tg,,n,ljggy. gXYhwfw'vw nv ' mf'? i'.'. it XR'Uu'-ki gli sw 'HM tt. f ' 'v. 'A as -,, U - sf. i'.'t'.'.',', '-,ml -. ., . . . r . . ww ' ' ' . ff . ,N ..... .. X. at 'aQTivt'qs....x ' 'Q' - CCQQ-is . .Wifi-i-' .X 9-55c.xxx-ftx-X-.vi ,-,K-Q-k-X., -. i -A. W - tsfikalf l' 3 ii '-Mimi?- 1'f-X 'RNNX X - -,-.Qi A xi n 77.-S' 1' , eff ' - ...W .. ...-.- ., . X . t 1-1, ,. . , f - - 't'l'.t-lxi'i '1'17.' C A 5 -. V' ' W ll l' K ' 'K KN -50 X -xx . . .Hum 1 Q Q tx 'Sh 1' .aw --...HW .......- X .1,A.,Ai . V W? W M V , . .. , ai-.aa,x.-jtxcqi , ' : i ' wA 5 f I x . . t. Q 1 . sz.-' it . .ve 'af-gg - . w.4.4L7.iit2fzi'fQ'i till-'-'-'.'f'S.'f ' 'l . V. 'Af-','f.',',4 - Y r i . . . . . . , . A 1'-f-,,...,.sg,,:,g,gggMg .7 x.:.f.f,Q,:,gg,-xmvx.: .g g .A , i 1 1 - .zz-.2ng-x-A-t.,A.j.jij,f,f,f,t,r -- ff - f .... v X , ah , .. . I.. - .. + -. W - ac. rw 4,'J.'.,f-ff L ..,.. 1... H .f .yym,.gMtw-ew H . Spring tennis players experienced a long winter overlapping into spring. Clad in warm-ups and stockings Joe Kolar starts his pracitce stretches. Pep talks from Coach Daniel Beer helped to prepare the players for each meet. The varsity members listen to game strategy. flf