Overland High School - Trail Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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tarting all over SWIMMING Answering an advertisement in the paper led Jerry Urbach to the waters of Utah Pool as Overland's new Girls' swim- ming coach. Along with him he brought assistant coach Mike Richmond, who was student teaching at Overland, He also brought diving coach Ellen Ackinson, whom Jerry thought gave great attitude and spirit to the team. As Soph. Mandy Stroud said, lt was a fun seaf son. lr felt lilse oil the team members were treated eaualf ly, not as just an A-League swimmer, or a B-League swime mer, which made it easier for us to get along, Injuries, illnesses, and probe lems with the pool gave the team most of its difficulties. The team was forced to practice at Cherry Creels High School for two weel-is because Utah Pool had a leals and the boiler went out. Practicing at Creels was hard on everybody's schedule Cpractice time was from 4:30 7100 pmb, and worlsouts were hard to plan because they got less yardage Cswimming dis- tanceD, commented Urbach. The Aurora City Meet was the biggest meet of the season. Up against arch rival Smolsy Hill, Overland got its hopes up for a victory. Even though it tools sec- ond place behind Smolsy Hill, it went well with lots of team spirit and tough competition which made us worls harder, com- mented Sr. Tracy Loftis, who qualified for state in the 200 yard individual Medley and the 100 yard Butterfly at the city meet. Both Sophs. Stacy Reeder and Yvette Witzel agreed that the season went pretty well. Sr. Tracy Loftis said, The season started out rough with the new coach, and every' body had their little cliaues, but we soon started to form team unity. Team captains Srs. Hiede Teske, Tracy, and Gin- ger Margolin helped to l-seep the team together. The cap- tains did a greatjob lseeping us unified and letting us lsnow what was going on, com- mented Jr. Louise McAdams, who was a state qualifier in the 100 yard Breaststrolse. Fr. Gail Kravitz felt it was a very good team, with lots of talent, but didn't lilse the freshman job of putting in the lane ropes, Coach Urbach also thought the season went well. He was pleased with the improvements in times and loolsed forward to next season, 66 They look great, more unified, which shows dur- ing their meets. MIS, Cox While giving her arms a breals during proc fl, Chris Coldrr-n 3 Q S il Copy Noela Drown Layout Torn Irriber rice, Fr. Jill Treaber practices her Isicls Kicls ing was one of the more popular sets during worlsouts. Wlbv W V R QQ 'Tup- X 5 A, . if . A L f , . W rl! , , 4. 571, f dn. I. K' 'adm VA ,MEM . W rv, M M Chris Coldren Last minute changes cause confusion for Coach Jerry Urbach and Fr. Kelly Grismer at the Grand Junction meer. Many last min ure changes led many swimmers to discov er different strolses Swimming

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ain brings success CROSS COUNTRY Silhouetted against the sune set, the cross country team practiced along the waters of Cherry Creels Reservoir. Al- though this paints a picture of tranquillity, this team was far from being subdued. In one word they were dynamic. ln one of its best years, the girls' team went all the way to state and placed 10th. lndivide ually, Sr. Tim Oakes placed an impressive 14th in state for the boys. The success vvas due in part to both the mental and physical strength of its members. Be- cause it is such an individual sport, its participants had to have the courage to continue to run when their legs felt like lead, and their body sent palnf ful and powerful messages to their head pleading them to stop. Head Coach Grant Ste- vens said, The lsids on the team are very tough. lt talses a lot of determination to go our and run ten miles when it is so easy to quit on yourself and stop. Added Sr. Russ Horwitz, 'lThe squad did their personal best, l couldn't expect anything more from the team. Coaches Grant Stevens and Ed Ellis gave the team the cone fidence it needed to win. They really helped us malse it through the tough times, said Sr. Jenny White. The spirit and unity felt on the team also added to their suc- cess, On Thursdays before a meet, the team went out to dinner together to get each other psyched up. The coaches also made practices more bear- able by devising scavenger hunts in which teams had to run to certain places all over the city to get clues, and the winning team would get ice cream. The team is very close, and we help each other to lseep go- ing, said Jr. Noel Carlson. An Olympic tradition came to Overland. Sr. Tom Rompy accepts the torch from Sr. Todd Dolbier and continues to lseep the flame burning while running to Arapahoe High School I like the meets because my it's neat to see their determi- 66 friends are on the team and f1OflOl'1. Sr. Julia Elliott Steve Bowman The legs that propel the runners begin to feel heavy after the tvvo mile marls lsnow- ing she only has a mile to go lse-eps Jr. Noel Carlson going Stove Bowman 6255 QL At times, companionship is an essential ele- ment in running Soph. Heather Gifford and Sr. Jenny White encouraged each other to push their abilities to the absolute limit. 1 .n1F 'ln .Wd Steve Bowman 'gim- 'Q N ...A-13