Palo Verde High School - Olympian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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FRESHMAN WRESTLING TEAM-FRONT ROW: Rusty Spillers, Marshall Colter, Dennis Pike, Khris Schottleutner, Ron Winger, Mike Schultz, Steve Schull, Gary Bob Metz, Joe Hart, Bill Wright, Mark- Muse, David Brahms, Gene Valdez, Gary Pope. BACK ROW: Carl Gaidarus, Mike Miller, Greg Roetteis, Steve Knox, Bob Welch, Andy Kleiman, Mark McDonald. SECOND TEAM: Rene Ruiz, Larry Leg- Hawkins, Andy Davis, Eric Krutzsch, Bob Morris, Eric Schrader, Joe Arriaga, Bob gett, Jim Henken, Charlie Liccoine, Joe Hartnett, Ken Zobel, Charlie Campos, Eppstein, Bob Wright, Charles Simmons, Larry Simms, Mgr. Jim Pratt. Frosh Matmen Learned Better Technique Under The coaching of Edward Baron, The freshman wresfling Team equalled Their previous year's record of seven wins and one loss. The Team was victorious in games againsT SaIpoinTe, Tucson, Amphi, Sunnyside, CaTalina, Flowing Wells and Rin- con. Through many hours of pracTice, The members of The squad developed individual wresTling skills. MosT of The frosh wresTlers were awarded Their class leTTer. The TorTy wres- Tlers who finished The season showed poTenTial Tor The iunior vamhy and vamhy Teanw in connng yeam. Another victory was added by the freshman wrestling team to their record of seven wins and one loss. Amphi was defeated 32-19 in a match on January 9. COACH Ed Baron Frosh president, Bill Ramos, moved to pin down his opponent from Flowing Wells. The Palo Verde-Flowing Wells frosh match took place on January 28.

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..l 5... JUNIOR VARSITY WRESTLING TEAM-FRONT ROW: Mike Emerling, Rick Ruff, Jim Musgrave, Bill Blackwell, Pete Jorgenson, Kim Acorn. SECOND ROW: Gary Lovato, Don York, Dave Britton, Roy Dwiggins, John Hansen, Greg Knox, Joe Kalt, Daryl Bever. BACK ROW: Jeff Estes, Tom Stoops, Warren Lind, Dun Har- rell, Mark Canright, Mark Arneson, Sherman Miller, Bill Ramos, Gilbert Canzio Guy Davis. JV Wrestlers E d Year With 5-5 Record Tension was felt during the opening part of a varsity wrestling match between At a wrestling match with Amphi on January 6, a lunior varsity Titan struggled to bring down a Panther. The game was held at Palo Verde in the boys' gym. v ..-WM' 'Q Carlos Tellez and a Rincon grappler. Palo Verde beat the Rangers 28-12.

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arsity Netters Opened Season With Win With a midseason record of 4-3 the 1967 varsity tennis team had expectations of finishing with an outstanding season record. Only Catalina and Rincon had a chance to beat the Titans or finish ahead of them in the divisional race, stated Coach Melvin Karrle. He felt the team was the strongest ever ff at Palo Verde. Holding the top eight positions and iudged equal in skill were senior captain Kevin Oleksy, senior Bruce Armstrong, iuniors Jerry Jones, Hogan Smelker, Chuck Schwartzmann, Jim Skevington, Dan Turner and sophomore Mike Jones. 1 Ei- ., N Q ,. vffifi K - Varsity tennis team member Jerry Jones stepped into a forehand drive during Junior Hogan Smelker used a backhand stroke during a varsity tennis game a match with Pueblo. With the help of his win, Titans gained another victory. against Tucson. Smelker won the only singles match at the February I4 game. VARSITY TENNIS SCHEDULE . February 4 Casa Grande mm.-M'-M February 7 Pueblo rg.,-vw... ..,, ,. - s-fs- ----e-- s'Nrrs F 'Mi' FW ii ' it February 'I4 Tucson ' g February 17 Amphi A ' February 25 Cosa Grande March 3 Catalina le ll , , March 4 Douglas 1 R' sl' ' March 7 Salpointe . March 'I4 Pueblo A A March 'I7 Blsbee March 21 Tucson March 31 Amphi April 'l Bisbee April 7 Douglas April 1 'I Catalina April 14 Salpointe X gl April is nimn r fryirl 1 r 1 X VARSITY TENNIS TEAM-FRONT ROWr Mike Clif- Rust, Mike Jones, Charles Schwartzmann, Dan chall, Hogan Smelker, Jim Skevington, Kevin Oleksy, Turner, Jerry Jones. BACK ROW: Bruce Armstrong, Dennis COACH Melvin Korrle