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

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Frosh Cindermen Showed Speed and Stamina FRESHMAN TRACK TEAM-FRONT ROW: Michael Lloyd, John Babcock, Keith Marshall, Nelson Smith, Mark DeWitt, Allen Ramsey, Ed Craig, Robby Renfrow, Rock Stewart, Tim Lyden, Lance Laber, Bill Torres, Brad Gushing, Chris Joachim. SECOND ROW: Frank Davis, Kenneth Lamb, Maniit Cheema, David Gray, Jeff Cook, Richard Gerhart, Ted Badder, Steve Kaplan, Kevin Rogahn, Clancy But- Junior Varsity and Freshman coaches: Paul Hatcher and Larry Weimer Freshman Track opened its 1969 season against Salpointe and Sahuaro on March 12. Danny Wenceslow ran a long distance race in the first meet. ler, Bob Hammond, Danny Wenceslow, Karl Jennings, Eddie Wright. BACK ROW: Larry Blackwell, Reed Means, Don Weatherford, Mike Cramer, Ernest Mancill, Greg Maher, Joe Cima, .lim Bailey, Gilbert Huerta, Philip Wingate, Alan Cole, Larry Young, Gary Slagel, Scott Stewart, Mike Mader, Jim Legate. Freshman track coach Larry Weimer was confident that his team would have a good season and felt sure of easily better- ing i968's record of four wins and eight losses. His main ob- iective was to teach his boys the basic skills in track and then to let them begin to specialize in whatever area they showed most promise in. Top runners in the 440 were Larry Young and Robert Hammand while Maniit Cheema, fast on sprints, also worked on lengthening his distance in the long iump. Danny Wenceslow concentrated his efforts on distance run- ning, while Don Weatherford jumped hurdles and Clancy But- ler was tops in throwing shotput and discus. The team prac- ticed all through February for the season which began in mid- March. A freshman member of the Track Team, Kevin Rogahn was caught in action throwing the shotput on Palo Verde's field. He worked to gain greater distance.

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Cross-Countr Turned in 8-2 Season Record T CROSS-COUNTRY TEAMS: Freshman-Front Row: Henry Beier, Danny Wences- low, Moniit Cheema, Nick Story, Joe Bibson, Don Weatherford, Kenneth Luh- man, JUNIOR VARSITY-Second Row: Mike Spears, John Haas, Mike Merse- reau, Greg Weitzel, Tom Seitz, Don Pitts, Mike Kuhn, John Larson, John Stutz, Senior Steve Lewis strained to keep up the pace in a varsity cross-country meet aaainst Tucson High School. The Titans won the meet 22-36. f f 1 e Fred DePorter, Ted Robinson. VARSITY-Back Row: Mgr. Dan Schloatman, Joe Billings, Joel Larson, Tom Gustafson, Bob Clark, Steve Lewis, Mark Thom- as, Rick Childress, Darrell Jorgenson. All Three cross counTry Teams ended The season wiTh suc- cessful records, The VarsiTy wiTh 8-2, Junior VarsiTy wiTh 6-4 and Freshman wiTh 8-l. Two new school records were seT This year by senior Rick Childress. His new record for average poinTs per meeT was 1.22 poinTs and his new course record was lO:46.7. Childress also placed TenTh in The sTaTe. Other ouTsTanding harriers were iunior Joel Larson on J.V. and Don Weafherford on The Trosh Team. The VarsiTy's only Two losses were To Pueblo and Sunnyside. They ranked Third in The AAA-4 league. The only freshman loss was To Pueblo in The Team's second meeT, Trosh placed TirsT in The ciTy. Junior VarsiTy losT To Pueblo and Rincon and Twice To CaTalina. T Bob Clark and Mark Thomas took the lead in a cross-country meet against Catalina and Douglas. Titans defeated both teams for a record of 6-1.