Red River High School - Epilogue Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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.4 l« y Sophomore Dawn Zimncy li in (he process ut throwing the )aveUn 100 feet during a meet at Red River Team Members ( Irunt row) Debbie Lit mger. Ahcia Thompson. Brenda MacDonalJ. Diane Ostby. Cdth Mcl.eod, (Second Row) R(»bin Kadry, Debbie Gladen, [ody |ackson, Gwcn Wagner, Cmdi Olson. Tish Dierlam, (third r(.)w ) [ackie Schill, Angic I.inell. )uhe Lord, Denise Bower, Hcidi Spiter. Sue Markee. ( back row I Dawn Zimney. Sue Mario. Barb Beckstead. Laura Gillespie. Holly Haug. Lisa Blank. Coach Soli, and Head Coach Engstrom, Senior lliruwcr Holl Haug htaves x s slmt pui 1 Uir at a hunic meet Runners Heidi Spiier and lackic. SchiU run [he fourth lapof the mile-and-. hall event Girls lr.iik HH

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Girls Win Five Meets Beckstead Takes State The girls track team knew they were in trouble when Coach Soli had them run eighteen 440s. An average practice for the runners consisted ol a twenty minute stretch-out, a mile warm-up, ten 440s. and a mile warm-down. The throwers did less running, but worked long hours with thrcjwmg Coach Tom Lechner to improve their form. The team won meets at the Red River Invitational, GFC Indoor, the Early Bird Cushman Outdoor, the Grafton Lion ' s Outdoor, and the Red River Relays outdoor meet. State qualifiers were numerous in the 200 hurdles as Diana Ostby, Brenda MacDonald, Kathy McLeod. Alicia Thompson, and Sue Marto qualified in the new event. Julie Lord qualified in the 8H0 and in the mile relay. Cindy Olson, Jodie Jackson, and Sue Marto |oined Julie on the mile relay team. Supris- ingly all the relay teams were successful in qualify- ing for state. Members o( the 8(X) meter relay included Diana Ostby, Jodie Jackson, Debbie Gla- den, and Sue Marto. Gwcn Wagner, Cindy Olson, Jodie Jackson, and Sue Marto qualified in the 400 meter relay. Jodie, Sue. Cindy, and Debbie formed the qualifying 800 medley relay group. Denise Bower in the one and one halt mile. Discus thrower Barb Beckstead. shot putter Holly Haug. and )ave- line thrower Laura Gillespie )oined julie as individ- ual qualifiers. Although most of the girls had their best times at state, all, with the exception of Barb Beckstead failed to place. Barb won the discus throw and set a new Red River and state A record with her toss of 127 ' 5 . Junior Julie Lord comment- ed about the ' 80 team. Everyone got along to- gether so we were pretty close. There was no tune when someone was running and no one was cheer- ing for them. Laura Gillespie and Sue Marto earned the team MVP award. Other team awards presented were Spirit Award, Robin Kadry, Most Improved, Barb Beck.stead, and Hardest Worker, Julie Lord. On the second hurdle of the 100 yard hurdles event sophomore Cathy Mcleod flys over the hurdles to place sixth. In the (quarter mile race Angle Lincll picks up her pace to reach the finish lir

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K ■ Ax ' i-tj r In J [ri tit fJLt- a ttnsi- h ind-( H trorn Briin Ht-fiMtn Outstanding Season Ends With Third At State 1 liL- licdvv breaching, the L;ruritiiiLi, the swc-.it. diul the pumping muscles are part of a runtier as he pushes himself on the track. Some run the short distances where speed and strength are the keys, while others the long distance events where endur- ance proves the winner. The runners were one part ot the team. The hurdlers and those in the held events were the other part The throwers were outstanding as the meets were ahnost won on their strength alone In DC ( )utdonr. winch the Roughriders won. the points in the held events tallied 97. two points above the meet ' s runnerups ' team total. The Ridets also won the Indoor EDC The victories at the two HDC meets were the only time in history a Grand Forks team went away troni an KDC meet with (irst place, ( thcr con- quests tor the Riders included 1st at Regionals, 3rd at State, and eleven 1st place meet victories out of sixteen. .State spotlighted Rider talent. Outstanding competitors at state lor the Riders included: Mike Kummer ( Jnd in high |umpl. Chris Hoversten ( 1st in iO()m, 3rd in the l(K)m, and 6th in the 2()f)m). CJreg Herndon ( 1st in shot and ind in disc). Dave I.cvos (.3rd in shot), and Tom llolmstad (-ith in the javelin). Dave Miller won t ' irst in the Indoor State meet in the one halt mile. All the seniors qualified tot state. During the season competition Herndon. Miller. Hoversten, and Hohnstad set new school records in at least one ot their events. Chris was elected team MVP and Most Valuable Sprinter. Greg Herndon earned the Most Valuable Weight- man award. Miller the Most Valuable Long Dis- tance Runner. Kummer the Most Valuable Jumper and Mo.st Improved. Besides Head Coach Zimncy, other coaches were Long Distance Coach Schradel, Jumping Coach Delmore, and Weightmen ' s Coach, Mr. teak. When speaking of the assistant coaches, lumper Mike Kummer commented. They were detinitely great attributes towards our winning sea- son. k Mt-mbtTS (front row) Kent Wiken, Mike Kumnitr. Clark RobiJcjux. Chris Huvt-riircrii, Grc Herndon. Turn Holmstad. Stt-ve Halt-y, Dtnnis Kixipman, ( second row I Randy Beasley. Gre Lambeth, Billy Larson. Barry Owens, Mike KrtsI, Mike Rubin, Dale Short, Randy Hahn, Mark Norman, (third row! Mark Reters .)n. |oe Schultii, Bfjd Horslt-y.Jim Oakley, Dave i.evos. Steve Schiller, Brian Benson. Bruce Brekke. (fourth row) Scott Schiller. Mikt Cook, Steve Gurule. Brad Roland, Danny Larson. Tom G(iet, ,John Kresl, Mike Peterson, (fifth rowj Assistant Coach Schradel. Head Coach Zimney, and Assistant Coach Peak, s. A I rack team throwers relax on a car before their events U With a powerful heave Gre ; Herndon releases the shot to Its -1 T destmation Sprinter Chris Hoversten moves like he has win s feet as he leads in the 400 meter dasli