Sacred Heart Academy - Clelian Yearbook (Hamden, CT)

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Pacers show no 'love' on lhese courts Maybe you saw Them around school. A seemingly new group of girls who wore Their skirTs a IiTTIe Too shorT. They spoke a language recondiTe To mosT: Their lingo consisTed of words such as 'lserve, deuce, and fauIT. Those who love game, The Ten- nis game, ThaT is, can readily rec- ognize These girls as The Tennis Team. The Team seemed To be far from a bunch of hackers Many had played for The High Lane CounTry Club, The Farms CounTry Club, or The New Haven RacqueT Club. PasT experience, combined wiTh Coach Bonnie Maggy's con- diTioning schedule, kepT The Team in Top form. CapTain Meg Kiely remarked ThaT This helped Them .,,-f W ' JM If Above: Pul your fooT forward and swing. Missy Roach Takes This approach for a low ball. Right In sTep, Liz McManus reaches high in an aTTempT To keep The ball moving. 13AfTennis To work harder as a Team and noT To lolligag as much. We had greaT fun buT goT in IoTs of prac- Tice, Too. A second year player, Ksenia Kyzyk, looked forward To doing aerobics when iT rained. The Team made Their own courTs in The gym wiTh chairs and ropes To geT in The necessary pracTice. Junior Suzanne Riley felT we had a really sTrong Team This year. The coach really worked wiTh our sTrokes. Obviously, all This pracTice kepT The girls from lobbing around. As Ksenia Kyzyk concluded, l'The pracTice was Tiring, buT paid off when we played our maTches. IT gave us a good spiriT and a posi- Tive menTal aTTiTude. Tennis 1986 SHA 8-'i 5-A 2-5 5-A 8-4 7-O 6-1 3-6 2-5 O-9 7-2 1-8 7-2 7-O Opponenf JonaThan Law Seymour EasT CaTholic Foran NoTre Dame ST. Thomas Aquinas JonaThan Law Hamden High EasT CaTholic Cheshire Seymour AmiTy Lyman Hall ST. Thomas Aquinas ,Y X-':'i3:g:wfsie:.,-,, ' s

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,mg- t Leff: Slugging out another base hit for SHA, Pam Paradis puts all her strength into that one swing. Below: With Mr lovanne's understanding and enthusiasm, softball is much more than just a sport. Spark behind a marvelous season Eleven years of practice, elev- en years of games, and eleven years of sweat added up to a lot of fun and winning. SHA's long- time softball coach, William lo- vanne, who steered his team to a phenomenal 18-4 season, an- nounced in May his decision to resign after more than a decade of giving, teaching, and caring. Every day after school from March to June, you could have seen Mr. I practicing with the team. He gave up his afternoons and weekends to mold fine young individual athletes into winning teams. As head coach, he exper- ienced many tense moments. One could remember times when there were two outs, runners on second and third, and SHA was down by one run in the bottom of the seventh inning. The SHA bat- ter and the opposing pitcher felt like they were the only two peo- ple in the world. As they were sweating it out, Mr. lovanne would keep a calm outside ap- pearance, letting his girls know that he would be proud of them Softball, 1986 no matter what happened. Kim Reilly, who has been coached by Mr. lovanne for three years, told how she viewed her coach. The team was like a family and he was the father. We're going to miss him a lot. Varsliy Opponent 141-13 West Haven 16- 2 Hamden 15- o Mercy 8- 2 Northwest 21-13 SO.Catholic 17- O St. Thomas 19- A East Catholic 13- Q St. Bernard O- 8 St, Joseph 7- A Hamden 12- 5 Mercy 11- 5 Northwest o- 8 So. Catholic 8- 5 St. Mary 23- 7 St. Thomas 7- 5 East Catholic 2- 7 St. Joseph 7- 8 St. Bernard 8- 41 Laurelton 15- 3 St. Mary CIAC Playoffs 10- Q Stratford 3-12 Lyman Hall Softball 7 133

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i E I i Qin is 'I' KWW., ' , - 'ef ,, 'H -. f Y 3, in ,, . , , , v J QQ y, y E 'ik i 'f1:f f Qffh ,W it 6 .L ,f Top:-Full swing forward, Meg Kiely con- centrates on every movement and keeps the game going at an even pace. Left: Balance is an important factor in a match for Ksenia Kyzyk as she steadies herself for a full swing. Above, front row: Beth Lee, Meg Kiely. Jennifer McManus fco-captainsy: Back row: Ellen D'Andrea, Ksenia Kyzyk, Missy Roach, Katie Burke, Elizabeth McManus. Suzanne Riley, Jennifer Barba. Shannon Matthews, Coach Bonnie Maggy Cmissing Tamiko Jacksonj. r' 3 4 ' any if 1 i