Sanderson High School - Lakonikos Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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E IS THE L0 ELIEST R NNER Let's get some guys together and make them run for two hours a day. Let's make them run so long their sides start to split. Let's make them get cramps in their legs and blis- ters on their feet. We'll make them run in the cold, snow, rain and dark. We'll get them to torture themselves and we'll call it a sport. Something like cross country. Cross country is an im mklual sport more than, say, football or basketbi Nobody can make you ran, it is sebfamotivatecl. The coach keeps all the technical stuff together. Mark Warren Sound unreal? The only un- l real part of it is the' fact that no one makes them do it. There is no coach hounding them to practice. The members of the cross country team train and condition on their own. Most members of the tear run on the average of 12 miles a day-at least the devoted ones do. No one sets up a training schedule for them. Their daily running takes them through ' wooded trails, around parked cars and among ravenous mon- grel dogs. Pains grow in their sides, stomaches, calves and thighs. Their feet blister, their mouthes dry. Yet they run on. Why do these masochis submit themselves to this torture? They may quit any time, no one is forcing them on, they are fighting only themselves and the constant fatigue. Why do they demand the pain? Many

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for the oversight, but in high school game for ten essence no one was penalized Spartan seniors. Among them except for the fifteen players were five starters, Billy who were innocent of any wrong Chambers, Mike Smith, Everett doing. All hopes for a shot at Gill, Ray Hinton and Dirk Ewing, the State Tournament died. who combined to form one of the ' most formidable Spartan squads in the school's history. ith the probation If the measure of a team's greatness is their record, then Sorne lost Sanderson's '75 basketball team ' ' had only a mediocre claim to fame 11 . the' drive to But, if effort, desire, and but ynost playeys participation, are considered . as factors in determining a hCl1'd01' 01' gust team's success then this years V A , Spartan Squad can be considered CIS hllfd to IWW- true champions. Henry Gocke The rest of the season proved to be a rocky road for the Spartans as their play was erratic and varied with the level of competition they faced. The final result in a season cut depressingly short was a respectable 15-8 record which included a heartbreaking, last minute loss to Broughton in the final game of the sea- ' son which was also thelast IUNIOR VARSITY TEAM First Row: Rick Griffis, Ioel Haskins, Mike Early, Bill Harrington. Second Row: Bill Fuchs, jeff Smith, Eddie Ellerson, john Olson, Alvin Dunn, Mike Adkins, Paul Perry, Mac McLean, Coach Sam Lewis. Not Pictured: Butch Monteith, Terrence Burroughs.

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CROSS COUNTRY TEAM: Mark Fulghum, Mike Iacobs, Henry Cocke, Mark War- ren, Bill Lynch, Coach Bill Harrington, David Bryan, Pat Patterson, Alan Williams, Bill Bradley, Mike Pandich, lay DeLancy, Duane Brooker. Not Pictured: Carl Bum- gardner, Sean Ellison. t of the runners welcome the pain of fatigue and stress. They say that at the end, when they cross the finish line and its over, they've won. They have pushed themselves beyond a normal limit. They have beaten the pain. They havent run entirely against others or against a clock, they've run against the desire to quit the urge to stop, the despair of P ersonal defeat. They have pushed themselves beyond a I1 ormal limit. Sure it's impor tant to win the race-as members representing the team, they go all out. There is the pride O fwinning the event as in any sport. But in this sport, to Win is toshow you've pushed Y o ourself farther than the thers. You've pushed your self harder and farther in both the conditioning and the race and no onethelped you because Y ou did it on your own 1 I 1