South High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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1- Matt McKeever waits for a low ball. 2. Brian Kidd lobs the ball over the net. 3. Robert Knox warms up before practice. 4. A team member works on his skill by bouncing the ball on the racket. 5. Brian Kidd reaches high to serve the ball. 6. The 1985-86 Tennis team coached by Mr. Mike Rogers includes Brian Kidd. Mike Stevens, Donald Day, John Thomas, Chris Chilton, Mike Newport, Wes Setty, Bryan Lethcoe, Matt McKeever, and Robert Knox. 7. Donald Day prepares to serve the ball. 8. Mike Stevens and Brian Kidd jump the net. 9. Mike Stevens prepares to return the ball. Dan Towing r e ; and ECOVERY 1351 Fotler Street Springfield, Ohio 45504 Dan McCarty 15 yrs. Experience f 6 TENNIS ' 79

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' Willi It ' s a game that is generally played during the rainy season of the school year and the players seldom know from day to day just when the weather is going to allow them to test their skills. It is also a game that requires total dedication from its participants as each individual team member must develop his own game to the best of his ability as this is an individual sport which doesn ' t allow for a bad day of play. The 1985-86 tennis team was made up of young men who played both singles and doubles in the WOL season and then attended the WOL meet. It was a small group that seemed real large when they all crowded into Mr. Roger ' s car to get to a meet but it was a team that developed fellowship as well as life-long skills in the game of tennis. 78 by Brian Kidd SMASH

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TRACK MEMBERS REACH PEAK CONDITION Sometimes the conditioning begins before the last snow is off the ground as the members of the track team run up and down the stairs and through the long corridors of South trying to buld stamina for the upcoming season. Muscles pull and ache in rebellion against the long winter months of inactivity but slowly and surely these fine athletes condition their bodies into peak competing form as track season draws near. Once the weather by Tony Jeffrey breaks there is more practice outside as the individual members of the team begin to zero in on the skills needed for their special event. Whether it was a field event, a distance race, an en- durance event, or a hurdle, the gun soon marked the start of the competition and the members of the SHS track team were ready to perform. DENNIS PORTER 823 S. Yellow Springs St. 325-1447 80