St Francis De Sales High School - Pride Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Stillli0l1S Dl'0lli'il'8f0l' Ul'l1 II1 I1tS By 1 Anne Spurgeon When asked to describe this year's varsity volleyball team, coach Kathy Wiemels replied, they're a spunky and mobile team. Spunky describes their energy in participating in the sport. The girls constantly strived to improve from one match tothe next and set many personal goals to be met throughout the season. As of October 18, their record of 11-11 seems to reflect their ability to perform well. Although the team is small in the number of personnel as compared to past years, this year's team contains some outstanding seniors such as Missy Noble, Molly McGee, Laurie Cain, and Maureen O'Reilly. The juniors on the team are also dedicated: Michelle Noble, Rosle Carrol, Barb Het- terscheidt. Pam Starkey, and Laurie Chadwick improve with experience and will provide a firm foundation for next year's volleyball team. When asked about her participation in the sport, DeSales senior Missy Noble commented that she, was very privileged to be a part of the team. Missy explained that DeSales is known for their excellent volleyball program. Also, it is very hard for the team to keep up their reputation of fine showing as state champions over the past two years. To maintain their reputation and style, the girl's practices are challenging and consist of two to two and one half hours of hard work each day. Missy feels her experience playing volleyball lets her help out other players as well as herself. Missy hopes that all the team's hard work will pay off by winning the CCL. She commented, it has been the best volleyball team of DeSales l've been on and the team gets along really well. Lora Chadwick, a junior. feels it is exciting to be a part of the team. She commented, I didn't think I would get on the varsity squad and I am very honored to do so. Lora feels playing on the squad takes much more concentration. She also added, movements are faster and the game is harder. How does she prepare for such a tough game? Lora's practices are very demanding and tiring. She tries to psych herself up before a match and she puts a lot of thought into it. Lora also aims at always improving herself and playing the best she can. A r1-- I A N G?fs'liCf kl914QrJIi' fi, i fax f 7 F 1, rr. i 5 I 9 f! g J, y , ,IW W J MIFQIW V W is x 'W Q 1 K K ., ,ngg ii! .,,. V 5 M if S' 45

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Row 1: Coach Wiemels, B. Hetterscheidt, L. Chadwick, L. Cain, Noble, R. Carroll, M. O'ReilIy: Row 2: M. McGee, M. Noble, Volpe, P. Starkey: Missing: H. Weilbacker Row 1: K. Wlemels, L. Susi, L. Cormani, M. Rieser, J. Funk: Row C. Zehala. L. Regrut, H. Weilbacher, D. Plazaa, C. Volpe, Mlssir M. Booker, D. Palmer, K. Shea Row 1: B. Coors, K. Spiwak, A. Noble, T. Lovell, A. McSweeny. McConnell, Coach Seggerson: Row 2: B. Carrey, D. Wears, Zelhala, M. Ort, J. Moreno. J. Mangini

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H08 Hills? HII1 Long ago in a land not so far away there lived a sorceress in Castle Stallion who dabbled in the occult art of mathematics. One day while plying her black art - trying to find a universal number to answer all math problems to make grading easier - she was visited by a vision who beseeched her to come to the jousting area of the castle in hope of applying her magic to improve the fortunes ofthe castles maidens in their endeavors for conquest. Having spent her life thus far in the gentle arts of spell casting and flute playing. the sorceress was taken aback when she looked upon the exertions of the maidens as they practiced mounting horses, walking raised rails to im- prove their balance, bounding about the courtyard in various directions so as to improve their arrow dodg- ing. and swinging on slender rods to practice castle storming. While not fully understanding all the elements of maiden warefare, she decided to accept the challenge, thinking to herself that it couldn't be much harder than finding a square root. The vision that summoned the sorceress presented two keepers of the maidens whom she had kept in bondage to help her in the past. The first keeper, a formerjousting maiden herself, was amine the ability and bravery of each of her wise past her years in jousting knowledge. The second keeper, a kindly bumbling former knight, but still showing signs of his former brilliance. pledged their allegiance to the new jousting mistress. The vision that had meant so much to the castle then vanished, never to be seen again, but strangely left behind a glow of goodness that was to remain forever throughout the kingdom. The sorceress, resigning herself to a life in the jousting pits, employed a traveling dancing instructor and required all the maidens to do wild dancing to strange music in hopes of preparing them for the coming crusades. The sorceress next held a troop review to examine the quality of her forces. By her black arts, she would attempt to examine the ability and bravery of each of her young crusaders to deter- mine if they were worthy to represent the crest of the Order of the Stallion. She started with the youngest maidens. the freshmen, and invoked the spirits from the dark side to look into their minds and reveal what they found - this attempt failed, however. because even dark side spirits cannot look into something that doesn't exist. Releasing the freshmen to scamper throughout the halls ofthe cas- tle to check out the stable boys she turned her atten- tion to the second and third year warriors, the sophomores and juniors. Here she was much more successful. Everyone in the castle could see the vast improvement in grace and skill by the long-legged junior and short-legged sophomores. These fair, yet dauntless maidens learned to maneuver effectively x N - Y. 4 I iw 'i 4 r c.f- kkgih G? W ... A 'X' 3 e Ne it 3'-1-as