St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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Psyching himself up. Chad Goldstien gets ready to perform a difficult lift. Goldstien works-out everyday after school with Schuster and Grose. Variety in the styles of lifting weights is important to strengthen all parts of the body equally. Jeff Grose shows how the military press is done here. Out of school sports 27

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Athletes reach for dreams, improvement with off-season Come on Grosie. push it! , friends yelled at Junior Jeff Grose, as he strained with all his might on the bench press bar. Grose finally got the weight up. his maximum. and sat up with a smile. He was typical of many people who put in hours of sweat and pain, training on their own for their sports and activities, all of it necessary for success. A starter on the football team since his sophmore year. Grose was voted one of the top 100 players in the metro area at the beginning of the 1987 season. He had dreams of playing Division I football in a few years. To reach that dream Grose used the off-season to train, mainly by weight lifting which he felt helped to give him strength and bulk and conditioned and toned muscles. He said. I got started in sixth grade when my uncle gave me a pair of dumbells. Grose added that It got discouraging sometimes because I plateaued and didn't gain anything. Although football was Grose's first love, he also ran track, in part, to help train for football. Football camps such as the one held at North Dakota State were part of his summers too. To keep up my diving I always have to strive to be better. Staci Thayer Another person who trained in the offseason was senior Staci Thayer, one of the top divers on the girls’ swim team. Because all of the good diving camps were out of state and very expensive, her coach suggested training in the Minnesota area. Thayer worked throughout the summer with her coach. Al Hudacek. She practiced diving at the Minneapolis Golf Club each morning and at the St. Louis Park Recreation Center each afternoon. Thayer agreed with Grose that summer training, helped me to stay in shape and to keep up my ability for the season, but she also believed training could be discouraging when I chicken out on a dive or did a belly flop . Thayer said she was hoping to dive in the future and training during the summer helped to enhance that plan. To keep up my diving I always have to strive to be better. It wasn't only athletes who trained in the off-season. Sophomore Valerie Beugen worked throughout the summer to keep up her cheerleading skills, doing gymnastics and aerobics. It improved my flexibility and endurance and it helped me to make the team this year, she said. Like Grose and Thayer, she sometimes got discouraged with training all year long, but she said. It's all worth it because I love cheerleading. Beugen was a varsity tennis player as well as a cheerleader. Her sister. Vicki, who graduated from Park, got her started in tennis. Beugen went to tennis camp and she went to lessons at Northwest Club this summer to help sharpen her tennis skills. These three were just a few of the many Park students found that to acheive their goals and potentials, off-season sports and training were necessary. It was the only way to go. even if it always meant pushing it . 26 Out of schoot sports

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A new modo of transportation is discovered by Judy Gelfman during her trip to Egypt. She gets a different glimpse of the country from atop a camel. As Miriam Kagol sightsees in the Japanese Tea Gardens in Gofden Gate Park, San Francisco, she stops for a quick picture in front of a Japanese relic Enjoying the beach and the sun are senior Karin Newhouse and her mother. They spent Winter Break in Guadalupe. Mexico. Accompanied by one of Disney's seven dwarfs is. Marin Longfellow. She ran into her friend while visiting Disneyland over Winter Break. 28 Wmter Spring Break