St Monica High School - Compass Yearbook (Santa Monica, CA)

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Track readies for season

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Softball 5 (1) Jim Wilson, frosh basketball coach (2) The enthusiastic and spirited freshmen basketball team (3) The smiles are for a winning season the girls’ J.V. basketball team with their coach Nick Basile (4) Margie Macias, girls' softball coach (5) The promising 1981 softball team (6) Softball's smiling senior super-stars Lisa Girona and Mary Hernandez What the freshmen basketball team lacked in depth, they made up for in enthusiasm and effort. It was not a great season with 4 wins and 12 losses, but it was a learning experience both in terms of fundamen- tals. concentration, and attitude. Freshmen players were: Shawn Davis. Steve Boveri, Mark Miles, George Shamma, Clark Barry. Alfonso Fabrega, William Torres, Luis Valdivia, and Dean Cain.............. This season was a great boost for the future of women's basketball at St. Monica’s. At first,” according to Coach Nick Basile, the J.V. girls could not run and chew gum at the same time. With lots of work and desire they earned a winning season. Led by Co-captains Tracy Snyder and Teresa Lieto, the J.V.’s would not die; a typical high point was the see-saw win over a bigger, more experienced St. Bernard’s team with 42 seconds left when Teresa Lieto took a twenty-footer and swished it. Coach Nick Basile said that this game really typified the season I was very proud of them and of our 6-4 season.” commented Coach Basile The winning players were: Tracy Snyder, Michelle Tuchscher. Rebecca Stafford, Janet Hutchi- son, Joan Dooley. Mary Williams, Kristina Simonis. Kathryn Raichel, and Teresa Lieto........ .... The softball season was not far along as the Compass went to press. The St. Monica team had lost to St. Bernard’s and to Notre Dame. Coach Margie Macias was optimistic about the season. “We have to work on overcoming physical errors. she stated If we can suc- ceed in doing that, we could be on our way to a winning season. Members of the softball team for 1981 were: Trina Blom, Ingrid Bragg. Cindy Briggs, Lisa Girona. Patty Hartigan. Alison Haywood. Mary Hernandez. Joanne Manzella, Karrie Stephenson. Ruth Valdivia. Andrea Vergara. Mary Williams. Rosa Yanez. Grainne Clarke did stats and Marie Lynch was manager.

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At Compass press time, the track team had not started its regular season; however, the track coach. Bernard Wooten, felt good about the coming sea- son. “Although we have a young team, they have top notch abil- ity. commented Coach Wooten. “They are consistent in their per- formance and their hard work will pay off over other teams. Hard work meant running from 6:15 A M until 8:00 A M.; they also ran after school from 2:30 P M to 4:15 P.M On Mondays. Wednesdays, and Fridays they did distance running to build en- durance They would run from four to fourteen miles on those days. Tuesdays and Thursdays were sprint days when each runner would do 220 yard sprints at good pace over the 1 Yt hour practice periods The track team had the advan- tage of additional coaching in the person of Assistant Coach Paul Roach whose specialty is field events. (1) Aldo Perez and Juan Figueroa are poised for the starting gun (2) Margaret Jarmusch sprints for con- ditioning (3) (left to right) Luz Mora. Juan Figueroa. Aldo Perez. Ralph Yarro. Victor Cernik. Paul Coda. Giancarlo Mercado. Terry Gomes (4) Juan Figueroa leaves the others behind (5) Working out are Ron Knoll. Robert Yeldell. Richard Bois- deau. Lori Smith. Joan Dooley. Jackie Viboch, Rebecca Stafford, and Clay Dodder (6) The promising track team (7) Richard Murphy and Robert Tietz at early practice (8) Ro- bert Tietz, Maggie Jarmusch and Vince Hernandez do another lap Juan Figueroa was cited as a pro- mising freshman runner Rafael Fig- ueroa for leadership; juniors Rosie Gonzalez and Diana Munoz demon- strated consistent performance; as possible contender for the state pre- lims is hurdler Robert Yeldell who posts 330 on the low hurdles Robert Tietz can be counted on for endur- ance and consistency so was voted senior superstar 8 Track 81