Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Neill, Sandie Marcukaitis, Coach Al Hult. Right: Senior captain, Sandie Mar- cukaitis, and junior, Julie O'l'leill stretch before each meet as part of their warm-up.

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Kickers post best season Winning seven out of the last eight games, the soccer team kicked its way to a second place conference finish. I thought that the second half of the season we really wanted to win, and it showed in our perfor- mance. Our strong finish gave us the confidence to go into the Regionals, stat- ed Joe Fameti. The All-Conference play- ers including Fameti were Chris Martire, Berto Zam- brano, Femando Carbajal, Gus Esquivel, and Rigo Zambrano. The honorable mention players were Steve Freese and Kevin Mysz- kiewicz. Rigo Zambrano was also named as All- Sectional player. The season was good. lt was our best sea- son since l have been here at Thomridge, but I still think that we could have gone a little bit farther in Above: JV Soccer: Front Row: Dan Larson, Scott Kulig, Ed Dziadon, Jesus Villegas, Victor Mendoza, Andre Battise: Row 2: Juan Vala- dez. Aljandro Carbajal, Francisco Vasquez, Mario Ayala, Tim Zmucki. Andy Filas: Back Row: the state toumament, said Zambrano. The team also set a re- cord for most wins in a sea- son. One of the hottest scoring players was Kevin Myszkiewicz, who led the team with 14 goals. Coach Carlos Medrano was pleased with the sec- ond place tinish in the Thornridge Invitational. Our last half of the season showed that the hard work and the togethemess of the team showed great promise for the future of the play- offs, he said. The team beat Thomwood in the Se- mifinals CZ5-1l and then lost to Marist Q1-Gl. The junior varsity team ended with a record of 11-5- 1, the best record ever for the team, and came in sec- ond place in the Popular Marian Sophomore Soccer Toumament. ku 3, ,i 3 XV ,3 Coach Dave Baron, Francisco Val- lejo, Dan Ducat, Greg De Laureus, Rob Rusiniak, Guy Louis-Jean, Coach Jarrod Davis. Left: Francisco Vallejo head buts the ball toward his team mates. Soccer 155

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Kiel, Hartigan highlight year Team size did not hinder the team: however the lack of a diver did. ln the close meets, such as the one against Universi- ty l-ligh, the points from div- ing competition could have easily put us in the lead. But, since the girls knew that no diving points would be added to their score, they had to swim with a hid- den desire to accumulate all the points possible, commented Al Hult, head coach. With emphasis on de- sire the girls swam to a season record of 4-7, a fifth- place finish in Conference, and a ninth-place finish at Sectionals. Conference was high- lighted by Sue rlartigan's sixth place finish in both the 200 free and the 100 free and Kim Kiel's fourth place finish in the 100 back- l07 Thomton Girls' Swim TR Opponent 515 70 University High 725 46 Tinley Park 80 46 Andrew 150 l20 Bloom Trail 154 76 Eisenhower 67 52 Homewood- Flossmoor 97 56 Bloom 97 69 Shepard 62 64 Riverside- Brookfield 84 6l Thomwood 101 4 wins, 7 losses Top Len: Tina Bona,junior, swims the final leg of the varsity free re- lay. Middle Left: Frosh-Soph Swim: Front Row: April Nicholson, Letty Rodriquez, Jenny Janowski, Judy Janowski, Alicia Delapena: Back Row: Kathy Callahan, Julie Chap- man, Kim Carr, Jenny Pickett, Julie Norris, Nadine Patten. Left: Sue Hartigan awaits the start of the 100 free. stroke. Sectionals seemed to be another triumphant meet for flartigan Sr Kiel. Harti- gan placed second in the 200 free and Kiel placed second in the 100 back- stroke. Kiel's time of 1:08.4 enabled her to break the previously held record of 1:09.5. Setting the record just added to the excite- ment of placing second. These accomplishments show the possibilities that swimming holds for me, stated Kiel. The frosh-soph team end- ed its season with a record of 2-5. With many of the frosh-soph team swimming up on varsity, the frosh- soph team had to struggle throughout the year: but they perfomied really well individually, stated Sandie Marcukaitis, captain. Girls' Swim 155