Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Boys Track Opponent Homewood Floss m0Ol' 112 Evanston Thornton 11 Thornwood Bloom Tlfall Bloom lnvltatlonals Indoor: Thornwood Thomton Bloom Trail Outdoor: Palatine Bloom Trail 2nd 5rd 2nd 2nd 8th Right: Pushing himself for a victo ry Reggie Johnson takes the tape Top: Lachon Cunninghamjumped with a pulled hamstring at Districts and qualified for state. 160 Boys' Track

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Winfield 2nd at state meet Conference and Districts seemed to be the goal of the girls' varsity track team as they finished their sea- son with a conference re- cord of 4-Z5 and an overall record of 17-17. A sixth place finish at the Crlenbard West Invite, a first at Hillcrest, and a sixth at Reavis Relays added extra competition for the girls to prepare for Conference and Districts. Exposure to some of the best teams in the state at the invites gave us excellent opportunities to see the level of talent that we would face at the state meet, commented Mr. Llorenz, head coach. In the fifth place finish at Conference Rachael Smith placed second in the 800- meter run and Rim Winfield was second in the 400-me- ter dash. Smith and Win- field, along with Megan Al- len and Adriene Hayes, were second in the 1600- meter relay and first in the 5200-meter relay. QP The fifth place finish in district competition was highlighted by the fact that Smith, Winfield, Hayes, and Allen qualified for state meet in both the 1600-me- ter relay, fourth in districts, and the 25200-meter relay, first in districts. Winfield placed second in the 400- meter dash, thus, qualify- ing her for the state meet. State seemed to be an- other success story for Win- field, Hayes, Allen, and Smith. The 1600-meter re- lay placed third in state while the S5200-meter relay placed eleventh in state. Winfield was second in the 400-meter dash. Going to the State Finals meant com- peting at the highest level of physical and mental ca- pacity possible in high school, stated Rachael Smith. The freshman-sopho- more team ended the sea- son with a conference re- cord of 1-2 and an overall record of Z5-11. Above: Girls' Varsity Track: Front Row: Cathy Wagner, Julie Popu- Iorum, Lisa Gawrych, Debbie Beck- man, Tonya Colquitt, Keisha Cox: Row 2: Allessande Hall, Michelle Wozniak, Megan Allen, Rim Win- field, Tonya Scott, Wendy Almeido, Naomi Harden, Back Row: Coach Toya Wyatt, Rachael Smith, La- 8 veme White, Ellen Poppelaars, Ju- lie O' Neill, Adriene Hayes, Kristin Tomiello, Virginia Thornton, Coach Al Llorenz Top:Julie O'l'1eill was fourth in discus at Districts. Left: Rachel Smith, Adriene Hayes, Megan Allen, and Kim Winfield took third. in State. Girls' Track 1 59

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. Ist, .kifir tii 1. N ' W . J- , Y - 3 tg -: wx l XS i' st-4-N. N9 K Q tl xt? X xg N X .2 K X E k X A w X Q cast is N Q to state: records b oken Led by a strong group of seniors, the varsity track team placed in every invita- tional and ended with a dual meet record of 4-2. The team also finished sec- ond in the Conference and Sectional meets and quali- fied two relays and four in- dividuals for state. We ran better than we thought we would. It was an exception- al year and the seniors came through at the end and performed very well, said Coach T.J. Shirley. Captain Vinram WadeBey led the two mile relay team consisting of John Gifford, Mike Bayr and Otis Magee to state. The other state qualifying relay team was made up of Reggie John- son, Phillip Russell, Lamen ax if ry GLASS in Adams, and Leroy McMil- lan. Individuals qualifying for state were Senior LaChon Cunningham in the long jump, Senior Joe Kapitany in shot-put and Sophmores Johnny Westbrook in the high hurdles and Eric Thomas in the triple jump. Tough practices before and after school helped me prepare for state where l was one place away from getting a medal, stated Thomas. ln addition to being rec- ognized at the state level, all state qualifiers were named to the Thomridge All-Time Top Ten List. The froshfsoph ended the sea- son with a record of 5-1. Top: Vinram WadeBey broke the school record for the 400 meter dash. Left: Varsity Track: Front Row: La- men Adams, Maurice Thomas, Vin- ram WadeBey, John Gifford, La- chon Cunningham, Corey Beck- ham: Row 2:Reggie Johnson, Ralph Capriglione, Johnny West- brook, Otis Magee, Terrence San- didge, Chris Urban, Dave Bjork, Phillip Russel:Back Row: Coach Terry Wells, Coach T.J. Shirley, Joe Sepeczi, Mike Bayr, T orey Pat- terson, Joe Kapitany, Mike Beck- ham, Floyd Clark, Rob McCarthy, Coach Terry Kennedy Lower Left: JV Track: Front Row: Dave Ramirez, Corey Bowen, Matt Malmquist, Alex Peterson, Blair Hall, Kyle Nelson, Kevin Skalman, Row 2: Chakir O' Neal, Rodney Chambers, Scott Bergfors, Eric Jablonski, Robert Lear, Clifon Luckett, Andre Gallion, Jose Mo- rales, Steve Lloyd: Back Row: Coach T.J. Shirley, Coach Terry Wells, Eric Thomas, Chris O' Derio, Alex Bustos, Reggie Ward, Terrence Hersey, Johnny West- brook, Coach Terry Kennedy Boys' Track 161