Tigard High School - Tiger Yearbook (Tigard, OR)

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BOYS TRACK McGladrey, distance runners add strength to spike team With a total of ll meets in the year s schedule the Tigard boys track team added experience and three new school records to their list of accomplishments for a successful year Most Valuable Player Manny McGladrey provided the core of the team Being the only Tigard thinclad to to qualify for the state meet Cin the shot putj Manny led the team to many of their victories Distance runners Dave Santee Neal Beiker and Warren Golden all picked up several points in the running events while McGladrey and Sam Morrison showed the strength in the field events Santee Honorary Captain of the running events was fourth in the district in the 880 and set a new school record in this event McGladrey Honorary Captain of the field events set two new school records Earlier in the year Manny won four events against Oregon City shot put discus javelin and the triple jump in which he set a new school record bettering the old one by three inches Mike Spencer gave Tigard the speed needed to earn points in the shorter races the 100 and 220 Beiker winner of the Ed Stout Memorial Award and voted Most Inspirational was the only Tigard thinclad to place in the mile race Warren Golden a runner in the mile relay was named Most Improved as a sophomore. Boys TENNIS Netters display improvement, surge to Wilco championship Outstanding depth and strong individual match play marked the ll-2 season for the boys tennis team. Led by senior singles players Ron Carey and Bob Bolton, the netters rolled to a second place finish in Wil- co League dual match competition and a stunning first place team finish in the district meet. At district, Carey upset two of the top three ranked players on his way to second place in singles while juniors Kurt Lindner and Bob Jesenik smashed all opposition to become the district doubles champs. Other players compiling excellent records were fresh- man Dave Thomas, sophomore Dave Roberts and junior Craig Wiebe, who each lost only once during the league season, and junior Rob Prince and senior Rick Vander- hoff who lost or11y twice. Hit was the best season ever for the boys squadf' said Coach Bob Skrondal. f'The improvement over last year by all players was incredible. For example, Lindner didn't even make the team as a sophomore and he won the district championship as ajunior. That kind ofplay typified our whole team all seasonf' As expected, Lindner won the Most Improved Player award, while partner and co-champ Jesenik was named Most Valuable honor. hem' Q awww Q X si S H ,. K f , W S t as N . nf N155 WR 1 -1. files x - it . iii f- I . . . , 9 7 9 9 t it I S. 2 5 1 5 7 3 .ra f f i' . . . r -, -.M ..,r.,,r?-. 1, 1 9 V ,HL , , , ,W . M., . , . , . 7 3 3 7 Y la j 122 SPRING SPOR TS

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