Tom C Clark High School - Witness Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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GUING THE ,1n:'rt NCIS Woking up ot 6:00 in the morning ond running five to ten miles moy not seem like fun but, for cross country runners, this is something they do everydoy. Running everydoy, oll week, is the troining they us- ed for their meets held on Soturdoys. At first when your told whot you hove to run thot morning, it seems reolly tough but, ofterwords it reolly is not thot bod ond you feel great, commented fourth yeor runner Kerstin Blumhordt. Cross Country is o very physicolly demonding sport ond the runners ore excellent othletes. The sport tokes o lot out of you physicolly ond mentolly but, you feel so greot for being in such heolthy condition ond of course, when you cross thot finish line first. At the meets the roces were obout three miles long. Most of the runners like to be by themselves before o roce to sort out thoughts ond think of their mentol strotegy. I use o lot of positive thinking to help me prepore for o roce, soid Louro Coldbeck. Brooke Morris, Miriom Horowitz ond Greg Rogers discuss strotegy while resting for the next roce. Good mentol strotegy is the impor- tont key to most runners for crossing the finish line first. photo by Scott Miller , .5 The yeor of '86 hod o lot of chonges for cross coun- try, for exomple there were mony more boys on the teom this yeor ond did very well. Another chonge wos o new cooch, Cooch Cox. Cox did o wonderful job ond the teom reolly odmired her good cooching obility. Even though the teom hod o few chonges, there is one thing thot did not chonge ond thot wos the closeness between oll the members of the teom. The cross country teom is just like one big hoppy fomily. Everyone reolly spends o lot of time together troin- ing ond running so much. Overoll the teom did not do os well os the post history of the Clork cross country teoms. They still did very good ond oll the hord work wos not wosted. At the district meet the boys ploced fourth ond the girls ploced fifth. Though it wos not os good os they hod plonned, the runners still thought the yeor wos very successful. -Koty Borber Louro Coldbeck leods the other Cougor runners, Kerstin Blumhordt ond Jill Simpson, during the finol strenuous sprint for the finish line. U. I I , 'Q ,VV fr 1 ,l K? , A . ' T . ' ,W 2. if 'ca 4 M .Q Z ts? 1 ,, T1 H tj, Tim Key concentrotes on keeping o steody poce during o cross country roce held out ot U.T.5.A. it 'Z-VT f ' 5 r . War . 52 if N if '29 , Vim

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9' Q 5 f Jie wr Y i an are LA LA A. A A l.l1l REGIQW ul It iN: Plllll Il The girls' swim team had another successively great year taking titles and breaking records just about everywhere they went. On February 21, while many of their friends were getting ready for the annual Supreme formal, the girls were getting ready to compete in the UIL District 30 championship. The team breezed through the meet like a whirlwind and didn't stop until they came out champions with 156 points, 40 point ahead of se- cond place Marshall and 156 point ahead of third place Taft. During the meet, two new district records were set by Marlene Parchman. In the 200 individual medley, Parchman timed 2:09.67 and in the 100 breaststroke, 1:07.40 I was really surprised at the outcome. Every time I finished a race, I QOT out of the pool feeling unsatisfied like there was something I could have done better, said Parchman. By the end of that meet, the team had altogether won 18 medals out of 66 possible, including 6 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze. After that, the girls went on to become Region VIII champs on March 7. During the meet, three new records were set by the girls. The freestyle relay team, made up of Mary Anne Brunsvold, Kriste Evans, Parchman, and Mindy Weil came in first in the 400 freestyle, setting a new record of 3:37.45 Par- chman broke both of the records she had set during district championships in the 200 individual medley .:.X,,.si'sq :if kg' S' E' and the 100 breaststroke with 2:08.35 and 1:06.38 respectively. With the help of that relay title and the individual victories from Mindy Weil in the 200 and 500 yard freestyles, Clark captured the crown with 119 points, 18 points ahead of second place Chur- chill, and 46 points ahead of third place Marshall. We really did our best at regionols. We expected to win even though we knew we had a lot of competi- tion, like Churchill, who was definitely our greatest competitor, said Mary Anne Brunsvold. By the time the state championship meet came around on March 21 in Austin, five girls, Brunsvold, Kristi Evans, Parchman, Lauren Riester, and Mindy Weil had qualified to compete. The other teams at State all swam really fast. We did our best but we didn't reach our goaI, said Weil, Even if we had swam at State the way we had at Regionals we would not have won. At the end of the meet Clark had come in fourth place, outscoring Marshall by two points. I wish I could do it all over again! soid Parch- man, Coach Swanson is great, especially calming down tense nerves. He gave us a lot of confidence. -Andrea Smith while warming up before the Regional meet at Northside Stadium, Coach Swanson gives the team a pep talk to get them ready before the races stan. ffff GIRLS SWIMMING

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