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

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16 3 N, ll 'nr- 3' , if A if , H an ,N 'Z - Ili , 4 r K f, A . G-Q n.J L...,,, 9' Laura Caldbeck starts off the race with an early lead. Laura, o senior, qualified for regional this year. of . 4,1 .7 ' 1 yi, . Seguin SAISD Central Catholic Edgewood 4th DlSfI'iCf San Marcos Boys 4th Northside Girls 5th 'fyfzi ht f ' a GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY CTop rowj Carmen Fitzgerald. Jill Simpson, Brooke Morris, Miriam Horowitz, Janet Killingsworth, Lyana Garcia. fllonom rowj- Laura Caldbeck, Kerstin Blurnhardt I 9 , 3' q Pt , 1- 'WFQI 'Z ' W ' or we I ' ' Q, , ' a C 2 so G G - fu ,- s A, 4- G K Z3 H A ' ' , 4, ,,,, , ur uv-1 uy C . x G S ' :J-is l K, AM ,,,,. ,af C in XZ f ,1 if , f - .am rw' , . ,Q -r I ' , BOYS CROSS COUNTRY flop rowj Paul San Mi uel, Troy Pellan, , Y ,Hr Q I : cl -, Bobby Carter Jason Gold Greg Rigers, Manuel Gonzales, Demerrios 'W ' 4 'I 'Q Leiloglou Darn Price, Armando Gonzales Ql3orrom rowjf Carmen A , A ' ' '31, Fitzgerald, Ricardo Boone, Tim Key, Damon Wilkinson, Russell Rayburg, A fl? .mf ' Scott Versruyfr, Randy Kennedy, Russell Meuer, Lyana Garcia Q y :Wig y ' ' giffffl Mirian Horowitz looks amazed because she is so glad the finish l ,,, L if 93 line is notforoway. iffY l f Dv 5' l J' Crxoss COUNTRY J f

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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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PllIIIllC'l' X Cl RR CCEII 4 TL rm Once again Clark foiled the pre-season predictors. Ranked third behind Holmes and Jay for district honors, the basketball team was not even mention- ed in city rankings. But, before mid-season, the local writers knew that they had made a mistake. In pre-season play, the team had its ups and downs. They lost to Churchill and Roosevelt, but easi- ly defeated Judson, Edison, and MacArthur. There were no suprises in district play, but they had close calls with Jay, 56-54, and Taft, 54-50. After a 20 point loss to Holmes, 58-76, the Cougars rebounded with a 104-41 victory over Harlendale. By this time the media continually placed Clark in the top four in the city. As the second place team in district, the Cougars beat Highlands for the bi-district ti- tle. The next step in their journey was against Brownsville Hanna in Corpus Christi. After that easy area win, the team met Churchill in the regional tour- nament at UTSA. The media loved the Churchill-Clark match-up because it pitted two rivals against each other. ln ad- , ? 'f :v'0'i -. C , NW dition, the Cougar coach Danny Murphy had never beaten his brother, Bobby Murphy, the Churchill coach. Also, in 1980, the only other time the Cougars had been inthe regional tournament, the team cap- tain was Kevin Hamilton, now the Clark assistant coach. The media hype was more exciting than the game which Clark won 79-67. Now the team had progressed higher than any other Clark basketball team and they had to meet the district rival who had beaten them twice before. Once again, the Huskies proved they were the superior team wimming the very physical game, 43-51. The players showed constant improvement throughout the year to the regional finals, said Murphy. A major factor in their success was the team's hard work and dedication geared toward reaching their goals. -Victor Pisano Going up for the rebound, Matt Cernosek, junior, reaches for the ball against a Holmes Huskle defender. .1-ss... .1 .. -ff., . ,ii 355515, as 'iwfm--:st ., ..- T ...,,,,.- ...swa- 1 4,j Q Z 4 ' . aff Y A if Z t ' Q . We-5 ' , , 4 Q ,we if .,'4:e- Q , 5 j .1 i T- 45552 fj, ztgiiziry ff ifiiiiil, V 'ke ' '5 r -xiii---2.5 . -. . - ,fi Q.: Q Q f - - . . 34 5- . 5 A gifs, 2 .,, ,fasting 1511: .c A L, - 4 .S K2-i, t if 'I.Qg'f:-'Li' 'W ...M - W D ., 1 . 1' . J gg f --..