Torrey Pines High School - Freeflight Yearbook (Del Mar, CA)

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HALFTIME SHOW. Frosh cheerleaders prove thcn Our Teams Be-Her by promoting spirit dur- ing holfTime. This time become Q highlight of every gclme.

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nderfhe FEATHERS Although the name Michelle Wadley may not be familiar, she is quite well known. Like the San Diego Chicken and other mascots, Wadley likes her anonymity, She is, of course, Torrey Pine's own mascot, Fred the Falcon. Freeflight had the opponunity to speak with Wadley on a one to one basis so uncommon to her position. FFTEEFLIGHT: WhaT were The circum- sTances surrounding your becoming The school mascoT? WADLEY I wanTed To be The mascoT IasT year, buT I was only a Sophomore. To be The mascoi I had To be a Junior ora Senior. So This year I Tried ouT again, and I goi iT. FREEFLIGHT Wiih all The long hours and hard work, why did you wanT To be The mascoi in The firsT place? WADLEY I've always loved The San Diego Chicken. He's kind ofa ugood-will ambas- sador and I like Thai. I'm really ouigoing, and when I'm in The cosiume, I can do whaTever I wanT wiThouT people knowing who I am. I can do Things I wouIdn'T do if people knew IT was me. I really love To criTi- cize The oTher Team, now Thai is a IoT of fun. FREEFLIGHT WhaT does IT feel like, being in fronT of a crowd ThaT size? Don'T you feel nervous in fronT of a fooTball sTadium full of people? WADLEY Well, no. When I'm up in fronT of The fans, I don'T hear or even noTice Them. WiTh The head on, I can only hear my own breaihing. One Thing I don'T like abouT being The Falcon is ThaT I can'T Talk To anyone. lT's lonely. I like To Talk, buT when 132 FRED THE FALCON I'm on The field, I have To be Fred The Falcon, noT Michelle Wadley. BuT no, I don'T geT nervous. When I'm on The field, I'm so pumped up I don'T have Time To Think abouT whai I'm doing, IeT alone who's waTching me. FREEFLIGHT Whai do you Think abouT when you're performing? WADLEYI Think abouT whaT I'm going To do nexi. Because I don'T have any seT scripT of whaT To do, I have To be looking around all The Time, Trying To find Things To do. Like The one fooTbaII game when There were people eaTing chicken in The siands. Being NUMBER ONE. Fred The Falcon IMichelIe Wadleyxl Shows who's The besT on November 8Th aT The Varsi fiofoiball game againsT San Marcos. UnforIunaTely, e os Fred The Falcon, I had To Take offense aT ThaT and really reacT. FREEFLIGHT WhaT is your favoriie parT of being The mascoT'? WhaT do you enjoy The mosT abouT your posiTion? WADLEYI guess There are Two Things I enjoy The mosT. Being The mascoi allows me To express my opinions openly wiThouT having To deal wiTh The consequences. Everylhing people yell is To The Falcon, noT To me. The oTher Thing I really like is ThaT The fans don'T know who I am. They don'T know if I'm a boy or a girl, so They spend half The game Trying To figure ouT which I am. So I, of course, Try To confuse Them. They'll say To each oTher 'shake iTs' hand. So when They do, I squeeze real hard, so They Think Thai I'm a guy, Then They Try To waTch how I walk, ThaT's when I can really Try To Throw Them off. FREEFLIGHT WhaT was The rnosi embarassing Thing Thai ever happened To you as The Falcon? WADLE Y I've neveriold anyone abouT This. buT when I was hurrying To change afTer a game, so I could make iTTo The bus in Time, I ran inTo a baThroom. The problem was, I didn'T check To see if IT was a boy's or a girI's room. Forlunaiely, I was almosi compIeTeIy dressed before anyone came in. FREEFLIGHT If you could change any- Thing abouT The Falcon, whai would IT be, and why? WADLEY I guess iT would have To be The FaIcon's sTaTus. NexT year I'd like To see people Think of him like They Think of The Chicken. I'd really like To see a IiTTIe more Continued on page 134

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Continued from page 132 suppori. FREEFLIGHT WhaT do you Think of spiriT in general, and do you Think The Falcon helps rally parTicipaTion? WADLEYThe spiriT This year is whaT iT should be. I Think one of The Things ThaT has really helped is The freshman class. The new freshman class has come To The school spiriTed. and sTayed ThaT way. They've Ieamed ThaT being spiriTed isn'T anything bad, iTs someThing To be proud of. And yes, I Think ThaT The Falcon helps promoTe Team spiriT. IT also provokes The oTher Team. In facT, af a couple of games, fighTs almosT broke oui. AT The end of.The game Though, I Try To make up wiTh The oTher Team. FFTEEFLIGHT Many have commenTed on how much beTTer The enTire cheerleading squad Is This year. WhaT makes This year's any belTer'? WADLEY I guess The answer To ThaT is dedicaTion. This year's squad is serious. LasT year we had a loT of really casual cheerleading. We really Try our IoesT now, Things have changed in The ways we Think abouT spiriT. FREELIGHT WhaT makes you a beTTer Falcon Than any of The oThers? WADLEY I'm noT afraid To do someThing. I Try noT To reveal jusT who is in The cosTume. When l'm on The field, iT's noT Michelle, iT's Fred. MosT of all, I'm Trying To sTarT a new image. FREEFLIGHT Is The school mascoT a job you would recommend? WADLEY Yes, buT iT's noT a job for jusT anybody. IT Takes a special kind of person, one who is willing To sTruT, jump, and make a foil of herself in front of large groups of people. No one knows who you are. iT's noT glamorous, iT's jusT fun. - Jennifer Howland OUT OF UNIFORM. Michelle Wadley sfrlkes an unfamiliar pose. Wadley is befler known as our mascoT Fred The Falcon. 7 MT! .lr .1 A Q 5 , 1 4 I . , V ,- ,.,.,f4 WTI lf' .,. .Mir 'UA X , I 11 . IX I, ,wg 6 K T -i4,...., ... .. , if L -' ,-if ' M- ' 4 . f 'Mir ' 'QL 3 'f'::,, i I -in. gffyih gh, I 2' I i i