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

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'WN l .1 3. ii l LOCKED t would be possible to mistake Bri Bogers for a mathematician from look through his notes and records. Bogers is the boy's locker room att dantfcustodian at school, and is responsi for all the boy's athletic equipment. To give an idea of the numbers involi in this job, there are 1,025 lockers, ou which I have to keep track - 850 are F lockers and 122 are team lockers. Anot 122 are equipment aid lockers. During the football season alone, Bog is required to hand out a minimum of pieces of athletic equipment to each play The total number of pieces of football eqt ment is 2,940. And out of all the equipme Bogers is responsible for its safe return. I have to fill out inventory sheets by numbers on the uniforms, put the uniform particular cabinets, make student iss cards, and if uniforms are not turned in, out delinquent equipment forms, explair Bogers. Last year there was 32,200.00 outstanding equipment. Bogers' job is tedious and hard at tim

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-y .4 .-I: ni- i '. - cgi 'Zz t 'gg . f Fifi m , W I . .., K fri it .A -,lf figs' 33,-Q f' .-Til ' t fa? tb N .- .j ,,, lqjgg W R isa Cody didn't go to an expensive gymnas- tic training center to learn gymnastics - amazingly enough, she taught herself. Since he time she was five and a half years old, 'Jody was turning little cartwheels and walk- Jvers. I've always been real competitive and ath- etic, she said. Gymnastics has just been an Jutlet for me. When I was little, I learned to do a lot af different tricks, and my sister would spot me. By the time Cody was in the sixth grade, she earned a spot on a competitive team at her school n St. Charles, Illinois where she began to com- Jete optional routines. I would really get bored doing compulsory, be- :ause the routines are set, and the judges know zxactly what your next move is going to be. With mptional, they set a list of requirements of what ype of moves the routine has to contain, and from here, you choreograph your own routine. 8 --,. 13 I'-fr Q H I .,,, k s The tricks are a lot more diffi- cult in optional. lt's more of a challenge. Optional routines are not the only challenge Cody has had to face in gymnastics. Bounc- ing back from injuries is an- other challenge she must deal with from time to time. When I was in ninth grade, I fractured a verte- brae when I was vaulting. I kept competing, though, because it was at the state meet. Finally I had to drop out of the competition, Cody recalled. Another terrifying situation for Cody was when she lost her grip while doing a trick on the bars. I lost my grip and fell on my neck. They thought I had chipped a vertebrae. The ambulance came, and they tied me to a board so I couldn't move. It turned out there was no serious damage, but the next morning, I felt like I had been run over by a truck. With a weakened back, Cody had to replace gymnastics with a less strenuous sport. She turned her attention to competitive diving. When Cody was a junior in high school, her family moved from Illinois to California. She be- gan school at Torrey Pines where there wasn't even a swimming pool, much less a diving pro- gram. She began gymnastics again. I'm an active person. I go crazy when l'm not doing something. I need a physical outlet, and I love to compete. I love gymnastics, and even when I was hurt I kept doing it, she said. Due to her back injury, Cody wasn't sure she could do gymnastics again. I lost a lot of flexibility in my back. I went in and had a lot of sports therapy to strengthen it, but the GIVE doctors said the only way I would ever get better would be to quit. Refusing to quit, Cody went onto the Torrey Pines team not even thinking about what the doc- tors had said. Since she joined the team, she established herself as Most Outstanding Gym- nast and Tribune All-Scholar Athlete of the Year. Cody admits her back will never be back to full strength again, but no one would ever know from watching her vivacious performances. Although gymnastics has been a big part of Cody's life, she has never let school take a back seat. Her 3.94 grade point average shows her determination doesn't stop at gymnastics. During the season, you don't have a lot of time to waste, she said. Competing makes me excel more at school. lt makes school seem less diffi- cult. Interested in marine biology and physics, Cody will attend U.C. Santa Cruz. The don't have a gymnatics team there, but I wouldn't really want to be on a college team any- way. College is either a place where you start all over again or you quit doing gymnastics. lt's to- tally different there. They regulate your Iife - what you eat, when you go to bed, and I don't think I want to do that. With a great deal of physical talent, Cody will never stop gymnastics all together. l'll still work out, she said. I'm the type of person that can't stop working out. - Lora Stowe

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ALI. LOCKED U P lleaning up dirty socks, muddy gym shorts, and grass stained lshirts, scouring filthy showers and sinks, and cleaning floors ted with mud and scattered h dirt and scraps of paper. Vhese are a few of the thank- s and grueling tasks that many sociate with motherhood. Debbie Elliot is exposed to se chores every working day and she's not even a mother. Elliot is the girls' locker room endantfcustodian at school, 1 not only is she responsible cleaning up alter p.e. classes :i athletes, but also for keeping :K of all athletic equipment and forms, supervising hundreds wild teenagers, working with idents and coaches, setting igs up for athletic events and 'ious other things that aren't an listed among her 'typical :iesf Elliofs job is filled with unplea- wtries and stresses common in is working with kids, and al- iugh it gets trying at times, she as more of the benefits than I disadvantages. I hate the mess and picking up after everyone, said Elliot. l'm everyones maid, and there's alot of stress in that, but I love the kids, and l'm able to develop alot of close relationships with them. My job is never the same two days in a row, Elliot added. That's another thing I like. I could never sit in an office doing the same work every day. With interruptions every other minute - kids and coaches con- stantly knocking on her door, there is never a dull moment for Elliot. Actively involved in sports herself, Elliot appreciates her sport related job all the more. I used to play volleyball, and now I play softball three nights a week. I also love to ski cross- countiy and downhill. I used to play basketball until I stopped growing and everyone else kept growing. During her free time at home, Elliot enjoys photography and cooking. - Lora Stowe l2f'ff . K . 1' ,ji l.. il don't like the real time- tsuming things, he said. The I is hard because as one sport ds, another one begins, and J have to keep track of all of it. iletes forget to get their things t of their lockers at the end of I season, and sometimes they h't turn their equipment in. 'Sometimes kids just say wats it and walk off after the ason's over, and don't take 'e of turning things in, and their kers, said Bogers. Despite the tedious tasks, gers finds his job rewarding. 'I like working with youth. l'm e to watch the ninth graders felop from gangly youngsters people who have developed se and a little more education. ee them round out into young Jlts. arried for 37 years, Bogers three adult children. He en- -biflt ..r ADDING UP, Bruce Bogers takes inven- tory on athletic equipment. joys sailing and collecting rocks. I'l'm a rock hound, he ex- plained. I like to look for various metals and semi-precious gems. Bogers also enjoys traveling and home repair. - Lora Stowe SPECIAL FEATURES 87