United Township High School - Skyline Yearbook (East Moline, IL)

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Spiriters Raise Cheers For Victory Did you ever wonder who was thoughtful enough to decorate the varsity football players’ lockers on the days of the big games? It’s the cheerleaders! Cheerleaders do things like this plus a whole lot more. Sometimes a cheerleader will even arrange a time with a football players’ parents and decorate his room at home. Gestures such as these get the team's spirits up and give them confidence. At the games, the cheerleaders get the fans all fired up with their spirited cheers. Sometimes they throw little footballs into the stands when our team scores a touchdown. Miss Dori Conopeotis, the coach of the varsity and sophomore squads, tells us, I think that it’s very important for the team to know that the fans and the cheerleaders are behind them all the way. The cheerleaders do a lot for the team’s Top: Miss Dori Conopeotis is the new varsity and sophomore cheerleading coach. Middle: Members Of the Freshman Black squad are Chris Mohr, Laurie Lohse. Donna Waeyeart. Amy Desherow. and Sue VandeWiele Lower: Members of the varsity cheerleading squad are Kathy Mitchell. Mary Burns, Joyce Liggett. Robin Rotz, and Connie Hoffman. morale. The more support you have, the more confidence you have. The more confidence you have, the better you’ll do.” DENISE DEBARRE — Football Cheerleaders

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Freshman Black (6-2) UT 12 Coolidge 8 UT 28 North Scott 0 Wilson 18 UT 12 UT 22 Rock Island East 14 John Deere 0 UT 0 UT 36 Rock Island West 24 UT 6 Alleman 0 UT 36 UT Orange 8 Freshman Orange (6-2) UT 12 John Deere 8 UT 21 Galesburg lombard 12 UT 33 Rock Island East 21 UT 28 Alleman 12 UT 21 Rock Island West 14 UT 23 Coolidge 16 Wilson 33 UT 6 UT Black 36 UT 8 Top left: Freshman Orange and Black teams clashed heads this season with the Black team over the Orange 36-8. Top right: Sophomore Mick Thiem just sneaks away from his Quincy opponent; however. Quincy succeeded in sneaking by with the win 10-8. Middle: Freshman Black members are (front) Mike Paxton. John Reynolds. Mike Stanbro. Brian Overmire. Brian De Porter. Lee Van Opdorp. Ricky Dunn, (row 2) Bob Bennett. West Brand. Jim Winger. Joe Laduca. Ronnie Ran gel. Phil Bonilla. Scott Paxson. Scott Clark, Scott Fisher, (back) Dale Johnson, Coach John Bollaert. Brad Johnson. Dan DeFauw. John Shelangowski. Dan Decker. Mike Butcher. Gary Paxton. Mike Utter. Coach Fred Segura Lower: Freshman Orange team members are (front) Spencer Dolash. Peter Sproul. Mike Stang. Steve Sutton. J.P. Ja cobs. Jerry Lucas. Mark Fredriksen, (row 2) John Charlson. Alex Sierra. Dan Gavin. Keith Horton. Dean Atwell. Doug Greer. Mike Zimmerman. Jerry Green, (back) Steve Woo-dyard. Kevin Carlson. Lloyd Ackland. David Smith, Dave Keim. Brad Johnson. Paul Sanders. Doug Cooper. Coach Robert Hanske. Missing from picture is Coach Mike Russell. Football — 23

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 . Top: Members of the sophomore cheerleading squad are Diane Hakeman. Laura Lampo. Lori Hudson. Doni Espeland, and Lisa Pay-tash. Middle: The Freshman Orange squad members are Candace Hewitt. Brenda Beard. Lynn Thomson. Krista Kelly, and Chris Collins. Lower left: Sheri Boots, sophomore, this year's Pete the Panther, gives a spirited cheer. Lower right: Pete flashes a confident smile, knowing the Panthers won't let Alle-man slip by! Football Cheerleaders — 25