Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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YSHOOTING A FREETHROW, Sherry Epley raises the score against Wilson. Sherry was the starting center for the l.V. squad. AGOING FOR A LONG SHOT, Susie Karr takes her shot, Susie was Considered a gunner, by her teammates. Mergers!Girls' junior Varsity Basketball YDESPITE A HAND IN HER FACE, Wendy's effort, Los Altos went on tr Wendy Coffman attempts a jump shot win the game. oyer her Los Altos opponent. Even with

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Young and Aggressive VARSITY BASKETBALL Front row: Kelly Barb Upham. second row: Coach Lorelee Miller, Lorraine Marquez, Nina Gildersleeve, Lori Kennedy, Stacy Warren, lulie Telford, Denese Freeman, Rhonda Weyer, Debbie Moreno, Dileo, Nettie Morris. Q s, . ...- -.eg as as , ll ' r K ALOOKING FOR THE BASKET, Stacy Warren lays it up for two against a tall Los Altos player. Height was the one area the team needed the help in. QKERPLUNK! Concentration helps Rhonda Weyer make the free-throw shot against Los Altos. Rhonda averaged 15,2 points per game as point guard. -Q ,E jvayrg .gy.3'g:gg11zg. -gigs Aggressiveness took a lot of prac- tice for the Varsity Girls' Basketball team. Having the kids out ata 2 hour and 15 minute practice everyday is what makes your team go. Our strength is to stay even with most teams the first half and try to wear them down. The second half, after we wore them down, then we just kept running and pretty soon they started not getting back on defense, Right when this happens we pulled away and started breaking a little bit more. Our breaks started working because we kept hustlingf' stated Coach Ms, Lorelee Miller. When asked if Coach Miller's team was aggressive, she replied, Yes, very aggressive, extremely aggressive. Fact is, we have to stay out of foul trouble 'cause we're aggressive. But our aggressiveness helps us not to give up. Coach Miller also stated, Basketball's one of the best sports to practice in, because it's more of a game-like situation in practice. You can play more while you practice. That's one of the benefits. Coach Miller coached this young and aggressive basketball team to have a wide open running game. Their strength was handling the ball while running the court. Coach Miller believed that chances of the team winning League were very slim because Rowland and Los Altos had too much experience. But she hoped they could knock one of them off, at least one game. By defeating one of the tougher compe- titors, this would give the girls a good chance at making it to CIF as a sec- ond place team. Q 1 cunts' sfxskiifrsffttt Walnut Walnut Wsaloul Walnut Edgewood g .Wilson g iiilltos Altos F Rowland l Walnut Edgewood Walnut Wilson Walnut . Los Altos r..i. iWest Covina Wins: 7 tosses: 3 l ..,t.,.. 118510 Girls' Varsity BasketbaII!Mergers cami

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Turning a Team round Scoring more points than ever before, the girls' frosh-soph basketball team shifted into high gear to break the losing record of the previous year. With a new coach, a new team and more scheduled games, the participants managed to score over 35 points in their games in compari- son with the 1978-1979 frosh-soph team which scored an average of 15 points per game. ln preleague games, starters Cheryl Schrieyr, Lisa Torres, Megan Becker, and alternating wings tguardsl usually defeated the opponents. Fouled up by the rain, practices were cancelled leading to a loss of the first league game. The benefit from the rainfall was a chance to play in the gymnasium on game days rather than battling on cold concrete. Fifteen girls coached by Gary Brittain composed the frosh-soph team. To start the season, Coach Brittain sat on the pile of basketballs to give the girls their first pep talk. He explained what was expected from each member and described his pet peeves. After the girls' first warm-up exercises, Coach Brittain was surprised to find that his team, as he calls it, could acutally dribble, pass and shot. In practice and in games, Coach Brit- tain emphasized the importance of hav- ing fun. He would often show off by shooting from half court, lt's fun to watch Mr. Brittain try to make the impos- sible shots, laughed Darlene Confortifa ASHOOTING FOR TWO, Molly Fos- helped the Mustangs toavictory. ter makes two points. The basket ALOOKING FOR THE OPEN MAN, team to a victory. Margo was one of Margo Addeo attempts to help her the starting wings forthelV squad. I.V. and F.S. Basketball. front row: Susie Karr, second row: Dena Lordi, Margo Addeo, third row: Shawna Bryan, Molly Foster, Sherrie Eply, fourth row: Sheri Sans, Michelle Andrews, Kathy Dickinson, Cheryl Schrieyrg not shown: Robin Rauch, Karla Dam, Wendy Koffman, Megan Becker, Edita Cabacungan, Darlene Conforti, Lisa Torres, lean- ette Flores, Lynn Smith, Shannon Chrisman, Denice Spainhower, julie Montano, Sheri Collins, Valencia lohnson, Sheri Leland, Francie Neu- man. Girls' Frosh-Soph BasketbaII!Mergers