Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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West Coaches the Best Few people get the first-hand axperience of actually getting to 'oach athletes who participate in the Dlympic games. One such person vas Mr. Sam West, a member of the Jnited States Track and Field Olym- Jic Development Committee. This is 1 branch of the U.S, Olympic Com- nittee, and its purpose is specifically or the development of US. Olympic eams. Track and Field is divided into men nd women's committees and each exent is assigned one head coac h. Ed Tuc ker, the men's national iavelin coach, inyitecl Coach West to be his one assistant coach because ot his past successes. Their basic respon- siblity started in T977 and narrowed clown to nine throwers who made the Olympic qualifying standard. The coaches' task was to provide throw- ing sessions which would best equip the athletes with sound technique The major determination tor mak- ing the Olympic team was the ath- .lt :I ! '- Y as- .. . ,. ,W Wy, I. ,, tc 'si ,W 9 . B X ff? as - A Je new 5 S, K Av Q.. Y -sr it fix TEACHING IN AFRICA IN 1972, is one ot Jach West's interesting memories. He has p sf 5 y. . .asi also taught iavelin tec hniciue to the Iapanese, lete's pertormance over the past sea- son ancl his placing in the AAU tAma- teur -Xthletic Unionl. Some ot the athletes participating in the AAU had graduated trom college. One prob- lem Coach West saw with this is that xxorlc lite interfered with the athIete's Olympic training, He commented, In Russia, tor instance, athletes are subsidized by the government. If a person is a javelin thrower, then that is what he does for a career. That's his job. Here in the athletes are not subsidized by the government. They don't have the opportunity to train as they did in college because they are expected to work also. Coach West's background in quali- tying him to be a coach for the men's iavelin throw goes back to his college days, when he attended Cal Poly Pomona. He was an All-American iavelin thrower. Alter he graduated he was still very interested in track and tield events. He coached at UCI, Southern California College, Cal State Long Beach, and at MSAC. During this time, Coach West had the oppor- tunity to coach two All-American javelin throwers. One of the biggest problems Coach West saw with the develop- ment ot the javelin throw was expo- sure, He stated that the iavelin throw is a lost art, since only t2 states in the U.S. threw the javelin in high school. Because of this, there were a small number of athletes and coaches in this event He commented, One in len thousand athletes that are in high school track and field make the U.S. Olympic team. The biggest prob- lem in the iavelin throw is exposure. There are students on this campus who may have Olympic caliber in the javilin throw, but because of lack of exposure to it, they will never clis- cover their ability. I feel that one of my jobs as a high school track coach is to expose as many athletes to as many events as possible. Coach West!Brokers and Their Business

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Reaching Across the Desk Things have changcidfl This phrasc- can apply to many things, one of them hciing teacher-student rela- tionships. Although the relationship between teachers and students was less tormal than it used to he, stua dents still tell a distance between themselves and the teachc-rs, Because of this, students lound it difficult to relate to a teacher on a triendship basis, Onc- harricrr was the last namci hasis ol' addressing the teacher. As Paulette Alerich stated, I don't consider my teac hcirs thc- samc- kind ot triends as the trivnds ot my own age group, just 0, hecausca ot the formal may I haw to address them. Working long hard hours with a teac hor or coach helped torm tricfndf L- 1. ships. Students involved in a sport or activity such as Hoofprint or hasket- hall found that friendships wc-rci a natural course. As lohn Orr com- mc'ntc1cl, I do think it is possilnlci tor teac hors to he friends with students. Were working towards a common goal - I notice that the oncis who como hack to seo me are the ones who were on the Inner Light or H00f- print staff. A X X. PYOU TAKE THIS! lim larvn shows that good c'duc.ition and a good limo can go hand in hand, Q ACRINCING AWAY FROM THE Sisk, Ilvlnhici Costa, and Hill Himvs COOKIE MONSTER, Gary frm- do thvir host to cope with the mc-rman prc-tc-nds to pick up a nc-xx Ntr.Sismonclo, proc 1' ot papc-r, Ntcianxxhilci, lac lcie Brokers and Their Business!Teachers As Friends xf -rf. vf , ,,sss Y M ' s ia , K ,wif as A A 'l i 23. ,f ll L , q 2, . ii N E rr ' F' agua it f A- iii- L 7 , w g. , ASHOWINGAGENUINEINTEREST, camo out on llalloxxc c n dre ss up Mr, tor is it Nlrsfl lim Rcicla hvlps Iciit :lax lloolci-r Mr, Kodak tomininci sidv