Westlake High School - El Paisano Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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32 GIRLS VVIN STATE UIL sanctioned girls' cross country this year. ln past years, interested coaches and girls participated in the sport for the fun of it. VVestlake's girls captured their regional title by running the San Marcos course. Benetta Rusk placed second in the race with a time of 5:36, a step behind Sandra Brown from Cotulla. Wendy Patterson placed third with 5:44, Kalisa Willman placed fourth with 5:45, Ann Quigley placed sixth with 5:46, and Anna Harvey placed tenth with 5:56. Susan Burke and Dawn Crowder also competed in the race. At state, the girls placed first in Class B as a team with 56 points compared to runnerup Brownfield's 99 points. Patterson took third place with a time of 5:39. Rusk placed fourth and Quigley placed fifth with times of 5:44 and 5:45. Harvey and Willman placed twentieth and twenty-seventh with times of 6:08 and 6:15 on the one mile course. Mike Quigley represented the boys' team in the state race. At the regional meet at San Marcos, Quigley placed second with a time of 10:01. Coach Monte Stratton considered it a good time for the difficult course and the windy day. Coach Stratton was also pleased with freshman Jerry Meyers' time which gave him nineteenth place. Ricky Jennings, Jesus Espinosa, James Keeter and Brett Davis placed thirty-third, titty-first, fifty-third and fifty-seventh respectively. Quigley, being the only one to place in the top ten then went on to state to place fourteenth. - Kay Reed BACK ROW: Ricky Jennings, Casey McGarr, Mike Quigley, Rex Williams. FRONT ROW: Robert Reynolds, James Keeter, Brett Davis, Jerry Meyers. 1. An official clocks Mike Quigley on the Tov Lake course. 2. Monte Stratton and Ms. Dorotl Doolittle discuss preparations for the Februa track and field clinic. 3. Wendy Patterson's strateg keeps her just a few steps ahead of a competitor, Susan Burke comforts a teammate after running a ha race. 5. Ann Quigley adjusts her shoe laces before repoi ing to the starting line. 6. Members of the boys' team listen running instructions.

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42,53 ation for the cheerleaders rests in the com- mons, carried there by several strong team members and enshrined permanently. Pre- sented at a pep rally, the giant stick, for- fnerly a telephone pole, provides a lasting ieminder to students and cheerleaders alike of the exhausting hours of painting, Jractice and cake-baking. Donut sales were disallowed because ot a wealth regulation, but nothing prohibited the continuation ot game cakes, which were speedily snarted down upon receipt by hun- gry players. - Denise Dyer YY wat I Y 31 Superstitions play an important part in cheerleaders' lives. Benetta Rusk wore the same pair of blue footies every Friday except one, that day Westlake lost. Teal Carroll went home Friday afternoons to nap in her birthday suit. Sandi lngraham wore the same - pair ot hose each game. She washed them between games, of course, but by the end of the sea- son, the hose were in shreds. Teri Wagner's ritual consisted of drinking a glass of iced tea every game day. 5 ' Evidence ofthe team's appreci- Nervousness during pep rallies was common among J.V. cheerleaders. When the season ended, the squad yelled confidently. STANDING: Lucy Poerner, Nell Pesl, Wendy Patterson. KNEELING: Elizabeth Bardin, Denise Dyer, Margaret Miller.

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