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

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- mgmizm'uam . ' PORTS 44 NET GAMES I think we had an exLellem xeason but things Just didn't seem to wmk nur tuur way. wJunmr Cathy Samm 48 GOLF . You have m hr; dhle to accept set hacks when you play golf because It's one of the most frustrating games you can play. -1unmr Todd Wills 50 INTRAMURALS When my partnet and I lost the doubles plng-pong tourv namenl I was devastated because I took the competinon verv xenuuslv. eeenmr DaVId Doms 30 CROWD PLEASERS uTeam spirit was high for every game, espet cnally the Georgetown game, We were out there to have fun ..,and win. That's what K's all about. right? -seni0r Adrian Piperi No excuses. We won some and we lost some. And when we won, we celebrated. And when we lost, we suffered-and then celebrated. It's trite but true-itts not whether you win or lose, ifs the way you play the game-and we played it to our very best. And thatts worth celebrating. Individual athletes teamed up in football, volleyball, cross country, soccer, basketball, golf, tennis, track, swimming and diving to put the Chaps 0n the scoreboard-sometimes on top and sometimes not. Fr'orn a disappointing football season to basketball, vole leyball and cross country, swimming and tennis district championships, we were Chaps and Chaps were winners. RECESS During an afterschool practice, the boys var, sity tennis team chat and stretch after their workout. The team, as a whole, trained sixth period and after school until five. 28 Divider

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ll p ' g ever sets in when summer is close Class ranks were finalized, and seniors considered their year unofv ficially over. Not so for the rest of the student body, which continued to plug away at its geometry homework and English assignments with an air of martyrdom which would have pleased Joan of Arc. But by now it was May, and time to be looking towards summer. Afterr noon. The sun warmed the inside of cars parked illegally in the teacher's parking lot. It beat down on the track. It tantilized the math depart ment as it shone through its corner windows. enough for flip flops, shorts and sunglasses. We try to ignore school, but threats of SAT and colr lege entrance forces us to postpone thoughts of Florida, Europe. . . skiing and parasailing until May 29. -Becky Rial, junior. 6CAi16N The prom was more tempting to think about than U.I.L. state corn; petition at the University of Texas, and certainly better than finals. Seniors gloated over their exempa tion from finals to younger students, but worried about graduation and college amongst themselves And as the final bell rang, the cor; ridors emptied, and mangled book covers spotted with a year's worth of spills, dust and notes were tossed away. The afternoon sun faded behind the new gym and the per! forming ans complex construction as school entered a state of suspended animation until another morning two months later. FLIGHT STAR was the name of this craft and the owner showed us its safey features. We got out of school and got to watch the thing fly. It was freezing and by the end of the field trip, we were all ready to be home. - Steve Williams, junior 27 A + EDUCATION

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CHAMPIONS From a whipped cream initiation to taping legs, strong bonds among team members drove the varsity cross country teams, the girls volleyball team and the boys basketball team to district championships. Freshman Yvonne Fortune licks the district champiv on varsityts pranks off of her face. In a dis' trict game, senior Sam Pesl follows through on a jump ball. Coach Harry Lehwald tapes sophomore Susan Swint's ankle while sophomore Debbie Horvath stretches. A DAY IN THE RAIN Fighting the cold and drizzle on Saturday afv ternoon, senior Donnie Brode dodges his Crockett opponent, Andy Montoya, for the ball. Despite their season record and young team, the team felt they were better than their record showed. Z9 Sporh