Wickenburg High School - Wrangler Yearbook (Wickenburg, AZ)

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si? THREE Rookies dominate the wrestling team Wrestling, a sport that started at this school in 1975, requires first smarts, endurance, speed, and then strength. The wrestling team was taken over by freshmen and sophomores, juniors and seniors wrestling for their first year. There were 15 rookies out of 24 wrestlers this season. If they stay with it they will be great in the future, said Coach Ybarra. Many of the rookies found wrestling to be more challenging than other sports. l like it because it is an individual sport, said Eddie Temerowski. It's a real good sport, said David Keller. The JV team won about half of their meets during the season. They did fairly well, said Coach Ybarra, considering all the rookies the team had. The sport of wrestling is now coming to its peak at WHS. Jade Hancock said, I love the glory as an individual. FOUR Wrestling 85

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ONE TWO THREE FOUR Quickly moving to stop his opponent's First move, Mike Schilling tries to break the Buckeye wrestler down. Advice from Coach Smith gives Matt Corbet something to think about before he goes out to start the match. Confidently smiling, Davy Waters gets ready to walk out on the mat and do his best. 1986-87 ,IV WRESTLING TEAM FRONT ROW: Tommy Rodriguez, Davy Waters, Mitch Walker, Tony Rockhill, David Keller. SECOND ROW: Coach Richard Ybarra, Richard Wayas, Brian Burns, Eddie Temerowski, Coach Victor Smith. BACK: Mike Schilling, jerry Malone, Spencer Garden, jeff Aber, Dominick Carstensen. NOT PICTURED: jade Hancock, Bobby Thuerkauf. 84 Wrestling ONE is a hard sport, but it's may not be fun at but it is at the matches. Bobby Thuerkauf 9

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-' ms ONE 86 Basketball TWO Despite hard work, injuries stall team's success The 1986-87 boys varsity basketball team started the season in high gear with a 12 point victory over highly rated Buckeye. The team played well and worked together through the McDonalds Wrangler Classic in which they took home the runner-up trophy and Britt Stevens was named to the all-tournament team. Said Coach Moran, Our only bad game before Christmas was against Bagdadp we lost because we did not work hard. After Christmas the team opened with two conference wins over Payson and Bourgade. The Buckeye Hawks then took revenge in a conference win over the varsity. The team continued to play well over the next couple of games, but when they went to Bourgade disaster struck. The varsity lost three players to injury. .s..,,, Todd Nelson and Alex Macias were lost for the season, Todd with a broken finger and Alex with a broken ankle. Leading scorer Britt Stevens was lost for a couple of games because of a pulled back muscle. Our injuries really hurt us, said Coach Moran. We were used to playing 11 or 12 players a game and then we could only play 8 or 9. They got tired after a couple quarters playing our running offense. Despite basketball powers Buckeye and Parker and a good Mingus team, we should be ready to play come divisionalsf' said Coach Moran toward the end of the season. We will be at full strength with the exception of Todd and Alex. Troy Thayer is helping us out and if he and the rest of the team work hard we should be able to get through the divisional tournament. FOUR THREE