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Competition

Hurts State

Potential

rack season culminated with four team
T members competing in seven events at the
State Tournament: Seniors Greg Thielen,
Shawn Noble, John Gerber, and Junior Rob Ford.
Although the team only finished eleventh at
State, Coach Chevalier said, "I would like to think
of the season as successful, and I think it was."
He had hoped the team would finish in the
top five, but he attributes tough district competi-
tion for the team's placing. "Senior Craig Casey
would have qualified for State in any other district
with his time. Our two mile relay was the seventh
fastest in the state and didn't qualify," added
Chevalier. Fourteen people placed at Districts in
seventeen events.
The team did just as well at Metro, finishing
third closely behind Omaha Burke and Central.
The only dual they lost was to Burke. Sixth place
was the least the team finished all season.
Burke, Central, and Fremont were the
toughest the team had to go up against. Noble
_ explained, "They had depth. They had two or
three guys that placed in each event."
The freshmen track team also had the depth
that Noble talked about. Freshman Adam Hodges
said, "Everybody performed well in their event.
Through the season we gainsd depth." The team
had a successful season with a 4-3 record and a
third place in the Conference Meet. They also
Senior Shawn Noble just barely clears the bar. Pole vaulting
Is dangerous as Junior Doug Deines was injured during the finished fifth at their own invitational and many
season and had to discontinue competing in that event. (photo team members also ran at the varsity level.
by. P. Long}
Hodges stated, "We had a good season."
Varsity: Front-Greg Judkins, Craig Casey, Rob Ford, Bill Chevalier ended, "We improved our show-
Peterson, Doug Deines, Darren Keiser, Shawn Noble; Second ing as a team in almost every event and it proved
Row-Coach Chris Johnson, Terry Kempf, Shawn Haggstrom, that Millard North track had not gone down in the
Mike Stern, Paul Milone, Greg Thielen, John Gerber, Coach
Mike Quint; Third Row-Matt Gentleman, Mark Linder, Pat last couple of years."
Tyrance, Jim Peterson, Jason Gillette, Mark Walters; Fourth
Row-Coach Chuck Chevalier, Lynette Shepard, Andy
Brueckner, Scott Eastridge, Steve Felker, Chris Shearer, -K. McCullough-
Mark Field, Jeff Vaske; Back-Coach Trey DeLoach, Derrick
Brown, Scott Paintin, Brian Teller, Geoff Turner, Rich Buss,
Ann Cieko.

After just giving a successful hand off, Freshman Mark
Pfeifer slowly comes to a stop. (photo by B. Christensen}

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