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Winning by Cooperation shot dunng a competition against Madison Hig
The Varsity team takes the chance to go in for th
School. (D . Louden)

ex~ with others, and dedication and responsi-
bility which will play an important role to-
wards other aspects of life.''
Striving for goals is something that is
perienced by nearly every person during The team practiced daily for around
life. Sometimes a person cannot reach a two to three hours . Practices began on
set goal because of the lack of the talents Monday, where students worked on indi-
necessary for achievement. It is then real- vidual fundamental work. The next two
ized that something more has to be done days were spent preparing for upcoming
opponents, and Thursdays were used tore-
in order to obtain that goal. By having de- view the game plans and strategies that
termination, students on the Girls Varsity would be used the following day.
basketball team learned the skills they Although much time was spent in pre-
would need to overcome the obstacles in paring for games, victories could not al-
their path. Sophomore Tina Melander ways be expected. But putting forth the
agreed that a basketball player should desire to succeed and the determination
"have a good attitude and be able to of the team members gave many capabili-
achieve (his or her) goals".
The determination to succeed led the ties they had not previously had, in addition
girls to achieve a season finish of fourteen to experiences they would not soon forget.
wins and seven losses. Among the victories As Varsity Girls Coach Jeff Ritz said, "the
were a win against state runnerup Millard greatest satisfaction of a coach was to see
South, and rated_ teams Westside and Pa- th.e experience we had compared to
pillion during the season. many of our opponents and the desire to
Senior Heather Taggart, who has been be successful. We were probably more
playing varsity basketball since her sopho- s~cessful than many people thought and
more year, was selected to play in the Ne- we got more effort from these young peo-
braska Coaches All-Star Game. Concern- ple than teams with more talent and the
ing her involvement with the team Taggart record does not indicate it." _/
said, "you learn a lot about cooperating -T ammi Cisler-

Varsity Girls Basketball: front· Kairi Backer. Dawn Hot-
tovy. Jill Jackes. Theresa Hanus. Andrea Sha w back·
Tracy Parker. Dana John. Kim Ostronic. Terri Dainty.
Heather Taggart. Tanya Robe. Tina Melander. Coach
Jeff Ritz (M. Gamble)
Players show poise during a game against Omar
Central. Here. a Central player attempts to block Jt
nior Kim Ostronic from making a shot. (M. Gamble)
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