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Freshmen Girls Basketball:front-Nicol Matusik. Dawn
Peterson. Keri Eickholt. Kelly Holzapfel. Shelly Kavulak;
second row·Amy Williams. Danielle Robino. Sheila Team Effort Brings Wins
Whitmore. Jenny Baumler. Joy Merril ;backDarcy Neib-
auer. Michele Roberts. Angie George, Tracy Johnson.
Stacy VanDyke. (J. Houle) compete during a game. Many hours of
During halftime, the Junior Varsity team takes a mo-
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ment to confer on their strategy that will enable them practicing also had to be sacrificed during
to overcome the competition. (M. Kuhr) the season. Occasionally, students even
ooperation and responsibility were . gathered on Saturdays in order to build up
necessary elements for any competitive the skills they would need for upcoming
sport. Learning to work with other individ- games.
uals and creating a group effort to reach By working together, they were not
goals were skills that were essential in life . only able to overcome their opponents,
Students involved in team sports learned to but also the multitude of interests that var- I
realize that sacrifices occasionally had to ied from person to person on the teams.
be made, and that working together was Reasons for joining the teams also differed.
the way to overcome the competition. Freshman Keri Eickholt said of her decision
The freshmen girls found that by com- to join the freshmen team, "Cooperating
bining their strengths. they were able to sur- with other people was important." I
pass last year's record of ten wins and three Looking ahead, some girls were unde-
losses to a season finale of eleven wins and cided about their plans for the future. "I
only three losses . They were also able tore- hope to keep making the team and im-
ceive the regular season championship tro- proving myself." said Sophomore Center
phy. Jenny Whiteing. Although some girls ex-
The junior varsity girls also discovered pressed they did not plan to join basketball I
that rather than making individual endeav- teams next year, Freshman Coach Vicky
ors a success, a team effort would result in Marquardt was confident of her team's co-
their season record of 11 wins and 51osses. pabilities for the years ahead. " These girls
But as the girls learned the need to will take State in 1990-1991." she said. "Put
work together. sacrifices also had to be your bets on it." __/
made. Injuries affected the freshmen team
late in the season, and players realized
they would not have the opportunity to
-T ammi Cisler-

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After the opposing team received a penalty, the
freshmen players gained the chance to score extra
points by a free throw shot. (D . Koski)
A shot for the basket made by the opposing team is
blocked during a Freshmen girls basketball home
game. (D. Koski)

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