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Participating in sports brought changes

including a new athletic director, and loss of
ti• on
SUIC'*VolV~peti• senior starters and

I I I players attending MW

Pulsating fans through the years were
shouting at cold football not the only things affect-
games, sweaty basketball ing sports. The opening
players running back and of MW reduced the num-
forth on the court, and ber of students trying out
blistering track meets for sports teams. This
leaving their mark on all allowed for more oppor-
who attended. These tunities, but it was also
moments were most likely to be remem- an obstacle for the inexperienced play-
bered by students participating or cheer- ers competing against rival schools.
ing on their favorite sports team as they Although not yet a rival , MW
struggled to survive their competition. games were bittersweet. For players, it
The new year brought abun- was strange to compete against former
dant changes on the sports scene in- teammates. Forfans, seeing old friends
cluding a new athletic director, June forced them to face reality. Each stu-
Morrissey. She replaced Ron Park, dent had to go in different directions
who had been athletic director since MN and take separate passages.
opened its doors 14 years ago. Since MW was not yet an es-
Not only did the change in ath- tablished rival , MN players strove to
letic directors affect the sports seasons, meet the competition posed by other
but new faces also emerged amidst the rival schools, mainly the traditional ri- Attempting a
layup for two
familiar. Since the graduates' depar- val , MS. points is senior
Brandt Vlieger.
ture, a new generation had to prove Even though the sports teams The Mustangs
showed
themselves and show that they could had to overcome a variety of obstacles, determination
and
develop their own leadership and flour- each team found a unique way to let go perserverence
against Omaha
ish despite the loss of senior starters. of the past and survive the competition, South, where
they lost 57-60.
The usual classes shif~ing each taking separate passages. • photo by Beau
McBryde

by Mary Peterson

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