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Show I BEN by Keith Duncan The point, as the debater would say, is not to prove what Coach Jan Keim has done in Weber High womens athletics, but to go in depth on how she has done it. Weber High is no longer in the desserts of Southern Utah of lying next to the Wyoming or Idaho border. Womens athletic competitors themselves, their fans, and the like know exactly where Weber High is. And peering into the future a bit, those same competitors and fans may just be beginning a rather long acquaintance. Coach Keim, now in her fourth year as a womens athletic coach at Weber, is one that has let actions speak for themself. She along with others have helped to put the Warriors on the map to stay. But to her its just a beginning. The Weber coach is going to take a rest this spring. After a full season of volleyball and basketball at Weber High, she deserves it. I just want to sit back and relax for a while now, Im just plain tuckered out right now, said Keim, who just completed another basketball season a few weeks ago. It gets to you after a while. Working every night without an assistant, said'Keim. Assistant or not, Coach Keim hasd enjoyed the most memorable coaching year of her career this past season. The highlight and climax of it all came with the volleyball squad taking home the coveted state championship in volleyball. It wasnt really the fact that we took state that thrills me so much, its the facts of what we had to do to win it, said Coach Keim. The Warrior coach began retelling vivid memories of long and grueling! practices, team get togethers, the attitude of the players and the desire never to quit Those are the things that really thrill me, said Keim. I suppose the best example of all would be to go back to state and remember just what happened. After we came back on West and won, the girls and I went crazy. We achieved together and we celebrated together. Mr (Ted) Campbell went over to get the trophy because we were all too excited about what we had done. They practically had to force me to go over and get it, because all it was to me was a piece of wood and some metal. The real trophy lo the girls and I was the pride in our hearts and what we had proved to ourselves. The fact we were state champions or that we had won a trophy meant little to us. Ill never forget those moments as long as I live," said Keim. A natural desire to excell in sports and the constant encouragement from her mother, are big reasons Coach Keim is where she is today. Always hearing my mom say, You can do it, you can do it, made me want to do better, said Keim. Coach Keim has performed on girls organized athletic teams since the fifth grade. It wasnt much after that time that her coaching talents got a little practicing also. She was bom in Topeka, Kansas to Mike and Dot Keim. The family settled several places for short periods of time and Jan was always doing something to improve her athletic inclined skills. With little or no sports at Olympus High in Salt Lake City, Coach Keims fast and maturing competitive desire was hampered somewhat. In her senior year, the family moved to , LOMOND BEACON, March 1 5, 1 979, Page 5 Casper, Wyoming where high school womens athletics was big time. As a senior participant, Keim and her teammates captured the state title in both volleyball and track. Individually, Keim was first in the softball throw and second in hurdles. She was also a member of the first 440 relay team. Coach Keim joined the much talked about Shamrocks softball team when she was just a junior at Olympus High. For the next eight years she competed for the team and helped them go to the National Finals every year but one of the eight. After her final year with the Shamrocks and a fine four year atheltic career at Weber State, Coach . Keim began coaching at South Junior High. Soon after that, the job opened at Weber High and she was selecteed. , Coach Keim's philosophy of sports has contributed highly to her successful record. So many concepts of life are learned through athletics. The competition against another human being is vital. Sports should teach you to get along with others and the development of patience should begin. I always like to think that a team of mine, that has been beaten, has really beaten themselves. Either mentally or not being prepared physically is enough to beat anyone, said Keim. To name a most memorable gives instructions to her state champion volleyball team during one game of the sports year has certainly been something that Coach Keim will never forget. Her achievements have been many in a colorful athletic career. COACH JAN KEIM season. The 1978-7- 9 sporting event was difficult for Coach Keim, there has been so many of them. She did recall the following, One vear plaving for the Shamrocks,, we found ourselves backed up against the wall. In order to go the National finals we were going to have to win six straight games in one day. We did win every one but the last and got beat That was the only year we didnt go. It was just a neat feeling knowing we had that much in us to do all that 3-- 2. we did. Coach Keim would like to change the old .adage which says that the coach makes the players look good. .. After this past season in volleyball, players that make the coach look good, said Keim, At least those kids made me look good. its the Gymnasts date meet This Thursday, March 15, Round I of the 1979 Region Ones womens gymnastics season gets underway. All the eight schools will be performing. A has been scheduled to take place at Clearfield. The Falcons tri-me- et will be hosting Sky View and Layton ina4p.m.meet At Weber High, the Warriors will test skills and balance in an afternoon match with the Viewmont Viking girls. The final meet is scheduled to take place at Roy High where both Bon- neville and Bountiful will compete , with the Royals n a ,rheir meet is scheduled tro take place in the afternoon also. The Region One ranks are filled, with talented and competitive teams this season. The Region One meet on April 28 at Clearfield will be an ex-plosive day as all the teams get "together. ' " Clearfield High performed before the PTA last Thursday evening at the , high school and Coach Sydney Conley termined it a real success. tri-me- et , Man cited for Illegal bobcat kills A southern Utah man was recently issued a citation for unlawful possession of twnety bobcat hides, valued at approximately $5,000. This, and other illegal trapping-relate- d activities have raised pertinent questions about trapping regulations in the state. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has issued a statement to clarifity some specific rules for Utah. According GRACEFUL BUFFY LEWIS, daughter of Darrell Lewis of Ogdens Item Management Division at Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, literally dances on the ice and skates three or four hours a day toward recognition. She sometimes starts skating at 5:30 a.m. and is a real winner at it, placing in four of five meets during the past year. Buffy has had the honor of skating solo in the opening ice shows at Sun Valley, Idaho, the past two years, and also takes snow skiing in the winter and waterskiing in the summer. oirsDfty It was warm, but cloudy on Feb. 13 when Annette Cox, drove from her home in Hooper and headed for Roy High School. She left eirly to practice her routines with the Roy High School to the Divisions Southern Regional Supervisor, F. Clair Jensen, bobcats cannot be trapped or hunted legally in Utah, except under special provisions where bobcts are harming livestock, was set in 1976 by the Agriculture Damage Prevention Board, Utah Department of Agriculture. It is an effort to bring bobcat populations to a level where trapping could be allowed without damaging the resource. However, the high price being paid for bobcat hides has created a tremendous increase in trapping, activitea during recent years. LISA CHRISTENSEN sday. She performs of Clearfield will be one of many Region One women gymnosts here in recent exhibition. slhiirlliir 8(wl varsitv cheer leader squad. Annette was happy; everything was going her way. Her Royals were winning their basketball games, and she was looking forward to Py s game at Bonneville, and Friday's show down game with Clearfield. She approached the stop sign at 5100 W. and 5100 So. and as she had hundreds of times, and pulled into the intersection. She didn't see the big station wagon, bearing down on her, nor did the driver of the oncoming car see her before it was too late. There was a squeal of brakes and an awful crash, as the south bound car hit her broad-sid- e and rammed halfMaverik Ansmall the way through nette was driving. . gold-color- The impact hurtled her through the door on the passenger side, and to pavement. The force of the crash carried both vehicles 75 feet down the road, with Annette tumbling and sliding ahead of the tangled cars. The compact bounced, then came to rest pinning Annette beneath it. As the car came down, Annette who was curled up in a ball took most of the force on her knees. Her left foot was planted on the pavement, as the car came to rest on her left knee while the other knee was tucked under her chin, shielding her head and chest from the twisted metal that had been in action this Thur froomi giy'J her car. Witnesses at the scene are convinced that the position of her knees saved her life. First to arrive at the accient was Robert Marigonia, who lives a few blocks north of the intersection. Marigonia was just leaving for work when he heard the collision and rushed to help out. As he approached the wreck he met the driver of the other car, who was returning from seeking help from a neighbors house. It was later learned that the lady in the other car had a couple of broken ribs and a busted knee cap, but ignored the pain to seek aid for Annette. Needless to say, she was in shock. Marigonia dropped to Annette's side to help, and called for a neighbor to get his fork lift tractor. Working in tandem, the two men raised the wreckage, but dared not move An- nette (or fear of injury to her spine. Personnel from the Weber County Fire Department arrived on the scene and moments later the Paramedics were there, but they still refrained from moving her until afpecial-buil- l stretcher could be located to pick her up. It was almost an hour before An nette was placed in the ambulance and rushed to the Dee McKay Hospital. The driver of the other car was also taken to the hospital for treatment of her in juries. That kid taught me a lesson in faith," reflected Marigonia. a district manager at Cutters Laboratories. "I heard her screaming, even as I left my house, a quarter of a mile away. I was first to arrive at the accident and found the other driver going into shock. I put her in the car, and told someone to look after her and knelt down to the girl pinned under the wreckage. The car was resting on her left knee, and the other knee was pushed up under her chin, w ith the car pressing down on it. She was beginning to panic, so I began talking. She told me that Father in Heaven would help her. and asked me to pray for her." Marigonia, by his own admission, is a religous man, and told her he couldn't pray. not "Yes vou can. 1 know you can." "insisted Annette, and he did offer a prayer as he held her hands for most of an hopr. under the mangled car. It was an experience I shall never forget," he related. "She kept repeating that Father in Heaven was there and I believed her." It took the doctors three hours to patch Annette up, and cast her broken legs. She required plastic surgery to cover the scrapes and cuts on her back and it took more than a few stitches on her knee and forehead. She was in the hospital eight days, but is home now, recuperating and getting tired of the itchy casts." Even from her hospital room, Annette did 'her part in helping her Royals best Clearfield in basketball. Her friends in the cheerleader corps taped her words of encouragement and played them at the studentbody pep rally. There were only five cheerleaders out front at the Clearfield game, but everybody was aware of one little girl in a hospital bed, who was pulling for her Royals, as they won the Region One championship. Even now there are only five cheerleaders, leaving the vacancy in honor of Annette, who tried so hard to - Iw there. f tkxlom promised Annette that she would In1 allowed to go to the slate tournament and she held them to it. i |