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Show Page 7A North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, March 9, 1983 Wins Region Crown ILayton Has a Swim Team, And a Good One at That fU ' 0& y a i fv fl f l c (S ' " j a Utahs By DAN CARLSRUH Review Sports Rditor LAYTON If you were registering for a class at Layton High last fall you. probably noticed a couple of guys standing at the front of the lines looking over the students. Some of you were probably even asked if you would like to swim for the Layton High swim team. If you were a typical Layton student, the first thing you would reply with was, Layton has a swim team? Not that you had anything against swimmers, its just that you thought Layton had a strong reputation with the big sports like basketball, football and wrestling. You also knew that ROTC program, didnt even have as much as rags to start with when he began to coach the Layton team two years ago. To be fair, Layton did have a team prior to Bjorkland, but you would have had to lift up many rocks to find out where it was hiding. Once in awhile a good Layton swimmer would overcome all the odds and place in region or state. But Layton swimmers still looked like some kind of offshoot of the Clearfield team, since most of their practice would be with them or at Hill Field. Bjorkland has ha4 an interest in the Layton team for a long time. I had been sort of on the sidelines, helping the kids, Bjorkland said. When the Laytons drama department has put other coach was leaving, the kids asktogether great plays and school clubs ed me if I would please coach them. added to social life. With the okay from Paul Smith, the "But does Layton have a swim principal of Layton, Bjorkland began building a team. But he wasnt unpreteam? He brought with him the coachWhere would tankers even find a pared. ing ability, which he developed while place to test their skills. The only thing coaching Hill Fields youth swim Layton City has for swimmers is a teams. He also brought with him a glorified wading pool which, during the level of intensity and desire which flesh instead would rub off on the kids he coaches. summer, is of water. Such a pool is definitely good Since fall, Bjorkland has been meetonly for claustrophobia, not great ing with his team every school day swimmers. from 6 to 8 a.m. The time put in by Its true, the tradition of swimming Bjorkland has grown almost exponennever has floated at Layton High, but tially but he receives no money from last week, amidst all the hoopla of the the school for it. Sometimes the time basketball team taking sixth in state, I put in is ridiculous. But Im in the Air Coach Craig Bjorkland of Layton had Force and my boss said I could do it as his boys swim team clinch the Lanlong as it was on a volunteer basis. But volunteering his time and efforts cers first ever region one crown. is something which Bjorkland enjoys. to a true is It would be nice say this a swimming tradition at Beginning rags to riches story. But stories belong Layton would appear to be a monuin kids books and politics. Bjorkland, to Bjorkmental But task. according a major in the United States Air Force students interested land, getting and a counselor at the University of wasnt the hard part. There really wasnt many obstacles with the team since there already was some foundation. But educating the school district that swimming is important can be difficult. The Davis School District doesnt think much of swimming. The Davis School District is the only area district which doesnt support, pools for the high schools. But until a pool is built which can be used for competition, Bjorkland will have to rely on the services of Clearfield for his team. And, according to Bjorkland, that may be for some time in the future since the voters of Layton dropped the idea of a recreation complex for the city, something which Bjorkland sees as part of the fault of the city planners who wanted to build a Cadillac instead of a Chevette which could have been added to. Since he is a part of the military, transfers are always possible. But the Major is planning on retiring soon and he hopes its in Layton. I keep hoping 1 ' j ) pp) wall-to-wa- ll that Im here for good. CHARLES TAYLOR of Layton's new strong swim team keeps warm while watching the action in the pool. Taylor is only a sophomore but he won the butterfly heat and placed in the 200 yard freestyle. Sopho- mores like Taylor are the reason Layton will have even better teams in the future. After retiring, Bjorkland wouldnt mind making a second career by coaching swimming. Its one of the few things which I really enjoy doing. I like working with young people because it keeps me feeling young. And the tradition of swimming which Bjorkland has developed at Layton High doesnt appear to be Wearing down. Of his boys swim squad, two are seniors, two juniors and the rest sophomores. It looks like a good foundation has been laid for future Layton teams. In addition to the boys team, this is the first year Layton has sported a girls squad. Bonneville may have to plan on moving over and letting a new swim power take charge. Yes, Layton does have a swim team. ::r Jsi- - iiims away with only one hot, other times cold. Layton had inconsis- tant play during the tournament but managed to get AT TIMES loss and a sixth place, In State Tourney Take ISysils Have Seventh Lea sneers Just as Brighton would pull out to get ing left the Royals. Brighton used By DALE PERRENOUD Review Correspondent a margin, Newey would push in ans- Roys miscues to take a 16 point lead. SALT LAKE CITY The Layton wering scores. At the end of the first From there all that Roy could do was Lancers had a score to settle with Sky period, the Bengals had only a one chip away from the point spread and ' View. The Bobcats have kicked dirt point lead, bring some respectability to the Roy a ? Mike With the help of Roys into the faces of the Lancers twice Harris, team. 17-1- 6. already this year and Layton was becoming uncomfortable with playing the weakling, Layton had a chance to settle with Sky View in the last round of the state 4A consolation bracket, and settled they did, with earth crunching effect the Lancers outmanned, outpaced, the Bobcats with an Roy got a lead in the second quarter. From there, the two teams played tag with the lead but once again the Ben- gals cradled a margin at the end of the half, Roys unraveling came in the third quarter as momentum and good shoot-a- s one-poi- nt 30-2- 9. The Bengals won the fifth place spo1; with a win over Roy. Newey led all scorers with 25 points. Darin Cutler hit for 12 and Harris made 10. For Brighton it was Jeff White with 20 and Steve Schreiner with 14. 69-5- 6 score. Layton ended with the same tournament record as second place Bountiful, but their one loss came in the first round to Brighton which placed the Lancers in the consolation bracket where they cleaned the next three games, gaining the sixth spot in the final tally. It was inconsistent play for the Lancers, especially in the first two games. After being humiliated by Brighton, Coach Doug Moon went on and had his team thump the daylights out of Cyprus in the second round. d Skyline was the next Layton victim as Lancer Jeff Moon put in 22 points and Brad Merrill added 13 to give them the win, When it was known that Layton would be meeting Sky View, it seemed the Bobcats would use their mental 82-6- 5 Over-toute- 53-4- 8. to defeat the Lancers. But early in the game, Laytons shots were almost all on target as they seldom missed. The Lancers so totally destroyed Sky Views offense that they held a 20 point lead over the Bobcats at just under five minutes of the second quarter. Layton kept the point spread and lead the Cats by 19 at the half, The third and fourth quarters were duplicates of the first two. Sky Views only hope was to try and erase the embarrassing spread. But only two points could be shaved by the Bobcats in the third and Sky View coach, Clyde Nelson, conceded defeat and changed the lineup on his team. Laytons hot hands offered five players to get into double figures. Jeff Moon had 16, Brad Merrill hit for 20, Brett Campbell added 14, Jeff Passey scored a dozen and Darryl Martin made 11. 45-2- 6. ' V, 'f! COACH CRAIG Bjorkland has volunteered his time and efforts to bring together the best swim team Layton has ever sported. Bjorkland, an Air Force Major, enjoys the time with the swimmers because he feels full time is working with youth makes him feel young. Becoming a coach one thing he would like to do after he retires from the service. i Roy Takes Soventh As Reid Newey goes , so goes Roy. When hes hot so are the Royals. But his scoring wasnt enough to outdist-ance the Bengals as Brighton gave Roy its second loss of the tournament, dropping them to seventh place. Roy started with a bang in the tournament after they handed Bingham a ticket to the consolation road. But the bang soon went bust after Highland took the Royals in the second round, st then bang again as Roy surprised last Friday morning. Their road to Brighton was wavy and so was their game with the Bengals. Hill-cre- V "V ; - i j - . the tournament with a flash but ended against Brighton a little dim. Still, Ted Smith has brought together one of the surprise teams in the state this year and held on to garner seventh. ROY STARTED .1 |
