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Show Page 1C North Edition Lakeside Review March 23, 1 983 Wednesday, Darts Take Braves In Region Gymnastics By SHERILIN ROWLEY three. Davis also won the meet 263.6 to Review Correspondent 246.95. It was a matter of numbers in the Debbie Symonds finished third in the gymnastics meet, but she won the heart of .competition, Davis had 25 girls competing while the crowd as she took a bad fall on the Bountiful fielded a team of just eight floor exercise but went on to finish the girls. Davis sent two girls to compete meet. in the while the Braves sent She took a bad fall on the beam two weeks ago and we didnt know if she would have been able to compete, said Davis Coach Mike Brown. But Debbie is typical of most gymnasts. Shell compete with great pain. She scored a 8.0 on the vault and a 8.1 even after her fall on the floor. From there on she just couldnt get her mental game together. She got a 6.9 on the bars and a 7.2 on the beam. We really need another class II to be competitive. Were working with Tracy Sumner, and were hopeful she will be in Brown the by regionals, continued. We are now in region competition but its our class Ills that win the meets for us. Davis-Bountif- ul all-arou- $ fj . s all-arou- 2-- 0 For Bountiful, having so few girls to compete meant defeat. The Braves have lost three gymnasts to injuries on their already small club, but they won with an excellent perthe formance from Kim Peterson with a total score of 36.10. Jill Palmer finished second with a score of 32.8. In the class III category, Bountiful got a good all-arou- GYMNAST performs a floor routine in the meet last week. Davis went on to win the meet. , A Davis-Bountif- ul performance from Kathy Shaffer. Our team is smaller than usual today but our girls are big in heart, said Braves Coach Jan Whittaker. They-r- e doing routines we usually wouldnt ask them to do, but thats the kind of girls I have at Bountiful. I just hope theyll have a lot of success this year cause they deserve it. Reivew Staff Youve got to be the est coach Ive ever seen, said the man with the stadium seat in one hand and a thermos in the other to a local high school coach, whose team had just lost a close region game. People surrounding the two men, and. those walking by them, probably thought the two men were friends kidding each other. But there were no smiles in this conversation, no back slapping, no nice words of consolation. You depend on one kid all year long and it cost you, the man with the thermos told the coach, who now had the look on his face. He was up to you know where with criticism. sh didnt have the career. James Hill, Davis County Districts director of ath- School Viewmoni Gymnasts Drop to Highland By DALE PERRENOUD Review Correspondent You ask, how SALT LAKE CITY can a team lose when they take so many first and second places? Coach Bonnie Pierce of Viewmonts gymnastic team explained it like this: You have to have both depth as well as quality. Julie Sorenson and Kim Sarris took first and second in everything in the optional program but we dont have any others that compete in the optional class. One more just wouldnt have helped us win. In the ciass three, all of the contestants compete by doing the same routine, so the judges can see how well each gymnast performs the same compulsory routine. In the optional round the better gymnasts do their own routine. We would like to be able to move some of our juniors up next year and get some sophomores involved in the program by talking it up at school, said Pierce. We have gone to the junior highs a couple of times but the district had dropped the gymnastics program from their curriculum and it seems that our juniors this year have more to offer than they did last year. Even though none of last years girls are back, Viewmont enjoys the comfort of having two gymnastic coaches. Bonnie Pierce and Jane Arhart. Arhart plans the meets and lets Bonnie take care of the optionals. Coach Arhart explained to one of her charges; Thats the name of the game in gymnastics. You cant let the audience bother you. It (pressure) comes in all forms, but' you have to concentrate on your routine. off-seas- They have to know what they are doing, said Arhart later. And that is one thing we are still struggling with. Most of the investment is there but cutting the program from the junior highs really hurt us. The rational that is used is that it is expensive, and that it (gymnastics) is available in the private clubs, but the cost is really out of reach of nearly all of the kids. We have been given the instruction from the Davis School District that we are not even to hold gymnastic classes to try to help and give our beginners some background. Their rationale is that they are trying to get everyone to get into p.e. and not specialize any more. We keep it going. We are lucky to have two gymnastic coaches at Viewmont, said Coach Arhart. The kids have been so supportive of each other, even though they have to compete for a spot on the team, She added. Kim Sarris won all four individual events in the optional class in which she competed (vault, balance beam, floor exercise and uneven parallel bars). With that she also took Option honors. Julie Sorenson finished in second place in all optional events, except for balance beam in which she took third place. In the class III competition, Mindi Salmon tool honors with wins in floor, bars, and vault. Shelly Knighton came in second, On April 6, Viewmont will host the region four gymnastics tournament at 3 p.m. . all-arou- - letics and health, has noticed the change and the increased demands, particularly in the off season, for a coach to be competitive. The phrase is put in quotations because at many schools there is no such thing as an any longer. The trend in coaching is not staying in it as long, Hill said. In order to compete, coaches are required to do a great deal of A basketwork in the ball coach just doesnt turn the switch on Nov. 7 and then turn the switch off at the end of the season. all-arou- d. n. It didnt used to be that way. Twenty years ago a coach did his coaching during the season. ministration. But is a successful. coach necessarily a winning coach? Most people would say yes, but there, are some coaches who would like that to be different. Ron Johansen, head basketball f coach at Viewmont, said he also prebe- . cause there were regulations against that. This has changed over the years. Now you have likes to see kids develop into good individuals, and have the ability to pick themselves up after they fall. That, he said, is also a part of success. I think people should stop and think about high school athletics, and what it has to offer, I dont know said Johansen. how much longer the secondary education system can operate like a college; if you dont win your fired. Johansen said he and Paul Jeppeson, basketball coach at Skyline High decided what a high school coach had to do to be successful under todays standards. You have to win every game by 3Q points, play everyone and everyone has to make or someone will be dissatisfied. colleges and professional players having camps. All of these things to be more competitive has added to the pressure and time committments that shortens the number of years coaches stay in the profession, Hill explained. Paul Waite, a winning football coach at Bountiful High School when he quit the profession a year ago, said that coaching is no about football, the coach told the man with the thermos. The pressure of the business, school officials claim, may be one reason coaches are getting out of the business after a few years instead of making it a off-seas- ssure to develop your talent Go home and watch television, thats where you learned self-impos- 24 and at 34 I had 10 years of experience and I wanted to pursue a career in ad- The change, said Hill, a former coach, was gradual. You go back 15 years ago and you youve-gone-too-f- And you thought coaching high school sports was a fun job? It can be, but coaching can also be a burdensome profession when outside pressure, as the true situation above, as well as pressure, are exerted. coach at There were few camps or workshops to attend, and most of the athletes played more than one sport. By KENT SOMERS x different from high-pressure- d American society. If a coach next door holds a summer weightlifting camp, then other coaches do the same to keep pace. You do what the guy next door is doing, Waite said, sitting in his office at Centerville Junior High, where he is a viceprincipal. You always have to do something a little bit more and the time requirements are all-sta- te This year, Johansens team three games, but he has had years when his clubs were ranked near the top in the state. He said the real pressure is on the coach with the talent, the ones expected to win. won getting greater and greater. Coaches are their own worst enemies. People say With your talent you should will' a state champ- All of this added time andwork sucis dedicated to one goal Johansen said. You walk on the floor afraid to lose. ionship, cess, i.e. winning. After all, whats a coach there for, if not to win, many people think. And that makes a coach different from any other teacher. You his take the average teacher productivity is not put on the line on Friday night, Waite said. You Hill agrees that high school sports should be put in the pro-- . There is no per perspective. question if were in competitive sports, we would be amiss to say were not in it to win. But I dont think we should put so much pressure on kids and coaches that we have to win at all costs. There needs to be, a balance. v But that balancis not present now, and after facing the pressures from parents, administrators and themselves, many coaches ask at the end of the season if $1,100 in extra coaching pay is worth it. measure a coachs produc- tivity on the scoreboard. Waite said he quit because even when he was winning he couldnt totally relax. I was always a little concerned about not giving the community and the players what they expected. I was afraid of falling of losing. Even when I was winning I was thinking what about next year. Those were my own fears, I dont think the community put that on me. Plus I was a head And more coaches ing it isnt. are decid, Week's iveirrts Heres a schedule of spring sporting events for the area high schools. Since baseball, soccer, tennis and track are dependant on the weather, it is a good idea to check with the school prior to the game to see if the event is still planned. The following times and dates were recieved by the schools. p.m. Layton at Ogden Tourney, Thursday and Friday. Clearfield at 3:30 at Viewmont, Thursday Birghton at Woods Cross, Thursday at 3 p.m. Viewmont at Roy, Friday at 3 (No info avail: 3 le from Bountiful.) TRACK Bountiful at Davis, today a 3 p.m. Woods Cross at Morgan, today at p.m. at Davis with Clearfield and Box Elder, Thursday at 2 p.m. Viewmont at Layton, today at 3 p.m. - BASEBALL p.m. Tri-Me- et . Woods Cross at Bountiful, 'Thursday at 3: 30. (Only info available). SOCCER Woods Cross at Bonneville, today at 3:30. GYMNASTICS Viewmont at Davis, Thursday, I 3 Brighton at Woods Cross, Thursday at 7 p.m. (Only info available.) (u |