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Show I Sun Times, March 5, 1980, Page 12 Sun Chronicle, March 6, 1 980, Page 1 Ben Lomond Beacon, March 6, 2 Sporrsfacular 1 980, Page 1 Clearfield Courier, March 2 5, 1980, Page Club A. Swim AM. Roy's goes from rags to riches They may soon be calling the Roy AAU swim team, Whipples Aquatic Army. Theyre certainly making enough waves lately to earn that kind of publicity. After the Roy team participated in the Utah Swimming Association Championships, Junior Olympics for the Winter of 1980, they must adequately be regarded as one of the top seven AAU junior swim teams in the entire state. The junior Olympics battle of was staged last swimming weekend at the Kearns Community Pool where 18 teams participated from around the state. Murrays Aquatic Club finished first in the meet. The Roy squad, which started with six swimmers just four years ago, now competes with 63. A major portion of the credit for success has to ride upon the shoulders of the Roy John Whipple. coach, Whipple swam 10 years himself in d AAU competition with all of this taking place before through and after high school. Why such an interest in seeing kids swim? I love em, stated Whipple. Weve come a long ways and though Im happy with the progress weve thus made, weve still got a long ways Now John has seven of his own swimmers who have qualified for the Western Regionals to be staged this year in El Paso, Texas. Four more swimmers have done their part to qualify for the Best of the West meet to be held in Albequerque, New Mexico. Four members of the Roy team were singled out by their coach for Whipple, who swan for the 1976 Region One Bonneville High swimming championship team, was coached by Steve Elsnab. If it hadnt been for a busy college schedule this winter, hed be assisting his old coach with the high school team again. For four years now Whipple has collected talented and sometimes just determined swimmers from Roy, Layton, Clearfield and Ogden to form his Roy squad. Their best performance of the year was a fifth place finish at the Murray meet. While an AAU swimmer himself, Whipple qualified for the Western 2 year old Regionals in the division. He qualified every year after that for the Western Regionals. 1:20.56; 14th, Molly Zidow, 1:27.31; 11 and 12, 15th, Jan Woodbury, 1:18.10. 200 yd Individual Medley 13 and 14, 1st, Karn Schanzle, 2:22.87 ; 3rd, Veletia Starrett, 2:28.00. 50 yd. Breast 17th, Mary Jo Schanzle, 46.56; 11 and 12, 7th, Amy Zidow, 39.18. outstanding efforts. They include Stephanie Mencimer, Karen Schenzel, Kip Twitchell and Jeff Gravit. head-to-hea- to go. the Roy swim club had only six swimmers on the roster. Today there are over 60 in last week's Junior Olympics include top row, (I. to r.) Sue Miller, Members who swam competitors. Sharon Chicado and Coach John Whipple. Middle row, Mark Chicado, Jan Woodbury, Michele Jones and Lance Youngberg. Bottom row, Richard Bender, Stephanie Mencimer, Jack Totzkie and Mike Workman. AAU By John Peterson Peterson's phantastic Girls Grades 7 Striders 30, Layton 14. 6. Suns 18, Syracuse Nets 4, West Point Lakers 28. Fireballs 22, West Point Tigers 12. Boys Grades 4 Supersonics 10, Warriors 19. v ,, Rockets 12, Globetrotters 16 Jazz 15, Red Barons 20. Clearfield Stars 24, South Weber All-Sta- playoff plan 3-- 19. Boys Grades 6 South Weber 76, Blue Jays Celtics 19, Stuffers 42., Cougars 27. Hotshots 43. Boys Grades 8 South Weber 31, Falcons Nuggets 38, 76ers 33. Mean Machine 31, Boys Grades Stars 41, Suns 40 Stars 37, Street Rats 37. Eagles Lakers post-seaso- d and and 12, 14, 3rd, Karn Schanzle, 59.14; 12th, Veletia Starrett, 1:01.78; 21st, Michele 14th, Chris Jones, 1:05.13; 15-1- Schanzle, 1:01.00; 19th, Rhonda Symonds, 1:02.55, 21st, Jan Tupper, 1:02.71; 29th, Sue Miller, 1:05.06. 10 and under, 13th, 100 yd. Breast 1:41.07; 11 and 12, Jo Schanzle, Mary 7th, Amy Zidow, 1:26.30. 200 Breast 13 and 14, 1st, Karn Schanzle, 2:42.67; 2nd, Veletia 5th, Sharon Starrett, 2:44.37; Chicado, 2:52.19. BOYS GIRLS 50 yd- 10 and under, 1st, Butterfly Mencimer, 33.80; 14th, Molly Zidow, 40.96; 11 and 12, 3rd, Jan Woodbury, 32.33 100 yd. Butterfly 13 and 14, 2nd Veletia Starrett, 1:05.32 ; 3rd, Karn Schanzle, 1:05.49; 15 and 18, 12th, Chris Schanzle, 1:13.24. 50 yd. Backstroke 10 and under, 7th, Molly Zidow, 40.04; 14th Stephanie Mencimer, 40.92; 11 and 12, 26th Lesa Lachapelle, 41.22. 100 yd. Backstroke 13 and 14, 3rd, Veletia Starrett, 1:09.51; 4th, Karn Schanzele, 1:09.70; 20th, Michele Jones, 1:21.50. 10 and 100 Individual Medley under, 6th, Stephanie Mencimer, - Stephanie 100 yd. Breast 13 and 14, 1 5, Veletia Starrett, 1:14.78; 2nd, Karn Schanzle, 1:16.08; 9th, Sharon 15-1- Chicado, 1:19.60. 10 and under, 19th, 100 Freestyle Jeff Warnick, 1:15.02; 11 and 12, 29th, Mike Zidow, 1:11.96; 13 and 14, 18th, Lance Youngberg, 1:00.96; 19th Mark Hampton, 1:01.18; 24th Richard 10th, Kip Bender, 1:02.11; Twitchell, 51.60. 10 and under, 10th, Jeff 100 Breast Warnick, 1:34.29; 11 and 12, 11th, Mike 15-1- Zidow, 1:25.53. 200 Breast 13 and 14, 10th, Lance Youngberg, 2:52.45. 50 Butterfly 11 and 12, 13th, Mike Zidow, 35.08; 17th, JackTotzke, 36.55; Uth, Richard Bender, 1:10.31; 12th, Mark Hampton, 1:11.56; 8th, Kip Twitchell, 56.92. 100 Backstroke 13 and 14, 18th, Mark Hampton, 1:16.20; 17th, Kip Twitchell, 1:07.55. 100 yd. Individual Medley 10 and under, 19th Jeff Warnick, 1:26.91. 200 Yd Individual Medley 13 and 14, 15th, Mark Hampton, 2:32.47; 19th, Lance Youngberg, 2.42.67; 15-- 14th, Jeff Gravit, 2:11.85. 50 yd. Breast 10 and Under, 14th, Jeff Warnick, 44.76; 11 and 12, 7th, Mike Zidow, 38.02 ; 22nd, Mike Workman, 46.01. 100 Breast 14th, Lance Youngberg, 1:19.56; 16th, Richard 8th Chris Bender, 1:20.56; Youngberg, 1:09.68; 10th, Jeff Gravit, 13 and 14, 15-1- 8, 15-1- 7, 7, 13-1- 4, Freestyle 13 and 14, 1st, Karn 6th, Chris Schanzle, 5:29.941 Schanzle, 5:43.11. 1650-1- 3 and 14, 1st, Karn Schanzle, 500 15-1- 19:07.47. 10 and under, 100 yd. Freestyle 2nd, Stephanie Mencimer, 1:06.20; 15-1- 1:11.17. 13 and 14, 11th, 500 Freestyle Mark Hampton, 5:56.85, 14th Lance Youngberg, 6:13.11. Cage action continues in Clearfield post-seaso- n Its tournament time again! A fun time; a time for players and fans to play get juiced up beyond belief. The thrill of makes the rest of the season mere prelude. Its the bottom line for all the months of work and sacrifice. So why not make it universal? Theres currently a lot of criticism that there are too many teams in championship tournaments. The NCAA field has expanded to four dozen schools this year. Add another 32 in the NIT, and youve got 80 teams n in collegiate play and thats not counting the Division II and III schools or all the teams with hyphens in their names from the NAIA. But while some purists feel that the fields may be getting too diluted to maintain quality, I say hooray! The more the merrier. Yall come. If tournaments are good for some which I firmly believe is the case lets make them available to all. I wouldnt say this if I didnt have a plan, so here it is: All the Division I schools in the country should be part of the NCAA championship tourney. Go through the regular season like normal. Then if there are conference tournaments, thats fine. Nothing changes until that point. But then some pretty fundamental alterations take place. First, discard the NCAA selection committee. Dont worry about picking the top 48 teams, then seeding them, then placing them whatever that means. Instead, geographically to get good balance half of the teams are hosts, half of the teams in the country are visitors and everyone plays. Host schools would be designated before the season began so they could have some plans made, tickets printed up, and details like that. The country would be divided into four pretty even in terms of number of schools regions. First-roungames would be a combination of would ever play outside of their No team draws. and physical proximity region. Losers go home and wash out their socks, winners start climbing through the bracket. Expenses would be down because schools in the first couple of rounds would be fairly close to each other. Interest would be up, for the same reason. The NCAA would allow NBC, the network who holds the rights to thr tournament, to pick up three or four games from each region to televise. Everything else would go out for bid to whatever station was interested. All the bucks would be sent to the NCAA, theyd take off 10 percent or so on the first round, and then everything else would be split evenly. For some schools it would be a pretty fair payday. After the first two rounds, the NCAA would become a little more involved, as the field works itself into more manageable size. Theyd also start taking a little more money, which would be distributed among the survivors. It should result in a great deal more revenue, which the NCAA could use to help some of the non money-makin- g sports. four teams in each After the field gets down to the "sweet sixteen quadrant the situation would be just like it is now on the regional playoff level. The four Regional winners would then get together for the national championship. There are some strong points in favor of this plan. The first and most important is that more people will be involved. Every player will have, at least on paper, a chance to be on a National Championship team, no matter what their season was like. Fans will have their team in the playoff something that is exciting, fun, and rare. Even when their team loses, an interest in the whole thing has been planted on a participation level and will continue through the tourney. There are drawbacks, too. It would kill the NIT off completely, but so what. It isnt much of a field now, after they take leftovers from the top 48. Perhaps the NCAA could make a deal with the Madison Square Garden folks to have the Eastern Regional played every year in the Garden as a sort of replacement. A possible objection may be that it would add too many games to the season, but that isnt really valid. A team now has to play five, and possible six, games to win an NCAA championship. Eight games would allow, without byes, for 256 teams to participate. Also, most would be knocked out early in the competition. A week after it begins, all but 64 teams could be getting back to the books thats more teams out of the business much quicker than under the present system. Two or three more games, after a team has already played more than 30 in a season, just isnt that much to worry about. Also, by keeping all the teams close to home expenses would be down and revenues up. Youd also be assured that a national champion is just that with no artificial placements. Last years final four, you recall, came from Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, and Philadelphia. Thats hardly representative of the whole country. to bring it about, but the plan It would take some serious has some merit. Anything that can make a good thing available to more jieople should be looked into 11-1- 19th, Molly Zidow, 1:17.05; 11 8th, Jan Woodbury, 1:04.67; 13 15-1- 7, no-ma- FOUR YEARS AGO, 12 4. 32, 18, All-Sta- 5-- (All-Stars- 9-- 22 20. 9-- Recreation Youth Schedule for Saturday Clearfield Basketball March 8. Jeffrey Call (Supersonics), 38. David Stephens (Red Barons), 36. Bracken Larsen (Warriors), 34. Boys Grades 6 Tracy Stapley (Eagles), 114. Craig Carter (HotShots), 111. Greg Bowen (Stuffers), 102. .' m Kent Godfrey (Stuffers), 81. Dwight Johnson (Hotshots), 55. Boys Grades 8 Daniel Richardson (76ers), 55. 45. ), Louis Martinez Andy Archuleta (76ers), 40. David Schofield (Nuggets), 38. Curtis Heise (Mean Machine), 35. Boys Grades James Prothero (Stars), 98. Lewis King (Street Rats), 79. Tracy Pitkin (Suns), 63 Brian Mattson (Stars), 56. David Syekawa (Street Rats), 52. Team Standings Girls Grades 4-- 7 Schedule The following games will be held in the Clearfield High School old gym: Girls Grades 7 All Games Start at 8 a.m. West Point Tigers vs. Nets. West Point Lakers vs. Suns. vs. Striders. Syracuse Layton vs. Clearfield Falcons. Fireballs have a bye. Boys Grades 4 All Games Start at 9:30 a.m. Warriors vs. Clearfield Stars. Rockets vs. Jazz. Globetrotters vs. South Weber. Red Barons vs. Supersonics. Boys Grades 6 All Games Start atll a.m. Blue Jays vs. Lakers. Celtics vs. Eagles. Stuffers vs. Hotshots. Cougars vs. South Weber. The following games will be held in the Clearfield High School new gym. Boys Grades 8 vs. Nuggets. 8:00 9:30 Mean Machine vs. South Weber. 9:30 76ers vs. Falcons. Boys Grades 8:00 Suns vs. Street Rats. ll:0O-Su- ns vs. Stars. Basketball skills clinic for boys and girls grades 3 will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Clearfield High School new gym. All-Sta- 0 7 Broom Hockey Clearfield Recreation Broom Hockey Game results for Friday Feb. 29. Timothy Stars), Gardner Grades 6 Supersonics 9, Globetrotters Falcons 1, Jazz 0. South Weber 0, Striders 3. 3-- (Clearfield 73. David VanWagenen (Red Barons), There's something special about a father - son closeness back-to-bac- Clearfield Recreation Youth Basketball Leading Scorers: Girls Grades Shelly Heaps (Fireballs), 84 Linda Browning (Striders), 59. Michelle Edwards (West Point Lakers), 55. Angie Erwin, (Clearfield Falcons) 3-- 4 By Bliss Fullmer 1955-5- Leading Scorers Boys Grades 5-- all-sta- 5-- 50. (9-1- (6-4- ), eye-conta- ct 3-- Eden Cook (West Point Lakers), The Lady Wildcat basketball team completed conference play in a tie for third place in the Intermountain Athletic Conference Mountain Division. and second place New ) Finishing behind first place Colorado Mexico State Weber State, Utah State and Idaho State (all at will play off to see who will get the third place berth at the Regional Tournament to be held at Brigham Young University on March 6 through three-wa- y of the U.S.A. Hockey teams victory over Finland for In the after-mat- h the Olympic gold medal, the TV cameras zoomed in on Goalie, Jim Craig, who was searching intently into the audience for his father. Later on an early morning television show, Craig was the guest, with his father, and explained that he was looking for his dad. I just had to make with my dad, said Jim, and then he went on to explain how much his father had helped him to get where he was in hockey. I was touched by the closeness of father and son in athletics, because I have seen so much of it on my newspaper beat.' I could name hundrafe of fathers who have helped their sons attain success ua spuno. a father who retired from the military, but elected to stay in Utah so his son could finish his senior year at Roy High School. (That was Bobby Sindle, as a Royal). Jim McMahon Senior whose son Mark made changed jobs, after his company closed its Ogden operations, and Young Jim had signed to play at BYU, Mike McMahon was wrestling at Weber State and Dan was playing football at Roy. Laytons Chuck Ehin had a military father, who pulled a lot of strings in the Air Force to support his son in football. Clearfields Bart Johnson was a big part in the success of two superstar sons at Falcon-lanBrian and Allen, both established themselves in Clearfield athletics. Bart has been both a coach and a certified high school game official, and passed on his expertise to his boys. Cory Sylvestor of Bonneville lettered in three sports in his sophomore year, and is becoming a Laker legend, in this, his junior year. Blaine Sylvestor played professional baseball in the Saint Louis Cardinals organization, and was later a baseball coach at South High School. Cory cut his teeth on a baseball and went with his father to the games when he was only two years old. Webers Hal Lewis coached the Warriors to a tie for fourth place in his first year in Region One. His was his son Steve. Hal led k football championships in Pleasant Grove High School to All-Sta- 52. Lady Wildcats finish third 2. Wade Jacklin and Brook Hicks played for their fathers, last year in Clearfield and Roy football uniforms, and were close to their respective coaches. like his son, Freddy, but you Frank Fernandes was not a super-sta- r can bet he was there when his youngster was becoming Mr. Everything in a Royal uniform. The Russell Schoeltecs of Roy have two sons in the record books at Roy, who are presently playing college basketball. Allen and Jeff will always be remembered in Roy High School athletics, but Steve, though only a sophomore, could be best of the trio, because of the help those big brothers gave him. Russell Schoeltec made a lot of things possible for his three sons. I could go on and on and on, but maybe Ive made my point. A lot of athletes give their dads (and mothers) credit for their accomplishments, and I think that is super. Its a lot of fun watching your sons (or daughters) as they perform on the field of athletics. You feel pride, as a little league father, when they do something, you worked on in your own back yard, and tears come into Banquet, when they publicly thank you for your your eyes at the support. Somehow it makes those hundreds of little league games, those thousands of miles, and countless hours, worth while. In Sundays paper, was a UPI report from Atlanta Georgia, telling how the Atlanta Flames, with its new Goalie, Jim Craig beat the Colorado and Craigs father and brother were there to watch the action. Rockies All-St- |
