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Show ae. EU UIE AL | i OL URL lL. ne OR PAGE 10 Wasatch re County’s Source - COURIER for News TUESDAY ~ f f O s k c i K n o s a e S occerGet SWasps _ Ready for _ Timpanogos: By KARI GIBB SPORTS EDITOR HEBER - Football and volleyball start at Wasatch High School this week, but soccer has been going for a week and is gearing up for their first game right now. eo “We have | an earlier start,” Wasatch Head ‘Coach -Dwaine Wheatley said. “We have games that get underway this week and we need the to get the kids ready to play. The Regions how they are set up dictate a longer season couple of weeks than other sports. So we = play when we have to.” - Leading the team into battle this season group of solid players. time and by a start . : are a ‘Putomp Weasid Cup Players ‘in Black and Gold Colors Senior leadership for the team includes Cheat and Amy Anderson, Darcy Downs, Bridgett Farfel, -Tristen Hales, Janene Hopkins, Susan Lutes, Keysha Nordfelt, Sara Rodriguez. and Crystal Coach Dwaine Wheatley (above) addresses the 1999-2000 Wasatch High School soccer team during warm-ups. Whiting.| Juniors that will help the team this year are Melinda Darcy Downs (far left) works hee way to the ball while Ali Jarvis protects it during a scrimmage last week. Epps, Ali Jarvis, Deanna Whiting and Breanna Williams. _ Atrio of sophomores have stepped up to give depth to the varsity. April Brown, Sonnet Dummar and Raquel The1e Wasp soccer team is gearing up for Timpanogos. The 5A school from Orem will be here in Heber for the Wasps first game of the new season. see SOCCER on page I5 Western Wear Rule Rebellion am miffed. I don’t get miffed that to be often, maybe agitated or aggravated, but not miffed. This week I am © slightly disrespectful at best. I like taking pic- miffed. I have covered dozens of rodeos in three. states in my time as a sports editor for both weekly and daily papers. For the first time in my career, I was exclud- ed from covering a rodeo due to the “Western Wear” rule that rodeos have. This bothers me on several levels, and I am going to share those with you, and let you judge whether or notI should -be miffed or not. I like rodeos, and I like doing my job at rodeos. | First of all, I am not a cowboy. I like cowboys, and J respect what they stand— for. Cowboys are the last real Americans. They stand for values that are dying i in | our culture. Hard work, honesty and love for the land are found only in oe trué cowboys, and farmers. - Not being a cowboy, I don’t think E should dress like-one..-Having me dress One of the Anderson twins, Crystal or Amy (your guess is as it on Soces ca h asepsis = — ont Me ee asalae) : “ | 3 | | : like a cowboy when Lam not one seems sine the moves » Sees | Seats ORDER SEER ee a ALR se rtd See oe Ee ee re ee RE PS ete Gey TSF oe ey i i tures and giving this By KARI GIBB profes‘sional sport. cred- Courer Sports Eprror it and news coverage for what they do. Should what I wear make a difference to these guys? - Second, now that you all can see I. don’t have a problem with cowboys, | de have a problem with the “Western Wear” tule at rodeos. A big guy, sitting on a 2000-pound horse told me, that I would have to leave and put western attire on — — : I could return to do my job. * “He is sitting on a horse, and I am running around on the ground., He. has the see a on page 12> |