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Show n $ V-.a ' , I .'Til ,j I I .. . 1 1 S q tvyJ y ' WWMHW- WHl JU.llIHM:raiS ,v-tf rfi i if j ft 4 11 I i Richard Johnson, Asst. Coach Coach Gail McBride Lisa Thaller i ) Julie Erikscn Carrie Morecraft Agile Girl Gymnasts Capture State Title For Park City High j ( i A L .iL,mmwm T"' t ;ltliJ Hi; Chris Hale Anita Miles Sue Nielson 1 ai i)llllllltlIPly''W,? J v II - ' jr riii I - ." ? s ' V ' j' ill r. f 0 . . k I i Connie Hamilton Susan Mahonev ' , 1 Madge Marcellin The Park High gymnastics team captured the "state championship Saturday at BYU in Prove, making it the first girls team to" win a state championship of any sport in the .history of Park City High School. . Coach Gail McBride and her talented - gymnastics team knocked off eight competing I-A schools during Saturday's state meet. North Sevier finished in second place, and ' Duchesne took third. "It reallv didn't hit me at first." said third-year Coach McBride. "1 was just so shocked," -Although the local gymnasts gym-nasts were favored to take state. Gail McBride became the first coach at the High School to lead her girls team, to the state championship. Bruce Reid accomplished the same feat recently in leading the bovs basketball team to their first state championship. Teams competing in Saturday's Satur-day's meet included Duchesne. Duch-esne. Gunnison. North Rich. North Seviere. South Rich. Tintic. Wasatch Academy and VVavne. Competitors performed per-formed in either class 3(be-uinner) 3(be-uinner) or optional (advanced) and included parallel bars, floor exercises, beam and vault. Park High's. Susan Ma-honey Ma-honey took first place in optional bars, and teammate. Lisa Thaller "also captured a tl rs t pi ace i n optional beam . And the rest of the team .finished high in all other areas of: competition: Carrie More-craft, More-craft, 4th; optional beam; v Siizie Clark. 2nd. ontional bars: Anita Miles. 4th. all-around, all-around, class 3: Julie Eriksen. 2nd.' class .1 vault, and 5th, class 3 floor exercises: Marge Mahonev. 3rd. class 3 floor exercises, and 4th. class 3 vault: Chris Hale. 5th r optional option-al all-around: Pam Tebbs. 5th. class 3 beam: Connie Hamil- , ton. '2nd. optional beam. 3rd, optional all-around. : and 4th. optional bars. In addition to taking a first place' in optional bars. Susan -Mahonev also finished in sixth ; place in optional floor exercises. exer-cises. ' , " t Gail McBride said she knew she had a good team this year. but added it'sHmpossible to predict what can happen at a state championship meet. "You work hard day after dav." she said, "but in one split. second, it can be won or lost." Park High's gymnastics team is young: only one senior. Carrie Morecraft. will graduate this year. Success this "year. Coach McBride said, resulted from the culmination cul-mination of a lor of hard work. Park High's athletic programs pro-grams have experienced major improvements this year, Gail 'McBride added. "It's been an incredible vcar for sports in general here." she said. "The kids didn't think of themselves as winners, and now they expect "V , ....... r-h The gymnastics team will . join the basketball team on the "Park Record Championship Cup.' a trophy given to all the future "state : championship teams at Park City High School. ? ' f ' 111 ' JF W Ji j i J L . wit ' t ; 1 ' : . .w ' . .My...:.:- .'. T- r C ' M ' Suzy Clark Margo Mahoney PamTcbbs |
