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high life
November 24,1982
Whirlies Launch Winter Sports Campaign
By Bill Newnam
Basketball
The Whirlies launched their
winter sports campaign on
November 1 as the basketball
team, swim team, and wrestling
team all began practice. Thus far all
the teams are working hard and
looking good.
This year’s basketball team is
young, and inexperienced. Head
coach Phil Weaver plans to start
five men on the floor who have
never started before. “It will be in
teresting to see how it works,” he
said. The only returning starter is
junior Greg Burzelle, who is ill and
it is questionable when he will be
able to start.
Last year’s team was 19-7 and
lost to Chapel Hitt in the state
quarterfinals; however none of the
starters will return in the season
opener at home against Raleigh
Broughton on November 30.
Weaver said this year is “ex
pected to be not such a good one,”
but “it’s impossible to say. I won’t
be disappointed if we don’t win the
conference,” Weaver added.
The probable starting line-up wiU
be seniors J.B. Baynes, Keitl
MiUer, and Chris Poole, and juniors
Calvin Austin, and George Caesar,
who Coach Weaver said “has made
much progress from his sophomore
to junior year.”
Weaver noted that sophomore
Andy Murrow “looks good” as do
Tyrone Moss and Victor Smith
with “good outside shots.” Weaver
added, “The junior class has some
real cats.”
titude.” Other standouts are junior
Angie McEachrin who is “getting
better at her forward position all
the time,” and Julie McCray who
plays “good defense.”
and Stacey Long should lead the
girls swimmers. Long swam in
Florida the past two years and is
excellent in the breast stroke.
The Whirlie girls have a scrimage
game against Rockingham County
on November 23. They then open
their conference season at home on
November 30.
This year’s girls varsity basket
ball team has high hopes. Third-
year head coach Ron Hartsook
Swimming
Leigh Ann Fleshman, last year’s
state diving champion, has a good
chance to repeat her performance
this year.
The swim team opens its season
against Winston-Salem Reynolds
on November 24.
said, “I would hope we can finish
first in the state,” or at least “as
well as last year’s team,” which
finished sixth.
The Whirlie swimmers get in the
pool to practice at 6:30 a.m. mon-
day through Friday and at 7:30
a.m. on Saturdays in an effort to
keep their winning tradition.
Wrestling
With returning senior, Anne
Marie Treadway, last year’s
metroplayer of the year,
Hartsook’s hope could become a
reality. Treadway was selected as
one of the top 30 players in
America by Street and Smith’s
basketball magazine.
Sid Lysiak, another senior, can
play forware or guard, and Hart
sook feels she has a “super at-
Last year, the boys swim team
finished second in the state while
the girls finished ninth. Fourth
year head coach Durante Griffin
feels this year’s team can be “con
ference, sectional, and state cham
pions.”
Seniors David Breece and
Richard “Floyd” Wells, who placed
in the state meet last year, should
lead the boys team. While
sophomores Elizabeth Brumback
The Grimsley wrestling team will
begin its season by hosting the
Grimsley Invitational Tournament
December 3 and 4.
Team captain Bruce Blackmon
stated that the team goals this year
“are to have an undefeated season
and win the conference,” and
“show well from there on.”
Outstanding seniors this year are
Blackmon and Benny McKee who
feels he “should be able to win the
state.” Juniors Mike Queen and
Gerald Carter are also expected to
have a good year.
Divers Jump Into Competition
By Allen Ford
As a sophomore last year
LeighAnn Fleshman took top
honors in diving at the State Meet.
However, when weighed against
past accomplishments, it alone ap
pears trivial.
Fleshman has been involved in
national age-group competition
since she was 12 and has finished as
elude states from Maine to
Virginia.
as diving which brings upon an
athlete much mental strain could
During the schoo lyear they are
unable to work with their coach on
weekdays. However, every Friday
Fleshman’s paretns drive them to
Raleigh where they work with their
coach over the weekend.
possibly hurt there friendship,
however, Fleshman and Edwards
seem to have overcome this and
strive to push each other to their
maximum.
Fall
By Larry Reece
With the approach of winter^)
campaign has come to an end,;
and early September, Grimslej^
ticing for a season which woui
record of 38-16-1.
Varsity Foe
The football team contributed
with a 4-6 finish. They beat Win
early in the season by a 42-y
sophomore Bryan Carter.
The football team then encou^
which would deplete their cha
playoffs.
The Whirlies then traveled to
for their last away game of the'
game was the starting point of a
streak with the final score bei
Grimsley.
Next, Grimsley would stifle So
score of 16-8. Moving into the t
took to their home field to defea
completed the three game winni
tunately ended the season, also.
Soccf^
Grimsley’s soccer team opned
season tournament which brougj
tory against the Page soccer tea:
As the season began, howey
perienced a few losses. Later, the
with three straight wins, all thi
Whirlie goalkeepers.
high as eighth in her age group.
This past summer while training
in Raleigh under North Carolina
State coach John Candler, she met
Ebby Edwards which led to Ed
wards rooming with Fleshman here
in Greensboro.
Many parents would not enjoy
this routine, but luckily both sets
of parents are supportive not only
of their children but of the sport
itself.
Both parents serve on the Board
of the U.S.A. Diving Association,
and Edwards’ father is the Chair-
Edwards, who used to live in
Alexandria, Virginia, came to
Greensboro because her high
man of the Potomac Valley Diving
Association.
school did not have a team and the
availability of a good coach was
better here.
Living together and competing
against each other would seem to
bring out a rivalry, but Edwards’
Fleshman now has more competi- explained, “No, we do not
tion with the arrivial of Edwards, specifically compete against each
because she is a noted diver with other, but try to do our best no
Grimsley’s Leigh Ann Fleshman
(Matt Sohn Photo.)
victories in such prestigious meets
as the Old Dominion/Eastern
Seaboard Invitational and the
United States Diving Association
Regional Championships which in
matter what the outcome is.”
These special circumstances br
ing out an interesting relationship
between two friends. A sport such
Second In State
Cross Country Ends Season
By Bill Newnam
The Grimsley cross country team
concluded its excellent season this
year with a second place finish in
the state meet on November 5.
The Whirlies tied with T.C.
Roberson High School, but their
sixth man crossed the finish line
first giving Grimsley sole posses
sion of second place.
Chapel Hill beat the Whirlies by a
small margin of 48-58, giving them
their fourth consecutive state
championship.
Head coacb Richard Smith said
“we got beat by a fine team which
had a fine day.” The Whirlie run
ners had beaten Chapel Hill twice
earlier in the year.
AUen Ford, who led the Whirlies
with a tenth-place finish, felt that
"we had the most dedicated and
awesome runners in the state, but
we were caught on a bad day.”
Tim Fry, Joe Willis, Mike Moses,
Andy Reed, Jim Leone, and Jim
Schmid finished fifteenth, twen
tieth, twenty-sixth, twenty-eighth,
thirty-sixth, and thirty-ninth
respectively.
in the state he is twenty-eighth as
ninth grader.”
Smith said this year’s team was
“the best team I ever coached in
cross country.” Ford, who hopes to
run in college, feels “On another
day we could have won it.”
Smith said of Willis’ twentieth
place finish, “It was the best race
he ever had in his life.” There were
81 finishers in the race.
Smith looks for Reed to “lead the
team next year” as a sophomore.
“He can be the best two-miler I
ever coached” he added. Smith con
tinued “out of about 2,000 runners
The girls team ran well also,
finishing seventh in the state lead
by Wendy McLees who finished
seventeenth out of 78 runners.
Stephanie Ingram, Kim Powell,
Felicia Carter, Toni Brynant, Mary
Haines, and Elizabeth Taft also ran
well for the Whirlies in the state
meet.
Coach Smith felt the girls had an
excellent season also.
Whirl]
BENCH WARNER'
By Chuck Tutterow
Seeing how it’s nearly November 25,1 have for you a
Thanksgiving story.
Although there are no pilgrims or food-filled horns or
even wooden ships in this story there are turkeys. As
you may have guessed, these are not your prospective
“dinner table” birds; however, these turkeys do have
droopy necks, floppy arms, and go “gobble, gobble” a
lot. These turkeys are none other than those which
nest on our very own Grimsley basketball courts.
First a quick summary of the necessary background
information needed for tracking these birds. These
turkeys usually flock together and speak in typical
turkey lingo” which no person with common sense is
able to understand. They also do such turkeyworthy
things as actually putting GHS parking certificates
and Whirlie Country bumper stickers on their cars in
which they occasionally drive south for the winter.
To further our knowledge, we talked with big game
hunters Earl Hampton and Chic Ferrell with hopes
that they would enlighten us in our porastical ordinate
study of the Mooselvanian Bi
in the phylum Ocellata. (???) A
Chuck: What, gentlemen, ex
Chic: A turkey is a chump!
look like a fish sandwich.
Chuck: Uh!?!
Earl: Chic means that its a
embarrass on the basketball co
Chuck: In other words, you :
Earl and Chic: You are corn
Chuck: Why do you call tht
enjoys eating turkey.
Earl: Of course, but its sim
everyone likes them, but nobod
Chuck: How would you
turkey?
Etu-i: Any true turkey goes I
the fake injury, the “Goodr^
sometimes even the XYZ.
Chuck: The XYZ?
Chic: Yes, you know-you td
when he attempts to rectify !
around him for the score.