; Lady Cats y Nan Holyoak _ Asst. Sports Information Director } a : i ae ee 7) CARMEN GARDUNO, WSC’s sopho- ‘mre distance runner, received TWO AllAmerican honors at the AIAW Division II ‘Jick & Field Championship held at Austin Pay University in Clarksville, Tenn. on May 20-22. ) Carmen placed third in the 10,000 meter 7) mn (36:04.86) Yn (17:15.8). i and fifth in the 5,000 meter _ As Weber State’s first woman All-Amer- ian, Carmen honor has the distinct of | meiving THREE All-American awards in me year. She received her first All-Ameri‘an award last November when she placed turth in the AIAW Division II National ‘toss Country Championship. : Softball : ‘ “ f : é | won Wahlquist, S ; — Penny Wanberg and Rebecca Changizian yee named to the All-Conference Team of : the Intermountain Athletic Conference at the Regional Tournament in Pocatello. _ Both played consistently during the seayen and helped the Lady Wildcats to a vason record of 25 wins and 22 losses. The lady Cats went 7-7 in conference play to tie V¥aho State for fourth place. The play-off | fame found WSC just one point away from topes of reaching the Regional Tournament. 7 } first national Cham- Kim Burnett, Heidi Wallin, Kerri Clark and Sherry Francis. Front row: Julie Kelly, Carrie Howard, Denise Sontag and Lori Vegwert. (5th, 248), and Walalso Men's events Rebecca WSC’s pionship in 22 years when they took top honors in the Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Tournament. The team: (Left to right) Back row: Coach Mike Farrell, Elisabet Elisabet Wahlquist (6th, 250). Clark, lin, Vegwert and Wahlquist were named to the All-Region Team. ) » Gol f Team (4th, 247), Lori Vegwert ei 3 Women’s The Lady ‘Cats won the tournament with a team total of 956; 124 strokes ahead of second place Air Force Academy and 181 strokes ahead of third place Colorado State U. Kerri Clark was the Div. II medalist with a 54-hole total of 230. WSC had four other players in the top six finalists: Julie Kelly (3rd, 243), Heidi Wallin f (a Cs The OUTDOOR TRACK ... . In all its years in the Big Sky Conference, Weber State has never won a championship in Outdoor Track and Field. But Coach Chick Hislop felt if his team was healthy, this would be the year to end the drought. No sooner had the team arrived in Missoula, Montana than the injuries began. In the first event of the Decathlon, Weber’s JEFF SWANGER, a two-time NCAA All-American and Big Sky Decathlon champion, re-injured a hamstring muscle and was lost for the rest of the meet. The injury cost the Wildcats at least 25 points. Two sprinters, BRUCE PERRY (100-200 Meters) and ANTHONY SMITH (200-400 Meters) sustained muscle pulls, although Smith captured the 400 Meter title in a time of 47.76. He and Perry, along with Vic Fletcher and Elbert Gray, also won the 400 Meter Relay in a time of 41.0. Those were the only two FIRST PLACES captured by the Wildcats. Weber State finished in Seventh Place with 52 points. The season produced some outstanding times, however. REX HOHNHOLT set a school record in the 3,000 Meter Steeplechase with a time of 8:41.0, qualifying him for the NCAA Outdoor Meet, May 31-June 5 at Brigham Young University. BRIAN APPELL (8:44.3) also qualified. Anthony Smith tied the school record in the 400 Meters (47.4) and SHAWN DORR tied the school record in the 400 Meter Intermediate Hurdles (52.9). GOLF, o..s-ey5: Weber State made it 11 straight Conference titles in a row, defeating Nevada-Reno by 20 strokes at the Missoula Country Club. Weber had a slim four-stroke lead going into the final 18 hole round, but played steady team golf to open up the big lead. SCOTT GEROUX, a freshman from Oly- mpia, Washington captured the medalist honors with a 54-hole score of 212, onestroke ahead of teammates GREG WHISMAN and MATS JONMARKER. The victory sealed another NCAA bid for the Wildcat golf team, their NINTH NCAA Tournament-bid in the last 12 years. The Tournament was held at Pinehurst, North Carolina. The Wildcats were seeded 15th in a field of 30 teams. It was an outstanding year for the Wildcats. They won FOUR tournaments last Fall, including a come-from-behind win at the University of Pacific Invitational, overtaking UCLA on the final five holes. UCLA was ranked NUMBER ONE IN THE NATION at the time. The ‘Cats got off to a slow start in the Spring, but improved each week. The Tournament that really put them into the NCAA Tournament was a FOURTH PLACE finish at the prestigious Sun Devil/ Phoenix Thunderbird Invitational at Scottsdale, Arizona. Weber State finished ahead of such golfing powers as Houston, Oklahoma State, San Jose State and Southern Cal. STORM GLEIM, a senior from Everett, Washington, won the medalist title in a three-way sudden-death playoff. TENNIS .... It was a heart-breaking time for Weber State’s tennis team at the Big Sky Conference championships. The Wildcats won their first six matches and a win over Northern Arizona on the final day would have given them the title. With the match tied at 4-4, it came down to the Number Two Doubles match. Weber head coach, Keith Cox, knew his team of ERIC STYRMOE and CRAIG BELL were undefeated during the year (17-0). Styrmoe and Bell won the first match and were leading the second and deciding match, 5-3, needing just one match point to clinch the Conference title. But NAU hung on to win, 7-5 then won the third set, giving the Lumberjacks a share of the crown with defending champion, Nevada-Reno, leaving Weber State in third place. All three teams had 6-1 records in the round-robin, but NAU and Reno each had 47 match wins and Weber had 46. Individually, BARRY NISSENBAUM won the Conference Number One Singles title and ERIC STYRMOE won the Number Two Singles. Styrmoe had the best overall record on the team during the year with a 26-6 record. KAY BARNEY ended his four-year career with 185 total victories in Singles and Doubles setting a new school record.