= L, | F 1 | Title wins ' Sports Information Director % _ a Weber State enjoyed one of its best seasons ever for Springtime sports. The } tennis and golf teams won Big Sky 4 Conference titles and the outdoor track 4 team finished second in the Conference meet held in Ogden. The tennis team, under the guidance } of Coach Keith Cox, won its second straight Conference crown, defeating all five of the other teams involved. The Wildcats swept four singles crowns and one doubles. Peter Markes, _ who was named the year’s outstanding - tennis player at the annual award By Nan Holyoak Assistant Sports Information Director “@ gis errr Are eens | at Annange A my tem Seong nen Am - i : ‘banquet, won the Number One Singles title. Markes went on to become the first tennis player in the history of Weber State College and the Big Sky Conference to be selected to participate inthe NCAA National Tournament. Other Conference winners were: Kevin Kempin (Number Two Singles), Barry Nissenbaum (Number Three Singles), Kevin Easterly (Number Four eae } Singles) and Kempin/Nissenbaum in the Number One Doubles. The team finished with an overall record of 30-7 highlighted by an 8-1 win over BYU, the first tennis victory over the Cougars by a Weber State tennis team. Barry Nissenbaum, a freshman from Johannesburg, South Africa, became the first Wildcat netter to win 30 matches in one season. He had a 30-7 record. Coach Mac Madsen’s golf squad won its ninth straight Big Sky Conference title. The Wildcats were paced by medalist Rich Friend, a senior from 1} | } Everett, WA who fired a seven-under 7 par 209 for 54 holes, including a course tecord 65 during the second round. The tournament was héld at the University of p ; Idaho Golf Course. The team was selected for the eighth _ time in the past ten seasons to attend the NCAA National Championships. This ‘year’s meet is at Ohio State University. The team started off slow, trying to - fillin for the loss of a couple of key } players but they steadily improved and a ~§ ‘] week before the Conference meet, they _ placed ninth in a field of 17, which included many nationally ranked teams. That high finish was one of the main teasons the Wildcats were only one of 7 three teams selected from the region to d)) J, | goto the national tournament. The other two schools were San Diego State and _ Brigham Young. The outdoor track team had its highest finish ever in the Big Sky Conference ) Outdoor Championships. The Wildcats piled up 97 points behind champion ¥ | Northern Arizona which had 119 and successfully defended its 1979 crown. Weber State started out strong in the _ first day’s competition withRex = _ Hohnholt, a junior from Guernsey, WY, winning the steeplechase. Mark Wayment and Paul Pilkington were second and third respectively and Clark 1 ; Roberts wound up sixth, giving the Weber State’s women athletes competed in four sports this spring — golf, tennis, softball, track and field. Weber State competed at the regional championship level in all sports except tennis. GOLF: The women’s golf team began their spring schedule in January when they competed in the Lady Aztec Invitational in San Diego. The team, bolstered with two new players from Sweden — Eva Emilsson and Elisabet Wahlquist — finished with a team total of 1014, the lowest so far. The lady Wildcats played in the Arizona Golf Invitational in Nogales, Ariz., in mid-February and after shooting their highest first round ever, went on to finish with a new low team score of 1010. Weber State finished out the season at the Region 7 Golf Tournament at Colorado State University in April by taking third place behind the University of New Mexico and Brigham Young University. The Wildcats finished the season on a high note by posting a team total of 953 which was 57 strokes better than their previous low of 1010. It was also the first time Weber State had any individual finishers in the top ten. WSC’s Elisabet Wahiquist tied for sixth at 235 and Lori Vegwert finished in eighth place at 236. TENNIS: The Lady Wildcat netters ended their 1979-80 season with an overall record of 5-24 and a big 5-4 win over Boise State University at Boise. Although the record did not balance out on the winning side, Weber State had a greatly improved second year. According to Coach Keith Cox, the women’s tennis team had about a 400 percent increase over last year in the number of individual games won. A couple of bright spots in the season for Weber State were 7-2 and 8-1 victories over in-state rival Utah State. The Lady Wildcats were spearheaded by the fine play of freshman Birgitta Samuelsson who will be returning next year along with other fine prospects Coach Cox is busily recruiting at the presenttime. TRACK: WSC’s women’s track team started the season in early March at the Las Vegas Invitational Track and Field. Meet. Weber took third place out of five teams behind Nevada-Las Vegas and the University of Utah. Later in March, Weber State hosted the WSC Women’s Invitational and took second place behind the University of Utah. The Wildcats came back, however, two weeks later to defeat the University of Utah 79-73 in a dual meet held in Wildcat Stadium. The women’s track program saw a -vast improvement in its second year. Several WSC records and personal bests were set this year. The Lady Wildcats competed in the Region 7 Track and Field Championships at Colorado State University in early May with Michelle Hansen placing fifth in the javelin and Shellee Coleman placing sixth in the 400-meter dash. Wildcats a total of 25 points out of a possible 31. In the grueling 10,000 meter run, Norberto Segura, a three-time defending champion in the event, made it four in a row, setting a new Conference record with a time of 30:43.7, beating his old mark by nine full seconds. On Saturday, WSC made it three _ individual championships in a row with Jeff Swanger, a junior from Ogden, UT, winning the rugged Decathlon competition for the second straight year. Swanger broke his own conference mark of 6,822 points by garnering 7,266 points. Steve Dick, another Ogdenite, finished in fourth place with 6,260 points. The Wildcats will have two | individuals in the NCAA Outdoor Meet. Jeff Swanger in the Decathlon and Doug Friedli in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Swanger, who earned All-American honors last year in the Decathlon by placing third, is the top returning point achiever from last year and is expected to be one of three pre-meet favorites. Friedli set a school record in the hazardous steeplechase race with a tim« of 8:43.7. Friedli did not run in the Conference steeplechase, but did finish second in the 1,500 meter run. — SOFTBALL: The Lady Wildcats came off their pre-season California tour in march with a 9-5 record. While in California, Weber State won games over nationally ranked U.C.L.A and California State-Fullerton. In mid-April, the Wildcats took second place in a 20-team consolation tournament hosted by the University of Nevada in Reno. The three-day tournament included such schools as San Jose State, Idaho State, Cal-Berkeley, San Francisco, Utah, Oregon, Nevada-Las Vegas, Northern Arizona, Nevada-Reno, Chico State and Pacific University. In conference action, Weber tied for fifth place at 4-8 with Idaho State and Wyoming and had to playoff the tie preceding the regional Tournament at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Gaining the fifth spot at Regionals after defeating Idaho State in the playoff, the Lady Wildcats went three games before being eliminated from the field. Weber State ended the season with an overall record of 30 wins and 20 losses which is the best all-time mark on record at WSC. Wildcats Named to All-Conference Teams Ae if By Brad Larsen Three Lady oR four spring sports Weber State women basketball players Penny Wanberg and Cindy Stumph and softball player Annette Johnson were honored in their respective sports this year by being named to the All-Conference Teams of the Intermountain Athletic Conference. Penny Wanberg, a5’7’’ junior guard from Midvale, led the Lady Wildcat basketball team in scoring this past season with a 16 point per game average, and led in assists with 4.8 per ree in game. In Mountain Division conference play, Penny was in the top eight in scoring with 14.8 points per game and was second in assists with 5.5 per game. Penny has played in every Weber State game since beginning as a freshman — except two last year when she missed a road trip because of a freakish case of chicken pox. | As the tallest woman to ever play basketball for Weber State, Cindy — Stumph, 6’3'2”’ freshman center from Canon City, Colo., led the Mountan Division in scoring and rebounding with 20.3 points and 13.3 rebounds per game. Cindy was also in the top five in field goal percentage at 56.4 percent (hitting 66 of 117 shots from the floor), as well as the leader in blocked shots with 2.2 per game. Softball all-conference honors went to Weber State’s first baseman Annette Johnson of Ogden. Johnson, a junior, led the Lady Wildcats in batting with a .282 overall batting average (.314 in conference play) and was credited with 303 put outs, 28 assists and eight errors for a .976 fielding average. During the . season, Annette had 40 hits, including two doubles and one homerun, and was credited with 17 RBI’s. See competed a Fe¥ a aetna Women a for wsc SSS a fl = t Ciass Notes L. CRAIG NORSETH, 1970 graduate, and a key account manager for the Health Care Division of Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc., has received the division’s 1979 Regional Achievement Award. The award is presented to territory managers demonstrating outstanding sales performance, leadership and initiative during the year. He joined Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc., in 1976 in Salt Lake City and is currently in the Memphis, Tenn.., territory. . ROBERT L. CHAMBERLAIN has been named assistant manager of the new ZCMI in Layton Hills Mall. He is a native of Ogden and graduated from Ogden High School and attended WSC. He has been active in the Ogden Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, United Way, Utah heart Association and the Cancer Crusade. RONALD D. PETERSON, formerly of Ogden and a WSC graduate, cum laude, 1971, recently was awarded a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Dr. Peterson’s thesis topic for his doctorate was ‘‘Computer Studies of Melting and Freezing Laws in Simple Classical Systems.”’ He is now on the faculty of Parks College of St. Louis University where he also serves as director of the Computation Center. Dr. Peterson and his wife have three children. Cont. on Page il Page ¢