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                                                                   For students playing cooperative sports, the advantages
                                                                go beyond the playing fields and the opportunity to com-
                                                                pete.  They include seeing friends from other schools and
                                                         0      making new friends. "It's fun combining with other schools
                                                                because you get to see friends from other towns that you
      Front Row: Ashley Guyle, Erin Thilliander. Back Row: Morgan Wright,  p
      Yutan, Waterloo, Mead Softball Members                    might not get to see all the time," said sophomore Elisha
                                                                Konecky.
      jessie Guyle, Elisha Konecky
                                                                   This social aspect keeps many people up-to-date on what's
                                                                going on in surrounding towns.  "It's funny  because you
                                                        s       get  to  hear  all  the gossip  about  the  people  in the other
                                                                schools," said junior Ashley Guyle.
                                                                   For others the competition seems to increase.  "It's dif-
                                                        p       ferent because in golf we compete at the class B level in-

                                                                stead of D-1 ,"said senior Alex Carritt.
                                                                   Co-oping  with other schools  is  still  relatively new  at
                                                         0      Mead and the athletes are still getting used to how things

                                                                work.  The softball team was 8 out of 28 games.  In wres-
                                                        r       tling Andrew Burnsting won 15 matches out 24.  The golf

                                                                team won all duals and won one invite out of the six in-
                                                        t       vites they have participated in.
     Golf Team Members
      Front Row: Tyler Vaughan, Colby Kontor, Dustin Bergman, Alex Carritt.
      Back Row: josh Sladky, Dan Parsons, Taylor Densberger, Dallas Vogt.
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      Ready,  Break!
      Freshman jessie Guyle slowly walks from
      the mound to take her position at short
      stop.  The  YWM  softball  team  would
      huddle  at  the  mound  after  every  girl
      they got out.










     Take Him to the Mat
      During one of his  wrestling meets, jun-
      ior Andrew Brunsting tries up.  Andrew
      was the only boy from Mead to wrestle
      this  year.


                                                                          SHHH
                                                                          At  the  David  City  and  Columbus  triangular,  senior
                                                                          Dustin  Bergman  gets  ready  to  putt.  Dustin  ended
   '~                                                                     up  getting first  place  out of 37  people.
     ~' co-op  sports
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