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AFA Athletes Excel Pacad by an outitandlng iprtng sporti Muon. Air Fore* Acadamy alhl^M continiwd to excel against �oma of tha finaat competition In the nation.

Nearly 900 athletes competed in 572 contests

41

on

and

intercollegiate

came

up with

a

teams

year. Falcon

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Four teams extended now won

loss.

Several

teams

placed

high nationally.

Pistol

two team and one claimed three national titles individual while women's cross country \^as second in the AIAW Division II national championships. Boxing �

varsity athletes competed In 524 conteaU, winning 356, losing 166 and tying 2 for a 68.1 winning percentage.

The overall program that included junior varsity tearru finished with 382 wins. 187 losses and 3 ties.

Six varsity teams posted undefeated seasons women's cross country (4.0), men's indoor track (70), women's swimming (16-0), men's swimn\ing (13-0). men's gymnastics (8-0) and men's golf (25-0). indoor track has

a

winning

average of 67 4 percent.

During the

men's swiiruning raised its winning streak to 63-stTaight dual meets. Men's golf has a streak of 54 and women's swinuning has now gone 31 meets in a row without

long winning streaks. Men's 35-straight dual meets while

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an

intramural sport

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was

also second in the nation

while water

polo competed in the national collegiate playoffs and ranked eighth. Women's fencing also placed eighth nationally and the women's swimming

team was

12th at their national

Regional

or

league

titles

were

event

claimed

by women's

country, soccer, rifle, women's swimming, women's outdoor track, men's golf and lacrosse. cross

Air

Force

competed

in

the

Western

Conference for the athletes won league

Sayre

won

the

second-straight year and three championships. Sophomore John 400-yard Individual medley for his

second title in swimming while seniors Steve Levitt and Jim Wlllsie combined to take the tennis number three

Ever

doubles title. Also in the WAC. All-America Johnny Jackson was named to the first team in football while seniors

Tom

Schleckebier

sophomore Sean Pavlich team. Junior Rick team

in

and

were

Simmons basketball.

Mike

France

and

four speci2 Senior

named to the second

was

select

are

named to the second

All-Ameri honored

In its 26 years of varsity athletic competition. Air Force has won 4.675 contests, lost 2.326 and tied 56. making an overall percentage of 66.6.

The 1981-82 sports results are:

27th

annua

Jack

football

Athletic

Football named

He

also

Athletic W

FALL:

Football

4

JV Football Men's Cross Country JV Men's Cross Country Women's Cross Country Soccer Water Polo Women's VoUeyball

4

Women's Tennis

Varsity Totals Overall Totals

WINTER:

Men's Basketball JV Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Men's Fencing Women's Fencing Men's

Gymnastics Women's Gymnastics Ice Hockey JV Ice Hockey Men's Indoor Track

T

COACH

0

Ken Hallield

0

Dick Ellis

picked

0

Pete Jones

Colorado

0

Mike

0

Ernie Cunliffe

by playing

Luis Sagastume Jeff Heidmous

Valuable

4

2 1 0 0

8

10

1

13

10

0

3

1

selected defensive

Langey

Bes

45

15

0

Ed Halik

_n

_3

0

Mike McClellan

88 93

46

1

Pet.

655

48

1

Pet

658

8

19 10

0

Hank

0

Dan Kraft

shown

0

Danny Fowler

as

10

10 2

0

Rick Bereit

10

2

0

Rick Bereit

8

0

0

Lou Burkel

6 17

a

Most Val

the only The to

Egan

grad

a

exce

athletics

Cooper

was

captain valuable

9

5

0

Alicia Goode

12

17

1

John Matchefts

8 7

0 0

1

Gary

0

Ernie Cunliffe

3.91 cumulat

major.

Senior Athletic

lettcrwinner

Warren

Women's Indoor Track Pistol Rifle

4

1

0

Steve Miles

12

0

0

Larry Hadley

28

12

0

Robert Owen

Men's

13

0

0

Paul Arata

16

0

0

Paul Arata

6

_13

0

Wayne Baughman

Totals

160

81

1

Pet

"SSJ

Overall Totals

174

91

2

Pet

.655

Baseball

28

19

0

Joe Robison

Men's Golf

25

0

0

Gene Miranda

JV Men's Golf

1

0

0

Mike Gould

named

Women's Golf

7

3

0

Jay Sherman

football team

13

3

0

"Cal" Stevens

6

1

0

Mike Faraone

25

8

0

Rich

the National of Fame.

0

8

0

Gugat Terry Payton

10

6

0

Mike McClellan

0

0

0

Ernie Cunliffe

0

_0

0

Steve Miles

Swimming

Women's Swimming

Wrestling Varsity

SPRING:

L 7

Lacrosse

JV Lacrosse Men's Tennis JV Men's Tennis Women's Tennis

Men's Outdoor Track

Women's Outdoor Track Varsity Totals Overall Totals SEASON VARSITY TOTAL SEASON OVERALL TOTAL

108

goes

to

character

outstanding outstanding equally as str to

The won

39

0

Pet.

.734

115

48

0

Pet,

.705

356

166

2

Pet.

382

187

3

Pet.

.681 .674

by

award goes ed athletic

intercoliegiat captain and valuable

four-time

legiate champ Athletic Confe ty of awards to the most

18

men's

intercoliegiat M

AMMt

MVPs

The

Envelope,

year the Most Valuable

Every

Players

selected in each sport. There four special honors. are

also

are

Senior

Johnny Jackson, the first Falcon All-America football player in six years, was honored

the Most Valuable Athlete at the

as

27th annual Athletic Awards

Jackson football

Banquet.

the most heralded Falcon

was

player last fall, being named

to

Football Writers All-America besides named

He

also

was

named

the

to

being

All-Western

Athletic Conference defensive first unit, was selected the outstanding major college

defensive

player

in the

in the Hula bowl

Besides Valuable

Hawaii.

in

the

selected

being

was

college athlete in outstanding season

as

by playing

and also

area

the top male Colorado. He capped an

picked

Athlete, Jackson also

Most the

won

making him the banquet.

Most Valuable Football Award, the

o

only multiple a

winner at

The Scholar Athlete Award that goes graduating varsity athlete who has

.hown excellence in both academics IS

athletics

!)ooper

was

aptain

by

was won

and

well

as

Cooper

twice the women's tennis team

been

has

twice

aluable women's tennis �tterwinner.

senior Gail

^91 cumulative average

most

four-year near perfect

a

management

as a

lajor.

Senior \thletic to

the

haracter in the sports

I

by his

athlete who,

oes

I

.

The

Award.

ďż˝

.

received

France

Mike

Leadership

arena,

the

award

her

or

exemplified was not only

utstanding leadership. France Jtstanding on the football field but was qually as strong in the classroom. He

ramed

to

the

t lotball team and

a

was

scholarship from

National Football Foundation and Hall

t le f

won

also

All-America

Academic

The Athletic Excellence Award was by senior wrestler Dale Walters. This

award goes to a cadet who has demonstrat ed athletic excellence in one or more Intercollegiate sports. Walters was the team

captain

and

was

honored

valuable wrestler last

four-time qualifier

for

legiate championships

as

season.

the

and

the

He

most was

National was

a

a

Col

Western

Athletic Conference champion. The majori ty of awards presented at the banquet were to the nwst valuable athlete in each of the 18

'82

Basketball (Men) Basketball (Women)

Rick Simmons

'83

Mary Manning Dan Rooney Dana Lindsley Norm Rennspies Vivet Maragh Dave Carraway Al Wiley Johnny Jackson

'85

Cross Cross

Country (Men) Country (Women)

Fencer (Men) Fencer (Women)

Football Back Football Lineman Football

Player

men's

and

10

intercollegiate sports.

'82

'83 '83

'82 '82 '82

'82

Lee Andersen

'82

Sally Duggan Preston Thompson

'82

Ellen Nelson

'84

Mike Drake

'82

Dan Sullivan

'82

Brian Meier

'84

Rifle

Kenneth Coon

'82

Soccer

Michael

'84

Golfer (Men) Golfer (Women)

Gymnast (Men) Gymnast (Women) Ice Hockey Lacrosse

Piston

Swimmer (Men) Swimmer (Women) Tennis (Men) Tennis (Women) Track Runner (Men) Track Runner (Women)

Track

Fame.

won

Joe Romanko

'82

A

player.

carried

Cooper

the

Baseball

the

several other All-America units.

to

Please

women's

varsity

Competitor (Men) Track Competitor (Women) Volleyball (Women) Water Polo

Wrestler

Kevin Smith

'82

Chris

Leadership

Scholar-Athlete Award

'83

Duffy '83

Alonzo Babers

'83

Laureli Mazik

'85

Rojas '84 Gail Conway '84 Dan

DeVita

'84

Gerald Veldhuizen

'84

Cheryl

Helwig

'84

Jackson

'82

Dale Walters

'82

Mike France

'82

Gail

'82

Johnny

Athletic Excellence

Special

'84

Mark

Athlete

Athletic

Lynch John Sayre Patty Martinez

Cooper Barbara Faulkenberry

'82

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WeVe Got Spirit "Okay,

you ready to tell them who go!! U...S...A...F A AAAAIR FORCE Fight, Fight, Fight!!! Yeah, that's the way!" are

are? Let's

we

.

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.

The enthusiastic group of 17 cheer senior Richard Simpson had

leaders lead by a

fun year.

They participated in a Regional camp during the summer in Dallas. For the fourth year In a row they won the award for the "Most Spirited Squad."

cheerleading

Each cheerleader must maintain high and military standards to be

academic

considered, and then of clinics and

squad, which and nine

is

must

judging

undergo

series

a

before joining the

composed of eight

women

men.

Far leh:

the

Pnsca

Sam

Candy Painter leads Harvey is lifted by

Wing In cheers. LeftWercinski during pregame acatMtias Below: TJ. Paquelet shows her enthusiasm while riding the F-IS around the field

AH riMM

T

wu

All American.

tackier, holds

Holdin' On Holding

with all their

on

opponents as Brigham Dame and Company, the

ebier

was

outstanding

defensive tackle

as a

for the Falcons. Tom received 2nd Team

Young, Notre experienced defense provided the leader ship for the Falcon's best season since 1976

WAC honors

with

who received honorable mention All-WAC

a

4-7 record. the

Leading

safety

Jackson

honored

was

All-American honors

play in outstanding to

the senior

France. France All-WAC

was

player

tackles,

in

team

All-American

with

Abovďż˝: No

onc

Team

1st

by football Writers of Hula

Bowl,

Another

linebacker

was an

also chosen

was

Mike

honorable mention

and

also

Academic All-American honors

NCAA graduate

was

Jackson.

Johnny

America and the WAC. He

I

might against

formidible

such

scholarship.

received

including

an

Tom Schluck

told Tulane's Wade Elmore (1) that

when Mike France (56). Chris Reymann (86) and Tom Schluckbler (71) gang up on a runner, it is a dead end.

Right: Chris Reymann: ready to fire out.

as

return to

Japan

Reymann

was

well

as

an

invitation

to

for the

Japan Bowl. Chris

another

defensive lineman

honors. The Falcon's had the number three pass

defense

in

WAC with

the

seniors,

Jackson, Doug Dunbar, Dave Carraway and Tod Wolters

leading

the way. Kevin

Jim Dahlmann and Tom the

tough

Falcons,

linebacker while

Jim

Ewing, Stanbury played

positions

Gailbraith,

for

the

Konda

Sullivan, Bob Avila played the hard nosed defensive line position.

-

Al

Wiley

on

Johnny Jackson, the team's leading to Brigham Young's Gordon Hudson.

I

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A

Change of Seasons Mike

Kirby

became the Falcon's

Mr. Excitement after returning

72

yards

for

He

game

stats

receiving oriented

touchdown in

a

ninth

was

team

in

the

pass-happy WAC) Ed important addition

to

WAC

the

in

bad

(not

punt the first a

for

a

of

midst Antoine

run-

was

the offense

as

the an

the

signal caller Fred Cianciolo returned to his tightend position and displayed his talents

as

George

James

a

receiver

became

and an

blocker.

important

ingredient

in the

Falcon

ground

element of experience in the offensive line Washer lettered four years as an

all-purpose snapping work. and

player

duties

special

Wiley played tackle

was

mention

chosen twice All-Wac

all

doing

and

as

and

player.

Underclass

Rick Smith, Dave Schreck,

on

the Oline tradition. Fullback

Sundquist (38) bowls over Brigham Young's David Auplu The memorable touchdown by John Kershner

lead the Falcons in rushing.

in

the Notre Dame game, and celebration in the not be soon forgotten.

guard

Greg Egan, Tony Rino, Kelly Hefferman, Dave Timm and Hugh Funk remain to men

carry

endrone will

the

teams

honorable

an

Ed Antoine (7) sets up to throw. He was the team's leadmg quarterback in the yards gained category. Ted

(30)

attack

the halfback position. Seniors Chris Washer and Al Wiley gave a needed at

John Kershner

came

out

of nowhere to

-

Al

Wiley

Kicking Army's Mule This game

had

to

end

the

way

it

ended.

for the Falcons. Six seconds to go on the Air Force 20, the fierce

gloomy

with the ball

TTie final

play

had to decide the victor.

on

and off field

rivalry hung in the balance.

Army quarterback spotted an open

You would have liked to have said the old

The

cliche, "Too bad one team had to lose!"

But, for the Falcon fans the game couldn't

through

have ended any sweeter.

Army scored first, 3-0

could

tally

clock. and

no

one

until Air Force scored in the third

quarter, 7-3. With the West Pointers on the offensive in the closing seconds it looked

Left:

As

Mike France

(56) leaps, Dave Carraway

cradles the ball after his game winning interception.

Bottom: Karl Grant (22) scoots around left end. Below: Everyone but the officials signal touchdown as the Falcons scored the decisive point.

man

in the endzone.

As the ball fluttered

the air the seconds ticked off the

Falcon fans (and grunts, too) held Dave Carraway flew out of

their breath. nowhere

to

interception.

grab

the

game

clinching

Improved Record 4-7 The

played

1981

a

very

its second

Falcon Football Team

of Western Athletic

season

Conference

schedule in

demanding

The

competition

slow

season

disappointing losses began against league champ Brigham Young at Provo and perennial power Wyoming at

with

Then

Falcon Stadium loss

heartbreaking

on to

another

New

at

Mexico

before getting on track against Coloradio State. With the emergence of John Kershner at fullback, the re

vamped Falcons pounded CSU with a solid ground attack and ?. defense which shut the Rams down. The

next game be decisive in the Commander-

was to

in-Chief competition as Air Force lost good Navy ball club at Annapolis.

to a

Home the

next

week against the Green

of Tulane turned

Wave

two-half

be

to

out

The Falcons

ballgame.

first half, but the Green Wave back strong in the second half them. The to

wins

came

defeat

weeks turned

next two

be the best back

games Air Force

to

to

played

a

the

won

out

back football in

'81. Those

against PAC- 10 opponent Oregon

Eugene and traditional military academy rival Army seemed to be the catalyst for the remainder of the at

In

season.

seasons,

our

the

first road

team

win

in

two

combined

gain

a

strong offensive running game with the reappearance of quarterback Marty Louthan and

a

tremendous defensive

performance by All-American Johnny Jackson to spark Air Force to victory.

The next week, the revenge minded Falcons manhandled the Black Knights of West Point in every the score and recorded win. In

department but a

comeback 7-3

preparing for Notre Dame, the

team

knew that

have

to

be

a perfect engineered in

game would

order for

a

win. Included in this would have to be

another strong defensive show like last year's game at South Bend. In this final home game, the Falcons were losing 14-7 going into the 4th quarter of play,

but the Irish

pulled

away. The final two

the road again against WAC foes, UNLV and San Diego State

games

were

on

Tokyo, Japan. The team lost a heartbreaking game against the Rebels in Las Vegas by 3 points, but it was a strong performance against the No. at

5 ranked offense in the country. The

^

I Far Left: Charlie Heath (37) and Karl Grant (22) join congratulating John Kersher (30) for his

teammates In

touchdown

Notre

against

Dame.

Above:

Chris

Reymann (86) and Jeff Rouser (57) climb over Tom Stanbury (58) in a scramble for the ball after a CSU fumble. Left: Pat Bendrlck rolls left on a pass play against BYU.

season's finale ended

in Tokyo with the Mirage Bowl. The Aztecs took a 16-0 lead in the first half, but the never say die attitude of the Falcon's responded

with 21 points in the 2nd half to win.

Fullback John Kershner was voted most

valuable while chosen

player

player

with 160

linebacker as

the

Mike

yds. rushing, France

of the game.

-

a IMMEERRBil

was

defensive

outstanding

Al

Wiley