High School Memory

The track team traveled to southern Utah for the Annual Dixie College Invitational.  After we arrived some of us were eating at a local restaurant and were told there was a dance that evening at the college.  Our waitress looked like Olivia Newton John and she was going so we decided we must attend as well.  Not one of us, Cam Smith, Bob Wolford, Gary Holman, or me, dared to ask Olivia to dance, all night we just watched everyone else do their thing.  Completely ignoring all other responsibilities and drinking un-spiked punch we stayed at the dance for far too long and finally wondered back to the team hotel.  Earl Combs, track coach and concerned adult, was waiting for us.  Earl proceeded to give us the what for, even threatened not let us compete and eventually sent us to bed.   Apparently there was a curfew, which was a surprise to me and we were not there for bed-check.  The next morning Earl pulled the four of us aside and gave us a very passionate speech, his two main themes were responsibility and disappointment.  For the rest of the trip and throughout the remainder of the school year many conversations the four of us had started by jokingly stating how disappointed we were with each other.

Submitted by Corey Rammell