CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, June 7 - June 13, 1996 - 61
Four Cape athletes honored as "the best"
Hill, who, along with Dale Dun-
ning, also received the inaugural
Bill Degnan Faith in Human Spir-
it Award.
A member of Viking winter and
spring track teams since her fresh-
man year, Hill capped her senior
season with a state championship
medal in the 300 meter hurdles.
Yet it was her spirit of sportsman-
ship, teamwork, and dedication,
and egalitarianism in athletic
competition that won her the cov-
eted Kennedy award.
"It was a shock to me," said
By Susan Frederick
Four athletes finished their high
school careers in a blaze of glory
in Cape's Little Theatre at Mon-
day night's Senior Awards cere-
mony as they collected "best of
the best" athletic honors for 1996.
Three-sport standouts Darnell
Strand and Emily Weer received
"Outstanding Athlete Awards"
that evening. A smili.ng Harley
Jones collected the Mike Snell
Friendship Award for 1996. The
prestigious Kevin Kennedy
Memorial Award went to Jamie
Emily Weer receives her Outstanding Senior Female Ath-
lete Award from assistant principal Sue Dutton as principal
Ron Burrows looks on.
Hill. "I had no clue I would ever
be selected as the Kevin Kennedy
winner."
Both Hill and classmate Dun-
ning were especially moved to re-
ceive the Bill Degnan Award. "It
was an emotional award because
everybody loved Mr. Degnan.
I've known him since fourth
grade, so he goes back a long way
in my life."
"It meant so much to me," said
Hill. "I knew who Mr. Degnan
was since I was a little kid. My
first contact with him in track was
at field day in sixth grade. He
came up to me and told me I
should try to run track. I thought,
'Yeah,, right,' but I did eventually
do just that. He used to kid me
about that field day for years after
• that." Both she and Dunning are
headed to the University of
Delaware in the fall.
Emily Weer's senior year in-
cluded individual all-state honors
and a team state championship in
field hockey, an MVP award for
winter track, and the "hustle"
award as a starter on Cape's first
girls' soccer team. She shouldn't
have been surprised at her "Out-
standing Female Athlete" award,
but she was.
"I didn't even know they did
that," she said. "Or I guess I nev-
er thought that they (the coaches)
would pick me. Sportswise, this
Degnan (c) is shown
ning.
has been a great senior year --
fun, yet very successful." Weer
plans to continue her sports career
at Appalachian College, where
she received a scholarship for
hockey.
Senior transfer student Darnell
Strand got everybody's attention
early in the school year, averaging
more than 100 yards a game at the
beginning of the football season
only to be sidelined with a leg in-
jury in the Glasgow game which
would plague him all season. He
finished out the year as a member
with Jamie Hill and Dale Dun.
of Cape's "rebuilding" basketball
team, a crew which made it to the
state finals, and as a hurdler on
George Pepper's Viking track
team.
"I got to know everybody in the
school during football season be-
cause the players introduced me to
other people. Playing basketball
also helped," he said. "All in all,
it's been a happy senior year for
me."
Offensive lineman Harley Jones
was "shocked" at his selection for
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