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Slide Lakaya! Lakaya Butts Smile Brandi! Brandl Everett
warms up before the match aga1nst Live 1s well known around the area for bowling
Oak. Lakaya shows off her sk1lls 1n stnkes. Brandl 1s seen here 91V1ng 1t her
shadow bowling. The Lady Tigers beat all as she w1nds up to bowl another one of
Suwannee. her stnkes.

3 strikes, we aren't out ! !

This year Columbia High
School had an addition to
the usual sport's line-up. A
w female bowling team was
~ included th1s January 1n the
a:
t- school ;s variety of extra-
en curncular activities and
there was a tremendous
turn out of eager girls who

were ready to bowl! Approximately forty girls
s1gned up and twenty-two were on the team.
This 1s the first time that Columbia High has
ever had a bowling team but 1t was a needed
solut1on to a difficult problem. According to
Coach Owens there are a state and federal
mandates that require an equal number of
boy and g1rl sports. The state and local gov-
ernment do not 1nclude cheerlead~ng or
danc1ng as sports. "We had to balance the
scale," explained Coach Owens. If the female
bowling team had not been added, a boy's
sport would have had to be dropped.
The bowling team ended with a great record
and appears to be a permanent fixture in
Columbia H1gh School sports.
Strike for Perfection Dee Dee Arline

T1gersand she also bowls w1th Ja1me 1n
the Youth League Dee Dee f1nesses the
ball hopeful of a spare.

200, Bowling