DECATHLON TEAM HEADING HOME NATIONAL WINNERS RETURNING AS HEROES.Byline: Erik N. Nelson Staff Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Laden with bags of polar bears with purple scarves, native artwork and knickknacks, El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
The nine seniors, who captured the national title by a few hundredths of a percent, spent part of Sunday on a boat tour that included students from second-place James E. Taylor High School James E. Taylor High School, also known as Katy Taylor High School, is a public high school in Harris County, Texas, near the city of Katy. The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Katy Independent School District. in Katy, Texas Katy is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The city is located partially in the counties of Fort Bend, Waller, and Harris. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Katy's population was 11,775. . ``We're all really tired,'' said Ryan Rudy, a member of the Woodland Hills' school team. ``A lot of us slept part of the way.'' And while the rival teams sailed together, they were clearly not in the same boat. One group basked in victory, while the other was likely thinking about the one question on one test that could have tilted the spotlight in their direction. ``It could have just as easily gone their way as our way, so we could really understand how they felt,'' Ruby said. For the first time in nearly a year, it was time for all the competitors to become normal teen-agers again, to put the minutia mi·nu·ti·a n. pl. mi·nu·ti·ae A small or trivial detail: "the minutiae of experimental and mathematical procedure" Frederick Turner. of psychoanalytic theory Psychoanalytic theory is a general term for approaches to psychoanalysis which attempt to provide a conceptual framework more-or-less independent of clinical practice rather than based on empirical analysis of clinical cases. , immunology and microeconomics microeconomics Study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of total production and income among them. It considers individuals both as suppliers of land, labour, and capital and as the ultimate consumers of the final behind them - for the moment. ``I don't want to do my makeup work, and there's a lot of things that need to be taken care of before summer and college come around,'' said team member Elan Bar, who added that he was looking forward to resuming his job as managing editor of the school newspaper. Before that, there will be a reception of students, teachers, administrators and even the school band when the team disembarks at LAX about 2 p.m. Then there will be visits with the governor and legislators in Sacramento, with the Los Angeles mayor, City Council members and school board members. And maybe, if local members of Congress can convince him, the president. The time following the victory was also time for the platoon of teachers - who helped guide the students through more than 1,000 hours of studying, speechmaking, interviewing and essay-writing - to puff out a little about their students' major-league accomplishment. ``To bring back that second title, it really establishes us as one of the national powerhouses,'' said Dave Roberson, a retired decathlon coach who is assisting the team's two second-year coaches, English teachers Chris Cerone and Melinda Owen. Roberson, along with co-coach Mark Johnson, coached El Camino to its 1998 national title. The win also confirms that the new coaches can continue the school's winning legacy, but Owen shrugged off her contribution. ``Even without us, the program would be doing very well,'' she said. ``I think the program itself is so successful because its support base is wider than its coaches and its individual students.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: El Camino Real's team includes, from left on front row, coach Melinda Owen, Aria Haghighi, coach Chris Cerone, Middle row, Samantha Henry, Dennis Kuo, Grace Giles. Back row, Ryan Ruby, Scott Lulovics, Elan Bar, Alan Wittenberg and Walter Ching For the Chinese surname Ching 程, see . For the Chinese dynasty, see . The ching (Thai: ฉิ่ง; sometimes romanized as chhing) are small bowl-shaped finger cymbals of thick and heavy bronze, with a broad rim commonly used in Cambodia and . Al Grillo/Special to the Daily News |
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