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Tina Schroeder performs with the Pomalinks at Lincoln High School during a girls basketball
game Friday night.
Andy Campbell waits for his chance to play during Lincoln High's game against Fremont at
Pershing Auditorium Monday night
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By Dionne Scareey
Senior Editor
While most students at Lincoln
High School are struggling through
their first class of the day, Tina
Schroeder is showering, putting on
makeup and fixing her hair in the
locker room.
At 8 a m. Friday, she carries her
duffel bag down the halls, heading
for her locker. But her bag is not
full of books; it’s stuffed with the
Link-trademark red and silver
pompons.
Schroeder is a Lincoln High
Pomalink Livery day at 7 a m.,
Schroeder and the lo other drill
team dancers practice for their
basketball halftime shows. After
ward they have an hour to prepare
for the day ahead.
“It lakes a lot of commitment,”
she says.
Only juniors or seniors can try
outto be a Pomalink. Girls practice
a week before tryouts to be able to
perform the splits, flag, pompon
and jazz routines before judges.
This year about 60 students tried
out.
"The first year I was nervous,"
she says, but this year she was
confident at tryouts.
Being a member of an elite group
has had an impact on Schroeder’s
social life at school, she says.
Sometimes her classmates look up
to her or think of her as being
popular, Schroeder says.
“I never could understand that,"
she says. "I’m no different than
anyone else."
Schroeder says this attitude has
caused some hard feelings between
her and others.
"They say, 'Oh, you think you’re
too good for anyone else.’"
Does she think of herself as
popular?
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“Yeah, I don’t want to be con
ceited, but kind of, yeah," she says.
Because Schrocdcr fits the stere
otypical blonde-haired, blue-eyed
cheerleader image, she says she
sometimes is treated as if all she
can accomplish is dancing at
lalflimc.
“They say, ‘She can’t do any
thing else. She’s dumb,’” Schrocder
says. “I just try to ignore it. Some
one’s always going to say that to
you."
Pomalinks is a big part of Schroe
der’s oul-of-school life, t(K), she
says. Almost all of Schroeder’s friends
ire Pomalinks, she says.
“We’ve been together for so long.
. . . We’re used to each other.”
Schrocdcr says she’ll be sad at
her last Pomalink performance in
two weeks.
"I’ll probably start crying."
By Adeana Leftin
Senior Editor
Remember Moose from Archie’s
gang?
Tall, blond sport hero, ate like a
horse, built like a truck, but not car
rying a full load?
Well, Andy Campbell, a juniorat
Lincoln High, is a complete oppo
site.
OK — he is tall and strong and
he docs play on three different
varsity teams and could have un
usual eating habits.
BUT — he’s not blond, and he’s
- not dumb._ __
Campbell, 16, says people kind
of expect him to be stupid.
“But I like to prove them wrong
— try to, anyway."
The football quarterback, bas
ketball shooting guard and 800 and
2-milc-relay running hopeful has a
strong B average finishing up his
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junior year in high school and says
he shrugs off knocks from class
mates.
But, he says, "It depends on
who says it and how they say it.”
Campbell says he finds that many
- it
It just doesn’t take
talent for football.
You’ve got to get good
grades too.
Campbell
Lincoln High junior
-ft -
people look up to him because of
the position he’s in.
“ I m starling quarterback for var
sity .. . The people below you, on
the sophomore and junior varsity
teams, they want to be up there so
they look up to you to see what
they need to l>c at that level," he
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says.
His position has given him con
fidence, Campbell says.
He was very quiet last year, he
says, because he didn’t know any
one coming into a new school on
the bottom rung. But he says he
started to open up once he met
people, and he met people be
cause of sports.
“I think it’seasy to talk to people
because they know who you arc,”
Campbell said.
Campbell also is counting on
sports to help him pay for college.
He says he thinks he’ll study some
thing in science and that he will go
to school wherever he is offered a
football scholarship. But he says
his girlfriend is encouraging him in
his schoolwork.
“It just doesn’t take talent for
football," Campbell said. “You’ve
got to gel good grades too.”
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