Portal:1991 Spring Women/Memorable Events
Traveled to Marti Gras via School bus but had to leave prior to the championship match for their 20 hour ride home!
The blue school bus... trips to San Diego, St Louis, Mardi Gras, Dallas, Houston
Laura Piper (prop/2nd row) was on the team (very sad that she died in the shooting down of the Black Hawk sometime mid 90s), Mo Barrett (FH/IC) broke her clavicle in the Princeton match, and after graduation, Lisa Viertel got married to a West Pointer and we never heard from her again...
The Bowl Trophy (metal bed pan) we won at the 1991 Champagne Classic and a picture are up on the wall in Arnold Hall (as of 2012)
More from the EPIC spring break trip (from Dar Schultz Smallman and others): Vern Avery was a VERY interesting individual and he set up this well planned spring break trip. We rented RVs (I remember Heidi on the phone bargaining for the RV prices) and piled in them from his house to California. I distinctly remember the looks on our faces when he insisted on shoving an old huge screen box (probably had tubes in it, any way it was probably a 4x4 foot box into the RV along with a Video Cassette tape recorder and I think an antenna or dish so that he could watch some rugby tournament that was occurring while we were on the road. We were driving through the mountains and a ton of people got car sick (Dar, who didn't want to watch the vomiting, crawled up in the upper sleeper). And then somewhere along the way one of the RVs broke down, so we had to pile everyone into fewer RVs and still people were getting sick (not drinking just car sick). Dar and 3 others were up top, arranged longitudinally, one at the head and one at the feet to avoid the vomit carnage below. We also had a bunch of frozen meat from Mitch's which we stored in the bathrooms and we must have cooked it along the way, but the bathroom tubs were full of frozen food. Finally two of us (Margo and Dar) cleaned out the "shitter" (reference to the "shitters full" line in national lampoon's vacation) by hooking it up to the sewerage pipe at various stops. We camped on the beach at Pendelton and some other not well remembered placed. Coach got upset when he was trying to find us all to get to a game after we took the RV out on the town and people went in all sorts of directions. Not much is remembered about the rugby play except we ran at the beach, the teams were very good, and the men's team was in LA. It rained in SoCal for what seemed like 10 days straight after 6 years of drought... some spring break! There were the usual team girl squabbles and Vern was in a bad mood (some family issues). Some of the team rented a car, drove to LA, stayed with friends, partied with the men's team, met up with one of squadron mates and drove home separate from the team. The EPIC spring break trip (from Hell)
