December 9, 2019
Alumnus Sandy Roadcap says “girls’ sports took a back seat to boys’ sports” in the 1970s.
Amy Sackett was the only girl on the Cross Country team in 1974. There were 25 other members on the team, all of whom are boys.
Although Sandy Roadcap refers to LFHS as “progressive,” she says that “girls’ sports took a back seat to boys’ sports.”
In 2019, the only cross country runner to reach State was female.
Bromide Gas is your Pass out of Gym Class
If you were a girl hoping to get out of your first day of class for PE, which was the swim unit, you were in luck. As you would enter the locker room at 12:30, the air would reek of a suffocating and thick smell. Quickly you would have been evacuated because of a gas leak from the bromide tank!
The problem was quickly solved after the Lake Forest Fire Department came to fix the leak within 10 minutes, but one student ended up at the Lake Forest Hospital. Lucky for you and a bunch of other students, afternoon PE classes were canceled for the rest of the day. Sadly, the PE classes would continue the next day despite the bittersweet miracle of the bromide gas leak.
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