Remembering the ‘77 Buffies

If you were a girl attending Greybull High School in the years prior to 1970, you know that the only activities for female students was being a member of the Pep Club, wearing gold and blue sweaters and cheering on your male counterparts in football and basketball.
Julie Werbelow Valenzuela said her older sister Christine told her that volleyball started when she (Chris) was a sophomore, which would have been in 1970-71. Julie’s cousin, Connie Werbelow, recalled that the conference was established when “I was a sophomore, which would have been 1973-74.”
Both recalled the pickup games with Buffalo, Lovell, Worland, Basin and Cody.
In a photo taken when Julie was a freshman, the players wear bibs with numbers. Her freshman year, they were coached by Sheryl Barnett.
The program took a turn for the better in Julie’s junior year when Fran Paton Childers took over the helm.