Snowy sail-past ~ NEWS photo Terry HIGH FLYING: A competitor sails past the judges stand and the media on Blackcomb Mountain Sunday during the aerial component of the Fiberglas Canada World Cup Freestyle Championship jJast weekend. Quebec’s Lioyd Langlois, 27, won the men’s aerials while Kirstie Marshall, 21, won the women’s gold in aerials. Local players make Olympic team FIVE OF 23 soccer players named by the Canadian Soccer Association to the 1992 Oiympic team come from the North Shore. By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter The players are now on contract with CSA where they receive between $250 and $450 each month as well as tuition fees at a post-secondary institution. West Vancouver’s Tony Waiters is coaching the Olympic squad. Named to the team is Capilano College striker Mike Dodd, Mark Watson, Scott Macey, who plays for the 86ers, Scott Munsen and Eamonn Ward. In May the team will head south to play in the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying matches. Approx- imately six teams will play in tre tourney with the top two countries qualifying for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. North Vancouver soccer coach Vince Alvano, now retired, coached nine of the 13 B.C. players selected for the team including Watson, Munsen and Ward. The three played on B.C.'s Canada Games soccer team in 1989 which was managed by Janet Peterson of North Vancouver. Alvano estimates that 90 per cent of the 23 players chosen for the team from across Canada will play in the Olympics. A teacher and counsellor at Argyle, Alvano credits youth associations from West Vancouver, North Vancouver and Lynn Valley with the strong showing of the North Shore soccer players. “*As much as I would like to think that | have some small part in their development, | think a lot of time the grassroots organizations are forgotten,"’ Alvano said. “*It’s easy to polish off a finished product but it’s more difficult to make a product,"’ he said. Coaches Keith Watson, John Daley, Gerry Macey, Rick Grant and Eamonn Ward Sr. were intrinsic in. the growth of the players, said Alvano. 1991 - North Shore News - 13 cross-country championships DESPITE FOG, power outages and rain, the nationai cross-coun- try championships at Cypress Bowl finished as scheduled on Sunday. Im tne final race, the men's 50- kilometre freestyle, Al Pilcher of Ontario finished in first place with a time of 2:16:00.1 to net his third gold medal of the 199] nationals as well as the overall title for the second consecutive year. He edged Quebec's Yves Biledean by just under a minute. Bilodeau’s time of 2:16:57.4 was a good finish ahead of Quebec’s Berard Vermette who cruised into third place at 2:17:33.1. Meanwhile, in the women’s 30-kilometre freestyle, Jane Vin- cent of the Yukon won the race with 31:29:29.0. She was followed WV jocks for athlete TWO OF three athletes nominated for the junior athlete of the year award by Sport B.C. come from West Vancouver. : Diver Paige Gordon, a 1990 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist, has been nominated for the second year in a row. The 17-year-old won the junior athletic award for 1989, Other accomplishments in 1990 for Gordon include a silver and two gold medals at the national age group championships and a silver and two golds at the Cana- dian American Mexican Champi- onships. Gordon also set records by ear- ning two silver and two bronze medals at the Senicr Nationals in her first year of senior competi- tion and a fourth place on the three-metre event for Dive Canada FISHERMEN — AND women — are in for a treat next week as fishing guru Charlie White ar- rives in North Vancouver to give a four-hour fishing presentation. Held Jan. 22 at the North Shore Winter Club, White's Presentation includes video footage, slides, and a feature film called In Search of the Uhimate Lure, the sequel to Salmon Spectacular. A renowned underwater salm- on photographer, White is an in- ternationally respected authority on fishing. His presentation will include topics that range from finding fish, setting up gear and selecting the right lure, style and color to preparing fresh bait and a discussion of new discoveries in attracting fish with scent and color. White has written nine books on salmon and marine life in- cluding his latest, Charlie White's 101 Fishing Secrets. As well, he has developed a remote control underwater camera to study salmon strike behavior. by Angela Schmidt-Fuster of On- tario who finished at 1:29.33.3 but only after she nusjudged the finish of the race. Schmidt-Foster realized her mistake but couldn’t make the time to catch up with Vincent. Meanwhile, Jean McAllister of Alberta won a bronze at 1:29:40.0. Winner of the women’s overall title, Schmidt-Foster will be heading to Italy for the world championships next month with teammates Marie-Andree Masson of Quebec, FEucy Steete of Whitehorse, Vincent, and McAlister. On the men's teara for the world championships is Pilcher, Bilodeau, Pany Bouche;d of Quebec, Alain Masson of Quebec and Vernmetie. nominated of the year West Vancouver golfer Greg Trammell is also in the running for the junior athlete of the year. Trammell, 17, won the Van- couver and District Junior Golf Championships and the Canadian Junior Championship in 1990. As well, Trammell qualified for the Optimist World Junior Championships in California. With one year of junior golf eli- gibility left, Trammell has been granted exemptions to the 1991 Canadian Amateur Championship and the 1991 Canadian Junior Championship. The winner vill be announced at the 25th Sport B.C. awards banquet to be held March 9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Richmond athlete Camille Noel has also been nominated for the junior athlete of the year. Charlie White ... will give. fishing tips. His underwater close-ups, in freeze frame and slow motion, reveal how salmon and other species approach and_ strike various lures. White lives on the waterfront near Sidney on Vancouver Island, Sponsored by the North Shore News, White's seminar is packed with information for people of all fishing abilities.