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40 — Sunday. November 23, 1997 ~ North Shore News

SHOOTING was the
furthest thing from
Cynthia Meyer’s mind
Wednesday afternoon,
as the financial services
attorney plowed
through a mountain of
paperwork.

“Pm really busy at work
. <ight now,” Meyer said trom
her downtown) Manhattan

NAMES: Harman Sull
and Nick Voytcheff
SCHOOL: Sutherland
GRADE: 12
SPORT: Sr. soccer
POSITIONS: = Centre
back and striker.
COACH: Billy Coupland
Nick scored four key
goals and was named the
MVP ar the B.C. double-
A soccer championships,
while Harman was the
anchor of the defence and
was selected to the first
all-star team as the Sabres
won five games and the
tithe with a 3-2. victory
over Woodlands = of
Nanaimo in the final.

office. “Pm going to be here
forever.”

Four days earlier, however,
the former Bowen [sland resi-
dent was shooting her way to
a silver medal at the World
Championships in Lima, Peru.

“This is my second time
down there (Peru}, and the
people are great, and it’s a
great place to visit...” Mever
said of competing in’ Peru.
“It's a fittke tough to compete

NAME: Johanna Bischof
SCHOOL: Balmoral
GRADE: Nine

SPORT: Sr. cross country
EVENT: 4.6 km
COACH: Jane Pike

Johanna placed second
to Argyle’s Kristy Smith
in cach of this scason’s
juvenile league races, but
beat all the seniors and
juniors in the zone meet
to qualify. for the B.C.
Championships, — where
she finished 28th out of
238 competitors with a
time of 16:31 — just 13
seconds from a top 20 fin-
ish.

Selections are nade by the North
Shore Secondary Schools’ Athletic
Association based on outstanding

north shore news

@ SPORTS
Meyer wins silver at World Champit

there. Visibility is hard. the
range is difficulr.”

Mever placed second to
fralian Deborah Gelisio in the
double trap event at the sea-
son-ending Worlds.

“She killed us,” Mever said
of Gelisio, aicknamed “Boom
Boom” by tellow competitors.
“She outclassed alb of us.”

According to Mever, with

Gelisio shooting at the peak of

her game, the tight: was for

second as Mever and five or
six other competitors squared
off against one another.

“Ff wasn’t even really think-
ing about my score in’ the
final, but it worked our well.”
said) Mever. “Pm excited
about shooting again, which is
really nice.”

Following the Olympics
and the World Cup tinal in
Italy last summer, the 32-year
old put her guns away for tive

montis, Meyer placed a disap-
peinting Lith ar the Summer
Olympics, bur improved to
third in Italy.

“T needed to get away,”
she said in July, “I needed to
get the desire back in it.”

Today, she reports she is
fully focused and looking for-
ward to the [998 season,

“LT think the break was real-
ly important, at least for my
mental atritude, and [ve

nships

come back with a different
approach to things,” she said
Wednesday.

Mever will spend the win-
ter keeping her skills sharp in
preparation for the season
opening World Cup in Cairo
in March,

But betore she gets to that,
Mever has trained her sights
on that mountain of paper-
work,

— Andrew McCredie

Photo submitted

Barons best in Lower Mainland

THE Balmoral Barons rugby team (above) captured the Vancouver & District Grade 8 title witi: a 12-0 victory
over Cambie. In the North Shore final, the Barons blanked Carson Graham 14-0. Balmoral is coached by

Harald Heer.

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