NAME: Danielle Tegart SCHOOL: Handsworth GRADE: 12 SPORT: Sr. gymnastics LEVEL: Four COACHES: Michel Leveille, Marianne Smee, Amy L. Wrigh~ Danielle won the Level Four all-around title at the North Shore champi- onships with a total score of 37.55 by finishing first three of the four events (vault with a mark of 9.00, beam with 9.65 and floor exercise with 9.50) and placing second to teammate Kelsey Patton in the uneven bars (9.40). a NAME: Wes Boden SCHOOL: Sutherland GRADE: Nine SPORT: Juvenile basket- ball POSITION: Centre COACE: -3! Rose Wes scored 25 points in Sutherland’: 49-38 vic- tory over Handsworth in the North Shore champi- onship game. Selected to the all-star team in all four tournaments in which his team played this season, he has led the Sabres to an overall record of 35-1 going into the Vancouver & District playotts. Selections are made by the North Shore Sccondary Schools’ Athletic Association based on outstanding performences in school competition. Blues honored THREE Cap College ath- letes have been named to B.C. all-star teams. Badminton doubles’ part- ners Alison Paterson and Francesca Setiadi and basket- ball player Linnae Bee were named to their respective provincial all-star squads for exemplary regular season play. In addition, Setiadi was named as the Canadian College Athletic Association’s Athlete of - the month, and as a nominee for CCAA Athlete of the Year honors. The Blues’ double’s team wer: undefeated this sea- son en route to the B.C. gold medal, and are favorites to win gold atthe — Badminton Nationals in) Edmonton this week. Bee was selected a B.C. first team all-star following 2 strong regular season in which she fin- ished third in league scoring (15.72 average). — Andrew McCredie north shore news ee LINDSAY Sparkes is welcomed home by her Grade 6 students upon her return from Nagano, Jap.an. Golden greeting for coach =} Robert Gaister News Reporter robert@nsnews.com A North Vancouver ele- mentary school teacher was given a hero’s wel- come upon her arrival at Carisbrooke school last week. The reason tor all the fuss was the return of one of their own from Nauano, Japan, site of the 1998 Winter Olympics. Lindsay Sparkes was part of the Canadian women’s curling team’s coaching staff that helped the Canucks clainy the gold medal. As a coach, she dida't get a medal, though her ettorts didn’t go unnoticed. “The medal I got is the one Kids made for me when F came home,” said Sparkes, who served as a co-coach of the top team. Sparkés’ ties to curling are rooted with her family and its assaciation with the North Shore Winter Club. “To used to figure skate and when [ finishe’ skating my brother, father. av tamily curled and [ started curling,” said: Sparkes. “EP gor hooked immediately on the spot. | Joved it.” She continued curling in university, where she hooked up with three other North Vancouver residents — and formed ao cink with 2 big future. Bur first they had to complete their studies. “When owe finished (school) we plaved out of the winter club and we won the national title twice,” said Sparkes. Although it went bv a dif- ferent name then, the 1976 and 1979 national tides were the equivalent of today’s Scott Tournament of Hearts. The team disbanded short- lv atter the second tide, but Sparkes wasn't done with the sport. She became part of another squad and by the mid- “80s found herself’ among the sport’s elite once again. In 1985 her squad cap- tured the world championship crown and followed the feat by tultiting a dream. The “SS Winter Olympics in Calgary were the first Olympics to include curling — albeit on a demonstration sport basis. Sparkes’ rink represented Canada and came away with the gold medal, an experience Sparkes will never forget. Soon after she retired from curling as a player. The Canadian Curling Association approached her shortly there- after. Sparkes became involved with the association's coaching program and since "92 has worked with the Canadian rinks heading to the world championships. A Saskatchewan rink skip- pered by Sandra Schimirler has acomplished that feat three times since then. “When I first started working with them in “93 Sandra asked’ me how thes could keep it together for tive years so they can go to. the Olympics,” said Sparkes. “It's been wonderful to see them achieve a dream of gold at the Olympics.” TOUCH FOOTBALLBC REGISTRATION Don’t worry about it. 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