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By Andrew McCredie

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for a bit, and when I wanted
to get back my partner had

Sunday, August 24, 1997 — North Shore News — 45

and the May meet was the
IMCO longboard, so for me

getting ready for her third
year in Human Kinetics at

Athletes win medals at Summer Games

-"NIKOLA Girke, 19,salled to the bronze medal in
’ women’s INCO-ciass windsurfing at the recent
‘ ‘Summer Games in Brandon, Manitoba.

Sports Editor
andrew@nsnews.com

WHAT once was a
hobby is now a possi-
ble carcer for Nikola
Girke.

The 19-year-old is one of
a number of North Shore
athletes who returned from
the Canada Summer Games
in Brandon, Manitoba with
medals

Girke, of West Vancouver,
won a bronze medal in
women’s [MCO windsurf-
ing. An accomplished sailor
— she’s competed at numer-
ous national and internation-
al Laser I competitions —
Girke seemed as surprised as
anyone at her medal-winning
performance on Pelican
Lake.

“1 just started windsurf-
ing for fun a few years ago;
when it was too windy to
sail, P'd just jump on a
board,” Girke said
Wednesday.

“Then J started getting
better and better at it. I did a
couple of races, and did pret-
ty good.”

The Royal Van Yacht
Club sailor qualified as the
solic Team BC women’s
Jongboard windsurfing
entrant in May by winning a
two-day competition.

“I was out of Laser sailing

teamed up with someone
else,” she says of her decision
to take a shot at the Canada
Games windsurfing competi-
tron.

“I usually sail shortboard,

News photo Terry Foters
DARCY Kesterewa
(above) of North
Vancouver played her
part in history as the
short stop on the goid-
medal-winning Team
B.C. U-19 softball team.
in the 30-year history of
the Canada Games,
British Columbia had
never captured the
women's title.

it was a new thing.”

The accomplished sailor
combined her sailing tactical
skills and her shortboard
windsurfing skills to take the
top spot and the subsequent
berth at the Canada Games.

She aiso credits her spon-
sor, West Vancouver fawver
John Richardson, for her
success,

Girke is unsure if a wind-
surfing carcer is in the cards,
and says right now she is just

PROUDLY wearing their freshly-minte

the University of British
Columbia.

“I want to keep on doing
well at school, and Pll just
windsurf whenever,” the
West Van grad says.

She adds thar “one day,
potentially, yes” she might
aspire to the World Cup
windsurfing tour.

Girke has lived on the
North Shore for 14 years,
and learned how to sail at the
Eagle Harbour Yacht Club.

ad. Canada .

Games gold medals, five North Shore soccer players
arrive at Vancouver airport fast Saturday night. (Left

to right) Carmen Turner, Rosalyn Hicks,
Lyndsay Klerkson and Sarah

ian Hicks,
unningham played on.-

the under-20 Team BC that blanked Quebec 4-0 in the’
championship final. Gillian, a defender, scored. the
opening goal, which proved to be the game winner...

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