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34 - Sunday, May 25, 1986 - North Shore News

Sports |
Gymnasts tumble to Quebec

BILL HALSALL, above, of the North Vancouver
Special Olympics track and field team practises jumping
hurdles with a broomstick. Below, the squad readies to
begin long jump practice.. The team of 30 will join hun-
dreds of other athletes in Kamloops this weekend for the

annual Olympics event.

PHOTOS BY
MIKE WAKEFIELD

FOURTEEN gymnasts from the
North Shore will be in Quebec this
weekend for the Canadian Cham-
pionships being held in Chicoutimi
May 22 to 25.

The four seniors and five juniors
presently train in North Vancouver
under the 1988 Best Ever Program.

They will be joined in Quebec by
their new coach Sona Kobylakova,
former head coach of the
Czechslovakian national team.

The four seniors are led by pro-
vincial “and western champion
Sandra Botnen, 16, who, along
with 17-year-old Tracy Wilson, is
ranked in the Canadian top 10,

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The pair finished eighth and
llth respectively at the nationals
last year.

The other two B.C. seniors arc
Miriam Michel and Kristin
Wingfield both 15 year olds are in
the top 25 of the country.

Five of the six-rmember junior
B.C. team are with the Best Ever
Program. They include provincial
champion Jeanette Hrubes, 15, of
Kelowna, 14-year-old Ursula Trpin
of North Vancouver, Surrey’s Lisa
Onno, 15, and Michelle Burr, 16,
of Coquitlam,

The quartet finished in the top
four places at t the recent provincial

championships,

Heather Andrews, 14, of
Kelowna was B.C.'s top junior at
the first national selection com-
petition of the year in March,

The sixth member of the junior
team is Prince George’s Ginger
Ferns.

In the novice division, four
Flicka gymnasts are in Quebec.

They are led by provincial
champion Helen Carmichael, 13,
and Kathy Udorovic, 12, both of
North Vancouver and Krista On-
no, 11, of Surrey.

Kim Gilbert, 10, is the alternate
for the team.

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