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17 - Wednesday, December 11, 1985 - North Shure News

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rd the finish line:

Winter Club skaters win big

NORTH SHORE

skaters

left the competition

rinks behind over the weekend, winning all the
singles titles in both junior and senior events at
the 1985 B.C. figure skating championships held

in Chilliwack.

Shannon Altison, who
trains under Cyothia
Trudeau at the North Shore
Winter Club, fed the way for
the local team taking the
junior lidies’ tide. The 13-
year-old) Coquitlam girl
wowed the competition's
five judges with a scin-

lillating display oof free-
skating.

Other from othe
powerful NSWC team in-
cluded Rosemarie Sakic,
who won the senior women's
title and Brad Melean, who
skated away with the senior
men’s gold medal. NSWC's

Winners

Norman Proft) toak the
compention’s junior men’s
secon. cd#ing our Scott
Rachuk of the Comox Valles
Shannyg Club.
In novice
NSWC's Jody
Rob Williams took
while Shelly Mackin
Dase Dresdor? placed
in junior dance. The gold
med.al in junior dance went
to Burnaaby’s Rod and Cyn-
thin Mackie.
Though
missed in

the
and
first,
and
third

pairs,
Barnes

club
and

focal
novice

the
ue

pre-novice singles events, its
overwhelming showing
secured the best club avecall
trophy for the third sear
running,

Linds  Brauckmann has
been a figure skating couch
atthe NSWC for the past 23
years. The club's showing itt
the Chilliwack competitions
over the past weekend iy
consequently no surprise to
her.

Brauckmann, who has
nurtured some of the best
figure skating talent to come

our of the Lower Mainland
including Karen Magnussen,
said) Monday the seeret to
the success of the NSWC
program is consistenev: “We
have a very good, well-
established skating program.
We've mngintiined consisten-
ex by keeping good veteran
coaches, but we've also en-
sured the program's en-
thusiasin and spirit with the
addition of vounyger
coaches."

She added that the NSWC
has had a fivure skating

program since it opened in
February 1958. The reputa-
tion of the North Shore club
is now such that it attracts
skaters, not only from all
areas of the Lower
Mainland, but from all areas
of the world.

The top four skaters in
each event from the BOC.
championships quality for
the Western Canadian
championships, which will
be held Jan. 9 to (1 in Delta.

The national junior title
will be held in’ February.