NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

STEPHANIE Hume (foreground) and her Collingwood

Cavalier teammates capture the B.C. Single-A
Basketball Championships in Rossland on March 2,

lunior gicis’ basket-
plie ‘up:a stunning 26-3
to the Vancouver &

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

LIONS Bay mogul skier John Smart retired
from the Canadian World Cup team after win-

ning a bronze medai at the
Nationals in Aprit.

Jan. 14: West Vancouver Highlanders
senior girls’ basketball team places second in the
annual North Shore Firefighters’ Tournament.

Jan. 19: West Van’s Maélle Ricker, 17, and
Bowen Island’s Claire Smith, 15, are selected to
represent Canada at the Junior Snowboarding
World Championships in Japan.

Jan. 27: Collingwood Schooi goes unde-
feated en route to the title at the 1996 Cleveland

. Invitational Girls Elementary Basketball
‘Tournament.’ - :

“ FEBRUARY

Feb. 1: Capilano College men’s basketball

, team snaps a 10-year losing streak against

-” Langara 4s they clip the Falcons wings in a reg-
ular season game.

Feb. 3-4: Chena Swim Ciub members
Alison Atkinson, Kristine Lowric and Lissa

“ MeQuitty stroke to gold medal performances at
the North Van club’s annual swim meet.

Feb. 24: Carson Graham wrestlers Amir
Ghahreman and Shannon Samler and West
Van’s Monika Momeni win gold medals in
their respective weight classes at the 32nd annu-
al B.C. High School Wrestling Championships.

MARCH

March 9: Cap College badminton player
Phil Allard wins a silver medal at the Canadian
College Badininton Championships.

March 14: Handsworth graduate Andrew
English, a standout receiver with the UBC
Thunderbirds, is drafted by the B.C. Lions
‘15th overall in the Canadian Collegiate draft.

March 14: Handsworth Royals girls’ gym-

‘nastics team win the gold medal at the B.C.
Triple-A High School Championships.

_-. March 28: Sutherland graduate David
* Elligott is named Simon Fraser University’s
Male Athlete of the Year for the second year ia

row.
‘+. March 31: North Shore Winter Club skater
“Keyla Ohs wins the ladies’ long and short pro-

grams .at the 17th annual North Shore

Invitational.
‘APRIL

April: West Van’s Mitsuru Nakagawa, 14, is
named to Canada’s under-15 cricket team.

April 27: North Shore Selects U-17
girls soccer team down Central FV Extreme
3-1 in overtime to win the Coastal Challenge

Cup.

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Canadian

JESSICA Monroe, of North Vancouver, strokes to a
rowing silver medal as part of the Canadian women’s
eight team at the 1986 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

The 1996 sports year

Friday, January 3, 1997 — North Shore News — 29

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May 3: West Van’s Biythe Hartley, one day
following her 14th birthday, shocks the diving
community as she takes a silver medal in the
women’s one-metre event at a Dive Canada
Mect in Montreal.

May 25: Sentinel’s Margaret Butler wins
the 3,000m cross-country race at the B.C. Track
and Ficld Championships. Molly Rae, of
Seycove, wins the long jump with a personal
best of 5.40m.

June 1: Sentinel Spartans win the B.C.
Triple-A Tennis Championships.

June 8: Windsor senior girls’ soccer team
caps an impressive season with a silver medal
performance at the B.C. Double-A
Championships.

June 30: North Van’s Keith Stark wins the
45-km cross-country race at the Kona American
Mountain Bike Challenge in Whistler.

OLY

July: North Yan lawn bowlers Jackie Nobbs
and Cathy Jeane bring :ome two gold and six
silver medals from the — Provincial
Championships.

July 25: North Shore Indians win the
Western Lacrosse Association regular season
with a 12-7 record.

July 19: Eleven North Shore athletes are in
Atlanta to compete in the 1996 Summer
Olympics. North Van’s Charmaine Crooks, a
five-time Olympian, leads the Canadian team
onto the field as the flag bearer. The other 10
athletes include: Janice Bremner, Grant
Connell, Bruce Deacon, Paige Gordon,
Margaret Langford, Cynthia Meyer, Tine
Moberg-Parker, Jessica Monroe, Alison
Sydor and Lesicy Tomlinson.

July 30: Alison Sydor cycles to a silver
medal in the first-ever Olympic cross-country
mountain bike race.

AUGUST

Aug. 2: Janice Bremner, of Lynn Valley,
wins an Olympic silver medal as a member of
Canada’s women’s synchronized swimming
team.

Aug. 4: North Van's Darcy Kosterewa, 16,
pitches her way to a Western Canadian
Championship gold medal as a key member of
Team B.C.

NEWS photo Terry Puters

SCULINGWOOD School juvenile giris’ 4 X 100m relay
team breaks a long-standing North Shore record on
May 14. (Left to right) Caroline Piggott, Rossi Thomas,
Tasha McNulty and Michelle Yeates combine for a
lightning quick time of 51.75 seconds.

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NEWS photo lirad Ledwidge

CARSON Graham’s senior boys rugby squad cap-
tures the B.C. Triple-A Rugby championsh
end of May at UBC.

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Aug. 18: West. Vancouver Oster. Andrea
Moody, 18, swims to two gold medal at the
Maritime Life Summer Nationals. .

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 5: The North Shore’s Sonia Fyna,
Connie McGuiness and Gerry Laakman win
table tennis medals at the B.C. Senior Games in
Kamloops. ‘ a

Sept. 8: Alison Sydor finishes fifth: in the
Honolulu World Cup mountain bike race, giving
the North Van rider. enough points to seal the
1996 World Cup women’s championship. ~

OCTOBER

Oct. 19: West Van skiing legend Franz:
Wilhelmsen is inducted into the Canadian Ski
Hall of Fame. : :

Oct, 29: Argyle and Collingwood play to a
2-2 tic in one of the best-ever North Shore high
school senior girls’ field hockey finals.

NOVEMBER -.

Nov. 12-13: David: Milne helps: pace :the
West Van Highlanders to a second place finish
at the B.C. High School Boys’ Cross-Country
Championships. Ba

Nov. 16: Cap College soccer. teams make
Canadian history as: they both” capture’ their -. .
respective national titles in Kingston. The
women blank University Coliege - of”.the
Cariboo 2-nil to repeat as national “champs,
while the men edge Fanshawe College.2-1

Nov. 30: Windsor. Royals:

North — Shore
Championships. Windsor running, back Matt
Bradshaw is named the game’s Most Valuable:

Player. 2

DECEMBER

Dec. 7: The North Vancouver Comboys —
consisting of players from the Gordon Strutridge. -
Football League — win the inaugural Nine-Man
B.C. Football Championships at UBC with ‘a
14-6 win over the Wellington Raiders:; « -

Dec. 14: Maéile Ricker wins a silver medal
in the halfpipe competition in her’ first-ever -
Snowboard World Cup event. -

Dec. 14: Flicka Gymnastic Club. member.
Lise Leveille wins a silver all-around: meda! dur-
ing the Women’s Elite Competition at Capilano
College. ; ——

NEWS photo Terry Petors®® ”

LONGTIME North Shore high school coaches (left to right)
Ed Pedersen, Mike Smith and Earf Henderson receive much
deserved B.C. Honor Awards in‘June.

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