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-WEST VANCOUVER’S
Lisa Brownlee was crowned
B.C.’s leading lady of fig-
ure skating at the Sun Life
- B.C. Figure Skating Cham-
pionships held Nov. 20-23
in Nanaimo.

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

Brownlee, 21, made a clean
sweep at the championships where
she captured the senior ladies’ ti-

_ tle, won an artistic award, and
also won the Sun Life Award of
Merit.

“*¥ didn’t really expect to win,”’
says Brownlee. ‘‘The girls who
came second and third are really
strong seniors as well.”’

The Sentinel grad is skating her
second year as a senior; she’s
.made one trip to the B.C. sections
before, as a novice.

Brownlee now advances to the

Western Canadian Divisional
Championships with competitors
from B.C., Alberta and Saskat-
chewan. The divisionals run Dec.
41-14 in Prince George.
’ **’m expecting it will be
_ tougher because you have the best
‘from everywhere.’”

In Nanaimo, Brownlee, who
_ skates’ for Hollyburn Country

Club, placed first in long program
and second in the original pro-
gram, which, she concedes, she
" “could have skated better.”

Her coach, Bob Rubens of the
North Shore Winter Club, also
“won the Edward S. Barton Award

for Brownlee’s long program

music, Firebird. (Her other coach,

also from NSWC, is Linda

Braackmann; her choreographer is
. Norman Leggatt.)

If Brownlee skates well in
Prince George, she could quaiify
for the Canadian championships

sto be held January in Moncton.
_So, how does she rate her chances
to qualify?

“Vd say my chances are as
gocd as anybody’s. I’m ready for
it.??

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Other results from North Shore
skaters at the B.C. championships
are as follows. The top four skat-

LASERS BNE:

B.C. SENIOR ladies skating champion Lisa Brownlee, pictured here at Hollyburn Country Club, ts
leading a contingent of North Shore figure skaters into the Western Canadian Championships to be

held next week in Prince Geozge.

ers advance to the western divi-
sionals championships except for
the pre-novice category.

@ Pre-novice ladies: Alycia
Gould, NSWC, gold medal,
Okanagan-Mainlin Region
Trophy;

@ Novice ladies: Lisa Daty.
NSWC, silver; Keyla Ohs, NSWC,
bronze; Tammy Wagner, NSWC,

*while Guartities
last! Black only

fourth and novice ladies artistic
award;

@Novice men: Mark
Vandekerkhove, NSWC, bronze;

@ Junior ladies: Kim Aaltonen,
NSWC, silver; Kristen MacKay,
NSWC, junior ladies artistic
uward;

@ Junior pairs: Melissa and
Christopher Coilins, NSWC, gold

and Hariey G. Andrews Trophy;

® Senior ladies: Lisa Brownlee,
HCC, gold and Roger Wickson
trophy; Lori Tanizawa, NSWC,
bronze.

Joining the skaters who quali-
fied for the western divisionals are
Adrian Robertson, senior ladies,
and Jodi Barnes and Rob
Williams, senior pairs. Vivien

NEWS photo Nell Lucente

Hannos, NSWC, will be the senior
ladies alternate while her team
mate Julie Avis is the junior ladies
alternate. Daly and partner Jef-
frey Zarin, NSWC, received a bye
in junior pairs.

The NSWC was awarded The
Province Trophy, an annual
award for the team with the most
medal placings.