~ SPORTS Everything looks golden for NV teen equestrian Kristen Johnston and Gucci ride to medal at BC. Games WITH THE 1992 Summer Olympics just a@ memory now, young athletes across the globe are training their sights on the 1996 games and beyond. The North Shore is no excep- tion. Kristen Johnston, 16, of ‘North Vancouver has just completed her ~ first -stimmer of horse jumping competition, and if her standing in the B.C. Games in Port Alberni in, July. is any indication, her -% furure looks golden. Johnston and her “seven-year- old horse, Gucci, medal in the. ‘working hunter’ category at the competition. Though Gucci performed well: on the natural-setting course: — with jumps ranging. from 3 to 3% feet — Johnston -is now. entering in jumping competitions... . - On the last: weekend of August, ” the pair competed in a jumping -: snow in Maple Ridge. Considering it was the first jumping competi-' tion for both of them, their fifth--- ‘place finish was very. satisfying.’ ‘You get a teal‘adrenaline rush’ when you jump”: over. the set jumps,” said Johnston:::*‘I show-.. .. €d-in other categories. before, but- ’ ¥ didn’t: really like it: because it. - was kind of boring.’’ . oung tider” won a silver | By A.P. McCredie Sports Reporter definitely aiming for the Olym- pics, but she is still not sure which Games it will be. “Gucci is really athletic and likes to jump, but I still den’t know if she is Olympic potential. “It takes years of riding a horse to get to the communication level that is needec for that level of competition,”’ said Johnston. ‘‘I still don’t know if Gucci’s the one.” : Johnston — who began riding when she was eleven, and the next year began taking lessons —- rides ‘at least three hours a day, seven days a week. **I used to take piano lessons, but had to give them up because I ‘didn’t have the time,’’ she said. .. With the mighty Big Ben and rider Ian Miller in the twilights of their competition days, don’t be ‘surprised to hear’ about a girl from North Vancouver and her - horse becoming the darlings of the - is most : Canadian Equestrian team. - Water Running Clinic _ provides exercise kicks In.’ “what can - best be: _ described as an exercisé at . Tunning to stand: still, the Lonsdale. recCentre is Loffer- - ing. a Water Running Clinic . to. those tired of .the stand-" ‘ard Jogging and swimming. routines. Water running is a relatively ‘new form of water exercise origi- - nally prescribed for. athletic injury - rehabilitation, but is gaining Pop- ‘ularity.. as -an’ alternative training ‘method: “It’s great for improving flex- . ibiiity; muscle~ conditioning and cardiovascular endurance,’ says Janka Corewyn, who has taught water running clinics in Vancouver and on the North Shore. In water running, the legs and arms move with the same motion as in normal running, but the buoyancy of the water allows the runner to avoid the physical stress Seniors bring ring THREE “NORTH Shore women each won three medals in the table tennis competition at the recent B.C. Senior Games held in Dawson Creek on the last weekend of August. Jessie Coddington of West Vancouver won the gold medal in ladies’ singles in her age group, the silver medal in ladies’ doubles and the bronze in mixed doubles. In her age division, West Van- couver’s Sonia Fynn also returned of pavement pounding, while . resistance of the water gives mus- cles a workout. As with any exercise, water running should siart slowly, and as technique and’ endurance im- Prove, the speed and length of the. workout can be gradually increas- e “*Water runners are often in- jured athletes or triativletes look- ing for variety or a way to main- tain their conditioning.” © says Corewyn. “It also attracts swim- mers looking for a.change from_ lap boredom.”’ Corewyn will be leading a “Water Running clinic on September 26 at the Lonsdale recCentre between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.. The clinic will concen- trate on technique without buoy- ancy devices and will include video analysis. For more informa- tion, or to, register, call 987- PLAY. home medals home with the gold medal in ladies’ singles and in mixed dou- bies, and the silver in ladies’ dou- bles. And winning the silver medals in both singles and doubles in her age group was North Vancouver resident Connie McGuinness, who also brought home the gold in mixed doubles. 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