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Jan-Christian Scrensen
Sports Reporter

_ porensen@nsnews.com
THEY may nor be
bringing back any
hardware, but North
Shore athletes will have
a lifetime of memories

.. from the Sydney

Summer. Games.

@ North Vancouver's Blythe
Harucy dnished 10th in’ the
women's three-metre spring:
board final on ‘Thursday after
placing seventh in the pretimi-
narics and = semilinals on
Wednesday. Hartley alse
teamed with partner Erin
Bulmer to grab fifth spot in
the women’s synchronized
three- metre springboard final
an Sept, 23,

THE popular high school Athletzs of the Week fea-
ture has returned to the North Shore News for its sev-
enth year. Highlighting the sporting achievements of ster-
dents trom schools. in the North Shore Secondary
Schools’ Athletic Association; it wili continue to appear
each Sunday throughout the school vear.

In 1998, it won the “Promotion Plus”

media award

for its outstanding example of a sports feature displaying

gender equality.

“NAME: Erin Gjernes ‘
- SCHOOL: Handsworth
GRADE: 12
"SPORT: senior volleyball
=» POSITION: Power hitter
‘COACHES: | Michelle
Muldoon . and Laurie
Martin: =:

THE’ SCOOP:
-. Handsworth’s. co-captain
- with Kendra Samson, Erin

executed smart offensive |

play, beautiful kill shots
and. perfect serving as the
Royals: finished a | very
respectable third in .the

,30-school Malaspina

“Invitational: in Nanaimo *
last weekend. After an 8-2

“record ‘gave them first
place in their - pool,
Prandsworth handled West
Vancouver in two straight

: games in the quarter-finals
before succumbing | to
-. Belmont of Victoria 2-0 in

SCHOOL: Windsor
GRADE: 11 :
SPORT: senior football
POSITION: tailback
COACHES: Steve
Martin, Ken McKinnon
and Kory Lonneberg

THE SCOOP: . .The -
provincial leader in yards _
per carry (16.96 average
on 27 carries), Dallas piled:
up 167 yards and ‘three
touchdowns (now six for
the season) in a 40-0 win
over Abbotsford last week.
Ic- was the Dukes’ -third
straight exhibition victory,
following similar ‘romps
over John: Gliver, 42-6,
and Frank Hurt, 42-0.
Windsor hosts
Handsworth in the league
opener on Saturday at
1:30 p.m.

Selections are made by the North
‘Shore Secondary Schools’ Athletic
Association based on outstanding
performances in school competition.

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NAME: Dallas Hunt

‘Gap’s Chan honoured —

- CAPILANO College’ s Julia Chan was selected as

the British Columbia Colleges Athietic

. Association female athlete of the week for the
-week ending September 24.

“ SChan;:who is in her. first year of studies at the College,

scored a goal on a penalty kick and assisted on the game winner
with 30 seconds leit to play as the Blues edged out the reigning

nati
3- 2.

‘season record to 2

pial champion Cariboo College last weekend by a final of

“Heading i into play this weekend the Blues had evened their
. Yesterday the women visited. Malaspina

‘Sand today square ¢ ol against Douglas College in a home contest

at noon.

— Jan-Christian Sorensen

— SPORTS ———_——

How fifteen athletes with
local ties fared at the Games

& Alison Sydor, a North Van
native that now calls Victoria
home, finished fifth in) the
women’s cross country moun-
ain bike final Sept. 23.

@ Five North Shore ticld
hockey players — Peter
Milkovich, Paul Wettlaufer,
lan Bird, Chris Gifford and

‘Mike Mahood — all repre-

sented Canada at the Games.
‘The team tied Pakistan 2-2 in
its first game; lost 2-10 to
Germany; lost 5-2 to) the
Netherlands; tied = Great
Britain 1-1; tied Malaysia 1-t:
and defeated Poland 3-2. The
Canadian side was scheduled
to play Spain vesterday in a
batdle tor ninth place.

@ Lise Léveille, who fives in
Burnaby but has trained with
North Vancouver's Flicka
Gyninasties Club since she was

three, ended up placing 31st
in the women’s gymnastics
preliminaries. The Canadian
team: placed ninth overall.

@ West Vancouver's Beth
Calkin posted an Lith place
finish in the women’s Europe
sailing fleet races on Tuesday.
@ North Vancouver's Carol
Montgomery was set to make
history —as the — first
Canadian woman to partici-
pate in ewo events at the same

Olympics — but her hopes of

competing ins the 10,000-m
were dashed when she collided
with another biker during the
cycling == portion — of — the
triathlon event early in’ the
Games. She did not finish the
triathlon and could not start
the 10,000-m because of what
is believed to be a broken
wrist.

“ uns Lynn Valle sea

represented at

@ Cynthia Meyer, who hails
from Bowen Island bur now
cally the Big Apple home, tin-
ished 0th in) the women’s
shooting trap competition and
fitth in the shooting double
trap final,

@ North Vancouver water
polo plaver Sue Gardiner
helped the Canadian team to a
2-2-2 record at the games.
The national reps ted their
first two tilts against Russia
and USA 7-7 and 8-8, respec-
tively; defeated Kazakhstan
twice by scores of 10-3 and 9-
8; and lost to the Netherlands
and Australia 7-4 and 9-4,
respectively.

B North Vancouver's Jamie
Cartwright-Gariand_ placed
15th in his first qualifying leg
of the men’s canoe. singles
event on Sept. 17 but was
bounced in the second qualifi-
cation with the same 15th
place finish.

@ West Van badminton player
Brent Olynyk’s Olympic ride

same to an end on Sept. 17th
when he and partner Brent
Moody were deteated in sec-
ond-round action by jens
Eriksen and Jesper Larsen of
Denmark. Olvnyk and Moody
had varlier taken their first-
round matchup against China.
In mixed doubles, Olynyk and +
Quebee’s Robbyn Hermitage
were knocked out of con-
tention after posting a_ first-
round loss to Germany's
Simon Archer and Joanne
Goode on Sept. 16.

B. Liens Bay kayaker
Margaret Langford kept get-
ting continually better in her
qualifving runs. but couldn’r
make progress fast enough to
make the podium. She fin-
ished 17th in her first qualify-
ing run, 15th in her next and
l4th in her first fiaal run on
Sept. 18. That same day, how-
ever, her progress was halted
at a 13th place finish in the
final medal round of ‘the
event.

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