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THE REIGNING world champion in World Cup Giant
Slalom will be decided in North Vancouver March 1 at the
Molson World Giant Slalom cvent at Grouse Mountain.

Top skiers Pirmin Zurbriggen of
Switzerland, Ingemar Stenmark of
Sweden and Jim Read of Canada
are expected to be among the ap-
proximately 80 competitors.

Two races will be held March 1
— at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. —
with only the top 30 skiers par-
ticipating in the second and world
champion-deciding run.

Also expected to race

JIM READ... expected to be one
of approximately 80 competitors.

Michael Tommy of Canada, Peter
Muller of Switzerland and recent
Olympic medalists Hubert Strolz
and Bernhard Ostrein of Austria.
The World Cup racers are
scheduled. to train for two days,

are "

Feb. 28 and 29, betore tackling the
1,271-metre course down North
Vancouver’s Grouse Mountain.

Selected primarily for its superi-
or technical qualities, the World
Cup run is a vertical drop of 350
metres from the Peak’s top to
Blueberry’s bottom.

Skiers will arrive following the
Olympics, but their performance
will have no bearing on their
World Cup standings other than as
practice and preparation.

On the day of the race,. the
mountain will open at 6 a.m. and
patrons must buy a ski lift ticket as
a type of admission to this racing
event.

For training runs, the mountain
wil} be open regular hours to let
fans — thousands of spectators
can be accommodated on race day
— take in the action.

“We're in very good shape,’’
said World Cup Giant Slalom
publicity director Valerie Lang.
“We're presently running the
groomers over the course in
preparation for training. We're not
worried in the least (about
weather).””

Spectators are asked to dress
warmly and extra parking and bus-
ing provisions have been arranged.
A drop-off area near the tram will
facilitate non-drivers.

When parking around the base
of the mountain has been ex-
hausted, parking wardens will
direct drivers to Cleveland Dam,
where they can park and then be
bused to the tram station. ‘‘We
don’t see a traffic problem at all,’’
said Lang.

**We proved ourselves worthy,”
Lang said of Grouse hosting the
event.

“We showed a strong suppor-

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Cap veteran

leads

AT 20, Glenda Knight is the
veteran on the Capilano College
Blues women’s basketball team.
Now in her third year as the
Blues’ captain, she’s seen the
team go from a group of
rookies to fast year’s provincial
winners to another team of
rookies.

A guard with strong defence
skills, Knight was B.C.’s most
, valuable college player last
year. And as one of the two
returning players at Cap, she
provides the inexperienced team
with leadership.

“Glenda’s a class person,”’
coach Greg Sharpe said. ‘‘She’s
liked by everyone who plays
against her for her sportsman-
ship, leadership and her skill
level."’

team

And she was Capilano Col-
lege’s outstanding basketball
player of the year for both 1986
and 1987.

A graduate of Terry Fox
Senior Secondary in Coquitlam,
Knight also won the Terry Fox
Award for her academic and
athlete abilities and for display-
ing an attitude that most
resembles Fox's.

Studying arts on an academic
scholarship, she had her pick of
post-secondary schools — for
both academics and basketball.

Although recruited by other
colleges and universities, she
was afraid of spending her
basketball career on the bench
if she went straight to universi-

ly.
Sharpe said there wouldn't be

ts - Wednesday. February 24, 1988 North Shore News

Hungry
for
Hungary

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MEWS photo Mike Wekstield

TOP WORLD skiers will be racing in the Molson World Giant Slalom at Grouse Mountain March 1 and the
Molson Downhill at Whistler March 5. Here, a skier in the 1987 World Cup race at Whistler nears the course's

end.

ting ski club in the Tyee Ski Club
and we were selected,’’ she said.
“There hasn't been an abundance
of technical races — slalom or
giant slalom in -—- North America
it is really quite unique.

“For anybody who is interested.
in skiing and wants to see some-
thing of world-class stature, it’s
right in their own backyard,"’ ex-
plained Lang.

For detaits on added public
transportation call B.C. Transit at
261-5100.

For more details on race times
or ucket prices call Grouse at
986-6262.

GLENDA KNIGHT ... return-
ing player to Cap Blues
women’s basketball team.

much chance of that happening.

“There’s no doubt in my
mind she could play university
ball. A coach from Montana
State appraoched me about
Gienda's eligibility — she
recognized the calibre of Glen-
da’s playing.”

See Coach
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