PROMOTIGN PLUS AWARDS COMING North Vancouver's Charmaine Crooks is among the presenters at the Promotion Plus Leadership Awards on March 30. The awards recognize individuals and groups who work to increase opportuni- ties in sports and physical activity for girls and women. The North Shore News was a winner in 1999. The awards are at Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St. in Vancouver. Call 737-3075 for information. Capi Wednesday, February 9, 2000 —- North Shore News - 47 SKIERS WITH DISABILITIES TAKE ON HILL The disabled skiers’ B.C. championships are at Mount Seymour Saturday and Sunday. Racers will have two runs on a slalom course and on the giant slalom Saturday. New racers will gain experience on the Sunday in a 8 slalom race. Competitors wilt vie for berths in the national championships March 11-18 in Kimberley. For info, see . COVERING THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY iano RFC battle Seattle Bob Mackin Sports Reporter brackin@rnsnews.com: CAPILANO Rugby Football Club regis- tered its first Premier .league victory of 2000 Saturday. The Capilanos defeated .. visiting Seattle 26-17 at Kishanie Park in West Vancouver Saturday after two other Cap teams posted wins. The win over Seaetle equalled the season series at 1-1, Capilanos’ kicker Steve Eastman had two early kicks at goal for a 6-0 lead before prop forward Paolo De Cotiis notched the locals’ first try of the game. Seattle pulled within four points of Capilano, making it 11-7, on a converted try. Capilano winger Garth Prouse and scrum half Jeff Chalmers had successive tries. Chaimers stole the ball off a Seattle player in the isitors’ end zone. Eastman’s convert on the try gave Capilano a 23-7 . advantage at halftime. * Seattle had a converted try and penalty kick at goal to come within six points of Capilano. “But Eastman gave his side another three points for ahine point cushion to end the game. - The stage was set for the ‘win over Seattle when the first division Capilanos embarrassed the Kats 49-0. Cory Dunn’s ovo tries paced the Capilanos to a 13- 0 second division win over the Meralomas. The Kats third division side, meanwhile, doubled Cap 14-7. The only Capilanos’ team on the road was the women's side, which was defeated 22-10 by Nanaimo. The Premier side hits the road Saturday to play Bayside RFC at 2:30 p.m. in Delta. UBC matches against the Capilanos’ first and third division teams at Klahanie have been post- poned. The second division squad meets the Brit-Lions at Gordon Park in Vancouver. The women’s team returns to Vancouver Island for a kickoff with Campbell River. Capilano RFC is plan- ning a big two-day rugby blowoue the following weekend with five games on Feb, 19, plus a mini-rugby jamboree for as many as 400 rugger-kids on Feb. 20. The Capilanos’ first divi- sion side is third place in league standings. The team hopes to avenge an earlier loss to the Brit-Lions when play resumes Feb. 19. The team’s only other loss was against UBC in the first half of the season. Raquetballers geek national spot WORLD class rac- quctball players from North Vancouver will “be headJining a “ational doubles monitoring event Friday through Sunday in Vancouver. The top doubies players in Canada, including focal Kelly Kerr, will be vying for spots on the national team is weekend at The Club on Top, fifth floor of 1114 Alberni Sr. Kerr successfully defend- ed his 1998 doubles crown when he won the 1999 Canadian doubles champi- onship with partner Roger Harripersad of Calgary last May in Oakville, Ont. Kerr will be. competing on the same court as his younger sisters Amanda and Lisa. Lisa won the 1998 Elaine Tanner Award for outstanding Canadian junior female athlete after two gold medals at the 1997 junior World Championship in the girls under 16 and under 18 divisions. Kelly Kerr, 25, is a Saskatoon native who earned a business degree at the University of Memphis where he was the number one player on the university team. He is ranked number 16 in the world. The top players from ‘across the country will join forces to compete for Canada at April's Tournament of the Americas. The event fea- tures the best national teams in North, South and Central America facing off for the regional tide in Bolivia. —— Bob Mackin NEWS photo Pau! McGrath SHANAL Narayan (right) was third !n the orange end green belt division at the second annual Sato up Saturday at Capilano College's SportsPlex. More than 600 pecple competed in the 13-hour, Karate BC-sanctioned event. THE Sato Cup is quickly becom- ing one of the North Shore’s most popular sporting events. The second annual Karate BC~-sanc- tioned event moved to the Capilano College SportsPlex and was held over 13 hours Saturday. The first matches began at 9 a.m. and the event didn’t wrap up until after 10 p.m. Organizers budgeted for 500 competi- tors but were surprised when another 100 decided to register on the event day. Bob Thurston of Unison Way, the North Vancouver dojo which co-promoted the Sato Cup, said the 2001 tournament is like- ly to be held over two days, instead of one. More than 400 people watched the action, he said. They saw the B.C. team take the Sato Cup for the second consecutive year in a round-robin playoff against Alberta and a combined Washington and Oregon team. Grand champions were: Ryan James, Vancouver (junior men’s); Roy Tippenaur, Campbell River (senior men’s); Serey Sinn, Richmond (senior women’s); Charmaine Wong, Vancouver (junior women’s). Ken Kitaoka won the men’s black belt kata (combat) category. In kumite (forms), Hamid Taright (70-kg), Ali Gilanchi (80- kg) and Rollie Vos (+80-kg) were winners. Paul Hawkins took the men’s open, while Patrick Armstrong and Gail Thurston were masters open champs. Unison Way athletes took eight gold, four silver and cight bronze medals. Most of the medals were in kumite — or forms — instead of kata — combat. — Bob Mackin Exercise your children WHEN it comes to the overall welfare and develspment of our children, most parents go to great lengths in order to best prepare them for adulthood. We concern ourselves about appropriate inocula- sons when they are just babies and spend untold amounts of time helping them socialize as toddlers so that school becomes an enjoyable and natural exten- sion of their development. Once in the cogs of the learning system, great inter- est is (or at least should be) taken in their intellectual progress ensuring they are able to go on to advanced forms of learning and take their place in our society, but somewhere along the way a light goes off in many par- ents’ minds. They forget, for some inexplicable reason, that the vessel carrying around their arklebiters’ brains also needs to be constantly maintained. That there is little value in well developed cognitive abititics if they are physical derelicts. We invest money, our sweat and our tears in preparing youth for the chal- lenges they will encounter as mature adults, so why is it we lose sight of such an important element? Well for starters, 1 believe our public school system has to take some of the responsi- bility for churning out gen- eration after generation of what can only be described as physical illiterates. In fact, while discussing the issue with my wife recently, I asked her for her own impression on the sub- ject. . . Debbie is a North Shore physician with a specialty in sport medicine who always had a keen interest in human physiology both as a student and a competicive athlete. Yet upon graduation from high schooi and Grade 12 biology she felt she was more aware of the anatomy of the fetal pig, than of her own species! See Physical next page