Name: Vaughn Thompson.

Age: |6.

School: Grade 10 at Sentinel
Secondary.

Sport: Swimming.
Club: Chena Swim Club.
Hobbies: Socializing.

CHENA SWIMMER Vaughn
Thempson is seeing ail his
hard work in the pooi pay
off. The 16-year-old Sen-
tinel student recently
retumed from the Eight Na-
tions Youth Meet in Rome.

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Wednesday, April 17, 19S1 - North Shore News - 33

Pool power

QUIET AND laid back though he is, North Vancouver’s Vaughn
Thompson is making waves in the world of swimming.

Just 16, Thompson has recently
returned from Rome where he com-
peted in the Eight Narions Youth
Meet. He finished sixth in the
200-metre breast stroke and ninth in
the 100-metre breast out of a field of
16 swimmers.

Not one co boast, Thompson says of

his Rome results: ““That’s pretty good *

..well, I feel it's pretty good. I'm still
eligible nexe year (for the meet).”

Thompson is setting a number of
firsts these days.

At the Western Canada Summer
Games last summer in Winnipeg, he
was the youngest competitor, yet he
still managed to qualify for the finals.

In February, he went to the nationals
for the first time, where he posted the
fastest time in the 200-rnetre breast for
15- and 16-year-olds, and thereby
qualified for the Rome meet.

He also holds three provincial
records for both the {[00- and
200-metre shortcourse breast stroke for
boys aged 13-14 and for the 200-metre
breast shortcourse for boys aged 15-16.

With five years of winter swimming
under his belt, Thompson is no
stranger to discipline. His swimming
season has expanded to ‘‘practically the
whole year’’(from September to

August, he says), and he races an
average of i0 to 12 meets each season.
And all that is in addition to four
hours of training per day, five or six
days a week, under the guidance of
Chena coach John Melnikow.

But according to Thompson, the ef-
fort is worth it.

“‘Ic's hard but it pays because you get
to go ona lot of trips for free and meet
a lor of friends,” he says.

The more difficule part for him, he
contends, is school. Thompson is
enrolled in Super Achievers, a program
for students whose outside activities,
usually sports, make it difficult for
regular attendance.

“School's been pretty hard but | try
to keep it up because you have to have
C or better to stay on the Super
Achievers program.”

Thompson's short-term plans include
the April 26-28 Edmonton Keyano In-
vitational and the Youth Champion-
ships in Quebec in late May where he
hopes to qualify for a meet this sum-
mer in Barcelona.

Bur he isn’t shy in discussing his
long-term plans: the Olympics.

‘The '92 Olympics are not very far
away so I’m not focusing on those but-
maybe in '96,” he says.

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