FREESTYLE SKIING... North Shore skiers shone at. the recent B.C. Freestyle Skiing Championships in Blackcomb at the end of March. Carol Riley led the charge of local skiers, winning the women's and juvenile moguls and aerials competi- tion (see story page 15). Also bringing home the gold was junior men’s mogul champion Drew Hawkshaw. Fellow North Shore skier Graham Smith finished an impressive fourth behind Hawkshaw. In the senior men’s mogul com- petition, Glen Mittendorter claimed a silver medal, as did Kelly Ringstad in senior women's moguls. Meanwhile, her sister Kim won a silver in the junior mogul category. In youth, aerials. for men, . Andrew Sanderson soured to a fourth-place finish. - MARTIAL ARTS..: North” Vancouver's: Ingrid’ Dordar - was crowned: World Karate _ “Association North American . Freestyle Champion following the final bout of the. Tiger Balm. Internationals at Capilano College last month. Dordar, who. trains at Champions Academy in North Vancouver, defeated tae kwon do specialist Dianne Dutra, of ‘East Vancouver. Both women weighed in at 125 pounds (56 kg). Other top-three finishers from Champions in the com- ” petition, which attracted ‘more than 800 competitors, includ-. ed: Jason, Alva and Crystal Jaeggle, Masoad Adelkhani, Anita Katzberg, Amin Sabounchi, Kalliopi and Elenie Massasutis, Jarrod ‘and Joel Syneite, Mo and Naz Mirhadi, Teresa Taylor, Jacob Blanchard, Shakrouz Janghard, Mehdi Pouros- koui, Jesse Pierce, Blake Lirette, Mohammad Kasaei, Christian Schrapff, Max Clough and Scott Wellen- brink. SWIM CLUB REGISTRA- TION... North Vancouver Cruisers Summer Swim Club is holding a registration day this Sunday, April 10, from 3 to 5 p.m, at the Ron Andrews Pool, 931 Lytton St, North Vancouver. Cruisers is a parent-run organization, affili- ated with the B.C. Summer Swimming Association, offer- ing professional coaching for swimmers aged five to 18. Not all programs are designed for competitive swimming. Also, Cruisers offers coed water polo for swimmers over the age of 11. The team stecently wen medals at the Western National Champion- ships. A two-week trial period for new members is available. Anyone interested in checking the club out can bring their bathing suit to the registration day this Sunday for a fun swim. All swimmers should bring their medical card num- ber, and new swimmers should bring a copy of their birth cer- tificate For more information about this weekend’s registra- tion, call Gabriella at 986- 1668. NEWS phote Net Lucente NORTH VANCOUVER synchronized swimmer Janice Bremner (left) gets some pool-side instruction from ceach Biz Price during’ a recent training session. Bremner, who finished third at the 1991 World Junior Championships, hopes to represent Canada at the 1996 Olympic ( Games. By Kevin Gillies Sports Reporter The 23-year-old started syn- chronized swimming when she was eight and is currently in Victoria representing British Columbia with her goal being to represent Canada at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, the 1994 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games. The Western Titrex Challenge In sync for Comi North Vancouver’s Janice Bremner set to compete in Victoria (and Atlanta?) - NORTH VANCOUVER’S Janice Bremner has her sights set on Atlanta. is running from April 5 to 10 and features (op swimmers from B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Challenge, taking place at Saanich Commonwealth Place, i the equivalent of the Western Canadian Championships and acts as a qualifier for the national team. Selected members will end up at the World Aquatic Champion- ships next September in Rome, Italy, to represent Canada. Bremner expects to be there. She hes been with the national team since 1990 and has already tepresented Canada at World Championships in Switzerland and Italy the last two years. There, Canada finished second ionwealth Games and first, respectively, in the team event (eight swimmers). Bremner also competes in the duet and solo events. Three years ago she finished third in solo while swimming with the national youth team at Selanno, italy. The long road to Atlanta started _for Bremner when she was cight years old and living in Burlington, Ontario. Her older sister was a competi- live synchronized s.vimmer and often brought Janice to her prac- tices and meets. Sanice’s mother enrolled her in recreational swimming for a year before she switched to competitive What’s next, the Vancouver VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS IT’S HARD to find a real loser in the naming last week of Arthur Griffiths’ playpen in downtown Vancouver. After all, in this day and age of massive corporate underwriting of professional sporting events, General Motors’ decision to buy the advertising rights to the new home of the Canucks and the Mounties is just saund business. Artie gets to further slice up the ownership pie — sharing the risk and revenue — while GM gets to have its brand name in ink everyday a Vancouver daily prints a sport page. In the lexicon of corporate- speak, it's called maximizing cor- porate exposure. In 10 years’ time, General Motors Place will just roll off your tongue. Last weck, however, Lower Mainland sport fans were having difficulty swallowing, never mind saying, General Motors Place. From this seat high in the nose- bleed section, with all the other Chevettes and Vegas, the naming of the new arena simply confirms the atmosphere of the glass and con- erete hall. Even though the Yankees will never play bail in the new arena, pinstripes will be the order of the day in the 20,000 seat arena, as the fabled corporate write-off charges in to save the day. The Northwest brain trust assures us averaue fans that this deal is good for us, since no public tax money will be used to finance the stadium. They claim it is just the reality of doing business in the current cli- mate. Now comes talk — whispers really — that the Mounties (ihe name being bounced around for the soon-to-be-dribbling Vancouver at the age of nine. She eventually started. training in Etobicoke, Ontario before mov- ing to the North Shore two , years ago. “I love the West Coast, 7” she said. “I still find it hard to believe I live here.” While it has taken some time for her to adjust to a different lifestyle, she has filled her sched-. ule with school, work and training. Currently taking physical edu- cation courses at Capilano College, Bremner ptans to transfer to UBC in three years. Until then, she has her sights trained on the World Champion- ships and the Olympic Games. adillacs? NBA franchise) may be scrapped for a more fitting monicker: The Generals, : Not as in Motors (of course), but as in Patton, Eisenhower or Ghadafi. All of which leads the average sport fan to wonder if, one day, Pavel Bure will be streaking down the wing with a big corporate logo’ stitched acrass his back. Why sure. It’s the perfect solu- tion to the escalating salary dilem- ma. Just get corporate sponsorship for individual players, and team owners will have (o invest even less in their business. And while we're at it, why don’t we call up Microsoft and tell them that for just $200 million (Canadian) they can have their name plastered on a new First Narrows crossing? What’s in a name? Evidently, a whole lot of money.