TRAATIMETE TAKES ON THE WORLD Carol Montgomery of North Vancouver captured second place on Sunday in the iTU World Triathlon Championships in Sydney, Australia. Montgomery, who posted a time of 1:54:43 in the 1.5-k swim, 18:53 in the 40-k bike event and 1:07:09 in the 10-k run, finished behind defending world champion and native Aussie Nicole Hackett. COVERING THE GAMES rk keeps him hopping Sports awards ‘honour exploits NORTH and West Vancouver’s elite athictes, sports volunteers and officials were honoured at the North Shore Sports Awards Saturday night. _ Thirty-three nominees vied for top honours in 13 differ- ent categories. Presenting sponsors included the North Shore News, the North Vancouver Recreation Commission and the West Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department. _°:. The awards — designed to recognize the outstanding achievements of North Shore athletes — celebrate achieve- _ Ment at the community, high school, provincial and interna- ional | levels... = Following are the list of winners (in bold) and finalists for gach category Blythe Harti divin Sarah McMasi ob Tou le: ¢ cy, Ss ter, aS peice, Breanne Ke os Wate, ok skiing; Ryan McClellan, fou le: ( in- ‘line hockey; Brent Chariton Excketeal ™ ] female: Carol Montgomery, triathlon; Cindy : I Open me David Min, track; a Byrd, field hockey; vii Cc, an . ichael Mahood, field hockey * Master. female: Sonia , table tennis; Betty Jean McHugh, running; D Debbie C @ Master male: Ketball Andrew Wilson, pita @ Offa: Everett Lew, hockey; Jobn Barrett, soccer; Jim ‘Burnett; athletics. Team: North Shore Selects: U-19 girls, soccer; North “Shore Selects U-19" boys; soccer; North Van Pee Wee Birls, . reporter. Bob Mackin, Shane Collins, Charmaine’ Crooks, tob Boyd, Bo aay Corben, Jim Kearney and non- voring mem- , 5 take acd a Saturday at UEC. Capilano kicker Mel Browning made good on six of .- seven attempts at’ goal and * sparked the first. half scoring - with a three-point penalty kick. Browning delivered two Sq ~ Langley 26-25 to ‘grab rd_place honours in Ast an ion British” "by Capilano flanker Christoph umbia Rugby Union: -: Strubin to make the score 16: 3 la FE ac ctic (BCRU) pl ve oe . See Victoria following page - more kicks and converted a try. We Podiatrist specializes in sports medicine Bob Mackin Sports Reporter bmackin@nsnews.com DR. Jeffrey Copoloff is a busy - podiatrist who keeps one foot in Canada and one foot in the U.S. The Montreal-native | commutes between sunny Phoenix and the rainy North Shore to tend patients and mend feet of people from all walks of life. Most of his Phoenix patients play for the Valley of the Sun’s professional sports franchises: basketball’s Phoenix Suns, hockey’s Phoenix Coyotes, baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks and arena foot- ball’s Arizona Rattlers. He was interviewed five years ago for: a position on the Vancouver Grizzlies’ med- . ical staff, but didn’t get the job. He fell in love with the city which is why he moved north with wife Tami and opened a prac- tice in West Vancouver last summer. Copoloff, 36, got his first taste of sports medicine in 1981 as a teenager on St. John Ambulance crew at the Montreal Forum. When a puck struck a Habs’ fan, Copoloff went to work. Schooled at McGill and the Ohio’ College of Podiatric Medicine (where he backstopped the school’s hockey club), Cozoloff followed the footsteps -cf his cousin Michael Kates — 2 Phoenix podia- trist and ex-Quebecer. “I got into podiatry and I wanted to get into sports and I couldn’t think of any- thing more suited for sports,” Copoloff says. “Especially since everybody’s running and everybody has concems about their feet and athletic footwear. “The fect are not on their own. As the song says, the fect are attached to the ankles are attached to the knee, to the hip, the lower back, the shoulders. We call it the kinetic chain, the chin of skeleton.” - *” The job isn’t easy, despite the perceived glamour of working one-on-one with some of the sporting world’s biggest celebrities. The multi-billion-dollar professional sports industry relies on superstars to sell tickets and merchandise, endorse products and draw viewers to the tube. Injury-list dwellers don’t generate revenue. ~“There’s a-lot of pressure today on sports doctors, you’re sometimes caught i in the middle,” ‘Copoloff says. “You're the go-between between upper management and agents when you’ re working on a play- er.” Tools like the oxygen-inducing™ hyper- baric chamber and Sonocur shockwave therapy machine help cure players’ ills. But Copoloftis isa a strong 2 advocate of preventive Wednesday. May 3, 2000 — North Shore News - 45 GOOD LUCK COMES EN ..ckS Atrio of North Shore athletes grabbed national titles at the Canadian Multi-Sport Relay Championships held in Courtney over the week- end. Michelle Burr of West Vancouver and Barbara Zimich of North Vancouver took the women’s crown while Larry Zimich captured his third straight title for the men’s side. The event blends different styles of skiing, running and cycling as well a5 canoeing. PEQGPLE PLAY on both sides of the border. measures. Natnely, safe footwear, Etted properly. . Basketball shoes have come a long way since the Converse’s flimsy canvas All-Stars hit shelves. Nike made leaps and bounds with its Air Jordans in the 80s. Copoloff says the industry has taken a step backward by paying heed to fashion trends and pro- ducing fewer ankle-supporting, high-top hoop shoes. Lower cuts are all the rage In hockey, blades have evolved ster than the boots. Meanwhile, players are big- ger, stronger and faster than ever. They col~ lide with greater velocity on ice surfaces of declining quality. “The hockey player is the only team athlete, with the exception of skiers, who ° _ NEWS photo Mike Watatietd NORTH Shore podiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Copotot has been in high a demand ws participate in footwear’ ‘other ‘than ‘shoes, as They do not have the same. dynamics and... biomechanics as other athletes who wear conventional shoes. 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