Wednesday, August 26, 1992 —- North Shore News - 13 Blues ready to knock down ~ Coach Metro Gerela is building a strong team “LAST YEAR we knocked on a lot of doors. This season we're going to step right through. If they’re locked, then we'll knock ’em down.”’ It becomes immediately obvious that Capilano College Senior Women’s soccer coach Metro Gerela is not a man to shrink at competition. Promising ‘‘some of the most entertaining and skilful soccer’’ ever seen on the North Shore, Gerela is training his troops, and his sights, on a national champi- onship. The News caught up with the coach a day before his 40. — the 44 The scouting methodology I've developed over the years is going to . - pay off this year 99 _ Cap Blues women's coach Metro Gerela vast majority new — recruits took to the Capilano soccsr field as tryouts began for the °92 college soccer season. Gerela kas been on a mission since joining the lady Cap College Blues last July. Taking the helm of the team last summer meant the seasoned . .$eout — the coach was a player/ scout for the Vancouver Whitecaps for six years — did not ‘Y have much input in the 1991 ~) recruiting process. ’ ‘ With a full off-season to attract ‘new ‘prospects ‘to Cap College, Gerela believes he has assembled a core of players that will perform at a higher level than any of their competition. A Metro Summer League Capilano team, consisting of many of this year’s hopefuls, won six of seven games to win the elite Division f. Among the new players regis- “GUARANTEED SERVICE" LYNN VALLEY CENTRE 1199 LYNN VALLEY RD. 980-3211 By A.P. McCredie Sports Reporter tered at the school this season are: @ forward Silvana Burtini — “tone of the quickest players in the country’’; @ Burnaby defender Christie Keyland —‘‘one of the most under-rated players nationally’’; @ and defender Natasha Budai, an Argyle Green graduate. Britt Arnold, who played last year for the powerful Nanaimo squad, Windsor Secondary gradu- ate Susan Sutherland, and goalies Lisa Archer of Calgary and West Vancouver’s Erin Bell, are also players the coach is hoping will Step up and take contro! of play. **The scouting methodology I’ve developed over the years is going to pay off this year,"’ Gerela says. “The players we've attracted this year all have good grade point averages (average 2.6) and have all shown a keen desire to put all of themselves into the regiment.’”’ One of the problems on last year’s squad, according to Gerela, was that many of the players knew nothing about the extensive support staff available to Capilano athletes in need of help with their studies. “The first day 1 inet the team | asked them the names of their ad- visers, the athletic directors, the secretaries, and the dean,’’ said Girela, When not one player answered, the coach made his first change. The professional atmosphere Gerela is striving for was given a further boost when the team found. a sponsor in Burnaby’s Curtis Lumber. The $5,000 committed by the company’s owner will go a long way in outfitting the team and ia deferring travel expenses. The Blues begin their season with a Labor Day weekend tour-’ nament in Kelowna, and begin the regular season with an away game at BCIT on Sept. 19. NEWS Photo Paul McGrath HOPEFULS FOR Capilano College Women’s Soccer team opened training camp last week under the watchfu} eye of coach Metro Gerelo. Here, Claudia lantorno manoeuvres a soccer ball through a series of practice poles. HE-TEC Espana eJunior « Many sizes SOCCER BOOT a SALE eSmaill, Med, Large: Reg. 19.99 Q PUMA shadow Pro e Senior » Many sizes “Tiger Master KNEE PADS / ELBGW PADS «XSmall ;