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Cap College soccer

WEST VANCOUVER rower
Kirsten Barnes joined the North
Shore contribution to Canada’s
Summer Olympic team last week.

Named in a late announcement,
Barnes will be partnered with Van-
couver’s Sarah Ogilvie rowing in
the women’s pair event.

Rowing at Hillside Secondary
before joining the University of
Victoria rowing team, Barnes, 20,
last year came home from the Pan
American Games with a= gold
medal from the women’s pair
competition, the same event she
will be competing in for the Seoul
Games.

“It’s all sort of a shock right
now,’’ Barnes said Friday. ‘‘It’s
something that I hadn’t really
planned for — it isn’t really in
your head.

player to go pro

CAPILANO COLLEGE Blues
soccer player George Beris marks
the college’s third player to join a
professional-league team in the
past two years.

After touring Europe with the
British Columbia under-19 team,
Beris, 18, headed to Greece to
begin training with Olympiakos, a
division one team there.

Following last season with the
Blues, Beris goes to a Greek team
that finished second in its division
last year and regularly draws 500
Spectators to practices; 80,000 were

on hand to watch the league final
in May.

Growing up with soccer when
his father would arrange for Ca-
nadian tours of Greek soccer
teams, Beris dreamed of one day
becoming a professional player.

Attending an American college
while in Greece, he returns home
off-season.

Fellow Capilano College players
to play for professional teams are
Rick Celebrini and Rob Reed, both
of whom joined the Edmonton
Brickmen.

NORTH SHORE GIALS

CAPILANO College athlete George Beris ...grew up
with soccer.

Soccer registrations accepted

THE NORTH Shore Girls Soccer Club, which last
year fielded among its ranks three provincial champi-
onship teams, will be accepting registrations Sept. 10.

Player ages run from six years old to 18 years old,
with the club this season particularly interested in
bolstering its Pee Wee teams of six year olds.

Now into its third year of operation, the North
Vancouver girls’ soccer organization is one of the
largest clubs in B.C., with more than 700 players.

“We hope to expand on the number of teams we
had last year,”’ said the club's Norm Brown. ‘‘We’re
looking to get up to 45 teams this season.’”

Registration runs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at recCentre
Lonsdale in North Vancouver. Players for categories
under-I] and up need to bring proof of age.

For more details call Brown at 988-0870 or Glenn
Cobb at 988-3561.

Play starts Sept. 18 and 24, depending on the divi-
sion and age group.

THE GORDON Sturtridge League Football Associa-
tion continues its workouts and registrations through
Sept. 10 at North Vancouver’s Norgate Park.

With flag football for boys and girls six to 11 years
old and full-contact football for boys 10 to 15 years
old, the league will continue its registration from 6
p.m. to 9 p.m, through Sept. 9; Sept. 10 registration is
noon to 3 p.m.

Norgate Park is located behind the International
Plaza Hotel.

For more details on GSL registration, call Peter
Lancaster at 988-6000.

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“When I’m on the plane I think
Vil realize I'm going."

Having not rowed with Ogilvie
before, Barnes said of the pairing:
“We're doing really well together.
Now it’s just a matter of starting
to build our speed and become
familiar with the course.’’

A member of the Canadian na-
tional team for the past 18 months,
Barnes is joined on the Canadian
team by fellow rower Bruce Ford
of North Vancouver.

Completing the local contingent
for the Sept. 17 Games in Seoul,
South Korea, are field hockey
players Ian Bird and Peter
Milkovich and tennis ace Grant
Connell.

Canada’s Olympic team left
Monday, expecting to get in almost
two weeks of training before com-
petition starts.

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‘goecer action at Loutet Park in: North Vancouver Saturday and. Sunday.: Twenty-four teams
the tournament, sponsored by the Lionas Gate Soccer. Associstion;

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WEST Vancouver rower Kirsten
Barnes ...a shock.

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