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40 — Sunday. November 23, 1997 ~ North Shore News

SHOOTING was the furthest thing from Cynthia Meyer’s mind Wednesday afternoon, as the financial services attorney plowed through a mountain of paperwork.

“Pm really busy at work . <ight now,” Meyer said trom her downtown) Manhattan

NAMES: Harman Sull and Nick Voytcheff SCHOOL: Sutherland GRADE: 12 SPORT: Sr. soccer POSITIONS: = Centre back and striker. COACH: Billy Coupland Nick scored four key goals and was named the MVP ar the B.C. double- A soccer championships, while Harman was the anchor of the defence and was selected to the first all-star team as the Sabres won five games and the tithe with a 3-2. victory over Woodlands = of Nanaimo in the final.

office. “Pm going to be here forever.”

Four days earlier, however, the former Bowen [sland resi- dent was shooting her way to a silver medal at the World Championships in Lima, Peru.

“This is my second time down there (Peru}, and the people are great, and it’s a great place to visit...” Mever said of competing in’ Peru. “It's a fittke tough to compete

NAME: Johanna Bischof SCHOOL: Balmoral GRADE: Nine

SPORT: Sr. cross country EVENT: 4.6 km COACH: Jane Pike

Johanna placed second to Argyle’s Kristy Smith in cach of this scason’s juvenile league races, but beat all the seniors and juniors in the zone meet to qualify. for the B.C. Championships, — where she finished 28th out of 238 competitors with a time of 16:31 — just 13 seconds from a top 20 fin- ish.

Selections are nade by the North Shore Secondary Schools’ Athletic Association based on outstanding

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@ SPORTS Meyer wins silver at World Champit

there. Visibility is hard. the range is difficulr.”

Mever placed second to fralian Deborah Gelisio in the double trap event at the sea- son-ending Worlds.

“She killed us,” Mever said of Gelisio, aicknamed “Boom Boom” by tellow competitors. “She outclassed alb of us.”

According to Mever, with

Gelisio shooting at the peak of

her game, the tight: was for

second as Mever and five or six other competitors squared off against one another.

“Ff wasn’t even really think- ing about my score in’ the final, but it worked our well.” said) Mever. “Pm excited about shooting again, which is really nice.”

Following the Olympics and the World Cup tinal in Italy last summer, the 32-year old put her guns away for tive

montis, Meyer placed a disap- peinting Lith ar the Summer Olympics, bur improved to third in Italy.

“T needed to get away,” she said in July, “I needed to get the desire back in it.”

Today, she reports she is fully focused and looking for- ward to the [998 season,

“LT think the break was real- ly important, at least for my mental atritude, and [ve

nships

come back with a different approach to things,” she said Wednesday.

Mever will spend the win- ter keeping her skills sharp in preparation for the season opening World Cup in Cairo in March,

But betore she gets to that, Mever has trained her sights on that mountain of paper- work,

— Andrew McCredie

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Barons best in Lower Mainland

THE Balmoral Barons rugby team (above) captured the Vancouver & District Grade 8 title witi: a 12-0 victory over Cambie. In the North Shore final, the Barons blanked Carson Graham 14-0. Balmoral is coached by

Harald Heer.

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