Name: Vaughn Thompson.

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School: Grade 10 at Sentinel Secondary.

Sport: Swimming. Club: Chena Swim Club. Hobbies: Socializing.

CHENA SWIMMER Vaughn Thempson is seeing ail his hard work in the pooi pay off. The 16-year-old Sen- tinel student recently retumed from the Eight Na- tions Youth Meet in Rome.

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Wednesday, April 17, 19S1 - North Shore News - 33

Pool power

QUIET AND laid back though he is, North Vancouver’s Vaughn Thompson is making waves in the world of swimming.

Just 16, Thompson has recently returned from Rome where he com- peted in the Eight Narions Youth Meet. He finished sixth in the 200-metre breast stroke and ninth in the 100-metre breast out of a field of 16 swimmers.

Not one co boast, Thompson says of

his Rome results: ““That’s pretty good *

..well, I feel it's pretty good. I'm still eligible nexe year (for the meet).”

Thompson is setting a number of firsts these days.

At the Western Canada Summer Games last summer in Winnipeg, he was the youngest competitor, yet he still managed to qualify for the finals.

In February, he went to the nationals for the first time, where he posted the fastest time in the 200-rnetre breast for 15- and 16-year-olds, and thereby qualified for the Rome meet.

He also holds three provincial records for both the {[00- and 200-metre shortcourse breast stroke for boys aged 13-14 and for the 200-metre breast shortcourse for boys aged 15-16.

With five years of winter swimming under his belt, Thompson is no stranger to discipline. His swimming season has expanded to ‘‘practically the whole year’’(from September to

August, he says), and he races an average of i0 to 12 meets each season. And all that is in addition to four hours of training per day, five or six days a week, under the guidance of Chena coach John Melnikow.

But according to Thompson, the ef- fort is worth it.

“‘Ic's hard but it pays because you get to go ona lot of trips for free and meet a lor of friends,” he says.

The more difficule part for him, he contends, is school. Thompson is enrolled in Super Achievers, a program for students whose outside activities, usually sports, make it difficult for regular attendance.

“School's been pretty hard but | try to keep it up because you have to have C or better to stay on the Super Achievers program.”

Thompson's short-term plans include the April 26-28 Edmonton Keyano In- vitational and the Youth Champion- ships in Quebec in late May where he hopes to qualify for a meet this sum- mer in Barcelona.

Bur he isn’t shy in discussing his long-term plans: the Olympics.

‘The '92 Olympics are not very far away so I’m not focusing on those but- maybe in '96,” he says.

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