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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.

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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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