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Gymnastics, track and skiing send medal winning athletes
to the Ontario Championships.
Cl's Alpine Sk; Team had a tough start to the C season, not knowing whether or not they
would be given the opportunity to race this year. Despite this uncertainty, the team did
not loose hope and participated very COI!lpetitivcly in two night races at Blue Mountain and Horseshoe Valley. The team's success at these events made them fierce com- petitors at the BG fmals al Devil"s Glen Ski Club. Here the Level I GirlsTeam comprised of Abbey Westlake, Courtney Storey, Kristen Reid, Lara Bailey and Natasha
Somborac and skied hard to win the gold medaL Tht:re
. were also 4 Level 3 Elite racers who made us proud. Stu
' Ayers won gold and Jen Kocn won silver. Sarajaync Bene-
.diet and Devon Smith placed 3rd and 4th. These success- ful racers qualified for OFSAA at Blue. InSpired by the high level ofcompetition at OFSAA, the Level One Girls
Team won a silver medal in the slaom event with Abby Westlake winning the overall silver medal. These girls also won the bronze medal in the giant slalom and Abby West-
lake won the gold overall medal. Stu Ayers won the silver medal in the giant slalom. Congratulations go to the Learn
and Coaches Kristy and KcUy. Members ofthe Girls Team were: Alex Ainley, Lara Bailey, Sarajayne Benedict,
Jarvie, Lindsay Jungkind, Jen Kocn, Jcnna Mcintyre, Kristen Reid, Courtney Storey, Natasha Somborac, Katie
:h and Abbey Westlake. Members of the Boy's Team were Sean Ainley, Staurt Ayers, Mike Ferfuson, Brad Jarman, Llovd. Ben McNabb, Kevin Miller, Matt Sharp, Greg Sturch, Rob Sturch and Nathan Tosh.The 1998 Girls Gym-
ic ·re~ also had a great season. In the GBs, oue Level One gymnasts were Karen Baulke who placed first in the
, exercise and fourth on the balance beam and vault. Our Level two g)mnasts were Alison Smith who placed first oor exercises and 4th on beam nnd vault as well as Erin McAndrew. Our Level 3 gymnasts were Lacy Thompson
placed Sth in floor exercise. Amanda Walker who was 3rd on the uneven bars and 4th on the beam and Adrienne :n winning lsl in floor exercises. These girls then went on to compete at OFSAA where Karen placed 12th on the nand 20th on the vault. Both she and Lauren placed in the top 2o on fllor exercises.Erin had an outstanding 5th
·all score on tl1c floor and Alison also made it into the top 20 in both floor and bars. With the other team results, girls were ranked 4th in Onlario. Coaches Zulauf and ~Tachinsl..·y would like to congratulate all team members.
>I' this writing, the 1999 team was made up of Marissa Brady, Tcri Cornfield, Jennifer Strain, Amanda Walker, Kate ker, Jackie MorrilL Lauren Jackson. K;~tie Hanson. Karen Hanson, Erin McAndrew. Karen Baulke, Alison Smith Jcn Flint. The 1998 Track and Field Fighting Owl Team featured a fmc group of young athletes who were able to
to heights that exceeded what many expected !all. there were 21 GBSSA qualifers out of 33 competitors. As the on progressed. we saw 6 athletes go to the OFSSA Regional competition in Oshawa. In the end, Jessica Synnott :ilicJ for the Ontarion Championships in the Sr. Girls 800 metres. Of speciw note was Kelly O'Neil's performance he also made it to OFSSJ\ in the Sr. Girls 200m and ran a time of 25.8 seconds to shatter a CCI school record that stood for over 20 years. Members of the Track and Field squad were: Paul Steck, Jean- Paul Trafford, Mike Fcrgu-
Bryan Rccoski, Josh Weir, -Dwayne Ginn, Shane Ferth, Lauric Stevenson, Candace Hare, Jenn Kocn, Laura ·ers, Jcnn Bell, Devan Smith, Jeff Trafiord, Jessica Synnott, Kelly O'Neil, Shannon O'Neil, Brooke Williams, Icy Lougheed and Carolyn Langford.