B12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 26, 1997

Disabled skier visits

YOU KNOW when you get
that awful feeling in the pit
of your stomach, a feeling
that something is going to
be terribly wrong?

Well that’s the same feel-
ing Daniel Wesley got be-
fore his legs got crushed
beneath a freight train at the
age of 13.

Wesley was hospitalized
during the same time Rick
Hansen — the famous Ca-
nadian = paraplegic §==who
travelled around the world
in his wheelchair — was
there, The two quickly be-
came friends.

Ever since his accident,
Wesley made sure to never
ignore his gut feelings.

And it is this acute sense
of listening that has helped
Wesley become the overall
champion of the 1997 Dis-
abled Alpine Skiing World
Cup in France.

Wesley visited Thormhili
Elementary Nov, 17 spread-
ing the message of love —
and the importance of listen-
ing to your heart.

“The single most impor-
lant message is that if you
listen to your heart, it will
help you make good
choices,’” Wesley said,

Wesley used the
aluminum base he mounts
his skis on as an analogy for
expressing the importance
of having a solid base — in
his case, a base that helps
him scream down mountain

DISABLED WORLD Cup ski champion Danie! Wes-

lay was in town last week to give a life-lesson to
Thornhill Elementary students.

slopes at 60 miles an hour.

‘The basic base that we
all have in common is this
thing called passion or
love,’’ he said.

It was that passion, or that
“warm fuzzy feeling” that
helped him beat out 100 of
the world’s best alpine
skiers in France,

“Go enjoy yourself and

have fun when you’re com-
peting,”’ he told students.

Wesley will also be com-
peting in alpine skiing at the
1998 -Para-Olympics in
Nagano, Japan.

‘In disabled sports, we're
really a tongh lot of guys,
i?s not a cake walk,’ he
said about the fierce compe-
tition.

Bluebacks swimming in
medals from PG meet

BLUEBACK swimmers are
hoping to carry the
momentum from a recent
strong showing in Prince
George to one of their big-
gest mect of the year.

The swimmers were In
Prince George November
14-16 for the Sight and
Sound Invitational..A num-
ber of Bluebacks came
home with medals, and
many had 100 per cent best
times.

“Tt was a great meet —
one of aur stronger per-
formances in the last couple
of years,”’ says coach Mike
Carlyle, ‘It’s a super show-
ing early in the season.””

Several athletes had out-
standing performances, in-
cluding Jenine Barton.

Barton won the ILM. Chal-
lenge and took four golds
and three silvers.

“‘That’s 4a great con-
fidence booster for her,’’
Carlyle says.

Dylan Evans also had a
good meet, picking up
several medals.

‘"He’s been working real-
ly, really hard and it’s ob-
vidusly paid-off,”’ says Car-
lyie.

Amanda Fillion, Chance
Sterner and Fernando
Polanco also had 100 per
cent best times. Stemmer was
taking up to 20 seconds off
his times in some events.

Terrace really swept the
medals in the 13-14 year-old
boys category, taking four
of the top five spots,

Carlyle says that the
group, consisting of Tristan
Brown, Arend Stamhuis,
Dylan Evans and Kyle Narzt
has been really pushing each
other to be their best.

“They train together and
they're always boosting
each other up,’’ he says.

Now Carlyle says he
hopes some of the
momentum from Prince
George will carry over to
the Richmond Racers, one
of the team’s biggest meets,

Ten Bluebacks are attend-
ing that meet. The others
will be battling it out in an-
other meet in Prince Rupert.

Both events take place
during the first weekend in
December. .

Cal girls finish season

CAL’S SENIOR girls vol-
leybal] team bad a good
showing at the Zone Finals,
two weekends ago, but they
didn’t make the Provincials.

Six teams competed at the
Zones, including this year’s
powerhouse, Charles Hays.

An early loss te MESS set
the gids up in a semi-final
match with Hays. And Cal
wasn’t quite ready for the
challenge.

The Kermodes came out
Strong in at first, pulling
ahead of Hays 13-9. But
they couldn’t finish off the
feisty Rupert squad and
ended up losing 15-13. They
Jost the next game 15-8.

That sent Hays into the
consolation finals. There,
the girls beat Kitimat in two
Straight to end up third.

But while it wasn’t the
finish the girls were hoping

for, coach Jackie Thomsen
says she was proud of their
efforts.

‘We had strong showings
in both Kelowna and the
Zones,’’ she says. ‘'They
improved a lot, especially
some of the Grade 1is.’’

Team Captain Ashley
Whitford was also voted
tournament all-star.

“She will be missed next
year,’’ Thomsen says.

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