B14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 28, 1997

Bluebacks smash old pool
records at Panhandier meet

THE BLUEBACKS broke
three pool records and
qualified a number of swim-
mers for the provincial
finals at the 10th annual
Panhandle Invitational two
weeks ago.

Not bad for a club that
hasn’t won a swim. meet yet
this year. moe

“We don’t concern our-
selves with the overall team
performance too much,”
says coach Mike Carlyle.
“We focus on the relays

and let the individual per-
formances speak for them-
selves.”

Those performances spoke
out loud and clear at the
Panhandler in Prince
Rupert.

Jenine Barton made waves
with tvo pool records —
one in the 800 free, and the
other in the 200 fly.

“Her 200 butterfly time
was really unexpected,”
says Carlyle, “‘It was only

the second time she’s raced
the 200. At the Tezrace meet
in April, she did it in 3:13
and in she managed to take
25 seconds off that in
Rupert, which was great.
The butterfly is a very im-
pressive event to watch. It’s
really exciting."

Marina Checkley, 15, also
broke a pool record in the
50 freestyle with a time of
28.66 seconds.

‘It was nice to see,’’ says

Carlyle. ‘‘That's her first
time this year under 29 sec-
onds and it’s a nice way for
her to lead into the provin-
cials.”’

Other swimmers who did
especially well at the event
included 11-year-old
Thomas Demetzer, 10-year-

old Petra Robertson, and 10- |:

year-old Scott Vanderlec.
Anna Farrell also did well,

finishing third in her group

and picking up her first

Skaters pass challenging

SEVERAL TERRACE
Skating Club members real-
ly impressed both judges
and spectators at the High
Test event in Kitimat, April
19, and passed their ex-
tremely difficult silver and
gold tests.

Daniel Miller and Deana
Lambright passed their sil-
ver tests, while Aina
Carlson, Grace Mitchell,
Leanne Ballinger and
Kendra Eys all passed their
gold tests.

Eys performed an ex-
quisite solo for her Gold
Artistic Test. Skating to a
number choreographed al-
most entirely by herself,
Eys’ artistry, expression and
grace combined to earn high
praise from all three judges.

Eys is just the third mem-
ber in the club’s 25 year his-
tory to pass the test. The last
was Jenifer Kuehne in
1995,

Grace Mitchell earned her
Gold Dance Feet at the
event by passing her West-
minster and Quickstep tests
— the last in a series of 21
dance tests that lead to the
Gold level, She is the fifth
skater from the club to com-
plete all 21 dances.

All four of the previous
skaters to have completed
Gold — including Donna
Emery, Shelley Lefebvre,

Jessica Lambright and
Nicole Page, went on to
teach at the former Terrace
Figure Skating Club,

Emery’s mother, Monica
Lessard, has judged skating
for 20 years was one of the
founding memi-ers of the
club back in 1972.

Lessard is the only
original member still with
the club. She even has
grandchildren skating in it.

For her dedication, Les-
sard was awarded a 25-year
pin in Vancouver on May 3.

Lefebvre was the second
member to get her gold fect,
in 1989. She has since gone
on to pass her Gold Frees-
kate and competed provin-
cially before helping to
coach the club,

Lambright picked up her
Gold Dance Feet in 1990
and went on to dance pairs
for nearly three years. She
also gained her gold Artistic
and Gold Freeskate tefore
coaching professionally
with the club for two sea-
sons.

Page also got the Gold
Dance Feet in 1990. She has
been coaching at the club
for the past two years.

The six week long Spring ~

School in Kitimat allowed
Terrace skaters the op-
portunity to improve on
their annual test achieve-

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ments.

For seniors in the north-
west, taking tests usually
means travelling to Prince
George. The many journeys
and Jong travel hours neces-
sary are due to a lack of Jo-
cal ice time, and it makes
for additional stress at the
tests for both athletes and
volunteer judges.

June 7
June 8

Regular Races
Regular Races
Regular Races
Regular Races
Regular Races

The April High Test in
Kitimat was one of very few
in this area for a long time
and skaters are pleased that
another has been scheduled
for January, 1998 in Prince
Rupert.

The Kitimat high tests
were followed recently by
low-intermediate level tests,
May 10. Once again, Ter-

July 20
Aug. 2
Aug. 3
Aug. 17

Regular Races

Sept, 14
Tuff Truck Competition

Oct. 4

Awards Banquet & Dance
Sportsman Class Running
Limited Schedule
Listen to CJFW-FM or CFTK for
any schedule changes

medal as a Blueback,

Next up for the Bluebacks
will be the Eurocan Invita-
tional in mid June, followed
by the age-group Provin-
cials in July. Carlyle says he
hopes to sent 10 Bluebacks
to the Provincials.

Meanwhile, Chris Kerman
will be competing at the

Youth Nationals this
weekend. Carlyle — says
Kerman will hopefully
make the tap 16,

tests

race skaters fared very well,

Sabrena Harvey and
Khalie Eys passed their Jun-
ior Silver Dance Tests. Eys
also passed her Senior
Bronze freeskate, while
Kasia Lamb passed the Jun-
ior Bronze and her skills.

Sabrena Harvey also
passed her Skills Level
Five.

Regular Races
Old Timer’s Races
Memorial Races

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