B10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 20, 2002 Local swimmers on a high after knocking down times THE TERRACE Blue- backs finished off this year’s shart course season on a high note after dras- tically reducing race times at this year’s age group provincials. The swimming club tackled the B.C. short course championships in Vancouver Feb. 28-Mar, 3. Also known as the age group provincials it was an important meet -for swim- mers looking to move up into national competitions in the future. Twelve year old Allison Knoedler was swimming for her second year in the under 12 division. ~~: The tall, lean swimmer has posted excellent times throughout the season and the championships were no different. Knoedler qualified for the finals in four events at the provincials ~ 200m breaststroke, 200 m indi- vidual medley and 400 in- dividual medley and the 200m fly. She is now one of the province’s top eight swim- mers for her age group picking up one eighth place finish, two sevenths and on sixth place ranking. Coach Mike Carlyle is particularly imporessed with Knoedler’s perfor- mance in the 400 IM. Going into the heats she had to take nine seconds off her time in order to qualify for the finals, which she did. “Then she took off an- other four seconds in the CHRISTOPHER Morris takes a breath 1,500m freestyle race al the age group provincials. in the final to maintain her se- venth place ranking,” Car- lyle said. “It’s great to see that the swimmers are per- forming in.all four of their strokes.” The IM mixes breast- stroke, freestyle, back- stroke and butterfly and Is one of the. more challen- ging events for swimmers, ‘Christopher Morris, 16, also put in a great perfor- mance at the meet. Going into. the 1,500m frestyle event at the pro- vincials Morris was sitting at 18:00.93. Come race time Morris took off an additional 16 seconds — a great achieve- ment coming al the end of the season. “I'm ecstatic,” said Carlyle. “It was a perfect swim too. His 500m split- ting each time was faster and faster.” The swim ranked Morris 16th in B.C. Guy Evans, 12, compe- ted in the age group pro- vincials for the first time . this year and he put in a spectacular ‘performance in -the 1,500m freestyle swim. Evans took a whopping 31 seconds of his time in the Vancouver race. He is now ranked 20th in the province. Evans posted 100 per cent best times in each of his events, which coach Carlyle says is quite an accomplishment given this is Evans’ first time at AAA provincials. And club veteran Jenine Barton also put in a solid performance in Vancouver. She set a club record leading off the 200m med- ley relay. “She took off seven tenths of a second which is a great showing for a 50 m swim,” Carlyle said. With short course sea- son over the club’s older swimmers have March break off and then they get back at it training for the long course season. Skaters claim team trophy FOR SIX years the Prince Rupert skating team has held on to Houston’s Ni- zut-nee Inter-club skating competition team trophy but all that changed two weeks ago when the Ter- race club claimed the tro- phy for its own. “It's a big accomplish- ment,” says Terrace head coach Cathy Mills. “All the skaters participating had a wonderful time and did some preat skates.” The Houston competi- tion is the final one of the season and Mills says its a great way to end the year off. A number of breathtak- ing performances were put in by all of the skaters. Shelby Stach picked up three first place finishes on top of sixth and seventh place rankings in a variety of events. Jamie Penner skated her way to a first place standing in the Introduc- tory Interpretive Group B event. And it was a big event for some of the older ska- ters as well. Sabrena Harvey, Nicole Lindsay and Amy Mattern all passed their Gold artis- tic test that weekend. Lindsay Sharf, Kelsey Wilcox, Janet Lewis, Ju- From B4 Hoopsters move up brook last year in the game to determine 15th and 16th spot. Terrace last that one and the Kermodes are pleased with this year’s victory. The Kermodes were hampered somewhat when captain Gillian Gook suf- fered an injury in the sec- ond game of the tourna- ment. While scrambling for a loose ball another player stepped on her hand frac- turing a bone. Despite the injury she continued to play. Gook was also awarded a $500 B.C. Secondary School Giris Basketball Associalion scholarship at the pravincials. Only two such scholar- ships ate awarded annually at the championships. It goes to to two Grade 12 players who combine ath- letic ability, leadership and academics, lianne Leniuk, Dorothy Jedrzejcyk and Stephanie Leong all picked up first place standings in their re- spective free skate compe- titions. “I’m very proud of the performances of all of cur skaters,” says Mills. 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