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avish praise: heaped on

28 aledonia senior high school badminton coach
Robert: Cooper had-nothing but praise for his B.C. run-
 fnerup'team with they arrived home ‘April 9. from the.

B. C. championships at Langley.

“They won every match right
_ up to the finals and we were in it~
right to the end against the even- —

tual winners,’’ he told us after
stepping off the plane.

I'm very proud to be their
coach. They played extremely
well —- everybody was so ex-

.. Cited.”

Cooper was lavish with his
praise for the help of thers. _
_ Credit has to go to the junior
high schools as well. We get a lot
of credit ‘at Caledonia, but

Skeena and Thornhill deserved
~ just as ‘much for their initial
training. Without their help, we

wouldn’t have got this far.”
Cooper pointed out it was the

best that Caledonia had ever ;

done in badminton.
“In the past five years, we’ve

‘placed second, fourth and sixth,

and also had a couple of plac-
ings in the low teens. That’s five
years in a row we’ve been down
there, and that says a lot for the
badminton program in the Ter-
Trace area.” .
The coach told us that the
local badminton club had made
a major contribution towards

the school team’s success.

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Sal badminton team

Spectacular season for ‘AAA’ a

The second: best team In B.C. high school badminton was honored by students, friends, parents and teachers at
a special assembly held the day after the teens arrived back from B.C. finals. They're shown with coach Robert
Cooper and medals they won for a runnerup finish.

‘The adult club has been very — Se

supportive financially as well as

in some of the instruction by af-
fording us some competition.
*“Qur locals took up the slack
when we had problems with
Prince George cancelling out on
a tournament. Financially we
couldn’t afford a trip to a Van-
couver tournament, thus we
took up the club’s offer of com-
petition,”
He expected the team to place

in the top eight out of 16 teams,.

He had been asked to make a
prediction prior to the finals,
but refused saying he didn’t feel
it was fair to the students by put-
ting them on the spot. -

‘| did feel top eight was
realistic and top four was possi-
ble. Beyond that it was a matter
of how well they played at the
right time,”’?
~ And how about next season?

‘We have four girls coming
back next year. They’re very
strong players. We also have two
regulars back among the boys.
Counting players not selected
for the team, but experienced
this season, another top eight
showing is very possible.””

Cooper concluded by praising
all coaches in the area for doing
superb work.

Milk run benefit set for =

Caledonia Kermode badminton coach Robert Cooper was
recipient of the Sherry Anderson Plaque for appreciation of
service to the sport in Terrace. Dan Tuomi of the Terrace
club made the presentation during a school assembly
honoring Terrace’s second-place Kermode team at the B.C.

finals...

local schools next week

ve The 11th annual school ‘milk
‘run’ is coming up Wednesday,

April 26, and Caledonia senior
high hopes to better their third-
place standing from last year.
The milk run, co-sponsored
by B.C. School Sports and the
B.C. Dairy Foundation, is sup-

porting the B.C. Lions Society

for Crippled Children for the
second straight year.
Thousands of senior and
junior high students around the
province will be running, walk-
ing or wheeling three kilometers,

as well as contributing a desig-
nated fee of $1 each. At the end
of the event, each participant
receives a carton of milk.

This year’s theme is “‘every-
one helping one another’’.

Caledonia school teacher Lin-
da Black told us they hope to get
400 - 500 students and up to

‘three-quarters of the teaching
- staff to take part.

“We're also collecting money
from each class in a three-day
competition to raise funds,’’ she

said. ‘Last year our third-place

overall resulted in B.C. School
Sports giving us a special award
on a basis of most money raised
per participant. We raised an
average of $1.80 per person.
This added up to more than
$600.""

Black feels they'll top that

- mark this year.

“We're spicing it up by dona-
tions from local businesses to
give out as prizes to first, second
and third-place classes, and top
male and female runners.”

Cal athletes:

best in

‘Our athletic record this
season could mean’ we’ re the
best triple ‘AAA’ school in the
province.”’

These were principal Bill
Sturn’s words after learning last
week that his Caledonia Ker-
mode badminton team had
finished second best in B.C.

“The accomplishments of the
senior mixed badminton team
from Caledonia is the best a
badminton team has ever done
from our area, and it equals the
showing of Cal’s senior boys’
volleyball team last fall when
they finished runnerup.

‘In the 20-year history of
Caledonia, it’s just outstanding
to achieve this in a single year.
In my view, looking around the

B.C.?

province in high school sports,

‘it’s very seldom if ever that a

school places two different

sports in medals.

“We're gong to take a look at

it, but to me I think Cal would
have to be the outstanding triple
‘AAA’ school this year in
athletics,’’ Sturn told us.

He plans to look into this a
the end of the school year.

Qne thing is certain —
graduating student Garnet
Hidber puts his name in the
school’s history book twice. Not
only was Hidber on the badmin-
ton team, he was also a member
of the boys’ volleyball team that
placed second — and he was a
provincial all-star in the volley
game.

Coming events in
regional sports

Kitimat has a youth referee
soccer clinic this coming Satur-
day. Phone Muriel at 632-3618
to sign up.

Mini-soccer training for six-to
eight-year-olds takes place every
Wednesday night from 7:15 to
8:15 at Kitimat’s Riverlodge.

Terrace minor softball has a
Level One coaching clinic this
coming weekend. Phone Barb
Cooper at 638-0452 to register.
Terrace minor hockey’s
season-ending awards banquet is
Wednesday night at Thornhill
Community Hall. Pre-novice,
novice and atoms go at 6 p.m.
Peewees, bantams and midgets
(together with ladies} go at 8:30
Bring one parent with you.

Terrace minor hockey’s an-
nual general meeting is Monday
the 24th at 7:30 p.m. in the Ter-
race library basement,

Kitimat minor hockey’s an-
nual awards banquet is Sunday
the 23rd at Riverlodge from 1 to
3 p.m. Players and parents
should attend.

Kitimat minor hockey’s an-

nual general meeting is set for’

Tuesday, May 9 at Riverlodge.

Adult volunteer help and
older teen players are needed by
Terrace minor softball. Contact
Pete Pauls or Ken Hendry if in-
terested.

Selections for the B.C, Sum-
mer Games bicycle team will be
held this Saturday and Sunday.
For information, phone Dave
Weismiller at 635-6984.

Persons wishing to play in this
coming weekend’s wallyball and
squash tournaments at Tertace
Northwest College courts should
phone the courts at 635-4009 ti to
sign up.

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