Wednesday, March 31, 1993 - North

_.Jre News - 15

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Varsity soccer players gain top honors
Cap College Blues' Silvana Burtini, Tony Mobilio named Athletes of the Year
SOCCER PLAYERS dominated the first-ever athletic
awards banquet at Capilano
College, held last weekend
at the college's North Vancouver campus, as both
male and female Athlete of
the Year awards went to
members of the Blues varsity soccer squads.
By A.P. Mccredie
Sports Reporter
Silvana Burtini, named top
striker at the provincial tournament last fall, was named Female
Athlete of the Year for her outstanding season leading the lady
Blues to a league-winning season
(6-1). Burtini, a practising
-member of the national team,
scored 12 goals in seven league
games. The 23-year-old

' ' The GPA of
(student athletes for fall
'92) was the highest in
the history of the
college.,,
kinesiology student was the No. 1
selection to the women's BCCAA
all-conference team, and was also
selected as a CCAA all-Canadian
award winner.
On the men's side, the Blues'
three-year veteran Tony Mobilio
was named Male Athlete of the
Year. Like Burtini, Mobilio enjoyed a stellar season, scoring
eight goals during the Blues'
league-leading season (7-1). He
was selected as a BCCAA allconference first team player, and
- along with teammate Nico Berg
- as a recipient of a CCAA allCanadian award. A highlight of
Mobilio's season was a hat trick
against BCIT in the third annual
Presidents' Cup match.
Both Burtini and Mobilio also

received Scholar Athlete Certificates. Fifteen other studentathletes also won these awards,
given to athletes who achieved a
minimum grade-point average of
3. 0 in the fall term. These 17
athletes comprise almost a third of
the total number of Capilano
Blues team members.
The Male Scholar Athlete of the
year was awarded to Berg, a midfielder with the men's soccer
team. Berg joined teammate
Mobilio as a member of the first
team BCCAA all-Conference and
as a winner of a CCAA all-Canadian award. Berg will be competing with the junior national
team in the Francophone Games
in Paris this July.
Lisa Armstrong, of Vernon,
was the winner of the Female
Scholar Athlete of the Year
award. The 24-year-old student in
the legal assistant program played
both forward and defender on the
lady Blues soccer team.
In her address to the athletes at
the banquet, college registrar
Dianna Larsen mentioned a recent
Simon Fraser University study
which found that students who
participate in school athletics are
generally more successful in terms
of their careers and in their contributions to society than those
NEWS photo Neil Lucente
students who do not play sports
LADY
BLUES
soccer
player
Silvana
Burtini
seen
here
(left)
in
game
against
Malaspina
- was
while in school.
She also noted that the grade- _named Female Athlete of the Year at Capilano College's inaugural athletic award banquet. Tony
point average of the student Mobilio, a standout player with the men's soccer squad, was named Male Athlete of the Year.
athletic body for the 1992 fall
term was the highest in the history
of the college.
Other award winners included:
• Team MVP plaques: Carla
King (women's basketball); Mike
Barber (men's basketball); Christy
Kelland (women's soccer); and
Darren Nott (men's soccer).
•
Special Team Awards:
Women's basketball Karly
McKay (most improved player);
Adrienne Ng (best defensive
player). Men's basketball - Darren Moscovitch (most improved/
defensive player); Jeff Winslade

(most dedicated player). Women's
soccer - Susie Sutherland (most
improved player); Maria Grieco
(most dedicated player). Men's
soccer - Danny Pecile (veteran
award for distinguished service);
Simon Tait (most dedicated
player).

Finalists meet in season opener

THE NORTH Shore Men's Baseball League (NSMBL) will
open its seventh season with a rematch of the two teams
who played in last season's playoff final.
Yorkton will take on the 1992
NSMBL playoff champion Pirates
on Tuesday, Aprir "20, at InterRiver Park North on Premier
Street.
The league is made up of seven
teams which include Jack Lonsdale's, Queen's Cross, the Black
Sox, the Keg and Skylights Only.
Each team plays 24 regular
season games as well as midseason and season-ending playoff
tournaments.

By Kevin Gillies
Contributing Writer

According to league president
Bodwell, most of the
league's teams have already
started their spring training.
"Last year was a highly successful season and we expect much
the same this year," Bodwell said.
The first five places in the
Mark

standings were not decided until
the last week of play, with Jack
Lonsdale's emerging as regular
season champs.
"The league plays intermediate-level ball and it's very competitive, although not at the same
level as the metro or premier
leagues," Bodwell said.
The league will hold tryouts for
new players on Sunday, April 4,
at 1 p.m. on the top field at Inter-River.
Anyone interested in further information can call Bodwell at
984-7291.