12 - North Shore News - Wednesday, April 5, 2000

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Sports awards evening
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CHEERS restaurant was the venue for this year's Capilano
College sports awards last Wednesday evening, March 29.
Athletic award recipients included categories in badminton,
men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer and
women's volleyball. Students and faculty attended along with
major sponsors Coca-Cola and Rucanor. Cara Valli took Female
Athlete of the Year along with JeffYoon for Male Athlete of the
Year, yet everyone was a winner on this special night.

NEWS photos Cindy Goodman

Women's volleyball gang (from left) Michelle Wong, coach Wayne Desjardins, Sarah
Needham and Gillian Hilliard (GPA winner with 3.44) all dined together.

Men's basketball coach
Paul Eberhardt caught
the event.

Cap women's soccer coach
Doug Abercrombie has
taken his team to three
national and four provincial
championship titles.

Jeff Whitey hoops it up with Vernis Blair, who took
home a Rucanor award for basketball.

Executive director of the Capilano College Foundation,
Lana Robinson and vice chair of the colleges board of
governors, Donnaleen Miller got talking.

Lisa Iwamoto (left) sits beside Melissa Chancey who
took both MVP and All Star in basketball with Heidi
Wong alongside.

President of Capilano
College Dr. Greg Lee
gave the Athlete of the
Year Award to Jeff Yoon
(not in photo).

All Star Alisah McPhee
checked out her soccer
team's photo with Heather
Reid who won a scholastic
honour for her 3.58 GPA.

Lindsay Diehl, active in
both soccer and basketball,
was honoured for her GPA
of 3.11 while Kree Girard, a
former ball player, now
manages women's soccer.

Sandra Stevenson, president of Sport B.C. for three
years running, presented
awards.

Keynote speaker for the
evening, Simon Fraser
basketball
University
coach Allison McNeil!,
welcomed all.

Capilano College athletic director Joe Iacobellis teams
with the representative for Coca-Cola, Victor Chow.

Members of the badminton team, Patrick Ng, Wendy
Soo, Mike Chun, Michael Clay, Rajiv Jhangiani and
Eric Siu, boasted the team with the highest GPA aver­
age at 2.86.

The Graham Coates memorial soccer scholarship was
presented by Barbara and Stuart Coates.