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North Shore athletes honoured

Jan-Christian Sorensen
jsorensen@nsnews.com

IT was definitely a big,
big week for Carson
Graham product Sarah
Regan.
The Capilano College Lady
Blues soccer team striker won
her school's athlete of the year
award at the annual banquet.
Four days later she learned
that she was the B.C. College
Athletics Association's female
athlete of the year for 2001.
But Wednesday night took
the cake - she was honoured
with the 2001 North Shore
sport award in the open female
category, a shared North Shore
sport award in the top team
category, and the Canadian
Colleges Athletics Association's
top female athlete award for
2001.
It was a well-attended edition of the annual North Shore
Sport Awards Wednesday
night, with over 300 people
turning out at Park Royal
South to honour the best of
the local sports community in
the past season.
Sure, consider it a cliche if
you must, but the old adage
rings true: it is indeed an honour - and a true testament of
all these athletes' drive, determination and dedication - to
even make it into the hotly
contested finalists circle for
each award.
Congratulations go out not
only to all the winners, but to
the finalists who achieved so
much in the past sports season.
Regan's competition in the
open female category was UBC
field hockey stalwart Stephanie
Hume and national wrestling
medallist Emily Richardson.

In the open male category,
North Van distance runner
Peter Cardle won out over
SFU football fixture Mike
Vtlimek, marathoner Brendan
Brazier and lacrosse legend Yul
Baker.
For youth male, national
junior figure skating winner
Eric Lyons took home the trophy ahead of distance runner
Chris Winter, track and field
athlete Marc Noble and mountain biker Ben Sigston.
National wrestling medallist
Hilary Leith won the youth
female award over tennis notables Natalia Cretu and Stefi
Gjine and Handsworth basketball
standard
Erica
McGuinness.
Track and field athlete Betsy
Lord claimed the master female
athlete award over fellow track
and field fixtures Doreen
McLeod-Smith and Maureen
De St. Croix.
The Capilano College Lady
Blues soccer team, meanwhile,
grabbed its second straight
awar& for winning its fifth
CCAA title in the past seven
years. Also up for the award
were the B.C. "AAA" football
league champion Carson
Graham Eagles and the North
Shore senior B Indians lacrosse
team that won the President's
Cup national title.
Rockridge coaching fixture
and former Capilano RFC premier division boss Tim Murdy
walked off with the coach of
the year award ahead of Cap
College women's soccer team
coach Doug Abercrombie,
B. C. Soccer coach of the year
Esmael Karimi and Norwesters
Track and Field club coach
Frank Reynolds.
See Tomahawk page 53