ptember 20, 1993 Other Press Telereg Extravaganza! SPOR )S EEE 17 With Every New Season Comes New Faces : at date of publication the new teams have been chosen; see following issue for updates and results Elaine Leong Douglas College offers opportu- es for students to strive for success B variety of varsity athletic programs. Pro- cial competive oppurtunities are of- ed through the BCCAA (British Co- mbia CollegesAthleticAssociation) and i mal competition comes through the A (Canadian aise i s Athletics As- icy. i Every athlete who participates, ives and competes shares the thrill, od feelings and benefits of athletics. The 1992-93 season at Douglas oved to be a strong program whether uu were competing for or against it. SS herri-Crossweller will be the head coach for the Women's Soccer Team Seven out of nine teams com- ted in the BCCAA Championships and pur of those teams participated in the ‘CAA Nationals. But enough about last year; the pcoming 93-94 season looks just as romising even though Steve beauchamp has stepped down from the ead coach position of the men’s bas- etball team. “Yeah, I’ll be taking a break for his year or a couple of years,” says eauchamp. It’s been ten years of bas- etball for Beauchamp but now he feels need to be with his wife and two young hildren. “My kids need me [as a fa- her | and it’s a huge time commitment. asketball is not the primary job right ow. We'll be re-evaluating the situation the end of the year. Of course I'll be ut to some of the games this season.” “As you may already know, our sistant coach, Sean Beasly will be Head oach this year.” Beauchamp added. “I now he’s really excited, and I know Sean do a good job.” Sean Beasley is definitely pre- bared for this new role as he’s already been through summer training with ome of the players. “T've been coaching in Douglas or five years now,” Beasley noted. Dur- ng that time he has been learning and looking forward to using his knowl- edge to coach DC’s 93-94 season bas- ketball team. “I like to challenge myself,” Beasley mentioned. “I’ve never been one o turn down a challenge. When Steve left, Bill Mathews had left as well but I’m excited... the guys [basketball play- ers] are excited.” Coach Beasley is wasting no time putting his knowledge to use. Recruit- ing for the 93-94 season had been started early this year. ScottWalten and Rob James from Maple Ridge. Dave Gill, a new recruit is a small guard who will attend Douglas as well. Onkar Hayre will be returning as a guard. And we have a 4th year ath- lete at Douglas - Vern Knopp. “The returning players will be showing leadership and other skills to the new recruits,” Beasley mentioned. Chris Vandermark, a former DC athlete, from last year, in fact, will be joining Beasley as an assistant coach. Also, Rory Brown, from Rich- mond, has been coaching junoir high teams and will be joining the coaching staff with Beasley and Vandermark. Dan Jones, the women’s soccer coach has also stepped down. Sherri Crossweller will be coaching the Wom- en’s Soccer Team for the upcoming year. Crossweller had been asked by Athletics Director Betty-Lou Hayes to fill in the head coach position for the team last May. After having played soccer for 18 years,, eight years with the Marlins A team, Crossweller took up coaching for 10 years at various levels of youth soc- cer. This past year, she completed the Level III in the national coaching pro- gram. Also, she was involved with the 1993 Canada Games team as assistant coach. It was a first experience as a coach for Crossweller. The team won gold medal honours this past summer. . “T've been wanting to coach col- lege ball,” Crossweller mentioned, “I was involved in the review committee at Douglas College and that’s how I got involved. Then Betty Lou [Hayes] asked me to coach the team.” For the upcoming season, Crossweller was unable to do any recruit- ing due to the short notice given last May, when all the high school gradu- ates had already decided where they were attending in the fall. The open tryouts for the womens soccer team had been held since the end of August to the beginning of September. Coach Barry Manning will be coaching the team as well this year. Head coach Dave Dalcanale of the women’s volleyball team has high hopes this season. “We have a whole new team this year,” Dalcanale remarked. Dalcanale also noted only Byln McMullin and Sybille Stipp said that they were thinking of coming back. Several new recruits were named from Vancou- ver, Burnaby, New Westminster and even Okanagan. Coach Dalcanale claims to have scouted the high schools during the high school league season, which lasted from September to December. From Richmond Sr. Seccndies Dalcanale has recruited Sherry] Murphy, Sasha Klunder, and Chris Wohleben, all of whom have played elite ball in the Canadian Summer Games. Sara Kanakos and Pam Paraisso of Little Flower Academy will be trying out for the team this fall, as well as Jenny Robinson of Semi-Ahmoo, Cara Savage of Centenniel Secondary, and Bree LeChasseur of Holy-Cross, in Langley. Sherryl Laughlin of the VCC Langara Falcons and Donalda Richie of the Okanagan Lakers will be transferring to Douglas College as students as well as volleyball players. Last but not the least, to be noted by Dalcanale is Amber Fee, who also has elite ball experience, having played Fastball for BC in the Canadian Games. “It [the team] looks great,” Dalcanale exclaimed. “Just by looking at the talent on paper [and player qualifi- cations], it’s already a better team [than last year’s].” Last year, the women’s volleyball team seemed to lack concentration in the majority of the games, but “we've al- ways been competitive,” Dalcanale added. The only downpour on the com- ing season seems to have taken effect before it even began. The schedule for- mat for the volleyball teams has changed. All the colleges will be playing each other twice still, however, they will be playing each other within the same weekend and that will be it for the en- tire BCCAA season which expands over six months. “Tt used to be that if you were traveling a long dis- tance, you would be playing the sister schools all at the same time,” Dalcanale ex- plained. “But now, if you have two in- jured players and two games against a college [we usually beat], you’d lose two games rather than just one to that school.” Mike Williams has also begun drafting early for the upcoming men’s soccer season. The selection camp was hosted in May with 60 men showing up for first tryouts. Some of the players had been invited, but the tryouts were opened to DC stu- dents. From this number, Williams has already cut the group in half to 30. “Right now, we have 20 new recruits and ten returning players from last season,” Williams mentioned. The majority of the newcomers are straight out of highschool. Though ten players may be returning, Williams predicts that only seven or eight of them will be chosen to return to the team. That's how good the roster looks. Though the previous season was a damper with a 2-6 record, Williams has higher hopes for the 1993 year. “Last year, my feelings were that the team was too involved in the loses we've had,” Williams mentioned. “But I feel that things will improve.” For the Women’s basketball team, head coach Richard Norman is beaming at the prospect of the upcoming season. “With the six returning players and several new recruits [coming to the Fall "93 open tryouts], it will probably be the strongest team that we've ever had,” Norman said, proudly. Returning to the Douglas team will be: Celeste Rivet, a:'5’5" guard; Jenee Lutz, 6'2" forward; Robin Knight, 5’8" guard; Marlee Siemens, post player; Mandy Kirk, forward and Sarah Giddings, guard. “The tryouts will be open, so if anyone new wants to try out for the team, they can,” Norman noted. “The old positions [the veterans had] will be open.” The new recruits include: Sandra Allan and Sherri Zimmerman, Centenniel.; Tracey Cavanagh, Port Moody; Janice MacKintosh, Lambrick Park; Joanna Blesch, Notre Dame; Terez Payette, Lori Wilson, and Mandy Clarke, Terry Fox; and Melanie Batoche, New Westminster Secondary. “And we have Dianne Marcinko from Lord Byng who is a scoring ma- chine,” Norman raved. “We also have Daria Vandergraff coming over from [Dave Dalcanale’s] volleyball team to try at,” Norman added. “SFU wanted her last year but she had decided to come to Douglas to play volleyball for a year. They [SFU] also wanted her this year but she decided to stay at Douglas for another year and play basketball.” During the summer, a few of the players have been playing in the sum- mer league for practice and competition. Last year, DC won the BCCAA champi- onships. This year, Norman and assist- ant coach Steve Todd did some really good recruiting and also have a really good returning group. “In the beginning, we will have less experience, but that’s expected,” Norman stated, “that will change as we start-playing more games.” The schedule this year had change a little bit so that there will be four league games before Christmas rather than just two. The Royal Classic Tournament that is coming up was cut to a small DC Grad Tournament, Saturday, September 9. This was to cut back on the budget, with basketball officials and the prob- able lack of spectators on the long week- end. Basketball games will be running back to back. Also just like last year, Richard Norman and Steve Todd will be taking the teams to compete against some of the USA teams. But why play against teams Sean Beasley has accepted the challenge to coach Douglas College's Mens Basketball Team. down there? one might ask. “Well we don’t want to be play- ing the BC teams all the time and they wouldn’t want to play us all the time either,” Norman replied. The other coaches were unavail- able for comment before but the Other Press deadline. The sports are not unknown, however. The remaining sports and coaches are as follows: Badminton - Pe- ter Chen; Men’s Volleyball - Brian Newman and Blake Bevan; Rugby - Mike Collins; Golf - Gert Van Niekirk If you would like to contact any of the coaches, please contact DC’s Athletics Director Betty Lou Hayes at 527-5043.