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p28 weekender september25 1993 st mmmmmmbmmxmmmmmmmmm photobruce stapley teaching is not confined to lessons learned in at a recent midget girls basketball practice he the classroom says stouffville district sec- explains some of the finer points of the game to ondary school teachercoach rusty hick left one of his players hick teaches valuable lessons in and out of the school classroom bruce stapley correspondent at a recent morning practice the coach fin ished up by simulating a lastminute tie game situation with his stouffville district secondary school spartans midget girls basketball team one player was given the ball at the foul line and the squad was told that if the player sunk the shot they could all go off and have a nice day if she failed everyone would have to do three pushups the shooter sank the shot the girls let out a collective cheer then ran off to get ready for class rusty hick had succeeded in teaching his team yet another valuable lesson on the virtues of team work for hick in his fourth year as a teachercoach at the stouffville school his success speaks for itself his midget girls spartan outfit captured the york region title two years ago while his junior boys crew has reached the regional finals the past two seasons all this in a school with a smaller student body than most schools but theres a lot more to it than finishing first he insists i think winning is important but you can lose on the scoreboard and still win hick said dur ing a recent interview for hick who has taken on the extra assign ment of vice chair for boys sports with ofsaa ontario federation of schools athletic associa tion this year participation in high school sports is a positive part of a teens development people criticize the school system and say that nothing the kids are learning today is going to be relevant 10 years from now but one survey i saw recently said the best indication of success later on in life is an involvement in extracurric ular activities in high school hicks own high school sports experiences included being a part of the malvern ci football team that won a city b championship it was while playing high school football that he received his grounding in the essence of coaching i learned team work discipline time manage ment setting goals and respect for others there are so many guys on a football team and each one has his place the term bonding may be an overworked term today but youre very close on a team its a positive experience all around coaching is a source of enjoyment for hick an added bonus to the teaching career he cherishes theres a selfish aspect to it because i love to coach i love being out there with the kids and i like being in the class room too this is what i was cut out to do hick doesnt feel all teachers should feel com pelled to put in the hours he does coaching involves a big time commitment we run three or four practices a week and there are one or two games a week plus tournaments but for me coaching is part of the job i dont have kids of my own and that makes a differ ence hicks own commitment goes far beyond run ning practices and accompanying his team to games when his junior boys spartans basketball team was playing in a tournament in wood- bridge on a saturday three years ago he drove all the way to buffalo to retrieve three of his players who were playing in a weekendlong hockey tournament in that town a parent then drove the trio back to buffalo hick felt it was as much a tribute to the par ents and the kids as to himself that said something about the commitment of the kids and the community he said while he enjoys the motivational and competi tive aspects of coaching hick said there are rewards to be gained by simply being a part of the teen scene there are a lot of fun things that happen its a good laugh its generally just a good feeling to be with the kids bruins roster loaded with local talent bruce stapley correspondent with their season opener just over two weeks away the uxbridge bruins would appear to have succeeded in their goal to localize the player roster r of the 26 players remaining in camp after two weekend prac tices roughly half are residents of the uxbridge and stouffville areas the bruins management promised to do everything possible to up the percentage of local boys on the junior c squad after that ratio was allowed to drop last season bruins coach mike morrison had his goaltending situation made a little more complicated when jeff reid showed up at training camp over the weekend reid who shared the bruins goaltending duties with brian harnden last season leaves the team with four netminders it was a pleasant surprise said morrison who must now rethink who to keep out of reid harnden jeremy ranich of beaverton and shawn wilson of stouffville morrison whose team trounced schomberg 136 in the first exhibition game of the preseason sept 12 said he plans to go into the oct 8 season opener with a slightly short lineup so that he can fill in with players who become available after junior a and b teams have made their final cuts were going to go a little lean at first said morrison were an adequate team now but i think were about three or four players away from being a good team the bruins who drew 250 fans for the schomberg game take on their long time rivals the port perry mojacks in a home and home set this weekend the teams face off in uxbridge friday night at 830 pm then go to it in port perry on sunday evening in other central ontario hockey league news the lakefield chiefs have been saved from extinction the chiefs who were to have folded in august have been given a new life thanks to the infusion of fresh cash and some new backers according to bruins president ivan martin were pleased because the schedule had already been made up said martin now everythings back in order xd its good news and bad news for aaron morrison the son of the bruins coach the younger morrison succeeded in his attempts to catch on with the junior b newmarket 87s this season morrison signed with the club but will be sidelined several weeks after separating cartilage in his ribs in an exhibi tion game three weeks ago the 16yearold left winger played with the bruins last sea son scoring 10 goals and earning six assists ivvikvvvm spartan seniors served with a loss the defending york region and durhamyork dyssaa cham pion stouffville secondary school sdss spartans senior boys volleyball team began its season with a tough loss to sutton dhs in the season opening set played tuesday at the lake sim- coe school the spartans fell 1512 1513 after winning by a 158 count the sdss junior squad had more success winning three straight against their sutton opponents the senior spartans had prepared for the new season by partici pating in a tournament at unionville hs last friday the sdss outfit finished second in its pool seniors coach jim fletcher said the sutton crew was going to provide his team with stiff competition this season sutton looks good they really want to go to ofsaa the provin cial high school finals said fletcher its going to be a big chal lenge for us this year weve only got two players back from last year elsewhere the sdss girls field hockey team started off its sea son with a solid performance at the bayview tournament tuesday the veterans blended well with the rookies as the stouf fville girls managed a win and a tie in their four games played against tough competition