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PAGE 22, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1984, WHITBY FREE PRESS MAGNIFICO ANNA WE ARE PROUD OF YOU1 IWELL DONEI ANNE!I OUR OLYM PIC GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN SWIMMING - J DONALD TRAVEL 102 BROCK ST. S., WHITBY 668-8867 1~ Mi SUNOCO SALUTES ANNE OTTENBRITE SUNOCO 509 DUNDAS ST.W. WHITBY UN~O On August 8, 1982, we said.... One day she'll be the best m the world Whitby doesn't have a Silver Man, But we got a "GOLDEN AN NE" WHITBY HOME BAKERY & COFFEE SHOP One day, she hopes she'll be the best in the world. For Whitby's Anne Ot- tenbrite that may not be a difficuit goal to achieve. As a member of the Canadian national swim team, the shy, quiet 16- year-old recently cap- tured a bronze and silver medal in the world aquatic cham- pionships in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She captured the silver in the 100-metre breaststroke and the bronze in the 200-metre breaststroke. Ottenbrite also holds the Canadian and Commonwealth records in these events having swam the 100-metre in 1 minutes, 11.03 seconds, and the 200-metre in 2 minutes, 33.19 seconds. She will soon be off to Edmonton, Alberta where she will swim in the try-outs for the Canadian national team that will take part in the Commonwealth Games to be held in October in Brisbane, Australia. Since she has already SHOPPERS DRUG MART 601 DUNDAS ST. W., WHITBY WELL DONE ANNE CONGRATULATIONS ANNE OTTENBRITE made the team, Otten- brite will then be off to SanfFrancisco, Califor- nia for two days of sight seeingtbefore heading out to Hawaii for training camp. Although she is a breaststroke specialists ("It's just about ail I can swim," she says), her coach has started her training for the I.M. event which is a race in which the swimmer swims the breaststroke, backstrolke, fly and free- style. It is not known whether she will enter the I.M. event atthe Commonwealth games. The grade il Henry Street High School student trains at her sport for at least three hours a day aside from actual swimming also has to lift weights and do various exercises under coach Pat Meronen. Ottenbrite has only been swimming com- petitively for four years but learned how to from her father, Joe. "My dad taught me to swim,' she says adding CONGRATULATIONS ON I A JOB "WELL DONE" world's best. .44'd like sometime in ming career, the world," My the ott we were rig hi said with a quiet cor to be, fidence that leaves on t swim- with the impression tha best in is exactly what she i Ienbrite going to be. 1984 God-MS.r- Bronze DURHAM ANNE "84 God - Sjjvý -Bromze THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF DURHAM I. 141 BROCK ST. S., WH ITBY 668-3586 BRAVO! VINCES GROCERY 214 DUNDAS'ST - WHITBY 668-5112 WELL DONE ANNE 1003 Dundas St. E. WHITBY ....and you that she tried other sports but found she didn't like them. "Then 1 tried com- petitive swimming and I like tha t."1 Most 16-year-olds have an active social life but the demands of her sport do not give Ot- tenbrite one, but she doesn't miss it. "When I go to swim I don't feel I'm missing that much," she says. 'I can't do as much as the other kids."1 However, swimming has its owfl rewards. "It's something to look forward to when I go to meets," she says. Ottenbrite will be part of the 14-man, 12-woman team representing Canada under the direc- tion af head coaches Tom and Dave Johnson. After winning her medals in Ecuador not only did Ottenbrite receive a bouquet of flowers fromn Mayor Bob Attersley on behaif of the Town of Whitby but she also received a congratulatory tele- gram from Hugh Glenn, the president of the National Sports and Recreation Association. After the Common- wealth games, Otten- brite's next target is the 1984 Olympic Games which will be held in Los Angeles, California vhere she will get the CONGRATULATIONS ANNE CANADIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP Suppliers of telephone systems for all sizes of businesses 1380 HOPKINS ST., UNIT NO. 1 WHITBY, ONT. 666-2135 1 Ottenbrite at town reception, Octo ber 1982'4 know,