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"Unless you have the Recreation and Partici- pation "80 program at McLaughlin Collegiate on high school. They form enthusiasm and support of Basketball tournament at R. H. Cornish Saturday, April 13. Senior students Kevin Harris and Dan Millar also attended. The conference was designed as an interchange of ideas on how each school administrates its own intramural system. Intra- murals is the semi- competitive leagues set up within each school. A fundamental purpose of these programs are to offer competitions to lesser athletes, those not capable of making school teams. It is also a form of recreation that varies in degrees of import- ance at each school. The conference was co-ordinated by the students of McLaughlin which has one of the most comprehensive programs in the area. Each of the schools in Durham Region were invited. The students ran all of the discussions in the seminars. The day long meeting started with a get together before the seminars started. The head of the Physical Education Department at Ajax High School gave a description of that school's advanced system. At Ajax they discontinued inter-school sports ten years ago in order to channel all of the funds and energies towards a high level of student involvement in SR Basketball takes Zoet around the world Without a doubt the best basketball player ever to come out of Port Perry High is seven-foot, one-inch Jim Zoet. After shattering school records, Jim went on to star at universities in both the United States and Canada, and for club teams in Europe. He has been a member of Canada's National team, and despite all the contro- versy surrounding the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, the national team is now in the process of preparing for competition there this summer. The following article about Jim Zoet appeared last month in the Ottawa Journal and was written by Journal reporter Bill Hunt. Jim Zoet is a basketball globetrotter. : While he's never suited up with : Meadowlark Lemon and the rest of the - famous Harlem contingent, he's put enough mileage on his size 13 brogans during a four-year international career to qualify. Basketball has taken the 26-year old center for the Canadian national men's team to such unlikely outposts as Holland, France, Italy and Britain. And, with any luck, Moscow and a berth in the Olympics this summer. If the Nats are to get there, a couple of things will have to happen first. They'll have to place among the top three of an eight-team qualifying meet in San Juan, Puerto Rico, next month and they'll need the okay from the federal government. 16 teams in competition A team from Joseph Gould nipped a squad from Port Public School in Uxbridge Perry's R.H. Cornish 22 to 20 Bud #3 « All hands on the ball, as players from Cornish and Gould schools struggle for possession during final game Saturday afternoon. Loads of Talent While Zoet acknowledges that what- ever happens in the political sphere is out of his hands, he's quite confident he and his teammates can take care of the basketball end of things. "We have the talent to do some great things," he said. "We have size and experience. All we have to do is get some time together. Most of the teams we'll be up against have been together a year and a half or more. Our starters have worked together a few days, and right now we're a little weakened with injuries. But every- thing is there." Everything includes the big experien- ced center a contender so desperately needs. It was obvious Zoet was something special right out of high school in Port Perry, Ontario, and not just because of his giant seven-foot-one frame. Three at Kent State Scouts at Kent State University thought so and he spent three years at the Ohio school proving them right. But late in the 1976 season, he was banished to the bench and he wound up quitting the team in a dispute with the coach. "He was trying to turn me into a defensive ballplayer. He played me 30 to 35 minutes a game and both the team and I peaked too soon. We were just burned out. He blamed it on me, told me I'd never amount to anything and wondered what I | ed in the girls division with a the staff, you can't do too much in intramurals," the Ajax teacher said. Late in the year Ajax holds their big events. They have a two mile run called the ~ (Turn to page 12) to win the championship of a basketball tournament for grade seven students held in Port Perry on Saturday. The final was a real thriller with the advantage seesawing back and forth throughout the match. Gould finally pulling ahead to stay in the dying minutes. A frantic effort by R.H. Cornish to get the tying basket in the final few seconds fell short, and the local squad had to settle for the runner-up spot. In all, 16 teams from schools in Durham Region and outside, competed in the day-long event which used the gyms at both Port Perry High School and R.H. Cornish School. Joseph Gould also prevail- victory over Sunderland. Pickering's Valleyview School nailed down the boys consolation final with a win over Bowmanville Senior Public School, while the girls team from M.J. Hobbs School in Courtice captured the consolation with a victory over Valleyview. There were eight. girls and eight boys teams competing in the tournament. victory. was doing there at all. So I quit." He surfaced at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and was named second team all-Canadian center both years there. He Joined the Nats briefly in 1977, but when Dutch officials canvassed the Canadian team for players, he jumped at the chance to pursue his basketball career abroad. Good Experience Zoet returned to the National team after a two-year hiatus split between Holland and Great Britain. 5. "It was a good experience. The calibre over there is comparable to univer- sity here, I guess. They provide you with an apartment and a car and a contract. They treated me well over there. I'll probably go back again next year." One of the prime considerations in his switch to Britain was the co-ordination of scheduling between the British and Cana- dian squads. "That's the main reason. Our playoffs just finished over there, but in Holland they're only about halfway through them. I wanted to be here to be part of this team,' he said. After helping the team to a 36-8 mark in averaging 22 points and 15 rebounds a game, Zoet returned home to Port Perry March 15 and took a well-earned rest before joining the team in Ottawa last week. Coach Jack Donohue was pleased with what he saw. y pleased with him in the RARAOX WAM R.H. Cornish and Joseph Gould schools met in the final game of tournament for grade seven students, and Gould came away with an exciting two point early going. But he's got to be tired. The doctors tell me it takes a while to recover from those trans-Atlantic flights... It will take time before he shows what he can really do." Zoet confessed to being bothered by a hand injury in the early going. "It's nothing major but it's enough to bother my shooting some. Other than that I'm satisfied with things so far." Injuries have already had a significant impact on the team. Ross Quackenbush and Steve Atkin, both of whom Donohue is counting on heavily were sent home with ankle injuries before the team broke camp in Ottawa last week. Both are expected to be ready for the pre-Olympic tournament and that leaves Zoet oozing confidence. "If we play the way we can, we'll get in," he said matter-of-factly. "Individual- ly, we have a lot of talent. It's just a matter of putting it all together." Whether that is enough remains to be seen. The powers-that-be haven't indica- ted whether Canadian athletes will be allowed to compete in light of the political situation. "If they don't let us go, what can we do?" says Zoet. 'I'm disappointed. We've been working three years for this and in the fourth year they take it away from us. It's something I've ben looking forward to. I mean how many athletes can say they got to the Olympics? But all we can do is sit back and wait. If we don't go, we don't go."