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schmidt bids for place on national team by Dave Fuller At four o'clock in the afternoon, Angela Sch- midt is seated upon the stone steps of the house at the bottom of Mountain View Ski Hill gazing out at the golden trails while two tireless dogs clamber up onto her lap asking that she come run with them again. They're persistent but she stays and chats calmly while the two tear off into the tall grass bounding at each other as they go. Her relaxed voice gives no indication she is anxious. She appears content to sip a mug of tea and wait before she begins answering herself questions about and her sport. Schmidt is a_cross- Roller training country skier and in less than a day she will be in Banff, Alberta some 2,000 miles away surrounded by the Canadian Rockies and other young ladies who share her predilection for the sport. "It's 2cing to be great just to see them," she says, "I love mountains."' Only '18-years-old, this resident of Honey Har- bour has seen her fair share of hills and mountains from Quebec to the Yukon and Alaska. But the chance to see more still captures her interest and the thought alone is enough to cause her voice to quicken. "It was in the Yukon that I first saw moun- tains. We were in British Columbia once, but we were on the other side of 4 ' The future is too far away to worry about yet, so cross- country skier Angela Schmidt is happy just training and getting good. Her immediate plans are to finish high school and devote the next few years to skiing. Staff photo the mountains and we couldn't see much of them." National team Schmidt is one of the top Junior cross-country skiers in Canada and the trip to Banff for two weeks is at the invitation of the Junior girls' national team. She and the others will be vying for one of four positions on the team which will represent Canada in North American and perhaps European competitions this coming season For two weeks she will be under the tutelage of coaches Daryl Frank and Heinz Niederhauser to improve her technique and build the endurance required for this sport-- one of the toughest tests of stamina in the world. This afternoon Schmidt has come to Mountain View to put in one of two hours of daily exercise with friend and fellow skier Don Foster. A task that troubles her no more than walking to the corner store, the hour long session involves a tour of the local con- cession roads aboard a pair of wheeled con- trivances that resemble pre-1900 skateboards with their oversized spoked rear wheels and extended front wheels. This is how cross- country skiers train in the summer. "I've just started really training in the past month," she says. "I didn't train much this summer and I'm only up to about eight hours a week. I should be up to 11 hours but, I feel pretty good right now." Schmidt began skiing four years ago at the suggestion of her running coach at Midland Secondary School Elmer Vuorimaki. By her second year she was winning all the local races in her class and last year emerged as the top junior girls skier in Canada winning the National Championships held at Burns Lake. British Columbia. Last season's successes started with a win in the Southern Ontario junior championships held at Mountain View Ski hills in January and continued with the All-Ontario Championship in Sudbury where she won both the women's and girls' open classes. Following her win in B.C., Schmidt took second and third places at the United States National Championships in Alaska and was the first Junior finisher in the North American Championships held in Quebec. Yet with all the success she has had, she talks of her achievements as though they were lucky or at least unexpected. "I didn't plan to do well," she offers without a trace of a grin, "'it just turned out that way." One of the reasons for her showing in winter competition is the run- ning she does in school competitions during the fall. This past week, Sch- midt captured a second place at the Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletic Association cross-country finals and in doing so qualified for the Ontario finals this week. Her priorities are clear however, and the chance to contest the Ontario championship was passed up for the Banff session which began Saturday. Schmidt looks forward to doing a lot of skiing over the next few years and feels that for the time being her schooling can wait. After this, her final year of high school, she plans to devote her time to the sport and compete whenever and wherever she can, including Europe if the opportunity should present itself. College aspirations If she does continue with school it will most likely be at college rather than university. 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"I'm just getting into it now," she says, "I'm willing to explore it, to train and ski and just get good and I'll take things as they come." It's a chore sometimes she admits, always being due somewhere or having to travel back and forth from Honey Harbour-- and at times she wonders about the pace. It's hectic--yeah it gets me down sometimes. I wish I had more time but then, I like being busy so I don't mind it most of the time." Camping is her favourite activity during the summer months when skiing is far from her mind, and as most of us do, she mourns summer's passing. But as she speaks it's easy to detect an injured tone as if the change of season was a injustice that she felt more keenly. "IT love being outside a lot--camping, canoeing. I wish the whole summer could be just that." It's almost like summer this particular afternoon. The dogs are still chasing each other through the grass. But it's not a lazy summer afternoon at all. 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