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sports classified a metroland community newspaper wednesday january 22 1986 club might shrink warn soccer chiefs by kelly connelly sports editor the whitchurchstouffville soc cer club may be forced to cut some of its teams if more volunteers dont come forward contrary to a newspaper report last week which suggested the club would fold if new executive mem bers werent found stouffville panther coach and former club president alfons rubbens called the story erroneous theres a hell of a difference by saying certain aspects of soccer will disappear rather than the club will disappear charged rubbens who is also vicepresident of player de velopment for york region cut teams the club will never fold but if more people dont help with the administration the club will get smaller we might only be able to run two or three competitive teams efficiently next summer over 200 youngsters played houseieague or competitive soccer for one of 18 squads in town last year since the club was formed in march 1976 most of stouffvilles coaches have been forced to moon light as executive members and team skippers because both jobs are time consuming and neither gets the replete attention it de serves they want out of the paper work youve got to coach a team go to all the region and associaton meet ings and look after all the cards nothing gets done properly because youre spread too thin said tom morton the clubs recently res igned president morton spent his first and last year as president this past season and admitted he only accepted the responsibility because nobody else wanted to do it to aggravate the situation only a handful of parents attended the club meeting last fall although the side lines were usually packed with rela tives eager to yell encouragement to players and criticisms to referees during a game few are coming for ward to take an active role in the executive no support the majority of parents dont really care about administration and the ones that do care are afraid they cant handle the position fi gured rubbens we as coaches dont enjoy run ning the actual business side but were forced to go to all the meet ings and we shouldnt have to at present vancancies that must be filled include president a team executive b team execu tive and secretary competitive coaching posts are also up for grabs following the de parture of two skippers harry davis minor mosquitos and roy houston major mosquitos rub bens said the club could do with a few more referees too the next executive meeting is feb 17 at latcham hall the head count at this open discussion will in evitably serve as a crucial baro meter of the towns enthusiasm in the sport soccer is alive and well rub bens challenged acknowledging canadas firstever participation in the world cup this summer but parental input will decide hew much soccer there will be in stouff ville note player registration for the upcoming season will coincide with softballs signup date at the new recreation complex jan 25 10 am to 2 pm stouffvilles premier soccer team the royals have officially ap plied to the region of york to play in the national soccer league this summer tiny skiers learn moves at dagmar ski resort tough routines are scary says stouffville gymnast listening to stouffville gym nast tracy emery describe her double back flip into an empty swimming pool sounds like an episode of the fall guy but the compact 15yearold isnt acting shes training for upcoming area meets com petitions that could put her in the provincials may 10 in ottawa if her performance shines i havent done a double back flip on the floor yet but ive done them into a pit its like a swim ming pool with chunks of foam in it explains emery who has been training with the markham gymnastics club for the past five years her recent introduction to high protein foods with a liberal helping of carbohydrates appears to have paid off the youngster placed fourth overall in the first qualifying meet for the provincials at lamoureaux collegiate in scarborough jan 11 but pastapower alone isnt enough to vault her into the otta wa finals emery practises 18 hours a week and intensifies that schedule just prior to a com petition she also coaches prim ary kids monday evenings at the metroeast junior b qualifier in scarborough she scored an impressive first place finish on the uneven bars second in the floor exercise and third on the vault to secure the provincial tick et she must place in the top six at least one more time two more meets are slated for feb 8 at seneca college and april 5 in oshawa and like every gymnast with the possible exception of 76 olympian and romanian super star nadia comaneci emery has one routine she finds the toughest the beam is the toughest i get frustrated some times because there are lots of things to worry about thats not unusual says her coach lisa popovich the beam is only four inches wide and 120 centimetres off the ground it makes all the girls nervous by kelly connelly sports editor stuffed animals are even bigger than some of the kids at dagmar ski resort especially the tots in the club skiwi program the tow rope looks like a crane operators cable to a youngster of three the bunny hill definitely looks like mount everest but the wideeyed stare and the biggest lit tle smile is enough to convince any parent to put their tiny podborski in ski school if they can walk they can ski says a frank evangeline merkley director of dagmars ski school and creator of parent and skiwis merkley has two children of her own and feels putting young ones and their parents in the same ski lesson is long overdue the school accepts youngsters be tween the ages of three and five however some come even youn ger unlike kinderski programs offered at other resorts dagmar has built a unique creative play ground on the snow figurines pylons hoops balls cones and even a stationary rope tow with a rubber mat underneath enables the kids to climb the gentle slope easier of course theres al ways an instructor close by to give them that extra little push merkley stresses club skiwi isnt a daycare centre on skis or baby sitting refuge this isnt a drop in this program is designed to posi tively introduce young children to the sport of skiing we group them according to ability levels and not necessarily age we teach them the basic skiing skills and they progress as far as possible parents can enroll their youngs ters in one of two school packages parent and skiwis or kinderski both include eight weekend ses sions of one and twohour duration however the first program in volves parent and child instruction whereas the latter excludes the old er sibling the parent skiwis alternative costs a little more but then it gives parents that extra vital information on assisting children on various lifts and ski techniques i used to resent going to an activ ity with my child and the instructor would tell me to disappear they didnt want the parent around re- calls the 30yearold mother i say skiing is a family sport- but many parents dont know this kind of program is available club skiwi accepts students on a preregistration basis registration is usually in november kinderski costs 75 131 with rentals and pa rent skiwis runs 110 for more information call dagmar at 649- 2002 clippers dont miss danish salami but leaving denmark was emotional openfaced sandwiches danish girls lasting friendships and new years eve celebrations topped the list of most memorable experi ences in denmark for stouffvilles bantam hockey team the edwardsmurphy bantam clippers arrived home from their 2 4week scandinavian hockey trip on jan 11 with lots of stories to tell but before we get to the cultural tales theres some hockey news worth mentioning coach grant nesbitt and his boys recorded a lofty 82 record and won the aalborg tournament the clippers only two losses were deli vered by host frederikshavn a club with players as old as 19 the stouffville squad also spent a couple days in copenhagen and defeated runstead and henleu by scores of 54 and 83 respectively clippers scott evans billy payne dan larmer kent smythe and nesbitt recall a few unforgettable moments with the great danes the food was a lot different we were always eating the same thing after every game openfaced sandwiches with one pieccof bread and this stuff that looked like danish salami they really get into new years eve with the firecrackers and the bars scott evans goalie in denmark they sell a lot of things you can t buy here like firecrack ers theres no drinking age over there either the people taught me some of their customs and it was great just to be able to live in a different country even though we stayed only four days it felt worse leaving copenhagen and our new friends than leaving frederik shavn billy payne defenceman we stayed out till six in the morning new years eve at 3 am we were walking down the street and there were parents making snow men with their kids after some of the hockey games we went over to each others house and got together we went to sweden by boat and it had a casino onboard anybody could walk in and play the coach didnt mind everybody was crying when we left denmark dan larmer centre tiic whole trip was memorable for me the people i stayed with i miss them a lot especially my danish mother the roads arc pretty narrow down there and the cars arcn t as fancy there arc no sports cars just little volvos every guy on the clipper team had a danish girl i plan to go back in a few years kent smythe centre a few rules arc different in hockey you get a twominute penalty if you freeze the puck they use a three and four man system to referee the games any offsides that are close they dont call the danes are really not anywhere close to us as far as knowledge of the game but some of those guys were a lot bigger than our guys they took one stride and we had to take three the boys were ready to come home after 2 h weeks but leaving was emotional we got to know the frederikshavn boys and now wc dont know when well see them again some of my boys told tlieir moms and dads they were gonna trade them in for their danish parents grant nesbitt coach nextweek j stickwork are local hockey players too liberal with the lumber