stouffville suntribune thursday june 9 2005 27 young newcomers push soccer club over 1 000 players new fields ease strain but kickers still want centre for sport by jim thomas correspondent the 2005 soccer season has offi cially kicked off in whitchurch- stouffville more than 1000 players are involved ranging in age from under five to adults the bulk of the soccer populace is between five and eight with over 600 boys and girls involved its a sport that keeps on grow ing president mark kozakholland says as the towns population increases so does the soccer pro gram the reason for this kozakholland speculates is because new families moving in primarily from the greater toronto area are already conditioned to the game were here when they arrive he notes on a given evening its not unusu al for games to be going on at several different parks including bruces mill conservation area near gormley in stouffville and ballantrae contests sometimes involve more than 100 players with twice as many onlookers tr wlfwhlisif gamffip hh bjbp3s ibhbb p- s x t mark kozakholland club president says much of growth stems from new families moving into the area currently in his fourth year as club president kozakholland said the gender split is about 5050 but he predicted this will change in favour of girls a few years down the road boys staying power isnt as great he claims adult game is growing the popularity of adult leagues has been extremely helpful here says the president for out of these groups emerge countless volunteers to capitalize on this victor szabo described by kozakholland as a marvellous mentor has been named the clubs head coach suc ceeding the late tom morton szabo says the president had introduced the wein way program that designs practices that lean toward player motivation hes played the sport at the senior level he explains and maintains a burning ambition for the game the goal he says is to have coach es advance along with their players as they move from one level to another morton was big influence at the same time the efforts of morton will never be forgotten kozakholland says a tom morton camp day is set for late august as the season winds down kozakholland says strain on facil ities has been greatly eased through the acquisition of sites at ballantrae additional fields for both soccer and fastball will be available when the new bethesda park opens he notes he praised the towns cooperation in attempting to meet club needs the clubs dream says the presi dent is to have a multipurpose cen tre where soccer and other sports including tennis badminton bowling and golf can be enjoyed during the winter months markham he notes has two with a third on the drawing board almost every town in york region has one he said difficulties peter gibbons had the makings of experiencing a good day on the oval last sunday when he drove his canadian tire chevrolet monte carlo at the whelan 200 cascar super series race at the autodrome st- near resi- first two eustache montreal the stouffville dent earned his pole position in years but when the 200lap event concluded gib bons had finished in 10th place leading the race for the first 16 laps gibbons relinquished it after he began to experi ence handling difficul ties falling back into fifth place gibbons pitted for the first of what would be many stops on lap 63 and on the fol lowing lap restarting in the 20th spot gibbons worked his way back to seventh before being involved in a wreck with a lap car gibbons however finished the race we had a fast car tonight but we still have some work to do on the handling for the long race runs he said the next race for gibbons the third of 12 stops on the cascar super series takes place june 19 at the mosport road course near bowmanville peter gibbons stouffville resi dent felt handling problems hurt his chances to reach victory podium we do not have call display and we do not record the call cash rewards for anonymous tips that lead to an arrest 1800222tips or 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