Wednesday, April 12, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Every Friday & Saturday! Ladies- Night Every Friday gpp flo'IPC a Tnwn V * 4 FRIDAY, APRIL 14 & SAT., APRIL 15 at 10pm 844-8703 SOMETHING EXTRA Sports^«te(% 559 Speers Road, Unit 2 Oakville (between Fourth Line & Dorval) 842-0725 An Oakville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON Phone:845-3824, ext 255 Fax:337-5567 E-mail:nnelson@haltonsearch.com The Cru wants you to sign up Saturday The Oakville-based C rusaders rugby club, last season, had its top team reach the provincial champi onship in the top division before final ly being bested by the Irish Canadians. But don't let that intimidate you. The Crusaders run a huge slate of pro grams with a team for virtually all ages and all levels, for both male and female. Registration will be held this Saturday (April 15) from 10 a.m. onwards. N either rain , n o r sleet, n o r snow (even in spring!) will keep the O akville C ru sad e rs rugby club (black jerseys) from taking to the field, as you can see by this photo taken a t the C ru sad e rs p a rk last S aturday. The first side hosted the Fergus H ighlanders, new this y ear in the O n tario Rugby Union B league, in a friendly. The C ru sad ers hold an open house this S atu rd ay (see story). Photo by P eter C. McCusker Making Waves Miro Majorahn, who owns every individual senior swim record at Q.E. Park, won two gold medals at OFSAA this year, in the process setting a provincial record By Norm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR Among the youngest com petitors at C an ad a's Olympic team selection trials will be (inset) 19-year-old Chelsea K irkby and 18-year-old Adam Vankoeverden, both of Oakville. M iro Majorahn, who remarkably owns every individual Q.E. Park senior swimming record, _ capped off his high school career in fitting fashion last month at the provincial championships ... By not only winning two individual gold medals (which is old hat for him, as he also did it last year) but also by setting a provincial record in the process. He also shared a silver medal on Q.E. Park's 4x50m freestyle relay team along with Tommy Hartt, Don Hartt, Josh Reynolds and sub Shiva Soondarsingh (in the process setting a Halton and Q.E. Park school record). Incidentally, three events are the maximum swim mers are allowed to compete in at the provincials, otherwise his haul could certainly have been greater. Just to make it a family affair, his sister, Mia M ajorahn, in Grade 11, also made it to the provincial championships and posted her best ever result -- a 10th place finish in the 50m freestyle event. The Ontario Federation of Secondary School Association (OFSAA) provincial championship meet was held at Brock University in St. Catharines. He won his two individual gold medals in the 100m and 50m freestyle events, and it was in the lat ter event (in a preliminary heat) that he set the new provincial record of 24.18, just eclipsing the old mark of 24.19. "It was real close," he said. During his lightning fast sprint he said he had no idea of whether he was or wasn't on a record pace. "I honestly just went all out. "It's been my goal to break that record for a few years now. I finally did it. It's a relief." Longtime Q.E.Park swim coach Jim Bonnell termed it "pretty amazing." "The time, 24.19, which was Glen Ooman's record at Georgetown, really was an exceptional time, and for him to get the 24.18, that was outstanding. Now, with an unrivaled five-year high school swimming career behind him, Majorahn is at an excit ing crossroads. His immediate goal is to dive into a bigger pond in September, at a university on a swimming scholar ship, most likely in the U.S. And further down the road, says Majorahn ... "the NCAA championships and then qualify for the Olympic Trials and maybe in a few years, hopefully the Olympics." It would be unusual for a swimmer in Canada to qualify for an Olympic trial, let alone an Olympic File Photo by Ron Kuzyk Things are heating up for Burloak Canoe Club: open house this weekend Photo by Barrie Erskine The pool at Q.E. Park is like a sea of tranquility, here, but Miro M ajorahn, in his just completed high school career, made some tsunami-like waves, shattering every individual senior swimming record. Games, without having first competed at the typically more intensive club level as a youth. (In high school competition, club swimmers com pete amongst themselves, apart from the rest of the swimmers). Majorahn, however, wasn't prepared for an exclu sive relationship with swimming, also suiting up, at various times, for the varsity track and field, bad minton and soccer teams. "Maybe he's taken the right approach," said coach Bonnell. "He's still got that talent. He's going to go to university and what happens to a lot of club swim mers is they've been swimming for so long, they've reached their peak, they just don't like it anymore. (See Majorahn' page D3) Things are starting to heat up for the Burloak Canoe Club, both figura tively and, thank goodness, literally. Temperatures are supposed to rebound back above normal for the weekend and that's welcome news for the Oakville-based club which is host ing its annual open house this week end, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Things are also heating up figura tively with several club members gearing up for a very important com petition -- the Olympic team selection trials. They'll be held over the Easter Weekend in Gainsville, Georgia, on Lake Lanier -- which hosted the pad dling venue for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Canada is very optimistic about an Olympic medal in women's kayaking, led by Lou Marsh Award winner Caroline Brunet, who was a triple gold medalist at last year's world championships. Brunet will compete individually (K -l) and team up with Karen Funeaux for the pairs (K-2). Oakville's Chelsea Kirkby, 19, will be trying for a seat in the women's K4. She has paddled for the club since she was 11 years old and has been a national team member for two years. Adam Vankoeverden, Mike Russell, Graham Cobb,. Adrian Richardson, Victor Neuspiel and Andrew Willow are all vying for the single men's kayak entry (K -l 1000m). Oakville's Vankoeverden, 18, a national team member has been pad dling with the club for half a decade. He's coming off a memorable sea son, winning a bronze medal in the 1000 metre kayak event at the junior worlds in Croatia. Both Kirkby and Vankoeverden are among the youngest competitors at the trials. 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