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34 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday September 9, 2006 www.oakvillebeaver.com Masters swim programs Oakville to host North American set to begin this month ITF Taekwon-Do Championships Popular with tri-athletes and fitness swimmers The Oakville Masters Swim Club's ing, drafting along with stroke morning and evening programs, pop- improvement and endurance swimular with tri-athletes and fitness ming," said Oakville Masters Swim swimmers, begin this month at the Club head coach Mette Novais. White Oaks Pool. "Swimmers who were not comfortThe evening program, which fea- able during the swim portion of tures swimming on Tuesday, triathlons and participated in either Wednesday and Thursday the morning or evening "Swimmers who evenings as well as Masters swim programs Sunday mornings, were not comlast season posted very begins Tuesday. The fortable during good results this past morning program will the swim portion summer. We had four begin the following of triathlons... members post personal Monday (Sept. 18) and bests in swimming and posted very good feature swimming one woman completed the Mondays and Thursdays results this past Ironman in 12 hours with from 11 a.m. until noon. summer." a personal-best (time) in Both programs have swimming." proven to be beneficial Oakville Masters Partial memberships for former competitive Swim Club head for both the morning and swimmers seeking high- coach Mette Novais evening programs are intensity workouts, triavailable, while babysitathletes that need to improve swim- ting can be arranged for morning ming ability or even recreational program participants. swimmers that can swim a few laps of For more information, use an a pool. Internet search engine to look up the "The Masters morning (program) Oakville Masters Swim Club, visit the emphasizes both endurance and fit- club's website at ness swimming, and lanes are allocat- http://csca.org/oak/masters_page.htm, ed to focus on improving the swim- or attend a free practice at White ming portion for tri-athletes with Oaks Pool and talk to one of the club's attention placed on grouping, sight- coaches. The town of Oakville has been selected as the host of next year's North American ITF Taekwon-Do Championships. SPORTSBRIEFS Sheridan College's athletic facility will be the venue for the event, slated for June 23-24, that will bring competitors together from across Canada, the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico for a weekend of Taekwon-Do competition. Mike Morningstar, head instructor of Morningstar Taekwon-Do in Oakville, will be the championships' tournament director. "This event will bring the `who's who' of Taekwon-Do from across North America right here in Oakville," said Morningstar. "The level will be high and the competition fierce." Morningstar has hosted many events in Oakville in the past but expects this to be the biggest, estimating more than 700 competitors will participate. The president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation, Master Tran Trei Quan, and other Master Instructors are expected to attend. For more information, visit Morningstar Taekwon-Do's website at www.mstartkd.com or contact Mike Morningstar at 905-847-8955. swim, 40km bike and 10km run course in a time of 2:02:58, 5:28 behind race winner Will Clarke of Great Britain. Jones, a Queen Elizabeth Park graduate, and Hamilton's Colin Jenkins were both seen as legitimate medal hopes entering the race. Jenkins finished 17th. Two other local residents also competed at the world championships. Tyler Lord placed 64th in the men's 20-24 division with a time of 2:31:14, while Bob Rose posted a time of 2:44:34 to finish 28th in the men's 55-59 division. Crusaders home to Brampton The Oakville Crusaders look to keep their hopes alive of finishing first in the Ontario Rugby Union Marshall Premiership standings when they host Brampton today (3 p.m.) at Crusader Park. Oakville (8-2-1) is six points behind the Aurora Barbarians with three games remaining in the season. The teams are scheduled to face each other in the final week of the regular season. Openings on adult skating team The Classic Image Adult fun synchronized skating team has openings for male and female skaters over the age of 25. The 2005/2006 season begins this weekend at the Appleby Ice Centre in Burlington. For more information, call Diane Gallie at 905-3357054. 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