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17 Thursday, A ugust 18, 2011 O A KVILLE BEAVER w w w .insideH A LTO N .com NEW DIGS: Oakville's Jamie Dawick addresses the media at the groundbreaking for the new lacrosse facility he is building on Invicta Road. The 81,000 square-foot building will be the practice facility and head office for the National Lacrosse League's Toronto Rock but will also provide an oppor- tunity for lacrosse players to enjoy their sport year round. HERB GARBUTT / OAKVILLE BEAVER Cordingley says facility will benefit all lacrosse players By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Having coached at every level from peanut to pro, Troy Cordingley can speak from experi- ence when he says the new lacrosse facility being built in Oakville will benefit all players. This is unbelievable for kids that play lacrosse, he said at Wednesdays ground breaking for the 81,000 square-foot facility being built by Rock owner Jamie Dawick. A lot of kids dont play hockey and now they will have this option to play lacrosse year round. Having a stick in your hand year round youre going to become very adept and it will be a great advantage for those who choose to play all year. The opportunity to play lacrosse year round was something I could never have dreamed of doing when I was growing up, said Rock captain Colin Doyle. The buildings main tenant will be the National Lacrosse Leagues Rock, who will use it as their practice facility as well as the teams office. The nine-acre site on Invicta Drive will also have an outdoor turf field for field lacrosse in addition to the two arena pads one concrete, one turf covered in the building. The building will also include a retail store, a physiotherapy clinic and a gym. Its been a dream of mine for a couple of years, said Dawick, an Oakville native. To be able to finally officially stick a shovel in the ground and get ready to build this is a real dream come true. Scott Bachly, president of Bachly Construction, said he expects the facility to be completed in March. The site is now being cleared and work is expected to begin on the building in the next week or two. This is a vision we all had and Jamie is making it real, said Cordingley, who in addi- tion to guiding the Rock to its sixth NLL title this year also coaches his sons Oakville Hawks novice team. Van Beilen wins silver at University Games Oakvilles Tera van Beilen won a University Games medal Wednesday night before even becoming a university student. The Kings Christian Collegiate graduate, who will attend the University of British Columbia this fall, swam to a second-place finish in the womens 50m breaststroke to earn Canadas first swimming medal of the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China. The silver medal came a day after Van Beilen narrowly missed reaching the podium, finishing fourth in the 200m breaststroke. Last night I was so close with a fourth- place, it made me want a medal even more today, she said on the Swim Canada website. I was really happy with my performance as it was my best time in the event. Van Beilen set a personal best of 31.64 seconds in the preliminaries and topped that again in the finals with a 31.45. That left her behind only American swimmer Ann Chandler, who won the race in 31.13. Van Beilen was particularly happy with how she closed the race, saying, "I've strug- gled with the timing of my finish lately." Van Beilen also set a personal best of 2:26.78 in the 200m, knocking a second and a half off the personal best she set in the preliminaries. Van Beilen made a strong charge, posting the best time over the final 50m to climb from seventh to fourth and missed reaching the podium by 11 one-hundredths of a second. I am usually strong in the final 50m but had no idea where I was when I made the turn, van Beilen said. I heard the crowd get louder as a Chinese swimmer was in the race and I said gotta go, gotta go now and the adrenaline pushed me to the finish. Van Beilen will also compete in the 100m butterfly.