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---------- RN rs VE FN Ag sp OF Ogi ga P 32 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, January 25,1994 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" By Scott Anderson Port Perry Star "It's possible to reach your dream." Olympic skier Karen Stemm- le brought this message to the students at Prince Albert Public School last week. Ms. Stemmle, along with race car driver Katrina Teasdale, were at the school as part of the F.A.M.E. (Female Athletes Mo- tivating Excellence) program. The Olympic and World Cup skier used the opportunity to talk to the young students about y Ad Female athletes speak to Prince Albert students 4 ment to this. She set her sights on compet- ing in the Olympics at an early age after seeing Canadian high jumper Greg Joy compete in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Mon- treal. "One day I want to do that. I want to be in the Olympics," she told herself after watching him. win a silver medal. With that in mind she set her goals. She began her drive to the Olympics in 1977 after being in- vited to the World Junior Cham- Olympic and World Cup skier Karen Stemmle (left) and race car driver Katrina Teasdale were on hand at Prince Albert Pub- lic School last week to speak on the importance of motivation in sports. See story. personal motivation and goal setting. "You have to believe in your- self and you must have fun en- joying your dream," she said. "This theme was stressed throughout the 90-minute talk. "If you have a dream and a goal you must enjoy your dream, she said. "It's possible to reach your dream" And Ms. Stemmle 1s a testa pronshipsin Switzerland. Although she placed far back in the pack of skiers, she was hooked. The real goal setting began af ter being asked tojoin the Onta- ro and National Ski Teams. "That's when started setting goals for myself." These goals were small, but "each week 1 had a different goal, she expln ned And slowly these goals be came reality as she worked her way up the ranks of competitive skiing)competing on the World ine ski circuit for five / placing as high as fourthintwo consecutive years. She dredited self-confidence to her success. "If you're ever trying some- thing, just keep believing in yourself." The ultimate realization of her dreams and goals came in 1984 when she competed in the Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugosla- via. It was not a dream perfor- mance, however, as she placed 22nd. Although some would have looked upon the performance as a disappointment, she was al- ready setting her next goal. "It didn't matter because I was heading to the 1988 Olym- pics (Calgary)in frontof myown country," she said. But this was not to be. Her ranking in the world had dropped over the years and she was unceremoniously dropped from the team six weeks before the Calgary games. "When you have a dream and you're reaching for your goals and things begin to fall apart, it can be upsetting." Realizing her career as a ski- er had ended, she set her sights on the corporate world, where she treated her job like the World Cup. She was rewarded for her winning attitude with corporate awards as well. "I was still reaching for my goals. I was motivated." Whether it is the World Cup or the corporate world, Ms. Stemmle said it was necessary to have goals in which to drive towards. She outlined the top 13 points to becoming successful which include having fun, determina- tion, making sacrifices and set- ting goals. "Any of your dreams that you have today, can become reality tomorrow," she said. Lions compete in Jan. 22, 1994, proved to be a tinng but rewarding day for the Port Perry Lions Atom hockey club. After playing their morn ing house league match against Laurentian and emerging with a hard-fought 5-4 victory, they headed north to Cannington to participate 1n a day-long tour nament. The opening match against Uxbridge was tied 2-2 at the end of regulation time ive minutes of sudden death over time also failed to resolve the matter The issue was finally Overhead Doors win first game of series over Uxbridge Bruins On Saturday, Jan. 22, the Scugog Overhead Doors Peewee 'B' hockey club played host to the Uxbridge Bruins in game one of the best of five playoffs. These two peewee teams are not strangers to each other and it didn't take long for them to put aside the niceties and get right at it. From the opening faceoff Da- vid Gainey took control and the line of David Gainey, Scott San- derson, Justin (Cat) Sheehey, with Aaron Chambers and Scot- tie Harper on the blue line, waltzed into the Uxbridge zone and Sheehey teed one up and tested the Uxbridge goaltender with a hard rising shot but got rejected by a good glove save. Blayne Kinnunen, Travis Pickard and Alex Wordley didn't waste any time in split- ting the Uxb#fdge defence and forcing the Uxbridge goaltender to make yet another key save at the 11:00 mark. Brad Johnston, Nick Pelyk and Deryk Camp- bell swooped in on the Uxbridge goalie, but came away empty- handed also. Uxbridge, on the other side of the coin, was finding that the Port Perry goaltender was play- ing well also. Port lit up the scoreboard first when Nick Pe- lyk found Scott Sanderson in front, over to Dee Gainey and he fires it high to beat the goal- tender for a 1-0 lead. At around the 8:20 mark, the game was starting to get a little rough. Scott Harper welcomed two Ux- bridge players to peewee hockey at 7:59 when he handed out two heavy checks. Deryk Campbell was patrolling the boards well and was doing a little bumping out there also. An Uxbridge defenceman went into his own corner after a puck and oh, geez, look out, as David Gainey threw a huge check and came up with the loose puck causing a good scor- ing opportunity. Brad Johnston made a nice defensive move deep in his own zone to break up a good scoring chance for Ux- bridge. The first period ended with Port Perry holding a one- goal lead. The second period got off to another fast start with both goalies being tested early. Ux- bridge had Port deep in their own zone, found a man alone in front of the net and it's 1-1 at 11:53. At 11:30 Port came back and had Uxbndge back- pedalling in their own zone and Blayne Kinnunen, Alex Wor- put to rest with two skaters per team left on the ice. Robert Sheehan fed a pass to Joe Schembri who netted his second marker of the game to hft the [ions to victory. The other [a- ons' marker went to Don Camp- bell with Tyler Lucus notching two assists. Superb goaltending by Ken Lukas kept the Thons in the game throughout a hard- fought match. The second game of the tour ney was against a rough Oshawa club who jumped out to a hive goal lead before Cory dley and Travis Pickard set it up well and just missed when they had the Uxbridge goalie down and out. Alex Wordley got his bell rung at 9:58 by a hard check along the boards. Ux- bridge didn't let up and took the lead at 9:36. For the most part, Uxbridge had the edge in play in the early going of the second period. Port came right back when the Port Perry captain took control of an Uxbridge pass at centre and set a nice pass in the slot to Ryan Moynes to Scott Sanderson at the side of the Uxbridge goal and threw one high to the corner to beat the goaltender and tie the game up at 2-2 at 8:24. Port struck again at 7:00 when Ryan Moynes kept the play inside the Uxbridge blue- line and feathered a perfect pass to Deryk Campbell in front and Nick Pelyk slammed it home through heavy traffic for a 3-2 Port Perry lead. Nick Pe- lyk and Dave Gainey both slammed their man in the Ux- bridge corner at 5:43. At 4:35 Port had it set up deep in the Uxbridge end of the rink and Scott Sanderson, Justin Shee- hey passed the puck well back and forth close the Uxbridge goal until David Gainey took charge of the puck and blew it past the goalie for a 4-2 lead. Uxbridge came right back at 2:18 and scored to close the gap to 4-3. At 2:02 Uxbridge scored again on the power play to tie the game at 4-4. With the sec- ond period winding down, Scott Sanderson picked the pockets of an Uxbridge defenceman and fired a shot between the goalie's legs deep to the back of the goal for a 5-4 lead, assisted by Alex Wordley and Travis Pickard. Uxbridge started the third period working hard and twice In a two minute span waltzed in all alone on the Port Perry goal- 1e but was sent away empty- handed. Uxbridge was taking the play to Port Perry, trying to find the equalizer. Scott San- derson, Justin Sheehey and Da- vid Gainey formed a good rush at 8:46 but couldn't jam it in. Brad Johnston rifled a hard shot that was labelled for the top corner but "Oh what a glove save" the Uxbridge goaltender came up with. Jeff Neal was having a good game back on the blue line, along with Aaron Chambers and Scott Harver. Port was Turn to Page 37 tourney McQuade bulged the twine with a nifty set-up from Joe Schem- bri. Tyler Lucus brought the Li- ons within three goals with a pass from Chris Gloster but the [ions could not overcome Oshawa, who skated to a 6-2 victory. Derek Ellicott earned MVP honors for his heroic ef: forts between the pipes. The terrific team effort by the [ions is further highlighted by the fact that the squads they played against were select house league teams. Well done. guys! |