The General doesn‘t so much walk as she does glide. Tallâ€"almost six feetâ€"slim and smart, she seems obliv ious to the heads that reflexively folâ€" low her. By JIM WILSON Beaver sports editor Tough when she needs to be, expansive when she wants to be, Carol Hamilton Goodale wears cool confiâ€" dence from growing up black in Northern Ontario and competitiveness from spending eight years on Canada‘s national basketball team. PEOPLE‘S She is someone you would want running your businessâ€"especially if that business happens to be basketball Two years removed from the national team, she talks of reâ€"joining it this summer. She is, after all, only 29 and still keeps in shape by burying unsuspecting men in pickâ€"up games. But on this day, not unlike others, she would much rather talk about the hundreds of local children, youths and adults she hosts as part of her Oakvilleâ€"based Home Court Basketball leagues and clinics. Or the hundreds of high school students she regularly addresses as part of FAME (Female Athletes Motivating Excellence), a government program that helps bring women and sport together. _Or the two hours of onâ€"court hell she puts company executives and their employees through as part of her basketball consulting service. None of these ventures are going to land her in the Fortune 500 but that is of no concern. Home Court Basketball, for instance, is an ambitious nonâ€"profit project, started with her husband, Bill Goodale, last summer, attempting to plug into what is now widely recognized as the world‘s most popular sport. "Drive around Oakville and every fifth drive way has a basketball hoop," Hamilton Goodale Sports trivia...Box No. 5239 Sports picks...Box No. 5240 Sheridan College.... To come Oakville Blades...... To come Oakville Little League... To come Basketball star spreads wealth COURT Canadian Computer ouet The new Apple Macintosh products are here. Be amazed. Be impressed. You are invited. Apple, The Apple Logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer 1 131 Trataigar Road, Oakville 849â€"0737 Oakville‘s Carol Hamilton Goodale is as determined off the court observes. And yet, three years ago, when the couple moved to Oakville, Bill‘s hometown, after playâ€" ing semiâ€"professionally in France, they were disâ€" appointed to discover there was no men‘s league. So they started one. Now, of course, Home Court has grown to include children, youths and women. The winter league is just wrapping up but soon it will be time for the summer program, divvied up into five divisions and expected to have more than 250 players. (This year‘s league and costs $95. See the brochure for details or and costs $95. See the Parks and Recreation brochure for details or call 825â€"4117). This summer, though, Hamilton Goodale might not be around so much. After quitting the national team two years ago, she‘s considering a comeback under new coach Kathy Shields. Shields replaces Wayne Hussey, an Oakville resident who resigned from the post in December. Hamilton Goodale won‘t say as Authorized Dealer 1 _(SPORTS rcue scoes Mav 3 to Au ~ ’ll e .i 3\6’{ BOCK‘S 190 *\ BACK! T0 When you‘re a little brewery, you have to be a little better. Af 1 much, but Hussey appears to be one of the reaâ€" sons she quit the national team after eight sparkling seasons. "There were a lot of problems,"is all she will say. "It‘s over and done with and everyone‘s been vindicated." Now she‘s looking for a fresh startâ€"although she‘ll have to survive the national team tryâ€"outs in Mav first. And while she‘s "really excited" about playing internationally tions the comeback is "conti to the coach and sorting thin The 1989 winner of the H trons the comeback is "contingent upon taiking to the coach and sorting things out." The 1989 winner of the Harry Jerome Award as Canada‘s top female black athlete, Hamilton Goodale led her high school team to two provinâ€" cial titles before going on to star as a freshman with Ohio State University. But she returned to her home town of Sudbury (earning a B.A. at Laurentian) the next year, wishing she says, "to be part of the Canadian basketball experience. "I had such an excellent life through basketâ€" ball that I wanted to give something back." as she is on i ~ swios { Fapls . w m C 2 .,"7? A 1/# 3 C P ' wit I e v d W n . . Te ; o s +J uy A «l â€" . e / & e hy y 8 e ) 7 P k _ & .A & ~ @4 t 1 ) B d Beiod 6k Mke : ho lc t .. OE 4 4 a M E. 3 a . P ) M L s T 4 * s l b $ o en d ‘ @7 wcimie MIN, $ by Riziero Vert she also cau on talking By JIM WILSON Beaver sports editor In 1983, amidst the headlines of he U.S. invading Grenada and the Soviet Union shooting down a South Korean jetliner, Sheridan College won the Canadian college volleyball championship. No one knew it at the time but that would be the last time an Ontario team has won a Canadian volleyball titleâ€"â€"college or university. Ten years later, Sheridan College, possessor of the country‘s No. 3 ranked men‘s team and No. 7 ranked women‘s team, hosts the 1993 Canadian College Athletic Association championships, Oakville hosts the best beginning tomorrow (Thursday). Is the spell going to end? Not likely. But at the very least, the three days of competition among the nation‘s top eight men‘s and women‘s teams proâ€" vides a sneak preview of the future of Canadian volleyball, which, traditionally is among the best in the world. Threeâ€"quarters of the players on Canada‘s national team played at the college level. Of those, the majority come from Quebec. Next up is Alberta. Which partially explavlns mmmumumm) why the two Quebec represenâ€" i tatives and one from Alberta 3) Seneca College (Ontario champian) ate favored for both titles. 6) Mount St. Vincent University (Nova Scotia) (Never mind the seedings, 7) Sheridan College (Ontario ftinalist) which have, for instance, Limoilou men ranked No. 8. The Titans have won seven of the past nine titles, were ranked No. 1 all season and lost in the Quebec final in five setsâ€"â€"16â€"14 in the fifthâ€"â€"to Sherbrooke). There are a few theories as to why this is: Q Kids in Quebec and Alberta love volleyball the same way Ontario vouths take to basketball. Q The Quebec and Alberta volleyball systems feed athletes up the pipe directly to four or five topâ€"ranked schools. In Ontario, the best playâ€" ers are spread among 22 different colleges. "If we concentrated our players among four or five schools, we could be dominant, too," says Fred Wannamaker, Sheridan‘s assistant athletic director and a CCAA volleyball convenor for the past 10 years. Q By and large, coaches are fullâ€"time professionals in Quebec. Meanwhile Alberta (Calgary, in particular) is home to the national proâ€" gram and also has access to the best coaches. These coaches often don‘t work anywhere else. They don‘t teach anything else. They stress practice and tournaments. They recruit heavily across their province. _ And what players they are. They are usually big and always talented See SHERIDAN, Page 17 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1993 PAGE 16 POOL A 1) College de Sherhrooke (Quebec champion) 4) Trinity Western University (B.C.) 5) Briercrest Bible College (Saskatchewan) 8) College Limoilou (Quebec finalist) 2) Mount Royal College (Alberta) 3) Sheridan College (Ontario champion) 6) University of King‘s College (Nova Scotia) 7) Cambrian College (Ontario finalist) 1) College de Sherbrooke (Quebec champion}) 4) Vancouver Community College (B.C.) 5) Briercrest Bible College (Saskatchewan) 8) College Boisâ€"deâ€"Boulogne (Quebec finalist) POOL B 2) Red Deer College (Alberta) 3) Seneca College (Ontario champion) 6) Mount St. Vincent University (Nova Scotia) 7) Sheridan College (Ontario ftinalist) WOMEN‘S SEEDS MEN‘S SEEDS