Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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This year the swim team had yet another successful season. We won the I.S.A.A. Final and the Kiwanas, Oakville High School Championship. It is safe to say that this year ' s team was probably the best dedicated team since the club was fovuided five years ago. If the standards keep improving as fast as they have been, Appleby will be, for many years to come, the team to beat. The most significant oc- currence of the season was the meteoric improvement of two grade 10 students, Don Johnson and Tom Hughes. Another im- portant development was the appearance of Dave Green, who stxmibled in from the squash courts, to dive impressively for us throughout the season. Dave Burke, Jamie Mathieson, and John Markley, when not involved in C.A.S.A. swim meets, were up in Temagami, or at B-Ball games. They put in their habitual faultless performances. Paul Bundschuh must be mentioned for his valour for sticking to the 200 freestyle aU season long, as must Joe Lu for the 100 breaststroke; FRONT ROW: Manbert, Burke 1. Wood 1. MIDDLE ROW: Mr. Larsen, Mathieson, Lu, Bundschuch, Burke 2. BACK ROW: Johnson, Markley, Green 2, Hughes 2, Mr. Berriman. both improved immensely. For the old timers, Chris Wood, Des Burke and Rob Manbert, it was a tough season. For Chris it was the famous severed tendon at S.A.C., for Rob the ever present lung problems, and for Des just getting through practice was a battle. First Swimming

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both physically and emotionally for the Championships. We had to contend with the Hkes of U.C.C, T.C.S., and Ridley. Throughout the year we had beaten T.C.S. and U.C.C. consistently but we still reahzed the threat of upset. Ridley had remained our closest competition all year. They had handed us our lone defeat of the year, a close 3-2 decision. Seeking revenge later in the season we managed a win over them in a 3-2 decision also. The I.S.A.A. was to be the decisive match of the season. In the championships we managed wins over both T.C.S. and U.C.C. with respective 4-1 and 5-0 scores. Then we faced our rivals; Ridley. Alan Keil fought hard but lost 3-1 to even things up for us. Bart Sambrook played one of the most exciting matches of his Ufe to beat a determined John Pitfield to whom he had lost earlier in the year. All we needed was a win by Fred Reid to clinch the title again. He beat his op- ponent 3-0 to clinch it and in the end the final score was 4-1 Ap- pleby over Ridley. The wins came when we needed them most. It was a long season and nothing could have been more rewarding than to cap it with the cham- pionship. I expect that next year ' s teams on first and second team levels will continue their vanning ways. With three of the top five returning and a nucleus to grow with on the second team level, a 2nd Squash , - ,JP ' xs. . — FRONT ROW: Durst, King, HoUand. BACK ROW: Richards, Dorion, Hueton. competitive team for next year and years to come will be available. A special word of thanks to our coach, Mr. Larsen, who en- couraged us, trained us and was behind us all the way through. A great season and best of luck for many more to come. Don Benson 4i ' ■1 1 «2

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In the end everyone was healed and present and fit, so everything just fell together. With the ex- ception of one swim meet at Ridley we had an undefeated season. A word of thanks must be of- fered to Coach Berriman who put up with our cramps and com- plaining and who managed to coax us into the pool every day. We are indebted to his skill as a coach which has over the years improved as much as the team has. Desmond Burke - Captain