Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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FRONT ROW; Baines 1, Appleby, Rockett, Bethune, Stoneham, Smith. BACK ROW: Meredith, Washington, Samuel, turnbuU, Gibson, Hamilton, Mr. Berrunan. A new challenge was added to the schedule of the second swim team this year. The team com- peted against Halton high schools for the first time, and did very well indeed, they competed in three season meets against their new competitors and won the boys ' division of all three. The team also competed in the Halton championship meet, where they finished second. The team continued to compete in the I.S.A.A., and easily won all its meets, but one. The only loss came against Ridley, at Ridley. We had beaten them at Appleby earlier in the season, but that must have been a bad day for them, because they defeated us handily in the Ridley pool. Exhibition medley relay and freestyle relay teams were sent to the I.S.A.A. final, where they finished second and third. Several individuals stood out in this year ' s season, and deserve some mention. Steve Rockett and Brad Bethune were standard performers throughout the season. They swam just about every event at one time or other with great proficiency and specialized in backstroke, but- terfly and breaststroke, respectively. Darryl Smith and Mike Appleby joined the team for the first year and became the fastest and most versatile freestylers we had. Paul Stoneham worked very hard all year at a variety of positions. He eventually specialized in breaststroke, and, by the end of the season he was turning in some excellent per- formances. The long distance races were usually handled by Peter Meridith and Sean Baines. They both did quite well, with Peter winning most of the races and Sean achieving good over-all results. There were three backstrokers. Mark Samuel, Hunter Wilson and Kyle O ' Hearn. All three did very well. Kyle did especially well in that he was forced to wage a battle against sickness all year, but never quit trying. Don Hamilton, Sean Baines, Hal Turnbull, Mark Gibson and once even the excellent Mike Appleby did very well indeed, particularly under difficult circumstances when asked to swdm Individual Medley or First Team 50 yard freestyle; however they frequently came in first and second place in these races. It was altogether a most satisfying season all round, but it would never have been possible without the hard work of aU concerned, especially Coach Berriman, who deserves warm thanks from all. Sean Baines