WATERPOLO Waterpoto. Yes, It's a sport Where? The poot This year's team was made up of onty three veterans, coach/manager /ptayer Chris Semeniuk, Brad German and Erik Eklund Around this nucteus of ptayers, we bUilt our team With new rooks and seniors JOIning, a lot of work had to be done to make this team and team With a good effort, every one learnt th e game qUick and was ready to play In our first game against Nanlamo We came out of thiS game With a surprise victory and our Sights on UVIC About our games against UVIC - talk to one of our players Sufhcelt to say we didn't Sink At the beginning of Winter, '82, the Vancouver Island Waterpolo League started up ThiS massive league consisted of, hold your breath, three teams Nanlamo, UVIC and Royal Roads ThiS league let us do a bit of travelling up to Nanlamo and gave us some good compe tition The highlight of thiS year's water polo season was the Royal VISit We had the privilege of plaYing waterpolo lor HIs Royal Highness, Prince Phillip DUring his brlel review of the game, 45 sec, Prince Phillip must have been Impressed by the lack 01 bodies on the pool bottom Congratulations lor an excellent effort by the other members of the team - Bill Truelove, Pete Williams, the elUSive Ken Bell, Jeff Sorenson, Brian Mooney, Dave McMahon - needs an extra set of eyes - and James Burrowes. SpeCial thanks to Capt Schllds
WRESTLING The Royal Roads Wrestling Team IS thiS year a much Improved team consisting 01 a group of highly motivated ,nd,v,duals They train diligently at Improving the" wrestling skills and techniques, and at developing and sustaining a high degree of physical Illness necessary for competitions. The team practices two to lour times weekly and runs In the mornings It IS fortunate to have a coach who wrestled In and won tournaments at national and International levels After a slow start at USAFA the team has Improved steadily Numerous Roads wrestlers placed In the top four against the best from SFU and UBC at our Tnmeet In November In Campbell River, the whole team gained a medal, two earning the righl to represent Vancouver Island at the BC Winter Games In Revelstoke The" latest competition was at UBC, In late January, where they held the" own against UBC's. At the Winter Games our two wrestlers did extremely well, as 0/ c Brett placed fourth and 0/ c Donville garnered a Silver medal Congratulations guys, It'S been a great year, let's make next year even better
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