Commitment, dedication, passion, camaraderie.

Those are the words coach Jen Boyd uses to explain the reason behind Ashbury Colleges exceptional rugby tradition.

Her Colts girls team has won OF-SAA gold four times in the past 10 years, and also collected four more provincial high school medals.

They enter the AAA/AAAA ranks to face the strongest schools even though their smaller population classi-fi es them as an A-level school. There are 220 girls at the Rockcliffe school and of them 40 play rugby.

There is a family feeling to the Colts, who are all wearing T-shirts with a quote on the back: You are not what you did, but what you will do.

Ashbury players are always intent on carrying on the tradition, and thats a cause theyll embrace when they com-pete in the 2012 OFSAA girls rugby championships June 4-6 at Twin Elm Rugby Park in Richmond.

Theres a legacy, highlights Colts senior Charlotte Dunlap, whod already heard a lot about the programs reputa-tion before she joined up in Grade 9. We live off the idea that Ashbury tries hard at rugby and comes out strong with its girls rugby program. It gives us a big push.

The tradition includes a record of just one loss in national capital league play over the past decade. But that one defeat came in last years semi-fi nal, which caused the girls to come back with even more fi re something their coach didnt believe was even possible.

I dont think theres a team that

works harder than us, I really dont, says Boyd, noting her squad often out-lasts opponents by the end of games, which is exactly what happened in their 28-3 city fi nal victory over the St. Peter Knights on May 24.

Physical preparation has always been a major emphasis for the Colts coach of 12 years, who has her play-ers run 4 km three days a week before the games start, while putting them through circuit training the other days.

Legacy incLuDes team canaDaOh my gosh, I remember running

fi tness non-step pre-season, laughs Ashbury grad Julianne Zussman, now a member of the Canadian senior wo-mens national rugby team. We would just do lengths and lengths and lengths of the fi eld. That was defi nitely part of Boyds philosophy. It was defi nitely necessary, and always useful at the end of the season.

How Zussman started playing rugby is a familiar story for many Colts players. The 25-year-old told Boyd she was a soccer player through and

through, but wound up getting hooked on a new sport in her very fi rst practice. The OFSAA title she won in Grade 10 remains one of Zussmans favourite ca-reer highlights.

We were underdogs going into that tournament, recalls the former McGill Martlet. I remember us beat-ing teams that outweighed us by like 100 pounds in the scrum.

Thats another Ashbury trait theyre never the biggest team, but they are always fi t, fast and skilled. Zuss-man got to see that was the case fi rst-hand when she welcomed the current team to the Canadian teams Langford, B.C. training facility during the Colts April pre-season tour.

That was awesome, says Zuss-man, who will more than likely be playing for Canada in a 2013 Rugby World Cup 7s Qualifi er this August in Ottawa. It was really inspiring to re-member where I came from and what a great program I was a part of when I fell in love with rugby.

Thats always with me the fact that I love the sport so much.

cOLts PrimeD fOr Ottawa OfsaaDespite the history of success, there

remains a piece of unfi nished business for the current Colt seniors. They own OFSAA two silvers, but thats not the colour they want this time around.

We all want to fi nish with a gold medal in our last year, emphasizes Dunlap, a key team leader along with Katrine Lightstone, Mary-Liz Power and McMaster University-bound players Stephanie Black and Quincy Batson.

Were pretty pumped, Dunlap adds. Its going to be really exciting. Were going to try our best and repres-ent Ashbury as best we can.

many Ottawa meDaL hOPesTheres no question the Colts are

the better bet to try to follow Mis-sissaugas Applewood Heights Second-ary School as OFSAA champions, but the St. Peter Knights are also ready to battle for a place on the podium against the provinces best.

heartbeatthe heartbeat of the Ottawa sports community sportsOttawa.com vol. 9 June 2012

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From record-breaking racing to personal fi tness to unique fundraisers, Ottawa Race Weekend produced endless storylines.

The Ottawa Fury are fi nished with being bridesmaids as they set out to win a title on home turf in this seasons W-League.

The Ottawa Fusion and Maverick vol-leyball clubs both won silver medals at the largest national championships ever.

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Ashbury Colts rugby dynastys latest chapter comes at home OFSAA

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ColtsNational capital champs nine of the past 10 years, the Ashbury Colts will chase a fi fth provincial crown and ninth medal at the 2012 OFSAA girls rugby championships June 4-6 in Ottawa.

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The Eastern Canadian gymnastics champi-onships provided a rare opportunity for athletes involved in an individual sport to compete in a team setting and there was loads of success for Ottawa gymnasts on that front but it also acted as the perfect stage for one athletes fi nal triumph of a breakout season.

Adrianka Forrest of Ottawa Gymnastics Centre completed a remarkable year by captur-ing the Eastern Canadian all-around title that included silver medal performances on bars and beam, and gold on vault and fl oor.

She went 4-for-4, smiles OGC coach Tobie Gorman. She just rocked.

Forrest was the anchor of the Ontario squad that won team gold May 10-13 in Quebec City, Gorman adds. And all this from an athlete who was in recreational gymnastics just a year-and-a-half ago.

Last season in her fi rst foray into the com-petitive gymnastics world, Forrest was last in her category provincially. This season in a higher di-vision, she topped the Level 7, Age 11 provincial qualifi cation standings and won all-around gold at the Ontario championships in Ottawa.

I toughened myself up. Last year was OK, but this year I knew what to expect and I was ready for it, explains Forrest, who carried no thoughts of reaching the Eastern Canadians let alone winning it at the start of her season. Easterns was like a bonus for me and to know that I was picked out of all the other girls was

amazing.Sophie Paquin from Tumblers Gymnastics

Centre was also a key contributor to Ontarios gold rush in the Tyro P3 category.

The Grade 6 Arc-en-ciel elementary school student fi nished less than a point and half behind Forrests total to earn bronze in the individual all-around competition.

I really enjoyed being with team. We cheered each other on, recounts Paquin, who had her own hometown cheering section made up of family that live in the Quebec City area. It was pretty cool. It was a really great experience.

Julie-Anne Fiset of Tumblers also had sup-port from family members who live in the region as the Grade 5 Alain-Fortin student participated

in her fi rst-ever Eastern Canadian event.All my family came to see me compete.

They were the best, recounts Fiset, who placed fi fth in the pre-novice elite category. They were like, Youre incredible, how do you do that?

Paolo Nera also represented Tumblers at the event, earning a top result of silver on rings and bronze on fl oor, while Spring Action athlete Steven Wade earned silver medals in trampoline and double mini-trampoline events.

Along with Forrest, fi ve other OGC athletes

helped their club to a record medal haul from the Eastern Canadian event. Nick Maikail chipped in a team silver to go alongside his rings title, while Sofi a Baggio (third all-around), Bella St George (fourth), Nathalie Joanette (second) and Mea-ghan Smith (third) also celebrated team gold with Ontario.

Each OGC athlete spoke fondly of the bond they created with their provincial counterparts over the course of the event.

My teammates were really, really nice, Baggio notes. They were lots of fun. To have them to compete with was awesome.

Thats the best thing about gymnastics, Gorman echoes. Those kids will be their friends for life.

The Eastern Canadian gymnastics champi-onships were not only a benchmark moment for the Ottawa Gymnastics Centres athletes, but the clubs coaches as well.

Four OGC coaches Lynne Ethier, Holly Dawe, Siarhei Bialkovich and Sara Baker directed Team Ontario gymnasts at the event. Also making the trip to Quebec City were the veteran OGC leaders womens program head and 2004 Olympic coach Tobie Gorman and general manager Kellie Hinnells, who was re-cently named chair of the gymnastics compet-ition for the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto.

To have such a great staff that is able to take on a team, look after all their needs sleeping, training, competition its a very proud moment for the gym club, notes Gor-man, who was in turn thankful to her athletes for earning the coaching spots by qualifying fi rst in Ontario for the event. We wouldnt have been there without them.

Hinnells believes the club is pretty lucky to have such quality coaches that embrace the motto: We teach children, not skills.

They all fully believe it and they live it every day. They want the kids to excel not only as athletes, but also as human beings, Hinnells describes. It makes a huge difference because if the kids are happy, theyre successful.

4 OGC coaches lead Ontario at Easterns

By Dan Plouffe (From left) Ottawa Gymnastics Centre athletes Nathalie Joanette, Sofi a Baggio, Nick Maikail, Adrianka Forrest, Bella St George and Meaghan Smith produced a club record medal haul from the Eastern Canadianchampionships.

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Heartfelt thanksMichelle Baggio, mother of Eastern Canadian all-around bronze medal-ist Sofi a Baggio (right), says their second fam-ily at OGC helped them keep positive through all the turbulence of losing just about everything in an April housefi re. The Baggios gave a heartfelt thank you to all those that supported them. See

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ELITEW-League title at home the only goal for Fury

Theres no question what the ob-jective is for the Ottawa Fury this summer. After hammering through

the USL W-League regular season and conference playoffs last year, the Fury were forced to settle for a silver medal the third in franchise history. That leaves only one option for this season.

Win it all that is the only goal, states Mallory Outerbridge, the W-Leagues reigning MVP and top goal scorer. Everyone wants to have fun too, and the more youre winning, the more fun it is.

The 5-1 defeat to the Atlanta Sil-verbacks in the championship final re-mains a painful memory for the team, but its also a distant one.

It seems like years ago now. Weve moved so far beyond that, says coach Dom Oliveri, who believes

this years team is even better than the last. Our focus immediately turned to the next year and on fixing what happened.

The Fury received a big boost in that quest when they were awarded the 2012 W-League final four champion-ship, which will take place July 27-29 at the Algonquin Soccer Complex.

Ottawa carries a home undefeated streak of 25 games, and if that record alone wasnt intimidating enough for opponents, the club plans to pack as many seats as possible on all sides of the Algonquin field, boosting capacity to at least 2,000.

Wherever we can put a bleacher and fill it, thats what our intent is to

do, says Fury owner and CEO John Pugh, whose team gets a guaranteed semi-final berth as hosts. The fans will be al-most too close to the field, and I think theyll get behind the home team.

On top of getting to eat

and sleep in famil-iar surroundings, Outerbridge is ex-pecting the homet-own support will provide a big lift as well.

Last year when we had the playoffs to get to the final four, the crowd was just un-believable. They were so behind us the whole time. It was awesome, recalls Outerbridge, a key offensive weapon along with Melissa Busque for the squad that also features several strong goalkeepers. And we do so well when we play at home. I cant wait. Its going to be so much fun.

OKane wants PDL turnarOunDThe Fury USL Premier Develop-

ment League mens squad also has high hopes despite a sub-par 2011 season where they finished below .500. Stephen OKane, who resigned after leading the club to its first-ever post-season on the shoulders of an undefeated regular season in 2009, re-turns as head coach.

Im thrilled to be back, OKane says. The PDL is something I care deeply about, and when I had the op-portunity to coach again, it was a no-brainer decision.

I have two kids at home and the PDL feels like a third kid, so the last few years not being involved with my third kid was absolute agony.

The Fury PDL lineup features plenty of homegrown talent, includ-ing reigning CIS soccer MVP Robbie Murphy and Duke University-bound goalkeeper Chad Bush. The squad also boasts players from Sweden, Jamaica, England, Spain and Brazil.

Both Fury teams kick off their home schedules on Saturday, June 2.

By Dan Plouffe

Melissa Busque is one of the key re-turning players in the Ottawa Furys W-League lineup.

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Zakutney wins unlikely repeat titleSamuel Zakutney is a national champ again.

But unlike last year, the standout National Cap-ital Competitive Boys Gymnastics athletes vic-tory was quite a bit more improbable this time.

Zakutney acknowledges that thoughts of a Canadian title were far from his mind earlier this season when he was forced to miss the Elite Canada meet due to a back injury. Add to that the fact that the Grade 8 Franco-Cit student had moved up from the Argo high-performance age class to Tyro and had lower start values for degree of difficulties than his older competitors and the odds for a gold medal grew longer.

The reason I won was that I was so clean, says Zakutney, who was solid in placing second on every apparatus outside of an 11th on high bar and first on parallel bars en route to all-around gold. I was just really impressed. I was surprised. And Im just really happy that all that hard work paid off.

Eric Gauthier earned a piece of Tumblers Gymnastics Centre history by becoming the first athlete from his club to compete in a Canadian championship event final, where he placed sixth in the National Youth floor competition.

It was a big step forward for Tumblers, notes coach Nick Grimard, who also had Scott Mac-farlane competing in the National Open class.

The goal this year was to qualify at least one athlete for nationals, highlights Grimard, who also enjoyed the learning experience of attending his first Canadians as a coach. So having two of them was amazing. Im now just looking forward to getting back to the gym to start preparing for next year.

Ottawa Gymnastics Centres Bruno Webster earned National Youth silver in the rings event final, while teammate Taylor Jackle Spriggs was a National Open champion in the pommel horse event and won bronze on floor.

Spring Action trampolinist Jonathan Ar-senault teamed up with Benjamin Tyo to earn novice mens synchro bronze. Tyo also claimed double mini-trampoline gold, while his younger brother Vincent won trampoline silver and DMT bronze in the novice mens 11-14 class.

Ottawa was also represented in the rhythmic gymnastics competition, as Lucinda Nowell participated in her first senior womens na-tional championships. The 15-year-old Kanata Rhythmic Gymnastics Club athlete placed ninth in hoop, 12th in ball, sixth in clubs and fifth in ribbon en route to a seventh-place finish all-around against the countrys top individuals.

Samuel Zakutney was the all-around champion in the Tyro high-performance category at the Canadian gymnastics champion- ships May 22-26 in Regina.

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15-year-old Lucinda Now-ell of the Kanata Rhythmic Gymnastics Club competed in her first senior womens national championships, placing seventh overall.

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The Furys Mallory Outerbridge is the reigning W-League MVP and scoring champion.

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Ottawa River Runners paddler Cameron Smedley looks to be in line for an unexpected trip to the

London 2012 Olympic Games. A C-1 Olympic berth will likely end up in Canadas hands, and Smedley has fi rst dibs on it since he won the mens canoe singles event at the national team trials. Meanwhile, Liam Smed-ley earned a place on Canadas canoe slalom world junior championships team. Thea Froehlich and Kathleen Tayler of the River Runners will also race at the July 11-15 event in Wausau, WI in the womens U23 worlds K-1 event. Rhys Hill of the Rideau Canoe Club won a bronze medal at the second fl atwater World Cup stop in Germany as part of Canadas mens

K-1 200 m relay team.

In early May, Ottawa was offi cially unveiled as a host site for the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup. The announcement was made at Parliament Hill as en-thusiastic youngsters stood alongside national team athletes, including former Ottawa Fury W-League player Rhian Wilkinson. Those local players will get to see their Team Canada heroes in action at some point. The Canadian Soccer Association plans to have the national team play in each host city in the lead-up to the event or during the tournament itself.

The University of Ottawa Gee-Gees may have unexpectedly lost J.P. Asselin to the Carleton Ravens, but they wound up fi nding a very experienced replacement in Gary Etcheverry. A long-time CFL coach, Etcheverry has worked in Saskatchewan, Toronto, B.C. and Ottawa.

Eric Kemp of the Ottawa Orienteering Club topped the

elite mens fi eld at the local clubs annual O-Fest on the boiling hot May long weekend, besting a fi eld that included participants from the U.S. and Sweden. Ottawas Jennie Anderson was third amongst elite women at the competition that attracted over 150 participants.

Ashley Gilbank will start a coast-to-coast trip on skates in Newfoundland on June 4 in support of the Do It For Daron initiative. Gilbank plans to rollerblade 10,000 km across Canada to raise funds and awareness for youth mental health. I need to grab everyones attention in a big way; to get people talking about mental health, Gilbank says. If I can save just one life during this journey I know that it will have been worth every stride. Visit skate4lifecampaign.weebly.com for more.

Ottawa-based modern pentathlete Melanie McCann earned a ca-reer-best seventh place fi nish at the World Cup fi nals May 26 in Chengdu, China. The London Olympics-bound athlete recorded the most wins to place fi rst of all athletes in fencing en route to a total score of 5,180 points just 20 points short of the podium. McCann also placed 32nd at the world championships earlier in May in Rome.

Glebe Collegiate earned the top result out of OCDSB schools that traveled to Waterloo for the 4 Corners Special Olympics basketball tour-nament in May. Bujar Bullaku, Biko Melville, Jacob Cameron, Richard Kalonji and Jamie McKnight, and coaches Stephanie King and Angela Nixon celebrated a silver medal victory, while Woodroffe and Bell scored bronze medals in their divisions. Their representation of the Ottawa re-gion was stellar, King notes. They played the game to the best of their ability every second they were on the court. See SportsOttawa.com for more.

As part of the selection process for the U14 provin-cial team, Eastern Ontarios U13 boys regional team played friendlies in Toronto against other Ontario Soccer Association regions. For the fi rst time ever, the Eastern Ontario Region 5 team won all four of its games.

Showing off their skills

The fourth-annual Greco charity golf tournament for the Foundation to Fight Obesity in Children is set for Monday, June 18 at Rideau View Country Club. Founded in 2008 by Tony Greco, the organization will dir-ect proceeds from event to two community parks.

Visit fi ghtobesityinchildren.com for more information.

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ringette PLayer tO cOmPete at Jr. wOrLDsJennifer Gabel of Nepean has offi cially been

selected to the Team Canada East squad that will compete in the U19 world junior ringette cham-pionships Dec. 28-Jan. 3 in London, Ont. The 18-year-old frequently dresses for the Gloucester Devils National Ringette League team.

The Parmar Sports Training Eastern Cana-dian girls soccer show-case continued to grow in its third edition as nu-merous universities and clubs came to look out for the next big talent.Organizer Jo Fournier says the quality of play-ers participating is up, and with athletes travel-ing from as far as Thun-der Bay and Halifax, it was far from only Ott-awa players taking part in the event at the Louis-Riel Dome.The two-day affair also featured educational seminars designed to give young athletes knowledge of what is re-quired to play at the next level.SportsOttawa.com has

more on this story.

This year, Ethan Stroud came up with a new goal, literally.

Recently, the Broadview Public School student was able to watch his favourite soccer team the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer prac-tice and compete before a game in Montreal. It was at that time that Ethan committed to becoming the best soc-cer player he could be.

With less than a year of soccer under his belt, the seven-year-old has reached a skill level far beyond his years, says his coach.

He is really good, says Sanjeev Parmar of the Futuro Soccer Academy. He is with the U9 group as an under-age player. Most of his team has been training for a couple of years.

rOugh rOOts, bright futureThere is a reason behind Ethans

passion for the Chicago Fire. The Windy City is also the place Ethan was born the diffi culty of this event making his goal that much more im-pressive. His adoptive mother, Allison Darke, was there for his birth and de-scribes it as devastating.

Lack of prenatal care and cocaine use by Ethans birth mother left him with long-term consequences. Blue

at birth with torn nerves along his arm, Ethan will always have little use of his right arm, and both his arm and shoulder will be propor-tionately small.

When he reaches the age of 15, Ethans arm will be the size of a 12-year-olds.

Oh Lord, what did I wish for, was Darkes fi rst thought as medical personnel rushed into the delivery room. Ethans recovery from cocaine withdrawal and his birth-related in-juries meant an eight-day stay in a Chicago hospital.

It was a long battle, Darke re-calls. Ethan really struggled hour-by-hour.

Of course, none of this matters to Ethan: his eyes are focused on the soccer ball. In addition to the four training sessions per week he attends at his academy, Saturday mornings are dedicated to a special kind of soc-cer league. A chance encounter with a Hull-based team for black players, ages 14 to 24, immediately led to an

invitation for Ethan to join them an important development, says Darke, as this weekly opportunity for more soccer experience comes with a dose of Ethans heritage.

Ethan is the only black member of an eclectic and blended family. Each of the fi ve children, ranging in ages from 3 to 24, have their own culture Italian, Aboriginal, Afro-American, Asian and Westboro white.

When Darke married her husband Earl, they decided to add more chil-dren to her fi rst two through adoption. Darke describes her family as a three-ring circus with a twist.

It is so alive, she says. Everyone is so different. When you look at a photo of us, nothing is the same but all you see

is family.It was, in fact,

the size of Ethans adopted family that led him dir-ectly to soccer. Unable to pay for hockey, Darke was pleased to see Ethan had de-veloped an obses-sion with a soccer ball from Walmart.

He was kick-ing the heck out of every other kid in the neighbour-hood, Darke re-counts.

So, she called up the local soc-cer leagues to fi nd out there was only one spot left: on a U9 Ottawa Roy-als team. Lack of experience and a bum arm were mere details to Ethan, who quickly earned his spot on the squad.

Ethan shows us that we can overcome ad-versity, Darke says. And soccer seems to be what God gave him.

West Ottawa Soccer ScoopKevin Nelsons journey to WOSC

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COMMUNITY CLUBSBirth defect cant stop love for soccer

By Anne Duggan

Recognized for jumping full-heartedly into a Cleats 4 Kids campaign to send soccer shoes to India, the Ottawa Royals Futuro U10 boys were feted as BMO Team of the Week. They donated the $500 they received from BMO to the Ottawa Boys & Girls Club. From Aug. 13-27, online voting begins to determine one Team of the Week that will receive $125,000 for a soccer fi eld refurbishment. Visit SportsOttawa.com to read this full story.

Kevin Nelson at his pro teams training facility in Vietnam, 2008.

Kevin Nelson traveled the world chasing his dreams as a professional soccer player. From his native Trinidad and Tobago to Aus-

tralia, to Venezuela, and even to Stittsville during his run with the former Ottawa Wiz-ards Canadian Soccer League franchise that played out of the Oz Dome. But one very powerful experience while in Vietnam changed his dreams very suddenly in 2008.

One day, I was sitting and waiting for my train and I saw a little girl, nine years old, digging in the garbage can for something to eat, Nelson recounts, with tears in his eyes as he recalls the memory.

Nelson didnt speak the girls language, but he gestured to ask if she wanted some-thing to eat.

I took her around to the store and they wouldnt let her in because she was dirty. So I said, Hold on, and I went and bought her a sandwich.

We sat on the pavement and she ate the sandwich, and she started to smile.

It didnt happen for some time in practice, but that was the moment Nelson became a soccer coach. He called his agent and said forget about the contract in the works for Malaysia, it was time to make a change in his life, and to start helping kids.

Deciding where to do that was easy since he had two kids of his own near Ottawa Princess Olivia, now 8, and King Caleb, almost 7. Without a university education, it was initially tough for Nelson to fi nd work be-sides construction, but wound up landing his fi rst coaching gig through a former Wizards teammate.

Known for bringing his enthusiasm, sim-

plicity and professionalism to every session, Nelson joined West Ottawa Soccer Club near the time of its formation as club lead coach.

West Ottawa is the second largest club in Canada. There is huge, huge potential to develop players, to be a leading model in Canada that everybody can follow. And red stands out, smiles Nelson, who still captiv-ates young WOSC players with his fi tness and abilities at age 33. Im eight months into the job now, and oh my word, its magical. The kids want more. You can see it in their eyes feed me, feed me, feed me.

How to best develop young players is the hot debate in Canadian soccer circles, but for Nelson, the answer is very simple: love.

There needs to be love, Nelson explains. Love amongst administrators, amongst managers, amongst coaches, amongst play-ers, amongst parents. Love is everything.

What that means is allowing players to believe and dream by building them up and never knocking them down, and educating coaches to be the best teachers possible.

And it also extends to investment in facil-ities to provide a place for young players to reach for the top. If its possible to have top-notch residences and training grounds in a place like Vietnam, Nelson believes it should be possible in Canada.

Why are they not showing them the light? Nelson says. Theres so much potential around Ottawa and in Canada. They can have all of it. They need love.

Off-fi eld champs

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It was an unfamiliar feeling for the Ottawa South United Force U14 boys their first league play loss in

ages on the heels of a 13-0-1 season against regional opponents last year.

Not that the Force werent ex-pecting a greater chal-lenge moving up to OYSL. After all, the team selected its lineup back in November, and had been preparing to make the jump long before that.

The 2-1 loss to Dixie was more a lesson about the need to capitalize on scoring opportunities that dont come as frequently at the top level.

We had a good five chances, laments OSU coach Abe Osman, whose team opened its campaign with a 3-1 out-of-town win over North London.

Mitchell Kurylowicz has struck for goals twice this season, but the teams true strength lies in its ability to build up to those occasions.

Were a very good passing team, Osman highlights. We move the ball quickly and we have some offensive guys who are very good at going forward.

Now that the Force have got their feet a bit wet in the OYSL, Osman expects the fruits to come eventually.

Keep checking up to see how were doing this season, Osman ad-vises. I think well end up middle of the pack to top half. I think we stack up pretty good.

Its been a rough start for the Capital United U14 OYSL boys, who lost to first-place Richmond Hill by a football-like score and were blanked in their two other contests.

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OSU Force Academy ZoneThe Ottawa

South United name will con-tinue to gain wider recog-nition across the province,

throughout Canada and around the globe as many club players earned exciting opportun-ities to play on various big stages.

Four members of the 98 girls Force Academy squad were selected to the U14 Ontario provincial team the most players from a single team out of any Ottawa clubs.

Priscilla Domingo, Alexis Martel-Lamothe, Hailey Martin and Anna Munro all traveled to Barcelona in March with Team Ontario to play a series of exhibitions, which has only helped them gear up for a run at the top of the OYSL standings with OSU.

After two consecutive undefeated league seasons against regional opponents, it comes as no surprise that many players from this group have now been chosen as the provinces best.

Two younger OSU stars will also have the chance to win a trip to Europe as they suit up for the Eastern Canadian Danone Nations Cup team.

Over 5,000 players tried out for the 12 coveted spots on the squad. An unpreced-ented six players from OSU were invited to the final selection phase and two were ultimately selected to represent Eastern Canada midfielder/striker David Chung (U12B Force Black) and goalkeeper Mollie Eriksson (U12G Force Black).

The Danone Nations Cup is the worlds largest international soccer tournament for U12 players. On July 14, the east meets the west in Toronto to determine which team will

represent Canada at the Danone Nations Cup world tournament in Poland this fall.

Three members of the 97 boys Force Academy Black squad also experienced a unique opportunity as they participated in the 2012 Nike Manchester United Cup U.S. finals in Portland, Oregon at the end of May.

Through OSUs affiliation with the Dallas Texans the #1 youth soccer club in the United States Sanchit Gupta, Charles An-drascik and Yousef Aldaqqaq dressed for the Texans as guest players for the U15 event.

Despite going undefeated with two wins and four ties, their team did not advance to the finals. The U.S. tournament winner qual-ified to play in the Manchester United World Cup at Old Trafford where champions from each continent face off.

OSU has sent boys to this event for the past four years and remains committed to offering opportunities of this nature to its athletes.

Were very proud of all our players for their achievements and for representing the club with such distinction at these pres-tigious events, says OSU club president Bill Michalopulos. That were able to place kids at the highest level is a clear result of

our player development program. Our ambition is that our club can hopefully one day develop players for the national program both the girls and the boys.

The OSU family would like wish all our players the best of luck, as well as congratulating the others who have earned similar opportunities at their side.

Ottawa South United players make a name for themselves abroad

JUNIOR LEAGUESCap U takes aim at OYSLs top rung

Early-season predictions may not be worth much, but theres no doubt the Capital United under-17 girls soc-cer team is a true threat to challenge for the top of the Ontario Youth Soc-cer League standings.

Were shaping up nicely. The unit is very strong together, says coach Raz El-Asmar, noting many players grew up with the club, and are now ready to blossom after living through a year of OYSL play last season. Were more experienced and stronger. I feel good about the season.

Capital United began the year with a 3-1 loss on the road, but a come-from-behind 2-1 victory on May 26 got them back on the right track. Star striker Arielle Kabangu scored in the home-opening victory, while centre back defender Asha Mo-hiddin also got in on the fun with a goal of her own.

We tend to control most games. Even at that level, we sort of carry the rhythm and tempo of the game, high-

lights El-Asmar, noting his team main-tains possession with a strong midfield that includes Miranda Smith, an un-derage player who used to score two goals per game at the regional level.

El-Asmar is a big believer in letting his players determine their own objectives, but the answer they provided was simple after finishing third in their maiden OYSL campaign.

The team goal the players had

is theyd like to finish first this year. Its a lofty goal, but I think its within their reach, El-Asmar says. Were blessed with the talent in this group, and then also the desire. These girls really want to do more and push themselves. Its great to be amongst athletes like that as a coach.

The Ottawa South United U17 girls have a loss and two ties through their first three OYSL contests.

By Dan Plouffe

Four members of the OSU Force U14 girls team that went undefeated in league play and won last seasons ER Cup earned places on Team Ontario.

OSU expects early lessons to pay off

Cobras make strides in 1st L1 seasonAn 0-3 record wasnt exactly the way they pictured

the start of their first OYSL season, but the Cumberland United Cobras U16 Level 1 team remain on track to ful-filling their objective of being a competitive team, says coach Simon Birch.

I still think we can have a good season, Birch adds. In skill level, I dont think were far off. Conditioning, were there with everybody. Tactically, the boys play hard and they can manage. I think were close.

There was evidence of that promise in their home opener when the Cobras gave undefeated Spartacus a big scare in a 2-1 defeat.

I think we outplayed them, Birch maintains. Theyre a more experienced team probably one of the top two or three teams in Ontario. This is our first time at the L1 pro-vincial level.

Its been quite the path for these Cobras, half of whom

played on a Level 5 team only a few years ago and made their way up to the provinces top division.

Its an accomplishment for the boys. Its pretty big for them, Birch highlights. These boys have really worked hard as theyve grown up.

The faster game is still something Cumberland is ad-justing to, and the team is still on the lookout for quality players willing to make the tremendous commitment re-quired to play Level 1 soccer. But theres no question what the teams ultimate goal in OYSL is.

The number one thing is we want to have fun, Birch says. This doesnt come around a lot.

The Ottawa South United U16 OYSL team also fell to Spartacus 2-1 at home, but carry an even 1-1 record thanks to a 2-1 win over Windsor. Premices Luanda has scored twice this year for OSU, while Trysten Larabie has also found the back of the net.

David Chung and Mollie

Eriksson of the Danone

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dian U12 team.

Cumberland put a ma-jor scare into favoured Spartacus with a last-minute Tristan Proulx header that went just wide in a 2-1 match.

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Major changes are coming to the top level of youth soccer in the province. The new Ontario Player Development League will replace the current Ontario Youth Soccer League format starting with the under-13 league in 2014 and continuing with subsequent age groups.

The biggest change the new OPDL will bring is abandoning the promo-tion/relegation system in favour of clubs applying to fi eld a collection of OPDL teams through all age groups.

This is a huge paradigm shift, says Ontario Soccer Association Chief

Technical Offi cer Alex Chiet. We need to get away from promotion/relegation because winning is not the best measurement for a childs devel-opment at the younger ages.

Clubs that apply to take part in the OPDL will be required to meet stringent standards. Theyll need to demonstrate compliance with the na-tional Long-Term Player Development model, OPDL coaches will need a Na-tional B license or higher, they must maintain connections to goalkeeper and strength and conditioning coaches, plus athletic therapists. Adequate train-ing facilities, proof of player, coach and referee development and respect

for proper practice to game ratio are also part of the package.

The OSA believes that no club in the province likely meets all the cri-teria at the moment, but the objective is to raise the bar and provide the right environment for the talented players to progress, Chiet explains.

The OPDL isnt for everyone, notes Chiet, who expects maybe 10% of clubs will reach for those levels. What wed like to see is clubs passing on players to the clubs that are in this environment so theres appropriate re-lationships and clubs are making de-cisions about whats best for the play-ers, not their own interest.

The end goal, Chiet adds, is to develop improved top-level talent so Canada can compete better inter-nationally, and to counteract current trends where many young athletes drop out of the sport.

Osu reaDy tO face changesFor Ottawa South United, the local

club that fi elds the most OYSL entries, news of the dramatic changes was rather surprising.

My own personal philosophy is that you have to earn whatever you do in life, whether its sport, work or personal life. Promotion and relegation is something I espouse and it refl ects what soccer is like around the world,

says OSU president Bill Michalopulos. That being said, we are going to sup-port whatever the Ontario Soccer As-sociation wants to try. I think it should raise the level of soccer over time.

Despite concerns should three or four Ottawa clubs be granted OPDL e n t r i e s , OSU plans to take part in the new league.

O S U is very well p r e p a r e d for it, Michalop-ulos adds, noting they will have

to upgrade some of their coaching des-ignations since the new standards are higher. Essentially from an infrastruc-ture and program and physiotherapy perspective, we already meet most of the criteria. It wont be too much of a gap for us to close.

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The host Ottawa In-ternationals claimed two division titles at their Icebreaker girls tournament on the May 26-27 week-end, earning U10 and U12 crowns. West Ottawa also celebrated two titles, topping U15 and U16 categories.Other local cham-pions included U11 Nepean City Green, the U11 Gloucester Hornets, the U15 Ottawa Royals and St. Anthonys U18s. The 18th-annual edition of the pop-ular early-season tournament attrac-ted 144 teams. The boys Ice-breaker will take place June 2-3.

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ELITEOttawa players to live long-time ultimate dream

Seven years ago, a group of Ontario women with a lofty goal came together. Five years ago, their dream was nearly realized, but a heartbreak-ing loss dashed their hopes. Finally, though, eight local Ottawa athletes and 17 teammates from across the country will be heading to Sakai, Japan this summer to represent Canada at the World Ul-timate Championships.

The Capitals, a joint Ottawa-Toronto compet-itive womens Ultimate team, won the Canadian Ultimate Championships last August, avenging their 2007 loss to Vancouver-based Traffic by beating them in the finals at Keith Harris Stadium. The victory also earned them the right to form Team Canada this year.

Canada is one of 11 nations represented in the womens division at the world championships. Canada will also have teams in all other divisions open, mixed, masters open, and masters women.

Eight members remain from the 2007 Cap-itals team that fell just short. The opportunity is especially sweet for those women. Theyve been preparing and training in earnest for years now. At this level, the athletes take their training seriously.

The Ottawa and Toronto contingents practice, separately, twice a week. Athletes are in the gym lifting weights once or twice a week and go on team runs once a week. The whole team plays to-gether at tournaments or weekend training camps.

In addition to the eight Ottawa players and 11 from Toronto, the Capitals picked up six out-of-

region players for the July 7-14 worlds. Those wo-men one each from Calgary and Montreal and four from the Vancouver area play with their local clubs and join the rest of the group as often as possible.

Its such an accomplishment, because we have been working so hard to do this, notes 25-year-old Danielle Fortin. She saw the Ca-nadian women win gold in 2004, when she was at the tournament in the junior division. Now

co-captaining this years team, going to worlds is the fulfillment of a goal the Ottawa native set for herself eight years ago.

Team USA and Japan will likely be Canadas toughest competition at the tournament. At the last world championships in 2008, those two countries met in the final of the womens division. Traffic, as Team Canada, won bronze.

Every player on Team Canada this year has played in an international tournament experi-ence that the captains were looking for, due to dif-ferent styles of play elsewhere. The North Amer-ican game, Fortin explains, is more aggressive than elsewhere in the world. Australian teams try to isolate players on offence to exploit one-on-one matchups. Japanese teams are very patient with the disc, but very quick, and they throw insanely accurately, she adds.

The team has scouted their opponents to better prepare. Theyve also spent time since 2007 im-proving weaknesses they noticed in that losing ef-fort. The captains had the team work on their con-fidence and composure in the big-game scenarios, says long-time Capitals player Jose Guibord.

A former Capitals captain herself, Guibord de-scribes going to worlds as the culmination of her ultimate career.

Its extremely exciting. To wear the maple leaf, its pretty cool, grins the 35-year-old lawyer.

It means everything, agrees civil servant Kate Cavallaro, also 35. Ive been preparing for this for years. The whole team has been preparing for this.

By Ian Ewing Ottawas Sarah Bobak and her fellow Team Canada mem-bers have traveled to many tournaments, including last years U.S. championships, to prepare for Julys world championships in Japan.

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Grey Hawk

Lavals Annie Lacombe (left) spoiled Marlies Klekner- Alts chance for a homet- own victory, earning the girls di-vision title by five strokes over the Louis-Riel high school student at the Canadian Junior Golf Associations Nike Golf Junior Series/Stephen Ames Cup Qualifier event May 12-13 at Grey Hawk Golf Club.Kanatas Nicholas Brisebois had bet-ter luck, shooting rounds of 73 and 80 to win the boys 14 & under category by eight shots.The CJGA returns to Ottawa Aug. 20-21 at Loch March Golf & Country Club.

Pilypaitis preps for final shot at London Olympics

Its a do-or-die scenario for Courtnay Pilypaitis and the Canadian womens basket-

ball team at the last chance Olympic qualifier June 25-July 1 in Turkey, but the 24-year-old St. Peter Catholic High School grad doesnt feel at all nervous about the situation.

We have a really good draw and we feel confident in what we can do, notes Pilypaitis, whose team will face France and Mali in the first stage of group play as they seek one of five berths available to the 12 participating nations. We just want to get there and prove what we can do.

A former record-setting guard with the NCAAs University of Vermont Catamounts, Pilypaitis has recently played professionally in Lithuania, where her family has roots.

Its a lot more of a business there. It is

your job, explains Pilypaitis, who shudders when she sees photos of herself on a motor-cycle in promotional materials for her teams sponsor. But I still have fun, and Im doing what I love.

Pilypaitis had a month off at the end of winter, but has been back at the national teams home in B.C. since the end of April. Ranked 11th in the world, the Canadians fully intend to be one of the 12 teams in London come late July.

Its going to be a very exciting summer, Pilypaitis adds. So many people dont get to live out their dreams. And if we get to qualify for the Olympics, its a great honour and we have a good chance.

By Dan Plouffe hosts CJGA

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Vermont Catamounts grad Courtnay Pily- paitis of Ottawa will play for Team Canada in their 2012 Olympic qualifier.

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It legitimizes my training. It proves to me that all the training that Ive done throughout my life has been working.

Thats the reason martial artist Fred Stonehouse gives for taking his second sanctioned Muay Thai fight, at Throwdown Gatineau on June 16. The Ottawa Academy of Martial Arts product enjoys the challenge of com-peting, but he especially likes know-ing that his training is effective.

The things Ive learned if I can do it against somebody whos also been training and who knows what Im doing and knows how to defend it, then I should be OK if something were to happen on the street, against somebody who doesnt know.

Not that hes expecting to find himself in street brawls. In addition to training there, Stonehouse has built himself a life at OAMA working and instructing. The credibility he hopes to earn in the ring isnt just for him-self its for his students, who he calls his biggest fans.

Ive known since a young age that this is what I want to do for the

rest of my life. I love teaching, he adds.

The 23-year-old athlete has been involved in martial arts since the age of three, but has only been doing Muay Thai, or Thai kickboxing, for a little over two years. Prior to that, he was involved in taekwondo, karate, boxing, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

It was almost an accident that the up-and-comer tried out Muay Thai. He came to OAMA from a karate gym, feeling like hed reached the limit of what he could learn there.

He jumped into BJJ, a mixed martial arts favourite, as quickly as he could. Stonehouse began training with some of the big names in Ottawa MMA, including Mark Boots Holst and Relentless Randy Turner. But when nobody showed up for BJJ for a few days, another instructor, Kru Jeff Harrison, told him to grab his gear. Without explaining, they began sparring.

We started off with boxing, Stonehouse smiles. I was like, OK, I can do this. And then he kicked me

in the leg! I didnt know anything, at

all, about leg kicks. I got beat up, over and over, day after day, until I learned how to check a kick.

Eventually having figured that out, he was next subjected to the clinch, and still without warning, knees to the head.

That was my introduction to Muay Thai, Stonehouse recalls.

Acknowledging that some people might be discouraged by such an unforgiving approach, the Algonquin College business administration graduate claims he found it refreshing.

I had done 10 years of solid striking before that. Then I come here, and it tells me, really, Id only just started learning about striking.

Getting beaten up so soundly lit a fire in his belly, and he re-solved to keep coming back un-til he learned how to defend this new style of attack.

Hes a quick study. Stone-house won his first sanctioned amateur Muay Thai event in February, defeating Ronin MMA fighter Armin Eshtabi. He de-scribes feeling more relaxed heading into this match, where hell face Team Bushidos Andre Aitken one of around 15 fights on the upcoming Casino du Lac Leamy card. The OAMA fighter doesnt know anything about his opponent, but believes his hard work training with experienced teammates prepared him well.

9 OTTAWA SPORTSPAGE JUNE EDITION

Doc Hockey CornerHi, can I help

you? Yes, is this the

massage booth? My son just raced and would like to get a massage.

Well, Active Release Technique is like a therapeutic sports massage geared to specific areas of complaint.

Oh, my son does not have any injuries.Your son looks like a good athlete, is he

able to touch his toes? (Son reaches down, 8 inches from the

ground)That is not good! How old is he?12 years old.He should have better flexibility than that.

I worry about future injury.This was just one conversation I had with a

parent who was at the Brockville triathlon last year with her son.

We all seem to think we dont have a prob-lem unless we can physically see it or we feel some sort of pain and discomfort.

I am often asked about stretching, and consistently have people telling me they stretch all the time but do not seem to be making any gains in flexibility. If we are all really healthy and had normal muscle tissue, stretching would be perfect and everyone would be more flexible by just stretching.

However, we have a substance called ad-hesion, or scar tissue, that accumulates in our soft tissues (muscles, ligaments, fascia, nerves) decreasing our flexibility, weakening our muscles, and causing pain in our body.

THERAPY HELPS PERFORMANCEWhen stretching, we are basically only

lengthening our healthy normal muscle tis-sue, but this is not able to break down the limiting factor that is adhesion. The adhesion is caused by a repetitive contraction or long

holding postures, like sitting, that decrease the oxygen to the muscles.

Without the flexibility, there is more pres-sure placed on the joints and injury is more likely to occur. This is why it is so critical for the athletes to have a good soft-tissue ther-apist to maintain good flexibility and force production for speed and strength during performance.

DYNAMIC STRETCH KEY TO WARMUPWhen asked about stretching before and

after activity, I propose to warm up with the activity you are going to do. Running you jog, skating you skate.

When I do stretching before activity I focus on the major muscle groups (quads, ham-strings, groins, calves, glutes etc.) utilizing a dynamic stretch where I stretch until I feel the tension in the muscle and then I back off and repeat for 10 reps.

Static stretching with long holds before activity can actually decrease your power and speed. I perform 10-metre sprints 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, then 5 forward long jumps, 5 side jumps (both sides), 5 backward jumps.

These are all done just before activity or the game to warm muscles and especially to excite the nervous system. Thats why sprint-ers do the high knee jumps rapidly just before racing.

After exercise, I will then perform static stretching with long holds and will flush out the muscles with a foam roller for better muscle recovery.

If you are unable to touch your toes or you want a little more information on flex-ibility and health, come to Fit Day at the Ottawa Convention Centre on Saturday, June 16th and visit Doc Hockey and the Orleans Chiropractic Booth.

Whats up with Stretching? --By Dr. Shayne Baylis, Doc Hockey

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@doc_hockeyVisit dochockey.ca for more information.

COMMUNITY CLUBSBeat up day after day, Stonehouse rises

Ottawa deaf-blind speed skater Kevin Frost added two more titles to his collection by winning the 500 metre & 1,500 m events at a com-petition in Scot-land organized by Impaired Skating, a body that seeks

By Ian Ewing

Regardless of how the fight turns out, Stonehouse plans to stay involved in martial arts for a long time. If they want me to, I would teach (martial arts) for the rest of my life, he says.

The best compliment Stone-house has ever received, he adds, came from a student who ran up to him after a fight. This combo you showed me worked! ex-claimed the excited student.

Id taught him that three or four months earlier, the instructor says. He still re-membered it and appreciated it enough that he put it into his fight. Its amazing to see what you teach get passed on.

Frost prevails

PREVENTION - PERFORMANCE - RECOVERY

to promote the sport internationally. The 44-year-old lone Canadian representative bested racers from Russia, the UK and Finland.

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Fred Stonehouse (right) won his Muay Thai debut.

They both came one step short of gold, but for the underdog Ott-

awa Fusion 16-and-under boys and the Maverick 17U boys, getting the chance to play in the fi nal game for a national title provided an unforgettable

memory.It was an op-

portunity very few of the re-cord 10,000-odd participants got to experience at the largest Cana-dian volleyball championships ever on the May long weekend at the Direct En-ergy Centre in Toronto.

For those

guys to be that mentally strong, on the biggest stage with that many people watching, was outstanding, says Fu-sion coach Colin Walker. I was full of pride for them.

There was even more added drama for Walkers boys as they went to a third and deciding set against a big, physical Fraser Valley, B.C. club in the championship fi nal. They wound up falling by the minimum, 15-13.

Were supposed to play every game like its just a practice, but it was defi nitely more stressful for me, says setter Simon Smyth, a tournament all-star along with middle Ben Harper. It was really a special experience.

Despite a taxing schedule featuring nine matches in three days seven of which went three sets and the 6:15

a.m. shuttle bus departure time, the Fu-sion showed no ill effects in the fi nal.

I wasnt tired at all, highlights Harper, a Grade 10 Lisgar student whose fathers offi ce at Parliament Hill overlooks his school. I was just so ex-cited to