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Fâ€"_f__'â€"__â€"-F"'_‘â€"_T_â€"_â€"_â€"_:â€"â€"._â€"â€"ifi Has gun. Does travel. Put a chocolate bar in her hand and she‘s a dead ringer for famous skier Nancy Greene Raine. Put her beside a crackling fireplace in her basement rec room and she‘s the quintessential girl next door. Put her in her grade 13 Bluevale collegiate classroom and she‘s an "A" student, thanks in part to "understandâ€" ing‘"‘ Mrs. Fisher. Put Christina Schulze on a.small bore rifle range, and she‘s a Canadian chamâ€" pion, one of our top shooters in world competition today. _ o Wait a minute, you say. One of those statements just doesn‘t jive? _ _ The statistics speak for the incredible success of 18â€"yearâ€"old Christina Schulze. They have to, because hers is a sport not usually hidden on the secondâ€"toâ€"last or last sport page here in Canada. More often it provides adequate lining for the waste paper baskets of wire copy deskâ€" men. * You‘re right. She‘s better looking than Nancy Greene. And right now Christina Schulze has but one gold in mind Puzzling, if understandable, to Chrisâ€" tina, given the nature of the competition, which, to draw on high school English adage, pits man against himself. And more recently, woman against herself. Born in Canada, Christina moved with her family to Germany when she was five, returning to this country six years ago. . Her background in her chosen sport is deeplyâ€"rooted in the success achieved by her father Rudy, a Panâ€"Am Games silver medallist in 1967, Olympic team member in 1968 in Mexico, and 1iâ€"year national team member. their tnldw (Christina) started out on the right with no handicaps, when others were shooting for score, she didn‘t even know what total score was all about. She learned the right way, from the word ”.n Obviously. In her provincial championâ€" ship debut in 1980, Christina was the junior provincial champion and record setter in the standard threeâ€"position small bore rifle competition. In the national championships in Kitchener that year, she made the firstâ€"ever ladies team and was second junior overâ€"all. In the 1981 provincials, she again set a record to win the junior championships and at the nationals in Edmonton was the Canadian junior champion, still in mixed competiâ€" tion. She again made the women‘s team, and qualified for the Confederation of Americas championships in Rio de Janâ€" iero, recording her best score ever but n}isslng a bronze medal by one point. Out of 600. f This year, after a mediocre effort at Benito Juarez in Mexico in March, Christina set a Canadian record at the provincials in Kitchener to become the open standard rifle champion. Later in July in Granby, Que., she won the (ladies only) standard rifle event, the event she hopes will carry her to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, where it has been added as a new competition. She also came second nationally in air rifle and qualified for the Canadian team represented at the recent world championships in Caracas, Venzuela. â€" Whew! Yet for this Annie Oakley, as she is affectionately teased by close friends, success is supreme only in its nearâ€"abâ€" solute anonymity.. Which bothers her. And yet doesn‘t. ‘"‘They say ‘why we wouldn‘t have a gun in ‘our house! *‘ *‘ It is that kind of thinking that places Canada well down the totem pole of world shooting rankings approximately 1ith behind the powers headed by Soviets, Americans, East and West Germans. The recent world championships, chaâ€" otic at the organizational level, did little to enhance that ranking as Canada, and Schulze, came up with subâ€"par efforts. "It was the same for all competitors," said Christina, detailing horror stories of slipshod scheduling, bungled and delayed results and generally poor conditions. ‘"*"The atmosphere (of a world championâ€" ship) was just not there at all, for everyone it just felt like a regular "Once you make up your mind to be a competitor, not just a participant, you have to keep saying to yourself, ‘I have to do this, have to want it,‘ * he said. _ Partly because she admits she ‘"can‘t stand losing," Christina is anxious to continue her training rituals that hopefulâ€" ly will lead to the 1984 Olympics. As Rudy pointed out, it‘s a dedication required of any aspiring young athlete, regardless of And wanting it and doing it involves the delicate blend of physical training, menâ€" tal training and intelligence. The ability to learn to relax at will, to get out and put sport, but one which is harder in the practicallyâ€"invisible sport of shooting. on 50â€"o0dd pounds of equipment every night for two hours of dry training, aiming without ammunition at an imaginary target on the wall, and the discipline to carry through hours of competition, surviving the highs and lows with mandaâ€" tory steeiness. For the emotional Schulze, | U _ * s L ® t 1 tlnt ......I-]’...._....._l,‘:..;.: BDAY ;NOVEMBER 24 e e eeit ie en eC a latter takes the greatest concentraâ€" "I talk to myself, tell myself to stay cool. calm. relaxed. sometimes yes, I even swear to mysell," said Uhristina with a grin. "But then too, I‘ll often give myself a compliment when I do well." Her emotions aren‘t hidden from her father, who follows her progress, and those of her competition, at each event. *‘Without even looking through the scopes I can tell by her face how she‘s doing," said Rudy. ‘"She shows a lot of emotion, she seems to work a lot harder than the others. | ‘‘She looks around, she knows I‘m sitting there, I just say ‘mmmm, take it easy,‘ everyone can have the odd bad shot, but others could too, there‘s no reason to panic, you have to hang in there and fight for it. This sport takes a great deal of mental training and emotional stability as well as physical wellâ€"being." To toss in a bit of corn, Christina Schulze‘s athletic career, at the moment, is a ‘"oneâ€"shot‘" deal, with everything she does pointed at the 1984 Olympics. She has no problem assembling the rewards and drawbacks of the mandatory dedication in her mind. "I hate relying on other people, you know, it‘s like when you want something done in a certain way, the best way is to do it yourself. With me, I‘ve learned to share my winnings with the bad times, when I do well, I know I‘m the one who did it." Now there‘s a statement that jives perfectly with the rest. _ _ _ Two years down the road remember where you heard it first.