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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 26 Mar 1986, p. 19

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W :1 What Waterloo needs is a good 'Young' player to go on the circuit but come back every once in a while to show people how the game of tennis should be played. And Waterloo has what it needs. Jane Young, who left town a couple years ago to expand her tennis horizons on an American college tennis scholarship and after that became the 1985 Eanadian tennis champion, came back for an exhibition match Friday against Helen Kelesi, ranked 25th internationally, and came up on top. Rau, Savich honored at UW banquet Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff The 29-year-old Young, ranked ward. beat Edmon- ton's highly-touted 16-yearold, Kelesi, 6-4, tr-T, tr-2 in an entertaining match the two players obviously took seriously despite the fact it was a poorly-attended exhibition complicated by inexperienced linespeople and ballboys. And of ttie few hundred people who attended. many There was no stopping Jane Exhibition win over high-ranked Kelesi Jane Young left after two sets despite the high calibre of tennis, perhaps because two doubles matches had already been played and they felt it Petr getting late. , " Young had never played before on the type of rubberized surface brought in for the indoor event at University of Waterloo, but it quickly proved to be fast and to her liking as her first two serves were win- hers. Later she explained that she had been home working on her serve for the last couple weeks and that serve proved to be a valuable weapon in her upset victory. Young admitted to nervousness before playing in front of many friends but Kelesi was also under the gun to perform well. "If anything she (Kelesi) had the pressure on her," said, Young. "People were _expetrting_me .ttlost.." The match was a break from the circuit for Young, who recently lost two matches in Virginia Slims tournaments and now plans to compete in tour- naments in North and South Carolina early in April. If you wanted to know in advance who would be University of Waterloo’s male and female athletes of the year you could have made an educated, and, in this case, correct, guess from looking at the front and back covers of brochures UW's athletic department issued this year. On the front of the brochures printed to give information on UW's various teams is Kim Rau, a basketball player with the Atheos, and on the back is Warriors' basketball star Peter Savich. And, wouldn't you know it, Savich was named winner of the Totake Trophy as outstanding male athlete and Ban was presented with the Dean of Women's Award as outstanding female athlete at UW's 25th annual awards banquet held Friday night at'the Waterloo Inn. Besides honoring the two athletes most promi- nent over this past season and recent seasons. UW also took the opportunity to induct into its hail of fame former students Ron Smith and Elizabeth Damman McDuffe. - Savich ended a distinguished five-year career by leading Warriors to the Canadian lnteruniversity Athletic Union championships in Halifax, where WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, Helen Kelesi "I found it really hard to adjust to the circuit," said Young. "One person said I'd be great if I could play all my matches at home in a, rglaxed atmosphere." . The event opened with Waterloo's Carol Culik and Brad Haines losing a mixed doubles match to Daryl Greenan and Carole McMillan. Then former Davis Coppers Keith Carpenter and Lorne Main won a one-set match with Ed Andrulis and Harry Greenan by an H score. here were Just three ballboys workin'g the match and they often had to be instructed by the umpire. Too often, Young and Kelesi had to recover balls them- selves. After the match, Kelesl had just begun talking to reporters when she was led out of UW's physical activities complex by her agent. In a match played after the main event UW's Aldo Dagnino and Mary Mathers combined to win 6-3 over Dave Thomas and Sally Lichtenberg of _ Wilfrid Laurier University. During his five years, Savich became Warriors' all-tine scoring leader and constantly added to his total to finish with 3,301 career points. He had been the most valuable player in the Ontario‘Universi- ties Athletic Association west division the past two years. This year he was a first team OUAA all-star and a second team all-Canadian. In 1985 Savich received the Mike Maser Trophy " the CIAU's outstanding basketball player in Canada and became a member of Canada's national team. Warriors placed second to Victoria Vikings. Savich has also maintained his academic standards during his five years with an A-plus average in computer science. He is now complet- ing his Master's degree. Ran has been Athenas' captain the past two years and she graduates this year from honours kinesiology with a B-plus average. She made the Dean's honor roll in one of her four years. tCortttouqdoettt-21t - PAGE 19

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