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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 22 Jun 2005, p. 26

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ough in Saturday afterncon action al RHV Fatk, CUPng 1NE : Hesics a MBLIE e whe F 1 Purt ies j SVsterlbe Mino: Soccer invitational tournament win two individual golds. He Right at the board, someâ€" _ to get his goldâ€"medalâ€"winâ€" In fact, his jumping style _ _ could have made it a third in _ thing tells me I‘m on a good _ ning jump down. looks very much like he‘s runâ€" ancara sater °50"0 _ the relay event, but too many _ pace and I‘m right on the Once in the air, his natural Continued on page 28 Agatonovic takes an analytical approach to tenni The Underâ€"11 Waterloo gfrls soccer team took on Flamborâ€" ough in Saturday afternoon action at RIM Park, during the Waterloo Minor Soccer invitational tournament. He admires the physics of the sports â€" the vectors and angles it takes to hit the perfect shot. That‘s to be expected from the 17â€"yearâ€" old Grade 12 student who plans to study electrical engineering at the Universiâ€" ty of Waterloo this fall. I‘s Milos Wt\gamnm'ic admits he‘s something of an analytical thinker when it comes to tennis. But there is also someâ€" thing instinctual in the game. There‘s a feeling a player develops of when they can go in for the kill after setting up their oppoâ€" nent for the coup de graceé. It‘s keeping them off bal ance with a 120â€"kmâ€"an hour first service, and dri By Bos VRBANAC Chronicle Staff Playing keep away ving home the weak return for the gameâ€"winning point. "I like to pop it right in the corner." said Agatonovic. He gets his leverage from his long, lanky sixâ€" footâ€"five frame. That gives him an excellent downward trajectory on his service. That‘s where physics comes into play. "I get good torque on the racquet and good extension on _ the â€" ball." . said Agatonovic. "It comes at a pretty good angle. "At sixâ€"five, if you meaâ€" sure the height of my racâ€" quet at the t@p, 1 can really slam the ball down. 1 get a good angle on the ball through physics." He proved he could do that well this past season after overcoming an arm injury to win the WCSSAA * Yang jumping to his own beat 0 one would think the Nl\vndphnnm often wrapped _ around Bluevale‘s Jeremy Yang‘ ears are in fact a training tool. And it‘s hard to believe the hardâ€"driving techno music he listens to has anything to do with the success he‘s had in the long jump and triple jump pits. But that heavy rhythm is the same rhythm he hears in his approach to the foot fault line in those two events. And in listening to how his foot falls along the ground before he goes airbomme, he can tell whether he‘s going to have a good jump or not. "I‘ve got this counting thing in my head like one, two. three, four," said Yang. "It‘s almost got a rhythm to it. "It‘s in my head and sounds like a beat. Every time I mess that thythm up 1 fall or something else hapâ€" pens." He was beating out a beautiful rhythm recently at the OFSAA high school track and field championships in Windsor, where the junior jumper became the first perâ€" son in his school‘s history to win two individual golds. He could have made it a third in the relay event, but too many WCI‘s Milos Agatonovic recently won the OFSAA senior boys tennis title ros viranacemoro SPORTS By Bos VrHanac Chronicle Staff Bluevale junior jumper Jeremy Yang was a double gold medalist and field championships in Windsor. different rhythms on the _ mark," said the 15â€"yearâ€"old, track kept his team from _ finishing up his Grade 10 qualifying for the finals. year. It was only when hearing that solitary beat in the leadâ€" up to the long jump that the defending Canadian midget champion at the Canadian Legion nationals in Sudbury last August got back on track. "Right at the board, someâ€" thing tells me I‘m on a good pace and I‘m right on the But it took him a few more tries than he would have liked to get tuned in to the right station. Usually he can hit the board without faulting on the first try; in Windsor it took him more than six tries to get his goldâ€"medalâ€"winâ€" ning jump down. Once in the air, his natural and CWOSSA senior boys singles tennis titles. And it was of little surprise he did it again at OFSAA, bringing home the gold despite going into the tournament unranked. He might have been unranked but he wasn‘t unknown, said Agatonovic, as most of the upper echeâ€" lon of talent he faced he‘s played before while with the Waterloo Tennis Club. He was once second at the provincials as an Underâ€"12 player, and was a tough competitor in the junior ranks in the underâ€"14 and underâ€"16 categories. If he surprised anybody he surprised himself by finally putting together all the elements of his game while practising with the University of Waterloo Warâ€" riors squad, and big brother www.vwwaterloo.com CLICK HERE Yolkswagen New & Certihed Pre.owned Cars at the recent OFSAA track speed down the path gives him a lot of hang time â€" so much hang time that he‘s close to jumping out of the pits at his school‘s practice area. "It‘s another one. two, and then you land," said Yang. "You feel real light, like your running in the air." "He was third in Canada one year at nationals," said Agatonovic, the obviously proud little brother who also hopes to join the Warâ€" riors‘ tennis team next year. "He won provincials, and he was top in the underâ€"16 category in Ontario a couâ€" ple of years ago." Marko, this past year. And Marko helped to shape his game over the years, especially in his return from an elbow injury. "It‘s nice to play with him," said Agatonovic. "It‘s nice to play with someone at your own level, because it‘s tough to find hitting partners when you get in the higher levels." That has helped him develop the instinctual side of the game, and how to set Volkswagen Waterloo Continued on page 29 BOB VRBANAC PHOTO

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