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The 2004 Junior Canadian Ice Dance champions. Tessa Virtue and Scott Mair, are two of the 56 gold medallists being honoured by the KAN Skating Club Sunday. “I1 PHOTO There are some changes to the start of 2006 golf season But that's going to change this Sunday when the Club will honour its Past guld mcdullisls by covering the walls with hamners m t ole- hrule their accomplishments m a spccial ccremimy at RIM Park. lhe L‘lub's culling the mun a Brag Bash, and thcry much Skating Club opens its brag book T the walls could talk at the Carolyn Fed) Skaling Centre they wouldn't my BILL "SKIP" JOHNS BY Bun Valium r :hrorti_cle, 5/1501 166 Park St., Kitchener A .‘ "e i "V N y , Etgl ' ' & -__ I _ a A w n . . rl ', ~ K / r V. " I r, . r V A ‘ . E ., ---" all g" , " .9, " x i 1 . " IJ ' a J., I t T . ‘ ' T, Bil _..---'" , ‘ bl ' " (a x} A V? x 'r a ’ ‘.. i, it I I tN "F , up 19' " , . f, Jie!,,, "67 /t,t _ 2a-, - r-a V , w iM “ is a lnl In brag about. Marilyn Johnny the slab ing clutis, alumni committee chair. said therc's a rich his- mry of "ating lore In tspiore that has gone unex- amined until now. In the club's more-than-tio-year Itisttrr,y there were Mi gold medallists who had won national or international championships while train. ing an the comm Arhite the oral history of their iiccomplishments has hm‘n passed down In the e got tcascd a little Was! week with sumo balmy spring weather. hut it's still going to be awhile before the Water- loo region and area golf count-s are up and running in peak condition for the 2006 season. And when that does hair pen. there are going to be some changes on the land- st‘ape after two of the longest running operations in this gofmg area changed hands earlier this year. Although neither layout is Waterloo-based. golCs . Energy efficient . Maintenance hee . Dependable performance "We didn't put up any- lhingnn the walls and it was so sterile," said Johnny, a past president of the club. "Wait until you we " on Sunday." The club is inviting all its Continued on pagezti next generation of skaters, there was no tangible reminder of it at the club, Now when a budding skater takes a tumble, they can look up in the rafters and remem- her what they are working towards. appeal is such that it attracts players from all across the region to find the good value courses whether you live in Waterloo. Kitchener or Cam, bridge. " won't seem the same without Hank Schmitt around calling the shots at the SET-hole Brookfield course he designed and built more than 40 years ago, but The Brookfield Golf Club and the Cambridge Golf Club were just that, good value courses run by lwo of this area's most respected owners, SPORTS that will in fact be the case after Schmitt sold his opera- tiorrto the Waterloo Region- based GolfNorth company which owns and runs the course directly across the road from Brookfield. the m hole Beaverdale l iolf chm. It wasn't that long for Irish-born Andy Byrne. but he logged more than 20 years of running the I8-hote Cambridge Golf Club before he sold to a group headed by CPGA pros, the hushand. and-wifc team of Chris and Carla Munch-Miranda, and superintendent Blaine annual athlete of the year award are women making their name in sports. That included repeat That included repeat nominees like Ivy League squash player Miranda Ranieri of Waterloo. volley- ball star Sarah Pavan and Olympic speed skater Cindy Overland. who were announced at a press con- ference at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium last week. New additions to the prestigious club are wheel- chair basketball standout Katie Hamock and Chelsea Aubry, a member of Cana- dis National women‘s has- kethall team. Well, Slew "Chugger" Dietrich is a 13-year veteran of the National Lacrose league who was named the league's goalie of the year in 2003. He earned all-pro honours by leading the league with a .789 save per- centage and an 10.89 goals against average. By the way there was also "Chugger" included in that group. What's a "Chugger" you ask? More importantly, he returned home Last summer In help backstop the K~W Kodiak:, to their second National Senior H lacrosse championship at the Water- Six up for Athlete of the Year et's hear it for the girls, as Five of the six nomi- hees for the eighth Be Bott anwuc Chronicle M Andy will. however, still he involved in the local golf scone since he and his fami- ly will continue to operate the unique lH-hole Saginaw Golf Club in ( lamhridge When you've written about golf in Waterloo region for more than 30 years. you get to know about owners. managers. pros and others in the golf business and l have nothing but the utmost respect for Hank and Andy and the way they felt about their operations all those years. Former K-W Kodiaks Steve Dietrich wa' for the 2005 athlete of the year award loo Memorial Recreation “In Complex in August. It ful- part filled a dream of his mom, tether Ruth Ihetrich. In we the kitche Kudiaks play again before Plu she lost her battle tsith can- figure Dietrich said he was both honourcd and embampsed when he “as contacted hy the awards cummilu-e. He wax honoured lo he includ- ed in a group of such past nominees like l.c_nnox Lewis. Scull Stevens and the Tnmnlu Rock‘s t Inlin Dayle. Miller, ce r. But hc was also emttar- rased because lacrosse is a loam sport. and his team- males earned the recogni- tion as much as he did. Windows. mm may I") Steve Dietrich was one of six nomiees Rn Hank. the Brook6eld experience. starting first with'itirte holes, was simply a labour of love cunducu'd iust a few feet away from the family home where he gnaw up. Andy took uwr an (wish ing operation when he arrived in this area. but he shmsed the same dedication to making things better at Cambridge “In a team sport no one part is bigger than the tether." said Dietrich. a Kitchener native. Not unlike the Prism: family at the Innerhp High- lands Golf Ciutt west of Kitchener-Waterloo. the Won-"27 Plus. he doesit cut the figure of a prototypical pm- fessional athlete. He's softer than most of the hard bod. ies you see F But that's the type ot humility youd 0\|wrt from Dietrich. And that', why he still carries around his Child- hood nickname oft hugger "ll’s an honour I got Chu- sen. but they could have taken any number of guy s."" said Diarich. The award will be hand, ed Ulll April 23. For tickets. call 379-3673 or 2434363.