Hide Article Text (OCR)
Sweep forShatto, goldfor PearceBy GEKKY,LANE Free Press Staff WriterDon Webb eased into his poolside chair, clasped his hands behind Ms head and fixed Ms eyes on the 10-metre tower.Moments later Cindy Shatto, blonde and bronzed, hurtled.from the concrete platform and performed a series of intricate manoeuvres before entering the water withbarely a spalsb. .“Whose” yelled Webb, clapping his hands. The Pointe Claire, Quo., diving coach was obviously pleased with the forward three and one-half pike his pupil hadso successfully executed.The judges at Pan-Am Pool were also impressed and a score of nine was flashed — not bad considering 10 is a perfect mark.Shatto, 18, completed her eight-dive platform list with 386.73 points and a first-place finish in the girls 17-18 platform event at the Canadian Junior Olympic age group meet.It proved a profitable weekend for Shat-to, who also won the one -and three-metre springboard events to finish with a 1.000 batting average.But it was not unexpected.Shatto is a member of Canada’s Olympic diving team. She qualified recently in Pointe Claire by winning the tmver competition with 401-points, a Canadian women’s record.What's in the immediate future for Snat-to?“A week of rest,” she sighed. “Right now, Pm mentally exhausted.”Shatto’s rise to the top, particularly On tower, has been a long and drawn out process according to Webb.“In 1974 she won the British Commonwealth Gaines three-metre event,” recalled Webb, “and she was classed as a three-metre diver.“Then she went through about a year-and-a-half span that was really lean. But about five or six months ago it all started to come back to her. She’s always had the class, the talent, but she couldn’t get it together in competition.“It’s really coming together for her now, though. She’s matured beautifully — and at the right moment. The last four international meets she's been in, she’s done tremendously well and she’s getting bettereach time out.”Shatto, however, was not the only triple winner in the three-day meet. Tracey Janes of Vancouver’s Arbutus Diving Club won all three events she entered.And Winnipegger Scott Pearce snared a gold and two silver medal? to qualify for the Mex-Amer-Can junior aeries in the process. He was named to an 18-member squad which will compete against teams from the United States and Mexico in early September. The meet is booked for MexicoCity.P«arce, * member o! the Pan Am Divers, prevailed in the boys 14 and undervvX-.V:.CINDY SHATtOSCOTT PEARCEtower with 247.65 points a Canadian junior record. Pearce finished behind Scott Sin-clair of Oakville, Ont., in both the one and three-metre springboard events.Sinclair, it should be noted, won with what diving experts term a ’safe list. Pearce, on the other hand, is currently feeling a difficult series of dives designed to secure him a berth on the national team.“He’s been working on these lists since March,” noted Pan Am Divers’ coach Nancy Robertson, “and they usually take ayear to perfect.”Robin Wittmeier also earned a medal for the Pan Am Divers with a third-place finish in the girls 10 and under one-metre event.
Newspaper Details
Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, May 25, 1976
Page 55
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 14 Nov 2021
Other Publications Near Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg Courrier du Nord Ouest
Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg Free Press Sunday
Winnipeg Manitoban
Winnipeg Free Press
