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August 21, 2002
Los Gatos, California Since 1881 |
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Rowers second at Youth Invitational
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Dick Sparrer
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They may have row, row, rowed their boat,
but it was anything but gently down the
stream when the members of the Los Gatos
Rowing Club's women's 4 varsity boat competed
at the 2002 Youth Invitational held earlier
this summer in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Gatos girls pulled their way down the
course in 7:20.60 to finish second overall in
the national event. The Windsor Crew won the
race in 7:16.20.
The members of the team were coxswain Gina
Garibotti, Rachel Jeffers in bow, Ali Seeders
in the two seat, Katie Ball at three and
Allison DePalma at four.
Garibotti and Jeffers both missed graduation
ceremonies at Notre Dame High School to row
in the national event. Ball, a senior,
Seders, a sophomore, and Jeffers, a junior,
are all from Los Gatos High School.
Garibotti will attend the University of
Nebraska in the fall, and Jeffers and Ball
both plan to attend the University of
Washington. Seders and Jeffers will return to
row for the Los Gatos Rowing Club when the
season starts up again in January.
The local girls were competing in their new
boat, the Real McCoy . Their coach was
Nathan Cravens, also a graduate of Los Gatos
High.
Jeffers, 17, was also selected to the 2002
Women's Junior National crew team.
Tae kwon do placers
Michelle Sanfilipo won a gold medal and Matea
Couris won silver when they represented the
Los Gatos Athletic Club at the 22nd annual
U.S. Junior Olympics, held in July at the
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis,
Minn.
Sanfilipo, 11, won all six of her matches to
finish first in her age group, claiming the
gold medal. Couris, 12, finished second to
take the silver.
Winning bronze medals for Los Gatos were
Christopher Chan, 10, and Garrett Irizarry,
9.
Rounding out the 12-member Los Gatos Athletic
Club tae kwon do Olympic-style sparring team
were Adam Fang, 13; Michael Hayes, 13;
Tiffany Irizarry, 12; Stacy Areas, 12; Alexis
Couris, 12; Shuree Irizarry, 11; Ethan Fang,
10; and Chad Taylor, 10.
The athletes, coached by Eli and Akiko Rod,
had to qualify at the state level to win
berths in the Junior Olympics.
Reilly places
Shirley Reilly of Los Gatos placed in four
events at the 2002 International Paralympic
Committee World Championships in Athletics in
Lille, France.
Reilly finished fifth in the 800 meters at
2:11, fifth in the 400 meters at 1:06, sixth
in the 100 meters at 19.46 and 12th in the
marathon at two hours, 16 minutes.
"Shirley did great," said her mother, Dora
Reilly. "We're so proud of her!"
Fomenko captain
Julianna Fomenko, a 1999 Los Gatos High
School graduate, is the team captain of the
women's field hockey team at Northwestern
University. Fomenko, a lifelong resident of
Campbell, is a junior at Northwestern.
Gray on Fire
Kelly Gray, a graduate of Leigh High School,
is a member of Major League Soccer's (MLS)
Chicago Fire. Gray, a 170-pound midfielder,
was selected in the first round of the 2002
MLS SuperDraft by the Fire.
Gray was a four-year starter at Leigh and won
all-league honors twice. He led the Longhorns
to a league championship in 1999 before going
on to star at the University of Portland.
He was the school's second leading scorer
with 25 points on nine goals and seven
assists at Portland, and he led the Pilots to
a 13-6-1 record in his 2001. He was a
second-team All-American and was a first-team
selection on the all-West Coast Athletic
Conference, team.
Gray was picked to the United States under-23
national team and was later selected by the
Fire.
Gray, the son of Larry Gray and Kathy
Kirmil-Gray of San Jose, considers his
under-11 coach, Paul Bravo, as one of the
most influential people in his career, and
adds that his most rewarding moment in soccer
was being selected to play on the under-20
national team at the world championships in
Argentina.
Clark places
Sara Clark, a 2002 Los Gatos High School
graduate, placed 11th in the platform event,
15th on the 3-meter board and 32nd on the
1-meter board at the U.S. Diving National
Championships held July 28-Aug. 4 at
Stanford University.
Clark, the only girl in California to qualify
in all three events in the 16-18 age
group, won a medal for her 11th-place finish
in the platform competition.
The Gatos grad also qualified for the world
team trials, placing fifth on the 3-meter
springboard and 11th on the platform. She
medaled with her springboard fifth, her
highest-ever national placing.
Clark, who competes for the Stanford Diving
Club, has accepted an athletic scholarship to
UCLA. She is the daughter of Candice Clark
Wozniak, a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic
team, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
Computer, Inc.
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