Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 8. 1967.

Vic Sportswomen Off To Tokyo

Vic Sportswomen Off To Tokyo

Helen Schwarz —David Smith photo.

Helen Schwarz —David Smith photo.

Victoria will be represented at the World Student Games to be held at Tokyo in August. Miss Helen Schwarz, a Victoria fencer, has been named in the team of three. She will be joining Ian Johnston, the Otago swimmer, and Barry Jones, the Canterbury athlete. This will be the first occasion on which New Zealand has been officially represented at these games. Selection was made after comparing the nominees' current form with the standards set at past games.

Miss Schwarz has been fenc-ing for six years, the past four with the Victoria Club. She has been an NZU blue for the past three years and is currently rated as the top woman fencer in the University sphere of this sport.

On the national scene Miss Schwarz is a past Wellington and North Island champion and is placed about fourth or fifth in the National line-up.

She was a hot contender for a place in the New Zealand team to the Commonwealth Games at Jamaica last year until illness affected her performances.

When asked what effort was required to achieve prominence in this sport of agility and lightning reflexes, Miss Schwarz described her training. She said that the three nights a week and Saturday afternoons given up to fencing interspersed with jogging and exercises was, to her, a challenge. She expected it to remain as such for a few more years yet. When not fencing for six months of the, year. Miss Schwarz enjoys playing squash and tennis.

A final-year Science student, Miss Schwarz is this year attending Victoria part-time. Although devoting a considerable amount of time to her fencing, she tries not to let this stand in the way of her study. "But." she said, "I am determined to win a medal at these games." And it is to be hoped that she will, although it will be no mean feat when it is remembered that there will be over one hundred countries competing.