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Show 14 April 21, 1994 Hilltop Times Intramural Activities For information on current or upcointramural activities coll Ann Peter-n-al at the Hess Fitness Center at Ext. Hill ming 7-77-72. Track and field meet The 1994 Hill AFB Track and Field Meet will be held May 25 at Davis High School in Kaysville, beginning at 1 p.m. Interested athletes should contact their squadron sports representative to make sure letters of intent are turned in. Squadrons may enter only one team per relay, with each individual being able to compete in four events. Start getting your teams together now. off intent due Letters of intent are due April Letters 27 for slowpitch softball and golf. A coaches meeting for softball will be held May 2 at 1 p.m. in the Thornton Community Center. League play will begin May 16. A coaches meeting for golf will be held May 4 at 1 p.m. in the Thornton Community Center. League play will begin the week of May 16. All interested individuals for either sport should get with their squadron sports representative or call the intramural office at Ext. for more information. 72 Athletic council meets The Base Athletic Council will meet May 3 at 1 p.m. at the Thornton Community Center. Members will be briefed on up- coming activities. Sports representatives or an alternate should attend. sergeant can still skate with best out she had to compete in the younger division she felt all hope of winning by Jay Joersz Hilltop Times staff An Air Force master sergeant recently showed the speedskating community in Utah and Colorado that she still has what it takes, and then some. Though she had continued to speed-skatMSgt. Cindy Nobliski of Hill AFB's 649th Medical Group had not entered any formal competitions for more than two decades until this of The the speedskatyear. president ing club she belongs to talked her into entering this year's Utah Winter Games and she came away with the women's speedskating gold medal. Nobliski has also been named the Utah Female Speedskating Athlete of the Year. In addition, she brought home three second place medals from the Broadmore Speedskating Classic in e, kmsswi - .,A"'- in ""1 - Photo by Jay Joersz MSgt. Cindy tools of her off-dut- Nobliski y holds the trade with one of the fruits of her efforts the women's speedskating gold medal from this year's Utah Winter Games.- her skating club, the Northern Utah Speedskating Club, are excited about Ogden's new Ice Sheet skating .facility. With the limited amount of facilities available in the past, practice time was often hard to schedule. Nobliski said the new Ice Sheet will be a big 18-3- 4 35-49- ), ld , help. in interested Anyone joining the of club, regardless experience level, or may contact Nobliski at the club president. Jay Glad, at 779-075- 479-448- 0 6. Payable in dollars' Low Easy monthly terms Local claims agents OEDCO and affiliates & V; 800-met- er down-payme- (Comer of Main was gone. "I was already feeling nervous just to be competing, but once I was put in the younger division, I didn't give myself any chance of winning," she said. But once the race started, Nobliski said it all came back. "The ice felt good, my stride felt good and I simply blocked out everything else." Nobliski started her skating career in her hometown of Armada, Mich., where she grew up six blocks from a speedskating oval. She originally started but figure skating age 4, but she was from a family of speedskaters and eventually convinced her family to let her try speedskating. She received her first pair of speedskates for her eighth birthday. "Speedskating is a gas," she said. Colorado Springs, Colo., held last "We need to get more people involved in the sport. The best thing about this month. Nobliski, 40, not only captured the sport is camaraderie, especially with medal at the winter games at Bounti- the skaters in Utah and Colorado. The ful after many years of no competition, people here are wonderful. but she did it in a younger age "Speedskating is also great exercise - and 500won She the and it's indoors," she added. category. races competing in the But speedskating is only one of age category rather, than her many interests for Nobliski. She has own category, the Masters (ages also been involved with the Military because she was the only en- Rodeo Association since 1984, she has trant in the Masters division. volunteered for the Detroit Zoo, the So, she strapped on her skates and Salvation Army Camp near Vanden-ber-g hit the ice against the younger compeAFB, Calif., volunteers her time and horses for the therapeutic horsetitors. Nobliski said a skater leaned over to her and asked manship program at Hill and coached her when was the last time she had speedskating for this year's Utah raced. To both skaters' amusement, Winter Special Olympics and plans to Nobliski informed her youthful compe- help with the Summer Special Olympics as well. titor, "You hadn't been born yet." Nobliski and the other members of Nobliski said that when she found CM 1981 NO. 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