1.   He could take part in the world junior fencing championships in Valencia, Venezuela, or he could stay home and study to improve his high school grades.

2.   He is responsible for bringing the US Olympic Gymnastics Trials to Boston next June and the world junior hockey championships next January.

3.   Hughes, despite her youth, is eligible for seniors competition at the world championships in Helsinki next month because she placed second in the world juniors last year.

4.   She won the national junior title last year in Philadelphia and finished second in the world juniors in Croatia last fall.

5.   Drolet, the defending overall champion, is competing at her fifth world juniors.

6.   However, if Nam wins a medal at the world juniors, she will become eligible.

7.   Last November, Lipinski was fourth in the world juniors.

8.   Karpenko was voted the top goalie at the world juniors and his heroics personally prevented the Ukraine from getting overwhelmed on the scoreboard each game.

9.   The former Soviet Union is the only country to win the world juniors four straight years and nine times in all.