Voth leads TWU Spartans at Coquitlam Cheetahs meet

Last weekend’s meet served as trials for the 2013 Canada Summer Games 

LANGLEY ADVANCE - JUNE 13, 2013 - Trinity Western University track athlete Chris Voth had the race of his life in the 5000m to lead the Spartans at the Coquitlam Cheetahs Annual Jesse Bent Memorial Meet.

The Abbotsford native finished first with a time of 14: 46.10 at Coquitlam’s Percy Perry Stadium on Sunday.

Voth led a Spartans contingent that was competing in its third meet in the Lower Mainland in just over a week as part of an effort to push for an outdoor aspect to the Canada West and CIS competition schedule.

The University of Alberta and the University of Victoria also competed in this week’s three-event series.

This past weekend’s meet was also the Canada Games trials for Team B.C.

It’s expected the team will officially be announced sometime this week.

While there were plenty of quality performances from current Spartans, it was future Spartan Regan Yee who made waves by winning the 2000m steeplechase, and beating the Spartans’ Fiona Benson with a time of 7: 00.20.

Benson finished second in 7: 01.91.

Also of note was the performance of Canadian Paralympian Dustin Walsh, who broke the T11 Canadian 400m record with a time of 53 seconds.

Walsh, who was also the previous record-holder, bettered his old mark of 53.05.

Spartans track athlete and Langley resident Dylan Williamson is Walsh’s guide runner.

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Stefanovic and Tjernagel big winners #bchschamps

Mihail Stefanovic of New Westminster Secondary, winner of the boys 110 metre hurdles (photo BOAZ JOSEPH/BLACK PRESS)

New Westminster News Leader – June 4, 2013 

Mihailho Stefanovic and Raquel Tjernagel of New Westminster were big winners at the B.C. high school track and field championships held in Langley last week.

Stefanovic beat out Hyack teammate Bogdan Pavel to win the boys 110-metre hurdles. He crossed the finish line in 14.99 seconds, two-tenths of a second faster than Paval.

Tjernagel captured the girls 200-metre final in 24.30 seconds beating out Zion Corrales-Nelson of Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Collegiate. In the 400 metres, the results were reversed with Corrales-Nelson winning in 54.94 and Tjernagel finishing in 55.45.

New West’s boys 4×100 metre relay team came second in 44.32, finishing behind STM (43.23). Stefanovic and Pavel were joined on the team by Ethan Strome and Simon Rokeby.

Fiull article can be found in the New Westminster News Leader here: http://www.newwestnewsleader.com/sports/210091621.html

Speedy Knights second, win boys title #bchschamps

Burnaby NewsLeader – June 4, 2013

The St. Thomas More Knights came close to knocking off the perennial provincial powerhouse for the overall title at the B.C. high school track and field championships in Langley last week.

STM came second finishing with 82 points losing out to the Victoria school by 11 points. The Knights, however, did claim the boys title with 46 points, five more than Oak Bay.

More’s boys relay teams dominated. The 4×100 squad ran around the McLeod Athletic Park track in 43.23 seconds finishing ahead of New Westminster (44.32). In the 4×400 final, STM racked up a winning time of 3:25.83.

Read the full article in the Burnaby NewLeader here: http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/sports/210097261.html

Silver, two bronze for Gators’ Robyn Buckingham #bchschamps

Walnut Grove’s Robyn Buckingham won silver in the heptathlon at the B.C. high school track and field championships. She later added a pair of bronze medals in the high jump and as part of the Gators’ 4×400 relay team (photo John Morrow/Black Press)

By Gary Ahuja – Langley Times - June 3, 2013

Robyn Buckingham added a pair of bronze medals over the weekend, to go along with a silver she won the week before, to wrap up a strong showing at the B.C. high school track and field championships.

The 15-year-old Grade 10 student at Walnut Grove already had a silver in the heptathlon from the multi-event championships held in Abbotsford on May 24 and 25.

She then added a bronze in the high jump and helped the Gators place third — along with Keara Graham, Dallas Tilley and Megan Notting — in the 4×400 relay.

Buckingham also had a fourth-place finish in the long jump, just missing the podium. Buckingham’s best leap was 5.17m, 0.6 behind third place.

Read the full article in the Langley Times here: http://www.langleytimes.com/sports/210011211.html

Kastelein hurdles to gold medal #bchschamps

Langley Christian’s Eli Kastelein won gold in the men’s 400m hurdles at the B.C. high school track and field championships at McLeod Athletic Park (photo Gary Ahuja/Langley Times)

By Gary Ahuja – Langley Times - June 3, 2013

It was fitting that Eli Kastelein won his first provincial high school track and field gold medal at McLeod Athletic Park.

“It felt amazing to win and it is really nice getting to do it right here in Langley,” Kastelein said.

“I’ve spent hundreds of long days training at the McLeod track so it was nice to end off my high school career there with such a great memory.”

Kastelein, a Grade 12 student at Langley Christian, won gold in the 400m hurdles on Friday afternoon, crossing the finish line in 55.26 seconds. The time shaved almost two seconds off of his personal best.

“I knew I was capable of running a winning time, it was just a matter of doing it at the right time,” he said.

Marshall obliterates PB, wins gold #bchschamps

By Gary Ahuja – Langley Times - June 3, 2013

There is setting a new personal best and then there is what Adam Marshall accomplished, which was smashing his PB.

The 18-year-old Grade 12 student at Brookswood Secondary not only won the gold medal in the men’s 2000m steeplechase event, he obliterated his previous best time of 6:25.00.

Marshall crossed the finish line in 6:08.77 at McLeod Athletic Park on Saturday afternoon at the B.C. high school track and field championships.

Marshall’s previous best came a few weeks ago at the Fraser Valley championships, when he placed third.

But Marshall fully expected to make a better showing at provincials.

“For Fraser Valleys, I had the 800 heats and finals the same day as the steeplechase,” he explained.

“So for provincials, I scratched the 1500m (event) so that I would be able to be fresh for the steeplechase.”

And that is exactly what happened, as he won by three and a half seconds over North Surrey’s Ephraim Tadesse.

Read the full article in the Langley Times here: http://www.langleytimes.com/sports/210011961.html

Chilliwack athletes take on track and field’s best #bchschamps

By Staff Writer – Chilliwack Progress - June 3, 2013

Chilliwack athletes fought tooth-and-nail at last weekend’s BC High School Track and Field Championships, doing their best against the province’s best.

The meet was held May 31 and June 1 at McLeod Athletic Park in Langley.

Rosedale middle school’s Tasha Willing led the way, competing in three events.

Against older competition in senior girls discus, Willing was 11^th with a throw of 31.34m. She competed in hammer throw, finishing seventh with a toss to 38.47m. Willing’s third event was the shot-put where she finished seventh with a mark of 9.80m.

Read the full article in the Chilliwack Progress here: http://www.theprogress.com/sports/209953121.html

Siemens superb at high school track provincials #bchschamps

By Dan Kinvig – Abbotsford News - June 2, 2013

Heading into the final meet of her high school track and field career, “Faith over fear” was Alex Siemens‘s mantra.

The W.J. Mouat Hawks’ Grade 12 runner has struggled at times with the weight of expectation – both from others, and from herself – since bursting onto the scene as a precocious Grade 9 star in 2009-10.

Siemens won the B.C. cross-country title and took bronze in the 3000 metres at track provincials that season, but hadn’t climbed the podium at a provincial high school meet since then, as she battled injuries and grappled with nerves.

The 17-year-old rectified that situation in a big way at Langley’s McLeod Athletic Park on the weekend, winning a trio of medals – silver in the 3000m (10:01.11), bronze in the 1500m (4:38.71), and silver with the Mouat 4x400m relay team (4:05.43) which also featured Callum Pilgrim, Hailey Gibson and Amanda Thompson.

Read the full article in the Abbotsford News here: http://www.abbynews.com/sports/209866481.html

Two silver medals ‘a good meet’ for Tadesse #bchschamps

Ephraim Tadesse (388) ran to silver medals in the 1,500m and 2,000m steeplechase at the B.C. High School Track and Field Championships in Langley (photo BOAZ JOSEPH / THE LEADER)

By Rick Kupchuk – Surrey North Delta Leader - June 3, 2013

Long distance runner Ephraim Tadesse of North Surrey Secondary won a pair of silver medals at last weekend’s B.C. High School Track and FIeld Championships, finishing as the runner-up in both the boys 2,000m steeplechase and the 1,500m race.

He completed the steeplechase in 6:11.12, 2.25 seconds off the pace. He was bumped up into the runner-up position in the 1,500m race after crossing the line in third place. His time of 3:57.28 was good for the silver medal, after a competitor was disqualified for interference.

Read the full article in the Surrey Leader here: http://www.surreyleader.com/sports/209982211.html

A pair of gold medals for Covington #bchschamps

By Rick Kupchuk – Surrey North Delta Leader - June 3, 2013

Asianna Covington, a Surrey resident attending Little Flower Academy in Vancouver,made three trips to the podium at last weekend’s B.C. High School Track and Field Championships in Langley.

Covington had little trouble winning in the shotput with a throw of 48.2m, 1.13m further then the second place thrower. Prabhjit Dosanjh of Delview was one position out of the medals, placing fourth at 36.48m.

Covington also won the gold medal in the hammer throw, easily outdistancing the runner-up with her toss of 53.83m, more than five metres further than the silver medalist.

She added a third medal in the shot put, her effort of 12.83m earning the silver medal. Avneet Nijjar of Queen Elizabeth Secondary placed fourth, her best throw of 11.2m just 24 centimetres shy of a medal.

Read the full article in the Surrey Leader here: http://www.surreyleader.com/sports/209982521.html

Gold, bronze for Ingvaldson #bchschamps

By Rick Kupchuk – Surrey North Delta Leader - June 3, 2013

Two athletes combined for five medals, lifting Lord Tweedmuir Secondary to 10th in the team standings at the B.C. High School Track and Field Championships in Langley.

Ben Ingvaldson, 16, won a gold medal, and he and teammate Jasmine Grant each collected a pair of bronze medals. Along with a fifth-place performance from the school’s 4x100m relay team, Lord Tweedsmuir totaled 38 points at the two-day meet, tying for 10th place with Langley Secondary.

Ingvaldson won his gold medal in the boys shotput, with a throw of 15.64m that was almost a full metre better than the runner-up. Chitraj Dosanjh of Delview Secondary placed fifth at 13.57m.

Ingvadlson was also the bronze medalist in the hammer throw and discus. His best effort was 51.93 metres in the hammer, while his throw of 45.26m in the discus edged the fourth-place athlete by eight centimetres.

Jasmine Grant won her bronze medals with two personal best times, bouncing back from a Grade 11 year that saw her performance slowed by illness.

Read full article in the Surrey North Delta Leader here: http://www.surreyleader.com/sports/209981891.html

Tweedsmuir, Marriott athletes excel at track provincials #bchschamps

 

Earl Marriott’s Ally Ginther (#142) looks back at a fallen runner as she leads the senior girls 1,500-m at BC High School Track and Field Championships Saturday in Langley (Bob Friesen photo)

By Nick Greenizan – Peace Arch News - June 3, 2013

Earl Marriott’s Kathryn Van Ryswyk won gold twice, and a pair of Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary athletes combined for five medals as the two schools both placed inside the top 10 at BC High School Track and Field Championships over two days in Langley last week.

On Friday, Van Ryswyk took top spot in the senior girls pole vault, clearing the bar at 3.45 m – besting the second-place competitor by 35 cm. Van Ryswyk, was the defending champion in the event, having won gold last year with a mark of 3.1 m.

A day later, the EMS senior scored her second gold medal of the event, winning the senior girls 100-m hurdles in 14.45 seconds, eight-tenths of a second quicker than Tumber Ridge’s Laura Sharman, who claimed silver.

Tweedsmuir, meanwhile, was led by Ben Ingvaldson, who won a gold and two bronze medals, and runner Jasmine Grant, who also had a pair of bronze-medal finishes.

Along with a fifth-place performance from the school’s 4x100m relay team, Lord Tweedsmuir totaled 38 points at the two-day meet, tying for 10th place with Langley Secondary. Earl Marriott was ninth overall, with 45 total points.

Ingvaldson won his gold medal in the senior boys shotput, with a throw of 15.64-m.

Ingvaldson was also the bronze medalist in the hammer throw and discus. His best effort was 51.93-m toss in the hammer, while his throw of 45.26-m in the discus edged the fourth-place athlete by eight centimetres.

Grant won her bronze medals with two personal best times, bouncing back from a Grade 11 year that saw her performance slowed by illness.

Read the full article in The Peace Arch News here: http://www.peacearchnews.com/sports/209968101.html

Record-setting weekend at Elwood Wylie Meet

Josh Aldrich, Nanaimo Daily News

Published: Monday, May 27, 2013

Records fell and personal bests were set at the annual Elwood Wylie Memorial Meet at the Rotary Bowl this weekend.

The Nanaimo Track and Field Club had a number of big time performances at their annual meet by local athletes, including Madison Heisterman coming within a breath of a 40-year-old record, Sean Miller joining the conversation of some of the best distance runners in the province, Jason Clare closing in on a spot on the provincial team and para thrower Jesseye Brockway shattering three provincial records.

More than 400 athletes from more than a dozen clubs came out for the meet, including 96 from Nanaimo.

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Jade Richardson named Red Lion athlete of the week

April 30, 2013 – Simon Fraser University track and field athlete Jade Richardson was named the Red Lion athlete of the week in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

The Clan junior set a NCAA Division II provisional national qualifying standard in her first throw in the discus at last Friday’s Western Washington University Twilight meet.

Her distance of 48.68-metres ranks her eighth nationally among NCAA Division II athletes and is second on the conference all-time top 10 performance list. The throw also broke the 30-year old SFU record in the event.

Full article from Burnaby Now 

Spartans duo tops divisions at Sun Run – Langley Advance

April 25, 2013 – Trinity Western’s Alison Jackson and Joel De Schiffart both hit lofty standards in Sunday’s 10-kilometre Vancouver Sun Run, with Jackson finishing first amongst females in her age group (19-25) and De Schiffart crossing the line as the top junior-aged (16-18) competitor.

Read the full article in The Langley Advance 

BC Masters Track & Field Championships Re-Cap

By Harold Morioka  (June 19, 2012)

The 2012 BC Masters Track and Field championships were hosted by the Langley Mustangs Track and Field Club from June 15-17. Held in conjunction with the Pacific Invitational Track and Field meet, the Masters Championships were held at Langley’s McLeod Park. For the first time, a racewalk (3Km) was included in the meet.

For the few events (steeplechase, racewalking, weight throw and men’s hammer) held on Friday evening, weather conditions were good. But on Saturday it was cold with heavy rains falling most of the time. It rained again on Sunday morning and although it stopped raining in the afternoon, it remained cold and windy. A few athletes fell attempting their throws while the runners ran through puddles and against the wind. Despite the difficult conditions, the athletes did very well.

The athletes broke one World Record, six Canadian records and nineteen BC Masters records. One other Canadian and BC record was tied.

Christa Bortignon (W75) broke the most records. Despite running against a -2.8 m/s headwind, she broke the World Record in the 200 metre hurdles (41.70). She also set a Canadian record in the 200 metre sprint (34.93). Christa also bettered the 2011 Canadian records in the triple jump and long jump but she has better Canadian records pending from a meet earlier this year in Raleigh, NC.

Also breaking Canadian records were Lenore Montgomery in the W80 3000 metres (16:47.89), Gabriella Moro in the W65 shot put (9.29m), Rose Hare in the W60 weight throw (12.28m) and Ellie Halcrow in the W65 3000m racewalk (18:47.30). Margaret Rhebergen tied the Canadian record in the W55 high jump (1.30m).

Christa broke the intermediate hurdles world record by the slimest margin possible (0.01 second). Lenore broke the Canadian 3000m record by more than 2 and a half minutes. Gabriela broke her own Canadian shot put record of 9.23m which she set earlier this year. Rose broke her own weight throw record of 12.05m which she set two years ago. Ellie has competed in many BC Seniors Games but this was her first BC Athletics competition. She broke the Canadian 3000m racewalk record by 15.54 seconds. Margaret, despite jumping in the rain, tied her own Canadian and BC high jump record.

Breaking BC Masters records were: Juliette Christie W50 3000m, Lynette Baldock W65 3000m, Jeanette Van Den Bulk W35 400m hurdles, Nancy Craig W45 pole vault, Sandy Anderson W70 weight throw, Dave McDonald M55 weight throw, Les Robson M85 triple jump, Dmitry Babenko M35 3000m racewalk, Gerald Dragomir M60 3000m racewalk and Nardene Hammond W40 3000m racewalk.

Jeannette would have had another BC record in the 200m sprint but the wind was +2.1 m/s, just over the allowable limit of +2.0 m/s. She just missed a Canadian record in the 400m hurdles but she did break the Canadian record just a week earlier, running the event in 1:03.53.

There were several positive comments regarding the newly designed BC Athletics Championship medals. Special “thank you’s” go to our dedicated officials and volunteers who always do an excellent job.

Records and Medals for Christa

Courtesy of Harold Morioka 

Competing at the USA National Masters track and field championships, 74-year old Christa Bortignon set 5 more Canadian Masters records and won 8 gold medals. The four-day meet from August 4-7 was held in Berea, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. Christa broke W70-74 Canadian records in the 100m (16.16), long jump (3.47m) and 80m Hurdles (20.76) and set new records in the 200m Hurdles (43.71) and Pentathlon (3348 points). She bettered her pending Canadian records in the 100m and long jump which she broke earlier this year. Christa won four gold medals in the above events, except for the 80m hurdles which was part of the pentathlon. Christa added gold medals in the 200m, 400m, high jump and triple jump.
Next week, from August 17-20, Christa will be competing in the BC Seniors Games in Trail. In September she plans to compete in the European Masters Games in Lignano, Italy and in October, in the World Huntsman Games in St. George, Utah.

HAYWARD CLASSIC MASTERS TRACK AND FIELD MEET

Christa Bortignon, age 74, won 5 gold medals and broke 2 Canadian records at the Hayward Classic track and field meet in Eugene, Oregon.  Competing at historic Hayward Field at the University of Oregon, Christa won W70 gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump, triple jump and high jump.  She broke her own Canadian records in the triple jump (7.76m) and long jump (3.42m).  Her triple jump is the best W70 jump in the world this year and she should be the favourite to win the W70 gold medal at the upcoming World Masters Athletics (WMA) Championships in Sacramento in July.

Parent Breaks WSU Open Indoor Meet Record

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State sophomore high jumper Holly Parent and Idaho pole vaulter Jeremy Klas, competing unattached, broke meet records Saturday at the Ninth Annual WSU Open Indoor, a two-day meet held at WSU’s Indoor Facility.

Parent, from Victoria, British Columbia, won the women’s high jump after clearing an indoor personal-record height of 6-feet (1.83m), and broke former Cougar Diana Pickler’s 2006 meet record of 5-feet, 10 inches (1.78m). WSU sophomore Christine Rice finished second with a high jump of 5-8 (1.73m).

Read the full article here: http://www.wsucougars.com/sports/c-track/recaps/011611aaa.html

BC Cross Country Championships

The 2010 BC Cross Country Championships were held under sunny skies and relatively dry conditions on Saturday. Aldergrove Lake Park was the venure for the Championships, hosted by Ocean Athletics. The course was challenging, and provided a true cross country experience.

Championship winners were:

2001 Girls 1500m: Cayla Smith (Ocean Athletics), 6:49
2001 Boys 1500m: Thomas Kirkwood (St. George’s School), 6:44

2000 Girls 2000m: Madison Heisterman (Nanaimo T&F), 8:22
2000 Boys 2000m: Hugh Graham (St. George’s School), 7:59

1999 Girls 2000m: Danielle Steer (Ocean Athletics), 8:05
1999 Boys 2000m: Joel Harrison (Langley Mustangs), 8:00

1998 Girls 2000m: Julia Greer (Ocean Athletics), 8:12
1998 Boys 2000m: Michael Milic (Ocean Athletics), 7:32

1997 Girls 3000m: Chelsea Ribeiro (Ocean Athletics), 12:29
1996 Girls 3000m: Miryam Bassett (Oceanside T&F), 12:24
1995 Girls 3000m: Tanya Humeniuk (Unattached), 12:05

1997 Boys 3000m: Adam Murray (Kelowna T&F), 11:30
1996 Boys 3000m: Peter Oxland (Oceanside T&F), 11:08
1995 Boys 3000m: Tadesse Ephraim (Unattached), 11:13

Youth Women 4000m: Katrina Allison (Vancouver Thunderbirds), 16:23
Junior Women 5000m: Maggie Woodward (Unattached), 20:25

Youth Men 5000m: Benjamin Thorne (Unattached), 18:34
Junior Men 7000m: Wyatt Baiton (Saskatchewan), 24:10

Senior Women 6000m: Malindi Elmore (Alberta), 22:03

Senior Men 10000m: Steve Osaduik (Prairie Inn Harriers Racing Team), 33:02

Masters Women 8000m: Teresa Nightingale (Sunshine Coast Athletics), 34:15
Masters Men 8000m: Paddy McCluskey (Prairie Inn Harriers Racing Team), 28:35

Complete results: http://www.bcathletics.org/results/2010/bcxc2010.txt