Four athletes from Highland Secondary competed at the provincial track and field championships last weekend in Kelowna.
Grade 10 student Liam Potts placed fourth in the junior long jump with a leap of 5.97 metres. Kylea Knubley (Grade 12) and Killian Allard (Grade 10) ran the 100 metres but did not qualify for the final. Ethan Tansky, Grade 10, did not qualify in the 400m.
The athletes qualified for provincials by placing in the top five at the Island track championships last month at the University of Victoria. Powell River hosted the North Islands.
“We had a very good track season,” said Jacques Nijhoff, who coaches Highland track along with Geoff Gummer. “We had basically 50 athletes.”
At the Island meet, Gaby Morfitt won the Grade 8 girls discus, and the Grade 8 boys won the 4x100m sprint relay. Highland’s Grade 8 boys team placed third in aggregate standings, and the Grade 8 girls were fourth.
“Overall, our Grade 8 division placed third on the Island,” Nijhoff said. “We had good numbers this year — a good Grade 8 group that was quite involved. And we can just build from there.”
Vanier had seven athletes at provincials. Ema Bowie finished sixth in the 100m final for Grade 8 girls. She came 10th in the 200m preliminaries. Angelique Kennedy was 13th in the senior girls 100m hurdles preliminaries, and 11th in the 400m hurdles.
Zoltan Horvath was 21st in the boys 400m hurdles preliminaries. Owen Flynn came eighth in the senior boys 400m hurdles finals, and 20th in the 110m hurdles preliminaries. Emmett Allan was 12th in the junior boys javelin, Jaden Barr was 15th in the senior boys javelin, and Alexander Julien finished seventh in senior javelin and 10th in the senior boys shot put.
Representing Mark Isfeld was Iris Tinmouth, who placed third in the junior girls 3,000 metres in 10:36.98. Iris also qualified for the final of the junior girls 1,500 metres after a fourth-place result in the preliminaries in a time of 4:54.04. She placed eighth in the final, running 4:55.65.
Meghan Sheehan of isfeld was 16th in the junior girls 200m and 23rd in the 400m. Avi Bakshi did not finish in the Grade 8 boys 400m.