BC Athletics Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony

Congratulations:

• to Jake Hanna for being chosen as one of BC Athletics male midget athletes of the year 
• to Meghan Palesch and Sebastian Adugalski for being one of four male or female youth athlete nominees of the year! 
  
• All three athletes (coached by Mary Korpach) broke BC records during the 2012 season!
• to Maureen de St. Croix for being selected to represent TEAM BC at the National Cross Country Championships (which is jointly hosted by Ocean Athletics and Hershey Harriers) on November 24!
• to Ted de St. Croix for being awarded the Ian McNeil Award as BC Athletics Official of the Year.
  

BC Cross Country Championships

Congratulations Ocean Athletics at the BC Cross Country Championships.  4 Gold, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze and "Brian McCalder JD Aggregate Shield" winners 7th year in a row.

Final Results are available here...

Canada Legion Meet highlights

Congratulations to our athletes who competed in the Canada Legion Midget / Youth Championships in PEI in August.  Jake Hanna took Gold (300m), Silver(200mHurdles) and Bronze (200m) in his events, Seb grabbed a Silver (300m hurdles) and Ben Ingvaldson a Bronze (Hammer).  Jake, Meghan and Seb also took home relay medals with Team BC.  Meghan "brushed" a few hurdles in the 100mH heats but won her B final handedly to finish 4th overall timewise and placed 5th in the 300m Hurdles final.

Jake set a new Canadian Legion U16 record in the 300m hurdles and Seb also broke the existing Legion record enroute to his Silver medal.

Liam McKay 23rd in U18 800m also ran the 1500m while Sarah Korpach 27th in U18 400m also ran the 100m and 300m Hurdles.  Jake's brother Max was sitting in 7th for Javelin until his very last throw in which he launched it 2 meters past the leader distance to win Gold.   Full results...

BC Summer Games Team

Congratulations to our Summer Games Team Members.  Seven Ocean Athletics athletes have been selected to compete for Zone 3 (Fraser Valley) in the upcoming BC Summer Games for Track and Field to be held at Bear Creek Park  July 19 - 22.
        Kiana Bekar                    Long Jump
        Lexy Reimer                    100, 200m
        Stephanie Mernagh     100, 200m
        Julia Greer                       800m
        Chelsea Ribeiro              1200, 2000, 1500 Steeplechase
        Jake Hannah                   200m, 300m.  100mH, 200mH
        Matthew McLean           100m

& competing in the triathlon competition willl be Michael Milic.  If there are any more Ocean athletes who have been selected to Summer Games teams, please let us know.

BC High School Championships

The BC High School champs (Senior Division) were in doubt a month ago, but the show must go on, and it did, and wow what a show.  We had a few medal contenders going in and we have 5 medal holders coming out led by Gold medalists:

Meghan Palesch - 100M Hurdles Gold and 400M Hurdles Silver.

Ben Ingvaldson - Shot put Gold with PB 14.93m toss and Discus 4th place.

Silver medalists:

Sebastian Adugalski - 400M Hurdles Silver, 110M Hurdles 5th place, Decathlon 6th place and 4x100M relay Gold as part of St Thomas More School.

Alison Williams - 800M Silver for the 2nd consecutive year.

Bronze medalist:

Deon Clifford - 2000M Steeplechase Bronze

Top 8 finishers:

Peggy Noel - 1500M 4th place

Sarah Korpach - 400M Hurdles 5th place and LJ 15th

Taylor Neveu - HJ 5th place.

Steven Saito - Pole Vault 8th place in PB 2.90m, Decathlon 10th place, 110 Hurdles and 400 Hurdles top 16.

Other contestents in the Senior division:

Liam McKay - 800M 10th place in PB 2:01.37

Reta Dobie - Steeplechase 10th place and High Jump 11th.

Richard Roberts - 11th place in both Triple Jump and 400M Hurdles.

Emma Scott - 16th place in 400M.

Camilla Lesyk - 17th in Long Jump and part of 12th place EMS 4x400 team.

Jalen Sekhon - 17th in 3000M, and 19th in 1500M after spikes were stolen.

Conor Niwinski - 18th place in Triple Jump.

Rachel Cho - 21st place in Steeplechase

Brandon Figeuroa made the 1500M finals but did not finish race.

I feel that the age graded performance of the meet was Ben Ingvaldson winning Senior Men's Shot put

at the age of 15!!!  Ben was considering throwing in the Grade 8/9 division but bravely took up the challenge to throw with the big boys with modest expectations.  Ben will have 3 more years at this meet, and never, ever again have modest expectations.  This has only ever been achieved once before by Dylan Armstrong.

Jim

Ocean Athletics