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2012 JD Training begins Jan. 7th

oceanathletics — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:28:11 +0000

Training 2012 will begin January 7th for the JD group (14 and under). Meet at the track at 10AM as usual.

Vote for Sportsnet Athlete of the year

oceanathletics — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:28:09 +0000

Please support the nomination of Dylan Armstrong - one the worlds best shot putters & from Kamloops. Please follow the link and vote. Lets get a track and field athlete winning this award. mo

Sportsnet Athlete of the Year – Vote for Dylan Armstrong

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BC Cross Country Championships

oceanathletics — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:03:31 +0000

Ocean Results at the BC Cross Country Championships – October 29^th in Aldergrove

Congratulations to our 3 BC Champions:
Cayla Smith – 10 year old Girls Gold Medalist
Michael Milic – 13 ear old Boys Gold Medalist
Chelsea Ribeiro – 14 year old Girls Gold Medalist

We also had these 6 Ocean Athletics medalists:

Hannah Milic – 10 year old Girls Silver
Danielle Steer – 12 year old Girls Silver
Dawson Ribeiro – 12 year old Boys Bronze
Melanie Oster – Youth Women Silver
Peggy Noel – Junior Women Bronze (qualified for Team BC)
Deon Clifford – Junior Men Silver (qualified for Team BC)

Masters:
Maureen de St. Croix – 1^st in category
Debbie Jordan – 1^st in category

Great day of running for all of our athletes and a well run event by Ocean Athletics, thanks to all of our volunteers.
Jim

5 Gold medals for Danielle Steer at BC JD Championships

oceanathletics — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:52:44 +0000

Danielle Steer (12) lead the way with 5 individual Gold (200m, 300m, 800m, 1200m 200mH), 1 Silver (relay) and 1 Bronze (80mH) at the 2011 Junior Development Championships with several results in BC's all time top ten. A little jetlag didn't bother Cayla Smith (10) as she won Gold in 600m and 1000m as well as Bronze in both the 60m and 100m events. Hot dry weather resulted in several Ocean athletes being hampered by blisters but it didn't slow them down. Raquel Pinto (12) won Silver in the 100m and Bronze in the long jump.

Rori Denness (10) won Gold for her Javelin event, Gold in Discus and Bronze in 800m Racewalk. Raegan Saint-Onge (10) picked up Bronze in High Jump to match Jolden Boparai's (13) Bronze in the 2000m event. Aaryanna Kurucz (11) won Silver in her 80mH event before being forced to retire with a hip flexor injury.

New member, Bryan Niwinski to Ocean Athletics impressed his coaches with a very close 4th place in 100m and a Bronze in the long jump.

Silver medal was awarded to our 4x100m relay team (12s) of Danielle Steer, Hope Steeves, Brooke Trainor and Raquel Pinto.

A very special thanks to Michael Butler who made the trek to Kamloops to be our club's volunteer help at the meet so that Coaches and parents were free. Michael is pursuing his officials certification levels and is now certified at level 2 and working on level 3.

Full Ocean Athletics filtered results can be viewed here, full overall results will be available on the Kamloops Track & Field Club's website shortly.

4 Ocean Athletes selected to BC Team to Legion Championships

oceanathletics — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:37:30 +0000

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been selected to represent BC at the Canadian Legion Championships (2 categories 15 and 16-17 year olds) in Ottawa Ontario.

Deon Clifford (2000m Steeplechase), Ben Ingvaldson (throws), Alison Williams (800m) and Jordan Watson (High Jump).

Representing Ocean Athletics will be Sarah Korpach (300m hurdles), Meghan Palesch (300m hurdles) and Peggy Noel (800m and 1500m).

BC Club Championships Midget, Youth, Junior, Senior

oceanathletics — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:21:23 +0000

The BC Track and field championships for Ages 14+ were held in Coquitlam last week-end under cool and sometimes rainy conditions.

A few major spots of sunshine came through in the form of Ben Ingvaldson who surpassed 50 Metres in both Midget boys Hammer (Gold) and Discus (Silver) to earn his spot on Team BC going to Legions in August. Deon Clifford was a double Gold winner in the Juvenile division 1500 Metres and Steeplechase, both runs were in standard to earn him a spot on Team B.C. and in the final races of the week-end 800 Metre champion Alison Williams had a solid run to secure her 2^nd consecutive Team BC uniform. These 3 are expected to be officially selected this week and head off to Ottawa, Ontario August 3^rd to take on the best in Canada. Very close to making the team were Jordan Watson who won Juvenile Men’s High Jump Gold with a 1.90m leap when he needed a 1.91m standard (meet organizers should have planned the increment schedule properly), Peggy Noel (double Medalist in Juvenile Women’s middle distances) who has also made 99.5% of standard in the 1500M and Meghan Palesch who won the Juvenile Women’s 300M Hurdles in a triumphant return from injury in the last month of this season, but she was a second over the required standard.

Other medalists from the week-end included:

Luc Bruchet, Senior Men’s 800M Silver in a new club record 1:50.92

Jake Hanna, Midget 14 - 200M Hurdles Gold and 300M Silver.

Chelsea Ribeiro, Midget 14 – Double Gold in 1200M and 2000M

Lexie Reimer, Midget 14 100M Silver and 200

Ryan Sommer, Junior Men’s Discus Silver

Hunter Walkow, Midget 15 200M Bronze

Delling Ingvaldson, Junior Men’s Shot put, Discus and Javelin Bronze

Joe Walkow 200M PB

Richard Roberts 300M 4^th place in a PB

Sarah Korpach in all 3 of her events, led by a 2:24 800M

Reta Dobie 1500M

Jake Bruchet 1500M

Jack Williams 800M in 1:54.92, 2nd best in club history.

Deon selected to represent Canada at World Youth Championships

oceanathletics — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:12:37 +0000

Athletics Canada announced that Deon Clifford is selected to the National Team representing Canada at the 2011 IAAF World Youth Championships. The Championships will take place in Lille France on July 6-10.

Ocean Athletes on BC Team to U19 Canadian Championships

oceanathletics — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:07:54 +0000

Competing at the Canadian Championships July 7^th - 10^th in Winnipeg, Age 19 and under. (born 1992 or later)

Jack Williams – 1500M, qualified with his blazing 3:53 at the BC High School Meet

Jake Bruchet – 3000M Steeplechase, qualified in Coquitlam June 11^th with a seasonal best 6:05.

Ryan Sommer – Discus, qualified in Coquitlam June 11^th with a seasonal best 50M (heaver than HS implement 1.75Kg)

Del Ingvaldson – Discus 49M and Shot put 12.82m, qualified in Coquitlam June 11^th in his first meet in 2 years, just returning from Knee injury.

Jack and Jake train together with Deon and coach Lynn Kanuka. Ryan and Del train together with Throws coach Fred Sommer.

Jack, Jake and Ryan are all South Surrey residents, and Del lives in Cloverdale.

The National championships also serve as a selection meet for the Pan Am Junior Championships this year.

Grade 8 and 9 division of the BC HS Invitational Meet

oceanathletics — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:34:28 +0000

The Grade 8 and 9 division of the BC HS Meet is certainly one of the most exciting of the year for our athletes this age because of the excellent competition and the large and noisy cheering crowds. Many of our athletes ran, jumped or threw personal best performances, and we were led by Ben Ingvaldson who won Discus Bronze and was also Top 8 in Shot put.

Other Ocean Top 8 performers;

Chelsea Ribeiro in 1500M and 3000M, Brandon Figueroa in 800M and 1500M, Jake Hanna in 400M, Liam McKay in 800M, and Sarah Korpach in 400M.

Lexy Reimer was Top 10 in the 100M and 200M, Sydney Roach was Top 20 in the Hurdles and 400M, Richard Roberts was Top 20 in 400M and Long Jump, Hunter Walkow was Top 10 in High Jump.

Congratulations to all of our athletes on a great experience and fantastic results.

BC High School Championships

oceanathletics — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:39:23 +0000

It was another great Provincial champs for our athletes with many Personal Best marks, Top 8 finishes and highlighted with 6 medals, mostly Silver. For the 4^th consecutive year, the Men’s 3000M champion was an Ocean Athletics runner;
Jack Williams won the Gold, in control all of the way, he dominated the sprint to the finish with a 55s last lap to stop the clock at 8:45.39. Jack also won 1500M Silver with a smoking 3:53.08 to prove this future Thunderbird is already at a collegiate level.
The sunshine was out, and it felt like Sommer time this weekend, Ryan Sommer that is.
Ryan had a 6^th round PB in Discus, winning Silver with that 52.71m toss that was just 2 Meters shy of Dylan Armstrong’s BCHS record!
he continued to pour on the points with Shot put Bronze, a 14.14m heave and also a Hammer PB of 46.67m for 4^th.

Jake Bruchet wins Silver in the 2000M Steeplechase with a 6:10.37 clocking.

Ryan and Jake helped Elgin Park make the Male Top 10 points list.
Alison Williams ran a Seasonal Best to get 800M Silver in 2:15.85

Alison and Emma Scott were busy in the relays, helping Semiahmoo to 5^th place finishes in both the 4x100M and 4x400M.

Deon Clifford had 2 PB’s in the 1500M placing 6th in 3:56.11 and 4th in 3000M with 8:47.63 and anchored his EMS 4x400M relay team to 5th place in 3:34.31 along with Chase Lawler, they helped Earl Marriott to finish #4 in the Grand Aggregate.
Peggy Noel was very close to her PBs in the 1500M where she placed 5^th and Steeplechase, where she was 7^th.
Reta Dobie was very busy, helping Elgin Park with points by placing 7th in HJ with a PB 1.55m jump. She also ran 15th in the 1500M and 11th in 1500M Steeplechase.

Max Hanna was 9th in Javelin with a 45.43m toss, narrowly missing the final 8.

Erin Slade ran the 800M in 10^th place, her solid run of 2:21.38 just missed qualifying for the finals.
Colleen Butler had a good Race-walk, timing 9:06.41 for 11th.

Johnny Zacharuk was 14th in Discus with a 30.55m throw.
Steven Saito was 15th in Decathlon with a score of 3817 points.

Melanie Oster had a 3000M PB of 11:05.35 for 16^th.
Joe Walkow ran a 400M PB in 54.44s.

Full results can be seen here;

http://www.bcsscctfa.bc.ca/results2011.html

Highlights of the Grade 8/9 Division coming soon.

Jim

Ocean Athletics