Brendan Artley of the Collingwood Cavaliers track and field team ripped a record throw in javelin at the North Shore championships held Tuesday at Swangard Stadium. Artley’s throw of 64.66 metres smashed the old senior boys North Shore record of 61.02 m set by Hillside secondary’s Mike Parker in 1981.
Other record setters included Chatelech’s Theo Kontekakis breaking his own record in senior boys shot put; Argyle’s Kristen Schulz breaking a record set in 1999 in junior girls triple jump; Sentinel’s Rhian Paterson topping the junior girls 3,000-m mark set in 1999 and the junior girls 1,500-m steeplechase mark from 2015; Windsor’s Kristie Elliott in junior girls 300-m hurdles (2014); Sentinel’s Michelle Zhou in junior girls racewalk (2015); and Jessica Clarke of St. Thomas Aquinas in bantam girls shot put (1990). The provincial championships will be held June 2-4 in Nanaimo.
