Several North Shore athletes returned home from the B.C. Winter Games in Penticton with their bags a few grams heavier after helping Zone 5 Vancouver-Coastal to a second place finish in the medal standings.
The closing ceremonies wrapped up the three-day sporting display on Feb. 28 at the South Okanagan Events Centre. Here’s a rundown of North Shore medal winners as listed at bcgames.org.
On the ski hill it was Skye Clarke from West Vancouver who dominated the youth female categories, winning gold in the freestyle big air and combined runs, and silver in the slope style and moguls. Ethan Shandro placed second in his slalom single run and third in the slalom 2 run. Benjamin Lynch showed off in the freestyle youth big air skiing event and won the silver medal for his high flying skill. Grace McCusker helped her team sweep into second place for the female curling event.
Making a splash in the pool in girls’ C group diving (ages 12 and 13), Sadie Howard won gold in both the one metre and three metre, Veronica Fong earned bronze in three metre, and Morgan Dalgarno won bronze and silver in the one metre and three metre, respectively. From the girls’ B group (ages 14 and 15), Alison Komlos won silver in one and three metre and Maggie Osieja placed third on both boards. The podium for the one-metre mixed synchronized dives was filled with familiar faces; Howard and Komlos won gold, Osieja and her partner Jesse Nowotny from the Fraser Valley took silver, and bronze went to Olivia Brennan and Sarah Morbey, both from North Vancouver.
From the female netball team, Emily Hodgins, Anne Marie, Ansley and Angela Wieck, Nikki Sutton-MacGregor, Jacqueline Kelly and Louise Steinberg brought home gold medals.
The special Olympic basketball team also placed first with Zachary Klein, Pierce Burns, DJ Gilbert, Nick Kellof, Jimmy Peterson, Steve Schoeller, Sangeon Yoo, Kendrick Lim and Tyrone Liebenberg all returning to North Vancouver from the top of the podium.
Representing West Vancouver, Alexis Romero grabbed third place in the female gymnastics team competition.
In badminton, Juliet Emlyn took first place for doubles girls. Jerry Wan earned second place in boy’s doubles and Stella Seo walked away with a silver medal as well in doubles mixed. All of the players won second place playing in the teams mixed category.
The flag has officially been passed to Abbotsford for the 2016 Summer Games, which will be started off with the torch lighting ceremony on April 13. Events run from July 21 to 24.
