North Shore athletes helped Team British Columbia come out on top at the Western Canada Summer Games held last month in Wood Buffalo, Alta.
B.C. finished the two-week, multisport event with 225 game points, topping second-place Alberta's 192 points and third-place Manitoba's 167 points.
One of the most prolific athletes at the Games was West Vancouver cyclist Emily Handford who racked up five medals, including three golds. Handford reached the top of the podium in the mountain bike race, mountain bike eliminator and the general classification race while claiming silver in the road race and bronze in the time trial.
Other individual gold medals went to wrestlers Amara Jarvinen in the 65-kilogram class and Lyric Atchison in the 69-kg division.
North Shore players also suited up on several golden teams, including William DeCooman III in men's baseball, Jamie Foot and Teagan MacKay in women's soccer, Lane Messier in men's team artistic gymnastics and coach Dan Huzar with the women's volleyball team. Childhood friends Sam Bailey and Michael Kelly teamed up to help B.C. win gold in men's basketball.
Dylan Defer scored silver with the men's soccer team while Madison Legault won bronze with the women's basketball team and Sasha Gorchanyuk claimed bronze in women's tennis singles.
Three North Shore bowlers helped Team B.C. claim medals at the 2015 Canadian Lawn Bowls Championships held recently in North York, Ont.
North Vancouver's Jenny Sui teamed with Shirley Lai and Gigi Chan to win silver in the women's triples competition.
The B.C. squad came agonizing close to gold, losing to Ontario 15-14 in the championship final.
On the men's side North Vancouver's Steven Santana and West Vancouver's Tim Mason teamed with Derek Kaufman of Comox and Joe Hunt of Coquitlam to finish third in the fours competition, defeating Ontario 18-11 in the bronzemedal match.
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