NORTH Shore athletes played a huge part in helping Zone 5 Vancouver-Squamish to the second highest medal total and the highest gold total at the B.C. Winter Games held Feb. 23-26 in Vernon.
Alpine skier Frances MacDonald lead the way with two individual golds and one bronze while cross-country skier Katie Weaver scored individual gold and silver medals while also grabbing gold in a relay. Badminton player Alexandra Towhill also took home two golds, winning in doubles female as well as mixed team competition. Here is a list of the medal winners from North Vancouver and West Vancouver as posted on the games website www. bcgames.org.:
Gold
- Kayla Oxland: figure skating juvenile women.
- Alexander Ponomarev: karate individual kumite boys 55 kg+
- Frances MacDonald: alpine skiing slalom female
- Frances MacDonald: ski cross female
- Katie Fleckenstein: alpine skiing giant slalom female
- Cameron Fitzmaurice: cross-country skiing individual sprint 400-m midget boys
- Katie Weaver: crosscountry skiing individual sprint 400-m juvenile girls
- Katie Weaver: crosscountry skiing 4x2 km mixed relay
- Brendan Wise: karate team kata male
- Alexandra Towill: badminton doubles female
- Alexandra Towill and Alec Cumming: badminton team mixed Silver
- Anna Gosney: alpine skiing giant slalom female
- Katie Weaver: cross-country skiing individual start 5 km juvenile girls
- Daniel Pyk: judo under-55 kg male
- Ella Renzoni: alpine skiing slalom female
- Ella Renzoni: ski cross female
- Cameron Fitzmaurice: cross-country skiing individual start 3.5 km midget boys
- Dot Forder: cross-country skiing individual start 3.5 km midget girls
- Alexandria Angus, Emily Hirst, Kerryanne Callahan and Angela Walker: team gymnastics female
- Marielle Caruth, Montana Conrad, Emma Currie, Mika Embury, Danielle Hardy, Jenna Hewitt-Kenda, Annie Mossman, Rachel Raffard, Leona Sim, Natalie Stanwood, Tianna Tanaka, Cassandra Wakefield, Kiana Watson, Danielle Wierenga: hockey female
- Isabel Rose Gallant and Alesi Marina Davies: karate team kata female Bronze
- Frances MacDonald: alpine skiing giant slalom female
- Kyle Alexander: ski cross male
- Isabel Rose Gallant: karate individual kata female
- Dot Forder: cross-country skiing individual sprint 400-m midget girls
- Morgan Won and Maxim Langlais: curling male
- Brendan Wise: karate team kumite male