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, multi-sport event with 225 game points, topping second place Alberta who finished with 192 and Manitoba who finished third with 167.
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, Sam Bailey and Michael Kelly in men’s basketball, Lane Messier in men’s team artistic gymnastics and coach Dan Huzar with the women’s volleyball team.
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.
