West Vancouver secondary raced away with a pair of team medals at the cross country running provincial championships held in Langley's Aldergrove Park Nov. 2, including a championship win from the junior boys squad.
The juniors won in emphatic style, placing five runners in the top 35 in a field of nearly 250 boys with Malcolm Southerland leading the way with an eighth place finish. The Highlander juniors notched a combined score of 45 - calculated by adding up the finishing rank of the team's top four racers - to easily beat second place St. George's at 89 and third place Sardis at 118.
"The junior boys team was the most prepared team I have ever brought to the provincials and they destroyed the competition," said Highlanders head coach Colin Dignum. "It was a complete team victory."
Other racers on the team included Miles Dignum, Grady Huskisson, Gabe Wilson, Ryan Fonseca and Fabian Brensing. The win was the first provincial title for any West Vancouver boys sports team since 1998, said Dignum.
The school's other medal was racked up by the senior girls who finished third in the team competition behind West Point Grey Academy and Oak Bay secondary. The team was made up of Nicole Dye, Emily Handford, Megan Roxby, Franzi Krichhoff, Katrianna Skulsky, Maia Blomberg and Johanna Watson.
Seycove secondary, a smaller AA school and this year's North Shore championship winner, also showed well at the provincial championships with seventh place finishes in the senior boys, senior girls and junior girls team competitions.
