Six North Shore-based players were among the nine members of the North Shore Winter Club Winterhawks bantam team to get picked in the 2015 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft held May 7 in Calgary.
Flying highest was North Vancouver's Jackson Leppard, a forward who racked up 89 points in 63 games with the Winterhawks this season as the team scored its second straight Western Canadian Bantam Championship. Leppard went eighth overall to the Prince George Cougars. North Vancouver defenceman Ethan Cap rounded out the first-round selections, going 11th overall to the Edmonton Oil Kings. Cap posted 45 points in 64 games this season. West Vancouver's Jack Sheppard went with the first pick of the second round, 23rd overall to the Kamloops Blazers. North
Vancouver's Jonas Harkins also cracked the second round, going 29th overall to Prince George.
The other North Shore natives earning nods from the Winterhawks squad included Donovan Buskey who went 53rd overall to Spokane and Liam Kindree who was picked 87th overall by the Kelowna Rockets.
West Vancouver's Janet McLachlan was named Female Athlete of the Year at the Wheelchair Basketball Canada awards banquet held in Scarborough, Ont., last month.
McLachlan played a central role for the women's national team that claimed gold at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championships held in Toronto. McLachlan led all players in rebounding at the world championships and finished second overall in points and third in average points per game.
