As we move from our Cross Country season, which finished up this past weekend with the BC School Sports Provincial Championships, towards our upcoming winter training session and indoor track season, I just wanted to congratulate all of our athletes and families for a fantastic start to our year. We, once again, have a young and growing group with a mixture of more seasoned athletes, and I was so proud of the development I saw throughout the whole group. On the past weekend, we had 19 athletes from our group who qualified to represent the East Fraser Valley at the Provincial Cross Country Championships, and this in itself was a fantastic accomplishment. Our junior athletes showed very, very strongly at provincials with some like Sebby Psihogios and Lyla Teer moving up into the top 15, and we are looking forward to great things from this young group in the future.
Our senior athletes continued to shine, with Taron Kang running a huge personal best to become the Single A Senior Boys Provincial Champion, as well as Jayda Tielmann taking the Single A Provincial Championships silver medal. William Steiger came up with a huge race to place 15th in the province, and Norah Guynup continued to step it up with a 25th position finish at the provincial level. Lucy Orr, despite battling injuries, came up with a big 34th position finish, and Tegan Setter and Kamora Piper both came up with huge personal best performances to finish 69th and 72nd out of 193 girls in their race.
Each and every athlete who represented us at the Provincial Championships and competed throughout the fall Cross Country season worked hard, made big gains, and represented us with distinction. You should all be so very proud of your accomplishments. – Coach Scott
