Results from 25th Jack Brow Meet
Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:17

 

 Going back over the history of our Club attending the Annual Jack Brow Memorial Meet in Kelown, we find that the number of participants from our group seems to decrease from year to year. Originally when the meet started in 1993 upwards of eighty PG Athletes would attend.

This year, our lowest entry ever of only 34 were able to attend.  Much of this is due to rising costs each year, and families or athletes choose less costly options than traveling to the Okanagan Centre for the July long weekend.

 Despite this however the competitive crew returned home with 5 Gold, 20 Silver and 15 Bronze individual and relay awards.

The top medal winner was ten  year old Keiran LeBoe who had a gold medal relay performance, and also took home 4 silver and 1 bronze individual award.  This is the second year that Keiran has won six medals at the  highly competitive meet.

Other gold medal performances came via Cassie Keeping's gold in Jr. Womens 100 Meters; Alyx Treasure's win in the Juvenile girls High Jump, a gold medal performance by Mitch Elliot in 15 year men's hammer and his  younger brother Duncan in took the gold in the 13 year boys 800 meter event.

This was the 25th consecutive year our club has attended the event. 

 
 
Harry Jerome International
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:13
Results from the Harry Jerome International Track and Field Classic held at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby On Sat. June 21'
 
Women's Invitational High Jump--Alyx Treasure PGT&F 1st place, 1.76--Natasha Miller Abbotsford Royals 2nd-1.74; Holley Parent Unattached (Victoria) 3rd., 1.71.
 
Alyx continues to turn up the heat on the older girls in the Province, by maintaining #1 position for Juveniles, Juniors and Senior Ladies High Jumper.  Just into her 16 the year , Alyx had a big time personal best at the BC High School Championships in Burnaby in early June, and in jumping 1.82 meters established a BC High School Girls record although she is only in grade 10.
She did not reach that at the Jerome however, as conditions were not favorable for her and in fact all eight girls in the High jump.  It appeared that the cross bar blended with the background of the surrounding area. and most of them found it a bit difficult to interpret and were crashing the bar.  Alyx and Natasha were the last two in the competition and had to have a jump off, and Alyx eventually prevailed.  Her next event will be the Jack Brow Memorial meet in Kelowna-June 27-29.
 
Another Prince George athlete, 1500 meter specialist Geoff Martinson had a very rewarding week.  Running in an International event in Victoria on Thursday June 19, he set a personal best mark in the Km and a half event with a time of 3.43.  However that PB was short lived as in the Jerome meet, he got into a very fast field of future and past Olympic runners, and took advantage of every stride.  Sticking with the pack, Geoff's efforts paid off by knocking another 3 second of his personal best of Thursday, and dropped below the 3.40 mark with a clocking of 3.39.21.
Although he was 8th in the field, any of 5 of the runners grouped closely at the finish where in a position to grab a medal had they not ran out of distance. 
This is exceedingly good for Geoff who will be running in the Canadian Olympic trials in Windsor ON., on July 5.
After that Geoff and a number of his colleagues will be off to Europe to run in several events.  Now that he is on a high, Geoff is in a position to make major strides this summer.
 
 
Treasure sets high jump record
Sunday, 01 June 2008 00:00

Alyx Treasure keeps rising to challenges. And the records? They keep falling. Even though she’s only in Grade 10, Treasure is the new B.C. high school champion and record-holder in girls high jump.

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Provincial Awards
Monday, 04 February 2008 11:40

Two Club Members have recently recieved top Provincial Awards in the "Jump's" catagory at the recent annual awards banquet and presentations in Richmond BC.  In the age 15 (2007) catagory, both Alyxandria Treasure and Ismael Karidio, were awarded  BC Athletics plaques  for their outstanding performances in 2007.

Alyx won ever BC Athletics Competition she entered throughout the season. After capturing first place in the Spruce Capital meet, she was registered in the BC Junior (18/19) catagory at the Provincial Junior Senior meet in Kamloops in late June with a jump of 1.95meters.  This gave her the 2007 Junior Provincial top HJ Award. The following weekend,  at the Jack Brow Invitational event in Kelowna she again place first with a leap of 1.76 meters.  Then one week following Kelowna, She jumped 1.74 at the Provincial Midget (15 yr.) Championships. This jump also eclipsed the top Juvenile (16/17) jumper in the same meet.

At the Legion National Championships in Oromocto New Brunswick in Mid-August she again went 1.76 meters for a new Legion National (15 yr., female) record.  She narrowly missed 1.80m in that competition.  As well she took the Triple Jump gold at Provincials and silver at the Legion meet.  Alyx also won abronze medal by anchoring the BC girls 4x100 meters also at Legion Nationals.

Ismael, following a slow start to his year came on strong with a gold Medal performance at the Jack Brow Meet, then in a super performance at the Provincials in Nanimo increase his personal best to 1.84 meters, for BC Gold. This performance also got him to the Legion Nationals in NB., where on avery hot day (35C) he jumped 1.83 meters for 4th place.

These two athletes along with 14 year old Race Walker  Kevin Gaiesky recieved top recognition in BC for 2007. 

 
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