Nanaimo’s Shima Karate School will have have high hopes at provincials after positive playoff results.
The school hosted the zone championships Sunday at Dover Bay Secondary School. The event was a qualifier for provincials in Richmond in the spring.
Forty athletes from Shima combined to win 73 medals. Results include:
Seven-and-under boys – Simon Francis, first, sparring, third, forms; Adam Welch, third, sparring.
Eight-nine-year-old boys – Joshua Darmadi, second, forms, third, sparring, third, weapons; Soma Love, first, forms, second, sparring; Jaiden King, second, forms, first, sparring; Levi Ronkatainen, third, sparring.
10-11-year-old boys – Corin Cooper, first, forms, first, sparring, first, weapons; Coen Francis, first, forms, first, weapons; Tristan Billington, second forms, first, sparring; Isaiah Rigg, third, forms, second, sparring; Joel Bilyk, first, sparring; Jordan Khakh, third, sparring.
12-13-year-old boys – Levi Thomas, first, forms, first, sparring; Joshua Colonna, second, forms; Evan Milne, first, forms, third, sparring; Zahnil Lal, first, sparring.
14-15-year-old boys – James winter, third, forms, first, sparring.
16-17-year-old boys – Emlyn Folkes, third, forms, first, sparring; Matthew Landry, first, forms, first, sparring.
18-20-year-old men – Scott Zmaeff, first, forms, first, weapons.
10-13-year-old mixed – Liam Surry, second, weapons, third, team forms; Amelia Cooper, second, team forms; Corin Cooper, second, team forms; Hannah Darmadi, second, team forms; Coen Francis, third, team forms; Christina Craig, third, team forms.
Eight-nine-year-old girls – Jade Fearn, second, forms, second, sparring; Aurora Surry, second, forms/
10-11-year-old girls – Hannah Darmadi, first, forms, third, sparring, first, weapons; Amelia Cooper, third, forms, second, sparring; Claire Bilyk, first, forms, second, sparring; Mackenzie Khakh, second, forms, first, sparring.
12-13-year-old girls – Olivia Vallee, second, forms, first, sparring; Samantha Wolff, third, forms, third, sparring; Morgan Burke, second, sparring; Octavia Jurczyk, second, sparring.
14-15-year-old girls – Rebecca Evenson, third, forms, second, sparring.
16-17-year-old girls – Bernadette Alvarez, first, forms, third, sparring; Leticia Lethbridge, first, forms, second, sparring.
17-and-under women – Christina Craig, second, weapons.
18-20-year-old women – Bernadette Alvarez, first, sparring.
Men’s – Scott Zmaeff, second, forms; Devon McBeth, first, forms, first, sparring.
Women’s – Bernadette Alvarez, second, forms, first, sparring.
Masters men’s – Richard Cooper, first, forms, first, sparring.
