The top high school rugby players from each team in the district were honoured as part of the Commissioner’s XV list at a banquet last week.
Commissioner’s XV:
Aldergrove — Cheye Gustafson (junior girls) and Gwyn Lewis (senior girls).
Brookswood — Elise Kluney (junior girls), Brianne Kucey (senior girls), Victor Balla (Grade 8 boys), Cody Slavik (junior boys) and Liam Murray (senior boys).
Poppy — Sage Gladiuk (Grade 8 girls), Natalie Belansky (junior girls), Megan Yakubuski (senior girls), Jack Wei (Grade 8 boys) Owen Jenkins (junior boys) and Taran Taylor (senior boys).
Stafford — True Ba Moo (Grade 8 boys).
Langley — Matthew Stephens (junior boys) and Nick Johnson (senior boys).
Mountain — Patric Cho (junior boys) and Spencer Todler (senior boys).
Walnut Grove — Jordyn Myers (junior girls), Shea Endo (senior girls) and Dean Qawasmi (senior boys).
Yorkson Creek — Grace Jung (Grade 8 girls) and Nick Lacroix (Grade 8 boys).
The 2015 District Shield winners were:
Poppy won the Gord Dennison Shield as top senior girls team while Mountain won the Art Smith Shield as the top junior boys team, and Stafford won the Marvin Foss Shield as the top Grade 8 boys team.
For the Langley Sevens Shields, Poppy teams won three of four.
The senior girls won the Frank Ellestad-David Meikle Shield, the senior boys won the Brian Hunter Shield and the Grade 8 boys won the Jim Booth Shield.
And Mountain won the Bob Panasiuk Shield as the top junior boys Sevens team.
