• Georgia Ellenwood wins four gold medals — with personal bests in all four events — at the B.C. high school track and field championships. The Langley Secondary student is also named the meet’s most outstanding female performer. Ellenwood wins gold in the high jump, long jump, 100m hurdles and the heptathlon.
Ellenwood’s efforts singlehandedly help the Saints place third in the girls’ team standings with 40 points, just six back of second-place Walnut Grove, who score 46 points.
Also at the high school championships, Langley Christian’s Alvin Los and Walnut Grove’s Jade Vaughan both win gold in the high jump and 400m hurdles events, respectively.
Other medals included:
Jesse Lynch (Langley Fundamental) winning silver in the 110m and 400m hurdles.
Shelby Smithson (Walnut Grove) wins silver in the high jump and bronze in the heptathlon.
Carolyn Sutherland (Brookswood) wins silver in the long jump.
Adam Osborne (Brookswood) wins silver in the pole vault.
Brookswood’s Sydney Williams, Allison Giesbrecht, Carolyn Sutherland and Jennifer Doan wins silver in the 4×100 relay.
Walnut Grove’s Meg Harradine, Jade Vaughan, Andrea Robinson and Ashley Windsor wins silver in the 4×400 relay.
• Three members of the Langley Blaze baseball program are selected in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft. Pitcher Tom Robson is chosen in the fourth round by the Toronto Blue Jays, while Dustin Houle goes in round eight to the Milwaukee Brewers. Justin Atkinson is taken by the Jays in the 26th round.
• Brandon Kaye signed a free agent contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, joining the MLB club’s Single A affiliate Vancouver Canadians. The Walnut Grove graduate pitched for the UBC Thunderbirds.
• Langley is announced as the host for the Canadian Legion national youth track and field championships. The Games will be contested at McLeod Park in August 2013 and 2014.
• Debbie Brill, who once competed for the Langley Mustangs Track and Field Club, is inducted into the Athletics Canada Hall of Fame. Brill was the first Canadian female high jumper to clear six feet and she still holds both the indoor and outdoor records for her sport.
• Three Valley Ball Hockey Association teams medal at the provincial championships. The junior team wins silver, while both the Snipers (Pup) and Vipers (Majors) take bronze.
