2,220 participants from across BC will attend the Games (1,534 athletes, 363 coaches, and 214 officials)

Competition will be held in 18 sports

Age range: The youngest possible athletes will be 9 years old in Figure Skating, and the oldest

possible able bodied athletes will be 17 years old in Hockey – Female and Netball.

Athletes with a disability will range in age from 13 to 40 and will compete in Basketball –

Wheelchair, Basketball – Special Olympics, Skiing – Alpine (Para), and Skiing – Cross Country (Para).

Mission 2014 BC Winter Games

• February 20 – 23, 2014 • 27th BC Winter Games

Major Games Events

• Opening Ceremony – Thursday, February 20

• Competitions – Friday, February 21 – noon Sunday, February 23 • Closing Ceremony – Sunday, February 23

The Volunteers

• President Brian Antonson and fourteen Directors work with approximately 125 volunteer Chairs, each of whom have a committee of volunteers responsible for different operational areas of the Games

• Approximately 2,500 volunteers will be involved

  Funding

  • Base funding of $525,000 is provided by the Province of BC through the BC Games Society

  • The City of Mission is providing $45,000 cash and $50,000 in-kind services to the Games

  • School District #75 are providing classrooms as dorms for housing Games participants and facilities for sports and other events

  • Corporate Partners provide cash and in-kind services

  • Friends of the Games – local business and industry – contribute cash and in-kind services/goods

   

  Corporate Partners

  • Jazz Air

  • Global BC

  • Black Press and the Mission City Record