The Walnut Grove Gators won a handful of titles at last week’s Fraser Valley track and field championships.
The Gators won the Grade 8 girls banner, the Grade 8 overall title and the senior girls’ title at the three-day meet at the Coquitlam Town Centre Stadium. They were also tops among all the Valley schools in medal count, finishing with 10 gold, nine silver and 11 bronze medals.
The Brookswood Bobcats captured five gold, two silver and a bronze, while Langley Fundamental won five gold and a bronze.
Langley Christian finished with three gold, two silver and a bronze and the Langley Saints had two gold, a silver and a bronze.
Credo Christian won one gold and D.W. Poppy had one bronze.
Walnut Grove
Martin Allen bronze 400m (Grade 8)
Robyn Buckingham gold high jump, 80m hurdles, silver long jump (Grade 8)
Allison Evans bronze long jump (junior)
Samantha Gillis bronze 1500m steeplechase (senior)
Keara Graham gold 80m hurdles, 300m hurdles, silver triple jump (junior)
Rebecca Lindsay silver 400m (Grade 8)
Ben Marshall gold 110m hurdles (junior)
Megan Notting bronze 300m hurdles (junior)
Simone Perrie bronze 200m (Grade 8)
Andrea Robinson silver 400m hurdles, bronze 100m hurdles (senior)
Emma Smithson bronze high jump (Grade 8)
Shelby Smithson gold high jump (senior)
Cyrena Timmins bronze triple jump (Grade 8)
Jade Vaughan gold 400m hurdles, silver 400m (senior)
Trevor Whiton silver 110m hurdles (junior)
Alex Wilkinson bronze long jump (Grade 8)
Ethan Wilkinson gold 400m (junior)
Ashley Windsor silver 1500m, bronze 800m (senior)
Julia Wright bronze javelin (Grade 8)
The Gators also won both the junior girls (Allison Evans, Dallas Tilley, Kaila Pickering and Megan Notting) and senior girls (Andrea Robinson, Ashley Windsor, Meg Harradine and Jade Vaughan) 4×400 relay races.
Walnut Grove’s Grade 8 girls’ captured silver in both the 4×100 (Emma Smithson, Simone Perrie, Robyn Buckingham and Rebecca Lindsay) and 4×400 (Perrie, Lindsay, Chelsey Bone and Cyrena Timmins) races.
The school’s Grade 8 boys (Jason Kimoto, Martin Allen, Connor Borrowdale and Alex Wilkinson) won bronze in the Grade 8 4×400 relay.
Gary LUTES/Walnut Grove Secondary School
Above: Walnut Grove’s Robyn Buckingham clears a hurdle during the Grade 8 girls’ 80m race, in which she won gold. The medal was one of three she won at the Fraser Valley track and field championships at Coquitlam’s Town Centre Stadium last week.
Brookswood
Allison Giesbrecht gold long jump (junior)
Justin Dahlman bronze shot put (senior)
Joel Lutz gold high jump (junior)
Adam Osborne gold pole vault, silver 110m hurdles (senior)
Carolyn Sutherland gold long jump, silver 100m (senior)
Jennifer Doan, Sydney Williams, Allison Giesbrecht and Carolyn Sutherland won gold in the 4×100 senior relay.
Langley Fundamental
Jacob Houlton gold pole vault, long jump (junior)
Jude Klassen gold 400m (Grade 8)
Jesse Lynch gold 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles (senior)
Grant Nataros bronze 3000m (Grade 8).
Langley Christian
Eli Kastelein gold 300m hurdles, silver 400m, bronze 800 (junior)
Alvin Los gold high jump (senior)
Amaris Reimer silver 80m hurdles (junior)
Aidan Kits, Travis Edgar, Mark Antoniuk and Eli Kastelein won gold in the 4×400 junior boys relay.
Langley Secondary
Georgia Ellenwood gold high jump, 100m hurdles, silver long jump (senior)
Stuart Ellenwood bronze 400m (senior).
Credo Christian
Trevor Van Delft gold triple jump (senior).
D.W. Poppy
Michael Miller bronze 1500m race walk (junior).
