Several athletes from Quesnel traveled to Nanaimo to participate in the 2014 B.C Summer Games, July 17 – 20.
This event gave athletes from all across B.C. a chance to compete in one of the 19 different sporting events offered. Quesnel’s athletes were competing for zone eight, the Cariboo-North East.
In athletics, Nicolas Berlinguette, Braedon Smith and Joshua Muir raced to sixth place in the Boys 4x400m Relay.
Racing in for sixth place in the Girls 4x100m Relay are Hannah Doucette and Katie Young, teaming up with two Prince George athletes for the event.
Zone eight took home a bronze in the Girls 4x400m Relay with the help of Quesnel athletes Avery Drew and Olivia Baptiste.
Along with the relay races several of Quesnel’s athletes took part in individual events. Competing in the Boys 100m race were Nicolas Berlinguette and Joshua Muir.
Katie Young participated in the Girls 100m event as well as the girls triple jump.
Olivia Baptiste and Avery Drew took part in the girls 800m and 1200m races.
Jumping into the competition was Hannah Doucette in the girls high jump and Braedon Smith in the boys long jump.
Waverrider Natasha Hanson traveled to the B.C. Summer Games to compete alongside fellow zone eight participants in the girls 4x50m relay and the girls 4x50m medley relay. Hanson also plunged into the waters for the girls 400m individual medley and the 800m freestyle event.
Quesnel baseball player Cole Gronskei teamed up with athletes from Prince George and Mackenzie to represent the Cariboo-North East.
Swinging in zone eight’s girls softball team was Carli Gibbs, teaming up with players from Prince George.
Zone eight golf saw members from Prince George, Taylor, Fort St. Johns and Quesnel compete. Kathy Gook took on the green in Nanaimo for the Games.
Quesnel athletes, brothers Burken and Kacy Giesbrecht added their skill to the zone eight boys soccer team.
Lacrosse players Dylan Cathcart, Hunter McSeveney, Jarret Moore and Tomas Reistad teamed up with Mackenzie, Williams Lake and Prince George players for the Lacrosse Box event.
Quesnel’s Lacrosse Box team took to the field for the Games, with Joshua Daniels, Keygan Harder, Aidan Jarvis, Duncan Johnston, Trenton Kishkan, Royce Maxwell, Olin Lee, Austen Voigt, Keaton Reichart, Landen Scott, Rhys Wittaker, Michael Webb, Owen Burris and Dusty Cathcart competing in the Lacrosse Field event.
The Cariboo-North East finished the games with three gold medals, seven silver and seven bronze, coming in seventh place overall.
First place winner of the 2014 B.C. Summer Games went to zone three, Fraser Valley.
