Thirty-one track athletes from R.D. Parker Collegiate will be competing at the high school track and field provincials June 4-6 in Winnipeg after finishing in the top three in their events at the Zone 11 track championships in The Pas May 22-23.
RDPC finished second in the race for the overall banner to Hapnot Collegiate Institute of Flin Flon but all but six of the Trojans’ athletes qualified to extend their season.
Twelve relay teams advanced to provincials including the junior girls’ 4x100-metre team of Blair Bodie, Jenna Horvath, Taylor House and Zoe O’Callaghan, three of whose members – Bodie, O’Callaghan and House – were also members of the first-place winning 4x400-metre team along with Karly Kraychuk. Bodie, Horvath, O’Callaghan and Kraychuk also won the junior girls medley relay. Other junior girls’ relay teams advancing to provincials included the team of Brieanne Bruneau, Kali Cummings, Magan Griffin and Taylor Watson, which finished third in the 4x100-metre event, and Kaitlyn Van De Kerckhove, House, Griffin and Gillian Larocque, who were third in the medley relay.
Four varsity girls’ relay teams also finished in the top three at zones with three of them taking first place. Vatineh Magaji, Harmony McKenzie-Sinclair, Adrianna Proulx and Kerri-Ann Sweeny were the 4x100-metre event winners, with McKenzie-Sinclair, Sweeny, Aubrey Queen and Carly Peterson taking top spot in the 4x400-metre race, in which the team of Janis Bittern, Larissa Einarson, Lindsay Fortin and Jaida Jacobson finished third. Sweeny, Paterson, Magaji and Queen were the winners of the varsity girls’ medley relay.
Boys’ relay teams moving on to provincials include Brayden Dudley, Jack Kennedy, Jashan Sandhu and Tyson Mosiondz, who won the junior boys’ 4x100-metre relay, along with Dudley, Mosiondz, Brandon Eveleigh and Kendal Plante, who were first in the junior boys’ 4x400-metre event. Mosiondz, Dudley, Sandhu and Plante were second in the junior boys’ medley relay.
Individual qualifiers included Nick Convery, who was second in the varsity boys’ triple jump and is the only male varsity athlete from RDPC moving on to provincials, as well as Kennedy, who won the junior boys’ 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres. Plante won the junior boys’ javelin event and was third in the 3,000 metres, while Sandhu was first in the junior boys’ triple jump and third in the 100 metres. Other junior boys who advanced to provincials were Dudley (second in long jump), Eveleigh (second in 400 metres), Mosiondz (second in 200 metres) and Eric Olson (third in shot put).
First-place finishers among RDPC’s varsity girls’ athletes included Magaji, who was first in hurdles and the 100 metres, McKenzie-Sinclair, who won the long jump, Adrianna Proulx, who was first in the 200 metres, high jump and javelin competitions, as well as Queen, who won the 1,500-metre race. Jacobson was third in the triple jump, while Paterson was second in the 200 metres and Sweeny was third in the 100-metre event.
RDPC had seven first-place finishes in junior girls’ events, with Jonna McDonald finishing first in shot put and discus while Kraychuk was first in the 400 metres and 800 metres. Griffin won the high jump, Horvath won the 200 metres and was second in the 100 metres, and Watson was first in the tetrathlon, as well as in each of the four individual events within it – 100 metres, 800 metres, long jump and shot put. Bodie was second in the 400 metres, Bruneau third in the high jump, Cummings second in the triple jump and third in the long jump, Kya Houle second in shot put, Larocque third in the 800 metres and O’Callaghan second in long jump.
