Vernon Christian School's Emerson Overend beat the old provincial record in the senior men's long jump at the B.C. High School Track and Field Championships June 5-7 in Langley.
However...so did seven other athletes.
Overend placed seventh overall with a leap of 6.58 metres, which broke the old provincial record of 6.54 metres set in 2015 by Alex Salvage of Walnut Grove Secondary School in Langley.
The top-eight finishers in the event were all past the former B.C. standard, led by gold medallist Nathan Roth of Terry Fox Secondary School in Port Coquitlam, who set the new mark of 6.98m.
Tofin Jacob of Coldstream's Kalamalka Lakers was ninth at 6.41m, and Stefan Schuch from VCS just missed the top-10, placing 11th with a jump of 6.41m. All three North Okanagan athletes bested their qualifying marks.
Lanelle Sawatzky of VCS came the closest of any North Okanagan athlete to making the podium in Langley. She finished fourth in the junior women's high jump, going out at 1.55m. Amy Woods from Westsyde Secondary in Kamloops won bronze at 1.60m. Jaylah Dennis from Coquitlam's Centennial Secondary set a new B.C. record of 1.75m to take gold.
Tienne Wiebe of VCS placed fifth overall in the Grade 8 women's long jump with a leap of 4.92m. Chioma Uzozie from Vancouver's York House won gold with a new B.C. record of 5.35m.
Wiebe also made the final of the Grade 8 women's 80m hurdles, placing sixth in 13.67 seconds. She was fifth in qualifying.
Mio Pelletier of Kal Secondary qualified for the Grade 8 men's 800m race with the eighth and final spot, then finished fifth in the final with a time of two minutes 12.65 seconds. Oliver Van Nostrand of Shuswap Middle School in Salmon Arm won bronze in 2:12.10.
Kaelan Zacharias of A.L. Fortune was sixth in the final of the senior men's 110m hurdles in a time of 15.69 seconds. Wiliam Flett of St. Andrew's Regional High School in Victoria took bronze at 15:26. Zacharias grabbed one of the eight spots in the final with a 15.57 run in the preliminaries.
Jacob Leyenhorst of VCS was 17th overall in 17.13 seconds.
Leyenhorst missed qualifying for the final of the senior men's 400m hurdles by only seven/one-hundredths of a second. He was ninth overall in 59.79 seconds.
Jonah Warawa from Vernon Christian finished sixth in the senior men's hammer throw with a toss of 38.49m.
Kaitlyn Anderson of Vernon's W.L. Seaton Secondary Sonics missed the final of the senior women's 200m dash by one spot, placing ninth overall in 25.91 seconds.
The Royals' Grade 8 women's 4x100m relay squad of Brynn Zuidhof, Gillian Rands, Amelia Bongalis, and Wiebe was 10th overall in 54.67 secs.
The Vernon Secondary School Panthers' senior men's 4x100m relay team of Jonah Lee, Ayden McDonald, Coby Therrien and Anderson Bicknell was 12th overall in 44.38 secs; Vernon Christian's quartet of Stefan Schuch, Overend, Nic Demiris, and Leyenhorst was 14th, finishing in 44.52 secs;
In the junior men's high jump, Kosis Linke of Kal cracked the top-15, placing 13th with a leap of 1.75m. Kingston Soper from Enderby's A.L. Fortune Falcons was 25th (1.55m).
Brody Cormier from A.L.Fortune was 11th in the senior men's 2,000m steeplechase in a time of 6 minutes 36.94 seconds.
Rebecca Sawatzky, in the senior women's high jump, placed 13th, clearing the bar at 1.45m;
Leah Funk of VCS placed 15th in the senior women's 400m hurdels in 1:14.98.
OTHER NORTH OKANAGAN RESULTS BY SCHOOLS:
A.L. FORTUNE FALCONS (ENDERBY):
Nevaeh Lutz, senior women's 400m, 31st 1 minute 11.73 seconds;
Kingston Soper, junior men's 100m, 29th, 12.30 seconds; junior men's 200m, 24th, 24.72 secs;
Kayden Loewen, senior men's 400m hurdles, 18th 1:04.89; senior men's triple jump, 16th, 11.96m;
Kaelan Zacharias, senior men's shot put, 11.46m;
Brody Cormier, senior men's 800m, 23rd, 2:06.72;
Shaden Cormier, junior men's 300m hurdles, 22nd, 45.59 seconds.
Shaden Cormier, David Aylard, Duke Reynolds, Evan Nicholls, junior men's 4x400m relay, 28th, 3:57.57;
Tristan Fergus, Brody Cormier, Soper, Loewen, junior men's 4x400m relay, 27th, 3:43.67;
CLARENCE FULTON SECONDARY MAROONS (VERNON):
Kiara Pighin, senior women's 3,000m run, 11:17.10;
Chase Pighin, junior men's 3,000m run, 27th 10:13.76;
KALAMALKA LAKERS (COLDSTREAM):
Bennett Parsons, Grade 8 men's high jump, DNS (Did Not Start);
PLEASANT VALLEY HAWKS (ARMSTRONG):
Ila Isaac, senior women's 100m hurdles, 29th, 19.59 secs; senior women's shot put, 30th, 6.16m;
Kieren McLeod, junior men's 100m, 28th 12.23 secs;
Joseph Peng, senior men's triple jump, 24th, 11.46m;
VERNON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ROYALS:
Tienne Wiebe, Brynn Zuidhof, Amelia Bongalis, Gillian Rands, Grade 8 women's 4x400m relay, DNS;
Cole Kooger, Grade 8 men's 200m hurdles, 19th, 32.78 secs;
Emerson Overend, senior men's high jump, 23rd, 1.60m;
Eli Zuidhof, junior men's long jump, 20th, 5.71m; junior men's triple jump, 20th, 11.17m;
Caleb Smith, junior men's hammer throw, 24th, 23.97m;
Nolan Smith, junior men's 800m, 31st, 2:19.36;
Tristan VanderDeen, Smith, Zuidhof, Daman Sayer, junior men's 4x100m relay, 28th, 47.69 secs;
Smith, Jake Funk, Zuidhof, Sayer, junior men's 4x400m relay, 26th, 3:52.48;
VERNON SECONDARY PANTHERS:
Raiya Kelly-keay, junior women's 80m hurdles, 26th 13.84 secs;
Gillian Rands, Grade 8 women's 400m, 16th, 1:05.66.
Marquel Ling-Allen, senior men's 400m, 25th 52.32 secs;
Jeffrey Curtis, senior men's discus, 28th,24.89m;
Anderson Bicknell, senior men's 200m race, DNS;
W.L. SEATON SONICS (VERNON):
Kaylee Stinn, junior women's 100m, 14th 12.93 secs; junior women's 200m, 25th 27.51 secs;
Kaitlyn Anderson, senior women's 100m, 19th, 13.03 secs;
Marley Cormier, senior women's 400m, 30th 1:11.69;
Carmen MacArthur, senior women's 800m, 27th 2:39.81;
Anderson, Cormier, MacArthur, Stinn, senior women's 4x100m relay, 21st, 52.51 secs;
Eulan Palmer Bird, junior women's 3,000m, 13th 10:50.29;
Indio Truscott, junior men's 800m, DNS;
Nathan Kineshanko, Oliver Parilak, Truscott, Rylan Terleski, junior men's 4x400m relay, 31st, 4:05.97;
