Delta athletes brought home great results and lots of medals from the recent BC Summer Games in Maple Ridge.
Local athletes were part of the Vancouver Coastal Zone 5 team that finished third overall in the final medal standings with 123 medals.
In team competitions, Tanaz Aulakh-Kahlon won a bronze medal with the girls 4x100m relay.
In baseball, two medals for Zone 5 teams including silver for Cole Hudie and Drew Sochting on the Zone 5 (A) team and a bronze medal for Hayden Mangat, Kesler Curtis and Mason Dubnov on the Zone 5 team.
In girls’ softball, Avery Dewitt, Savannah Grant, Brynn McKee and Isabel Watt won silver.
In boys’ volleyball, Matt MacKay, Kian Grewal and Omar Elfarra won silver.
In girls’ volleyball, it was a fifth-place finish for Grace Marriott and Rebecca Prisecarui, while in wrestling, Ahmad Nazari had fourth place finishes in the mixed team and mixed dual competitions.
In the boys’ 4x400 relay, Xavier Johnson was part of the fifth-place team.
In field lacrosse, it was a fourth-place finish for Samuel Jackman, Lauen Leong, Douglas Miele, Liam Posterski, Gurmukh Singh, Riley Tan, and Conover Van Iperen.
In swimming, Emma Zhang was part of the silver-medal winning 4x50 medley relay team while Markus Orejuela won gold with the 3x3 boys basketball team.
In individual athletics, Aulakh-Kahlon was sixth in the 100m and fourth in the 300m hurdles; and won silver in the 300m ; Miguel Phillps won bronze in the boys 300m, and fifth in the boys 1200m; Nav Rai was 13th in the javelin and eighth in the 80m hurdles while Xavier Johnson finished fourth in the 300m hurdles.
In Special Olympics athletics, Sophia Krische won silver in the 100m, bronze in the 200m and finished 99th in the 800m.
