Siemens & Pilgrim Win Aggregate at Upper Fraser Valley Meet

Alexandria Siemens and Callum Pilgrim each placed first in three events to win aggregate awards at the Upper Fraser Valley Championships held at the Swan Track on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

Siemens had little trouble winning the senior girls division 800m (2:21), 1500m (4:55) and 3,000m (10:23). For the most part the Mouat Secondary School senior ran conservative races but won by wide margins ranging up to 150m. For good measure, Siemens ran a leg of the Mouat 4x400m relay that placed second.

Meanwhile, Pilgrim performed the same feat in the junior girls division but she had to display a good fighting spirit to secure the victories. Pilgrim fought hard to win the 1500m (4:56.9) and staved off a challenge by Walnut Grove’s Isabella Bercia who placed second (4:57.5). The other two victories by Pilgrim came in the 800m (2:23) and the 3,000m (10:39).

Oliver Jorgensen (Bateman) ran a personal best 9:05 to win the senior boy’s 3,000m and came back on Thursday to place second in the 1500m (4:11) and 2-k steeplechase.

Other multiple medalists included Sarya Ross (Mouat), second in both the senior girls 1500 and 3,000m events, Hannah Konrad (Yale) with a first in the junior girl’s 400m (61.10) and second places in both the 800m (2:23.7) and triple jump (9.96m). Spencer Spenst (Abbotsford) won the senior boy’s pole vault (3.10m) and Catherine Tackema was first in the senior girls vault (2.48m). Aiden Bingert (Mouat) had a second place finish in the junior boys 1500m (4:32) while Ashley Heisler (Chilliwack) came second in the senior girls 800m and third in the 400m.

In two week’s time the Fraser Valley Championships take place in Abbotsford. Athletes in that meet will be fighting to gain entry marks for the BC Secondary School Championships scheduled for Langley on May 31 and June 1.