Month: July 2017

Congratulations to Valley Royals thrower and race-walker, Abresia Foote, on being the first athlete to get a Sponsor for the club’s Fall 2017 Cross Country Season! Abresia’s sponsor is “Call Brown Real Estate Team” which has purchased a $100 “Friend of the Club” Sponsorship. This will give their company name and logo exposure on our website and on the “Wall of Fame” which will be on display at all 4 Valley Royals Grand Prix Races in Sept/Oct & at the BC Cross Country Championships which our club will be hosting in Clearbrook Park on October 28th. 

Check out our new CLUB SPONSORS section on the Valley Royals Website which contains Thank You Walls for all of our 2017 Sponsors, Sponsorship Packages, a downloadable PDF Sponsorship Letter 2017 Fall Sponsorship Letter & Sponsorship Packages for Valley Royals Track & Field Club with Chart to give to potential sponsors and a new handy Chart of the benefits of each package at a glance! 

This past weekend in White Rock, the Valley Royals JD squad finished off a banner season at the Provincial Junior Development Championships for nine to thirteen year-olds.    In all, the team stepped up to produce sixteen podium finishes, further adding another sixteen top eight performances.   

The Royals were led by the trio of rookies Mark Molina and Benjamin Wright (both age 11) and Luke Wight (age 10).   Mark Molina took the silver in both the 60meter and 200 meter sprints, further adding a 4^th in the 100.   Benjamin Wright was the definition of consistency, producing bronze medal performances in the 60meter, 100 meter and 200 meter sprints, with a further bronze in the long jump.   Iron man Luke Wight, competing in six individual events, took the bronze in the high jump and 1000 meter run, silver in the long jump, further adding fourth place finishes in the 100 meters and 600 meters and a sixth in javelin.  

The trio of Molina, Wright and Wight dominated the eleven-year old relays.   Joined by veteran Arie Wassenaar in the 4 x 100 relay, the squad easily took the gold.  The same trio were joined by rookie Aryan Sidhu to take another gold in the distance medley relay.  

Our top female performers were the Royal’s young nine year olds.   Emily Tinsley captured silver in high jump, Gurpartap Sandhu took bronze in the long jump, and Bhavneet Grewal placed fourth in long jump and fifth in high jump.   Sandhu and Grewal joined eleven-year olds Sierra Greene and Sarah Thiel to take silver in the 4 x 100 relay. 

There were numerous other gutsy, clutch performances by the rest of the squad, too many to mention.    

Coaches Trevor Wight and Alexis Krieg were thrilled with the team’s performance.   “All year we’ve stressed having fun, teamwork, and participating in variety of events.   We believe that the team’s success at the JD championships is a direct result of this approach.” 

If you have photos from the BC JD Championships to share, email them to Monica at [email protected]

Results of the 2017 BC JD Championships (July 21-13) are available at this link: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/48937/27633889/1500857012810/bcjdchampionshipsresults2017.pdf?token=4ciI53%2F5CYo3Q9%2B3HHaIOefUoIA%3D

The results of the 2017 Jamboree are available at this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B338BHhSuiLpcUxuOEI5cUhiaHBHYTFVMmwybG1PVnBGU2Mw/view

The Gerry Swan Report on the Valley Royals Middle Distance athletes at the Jamboree is available here: Lucas Smith Completes His Season with Two Personal Bests

Medal winners, be sure to send us your photos, videos and PBs from the meet to add to this post & our Facebook Post. Send these to Monica at [email protected]

Gold Medalists: Rowan Hamilton Men 16-17 Hammer Throw (66.04m), Vikramjit Gondara Men 18-19 Hammer Throw (63.41m), Gregory Poirier Men 18-19 Shot Put (14.44m), Elliott Payne Men 14-15 Javelin Throw (55.64m) PB, Django Lovett Men 20&Up High Jump (2.24m–see video of this jump on our Valley Royals Facebook Page), Michael Lambert Men 18-19 High Jump (1.95m), Liam Espedido Men 14-15 High Jump (1.83m) PB, Alexa Porpaczy Women 16-17 High Jump (1.75m), Hannah Rolfe Women 18-19 High Jump (1.60m), David Boyd Men 20&Up Pole Vault (4.60m), Joshua Carsience Men 14-15 Pole Vault (3.05m)

Silver Medalists: Jayden Driver Men 18-19 Discus (40.48m) & Hammer Throw (54.30m), Harrison Trustham Men 14-15 100 Meter Hurdles (14.74 sec) & 300 Meter Hurdles (41.40 sec) PB

No Bronze Medalists but in 4th place: Hannah Lambert Women 16-17 Discus (29.33m), Dan Ko Men 16-17 Triple Jump (11.98m)