B.C. high school’s most outstanding female track athlete added another record to her already stellar season.
Nina Schultz broke the B.C. heptathlon youth mark, garnering a record 5,105 points at the Junior Development seven-event competition at the Langley Pacific International meet last weekend.
Schultz’s heptathlon point total now ranks her first in the country in the girls’ youth and junior divisions.
The New Westminster junior won six of the seven heptathlon events, including a leap of 1.78 metres in the high jump.
Schultz’s season-high leap was also higher than two of her athletic mentors.
Her winning high jump bettered that of her famous Chinese grandmother, Zheng Fengrong, a former 1957 world champion, who had a personal-best leap of 1.77m.
It was also two millimetres higher than her current New West Spartans coach Tatjana Mece’s career-high best of 1.76m achieved in 1977.
In Coquitlam, Mihailo Stefanovic of New Westminster won the 110-metre hurdles with a B.C. provincial team standard time of 14.74 seconds.
Stefanovic’s time qualified him for the Canadian junior championships. He also ran in the 400m hurdles, finishing runner-up in 56.24.
Spartans teammate Bogdan Pavel finished third in Coquitlam and second in Langley in the hurdle sprint.
Tamara Harris set a new meet record in the senior women’s 800m, clocking a winning time of 2:09.19.
Other track highlights included a win in 60m hurdles for Alicia Bremer in a B.C. JD award standard time of 10.22. Gurshan Khela also took gold in the 60m hurdles.
