New Westminster Secondary named its athletes of the year class of 2015.
Track athlete Raquel Tjernagel won the Grade 12 athlete of the year and career female athlete awards at the school’s recent celebration of achievement.
The world-class sprinter and double gold medalist at the recent B.C. high school track and field meet won the Grade 12 honour over runners-up De Djaksigulova and Simran Dhillon and the career award over a shortlist including Dhillon, Zoe Lowen and Celest Bain.
Tjernagel also earned a career watch for her overall participation while at NWSS.
Matt Seymour, who earned an athletic scholarship for football at the University of Ohio, was the male career athlete. He won over Ayden Sanderson and Darshan Bhupal.
Seymour was the lone Grade 12 large block winner.
Sanderson won the Grade 12 male athlete of the year. He also earned a Justin Morneau award, while Dhillon earned the female Morneau award.
Bhupal, Ian Varley, Bain and Lowen were also in the running for the Morneau prize.
Varley picked up the Stan Cowie Memorial award.
Dieved Penalver was named the Grade 11 male athlete of the year. James Shiho and Ethan Lo were the runners-up.
Penalver won a large block along with TJ Cordoviz and Justice Steer.
Madisen Obrovac and Nina Schultz were the Grade 11 female athlete winners. Tracy Wang was the Grade 11 runner-up.
Junior athlete of the year winners included Ben Tjernagel, Celia Palmer and Emily Chilton.
Jamie Lee, Elery Hardy, Trew Dancey, Josh Olango, Connor Pattison and Harman Sandhu made the Grade 10 shortlist of athletes.
In Grade 9, Sammy Sidhu was named top male and Grace Fetherstonhaugh the top female athlete. Isah James, Josh Filafilo, Sarah Forgie and Devin Strome all made the shortlist.
Jackson Foster, Natalie Nastase and Shianne Lowka were the Grade 8 athletes of the year at New West. Gavin Fan, David Chieng and Octavia Lau were the runners-up.
Airon Nisperos took home the Herman Dhillon award.
Bhupal was awarded the Russ Brisco Sportsmanship prize.
Lauren Denusik was given the Bob Gair Memorial award.
Sarah Genberg and Justin Digby won their respective physical eduction awards.
Grade 12 small block earners included: Justin Aidoo, Bhupal, Kale Brock, Luke Chaves, Digby, Hui-Li Fan, Dwight Gaviola, Enzo Gentile, Nick Lund-Murray, Nathen Macedo, Joseph Melizza, Dylan Musgrove, Nisperos, Wayne Palmer, Sanderson, Julian Ramirez, Marcos Ramos, Dilip Rathinkumar, Dylan Sharp, Patrick Sommerfeldt, Denusik, Hannah DeVos, May Li, Annalise Meyer, Emilia Moralalyska and Naomi Noda.
Jeff Lugtu, Nina Lalic, Victoria McRitchie, Obrovac and Shultz won Grade 11 small blocks.
Raymond Tabisula shared a junior small block with Sandhu, Chilton and Palmer.
