Six practices, 17 athletes, seven communities.
The players representing Zone 4 came together over a short period of time to accomplish a silver medal in ringette at last month’s B.C. Winter Games in Penticton.
The team, which included six players from Burnaby-New West’s association, bonded together under coach Amy Byrne and rolled undefeated through the round-robin portion of the tourney.
Wins of 7-0 over Northwest and 9-2 over a Fraser River team were followed by a dramatic draw with Vancouver Coastal, with Burnaby-New West’s Grace Okamura netted the game-tying goal with just over a minute to play.
In the final the squad had its hands full against Thompson-Okanagan, and settled for silver.
Also contributing to the cause were Burnaby-New West’s Margaret Donovan, Jaiden Leong, Kurtis and Nathan Lew and Blake Prescott.
Due to the amount of players trying out for Zone 4, a second squad, labelled the Fraser River replacement team, entered and showed improvement each game.
Among the players on the Fraser River replacement roster were Burnaby-New West’s Kennedy Beemish, Kennedi Johansen and Rachel Kong.
