Raquel Tjernagel of New Westminster brought home two track medals from the 2012 Canadian Youth Legion track and field championships in Charlottetown, P.E.I. last weekend.
Tjernagel won her first of two silver medals for Team B.C. in the under-16 girls' 300 metres on Day 2 of the Canadian youth championships.
Tjernagel's time of 39.82 seconds was less than twotenths of a second behind Ontario's Mariam Abdul-Rashid.
Tjernagel also finished behind Abdul-Rashid in the final of the girls' 200m, placing runner-up in a time of 25.29.
Abdul-Rashid ran a sub-25-minute time in the 200m to win her second gold medal at the youth nationals.
Another New Westminster club runner Sebastian Adugalski, a St. Thomas More Collegiate student, finished second in the u-18 boys' 300m hurdles in a quick time of 38.38.
Kieran Johnston of Saskatchewan won the event in a championship record clocking of 38.30. Adugalski nipped Ontario's Jared Kerr, the national youth meet's 110m hurdle champion, for the silver medal by two-hundredths of a second.
Adugalski also made the final of the 110m hurdles. In all, 19 championship records were broken at the Legion meet, including three by B.C. athletes.
