New West Spartans athletes opened the 2015 indoor track season with tremendous results, garnering a total of seven indoor records, while winning 15 medals, including 10 gold.
Eight Spartans competed at the recent Harry Jerome indoor meet at the Richmond Oval, breaking three Games records and winning three gold and three bronze medals.
Nina Schultz, broke her record in the high jump with a winning leap of 1.68 metres. The New Westminster student also posted a personal best of 8.92 in the 60m hurdles. Schultz was named the Outstanding athlete in the youth category.
Diego Medrano broke two records at the meet - the 60m dash in 7.48, while also winning the 60m hurdles with a new mark of 8.76.
Bogdan Pavel ran a strong run in 60m hurdles in the men’s open category, coming third win a personal-best time of 8.65.
Nikola Milutinovic placed fourth in the 60m for youth category in a time of 9.47
It was a great presentation for their first competitions with Spartans of Cheryl Chow, fifth at 300m with a time of 46.20 and Kimberly Ma at 60m hurdles at 9.72 and Isaiah Vachon in 60m with a 9.01 clocking.
Other Spartans included Damanpreet Rai and Manisha Kandola, who competed for UBC with good results. Kandola came third in the senior women’s high jump with a 1.53m leap. Rai ran an 8.29 time in the final of the women’s 60m.
New West Spartans also took part in a indoor meet in Kamloops on Feb. 15.
At the same time, the Spartans competed at the Van Ryswyk Indoor Invitational, breaking four records and winning nine medals, including seven gold and two bronze.
Schultz again broke the youth high jump record with a leap of 1.70m. She also took top spot in the long jump with 5.46m and the triple jump in 11.72m. Schultz also won the 60m dash in 8.01 and the hurdle sprint with a 8.90 time, winning five individual gold medals.
Medrano claimed the other two gold, winning the 60m dash in a meet-record time of 8.51 and the 300m in 39.80 - a five-second improvement on his personal best.
Cheryl Chow ran solid races in the 200m and 400m, winning bronze medals with good times of 28.72, and 65.21, respectively.
