Nina Schultz led an 11-medal haul by New West Spartans athletes at the B.C. Athletics championship jamboree in Kamloops last weekend.
The 15-year-old won five individual medals, including gold in the girls' high jump and triple jump.
Schultz was also a runner-up in the 80-metre and 200m hurdles and the long jump. Her time of 28.26 in the 200m hurdles was a personal best.
In all, Schultz achieved the provincial team standard in six separate events, including a fourth-place finish in the shot put, showing her potential for winning a possible pentathlon title at the Canadian championship next month.
Mihailo Stefanovic and Bogdan Pavel continued to show their prowess in both the 110m and 300m hurdles. Stefanovic, who ran a personal-
best sub-14-second heat in the 110m at the recent World Youth championships in the Ukraine, placed second at that distance in Kamloops.
In the 300m hurdles, Stefanovic set a new B.C. age group record of 38.08, only five one-hundredths of a second off the Canadian youth record. He is currently ranked first in the country in both events.
Pavel had personal bests in both events, winning the bronze medal at 110m in a provincial standard time of 14.44.
Jemal Reta, coming back after injury, placed runner-up in the youth men's 2,000m steeplechase in a personal-best time of 6:13.91.
He also finished sixth in the 3,000m.
Manisha Kandola also performed well, winning a silver medal in high jump and a bronze in the 100m hurdles.
Tamara Harris and Domunique Booker also had a solid meet at the meet.
Stefanovic, Pavel, Reta,
Schultz, and Booker all qualified for the Canadian Legion national championship to be held in Langley on Aug. 9 to 11.
New Westminster's Raquel Tjernagel, running for the Coquitlam Cheetahs club, placed second in the youth women's 100m dash in a time of 12.38.
Elite Track metric quartermiler, Francis Flimo, placed fifth in the youth men's 400m.
Kinsey Weir of Royal City Track was seventh in the women's triple jump.
