New West Spartans Nina Schultz and Jemal Reta will lead a group of 34 New Westminster athletes to the B.C. Summer Games in Surrey this weekend.
Schultz won four medals in the midget division at last week's B.C. jamboree track and field championship in Coquitlam, including a gold medal in the triple jump. Schultz also won silver medals in the 80-and 200-metre hurdles and high jump.
Jemal earned a pair of silvers, running personalbest times of 4: 25.76 in the 1,500m steeplechase and 5: 57.75 in the 2,000m.
In the junior division, high jumper Manisha Kandola followed up her gold medal at the B.C. high school championships with a win at the jamboree, winning the event with a height of 1.60m.
Simran Rai won a silver medal in the 5,000m racewalk, while sister Damanpreet Rai placed third in the long jump.
Mihailo Stefanovic earned a spot on the B.C. provincial team headed to the Canadian youth track and field championships in P.E.I. in August.
Stefanovic won bronze medals in the triple jump and 110m hurdles, clocking a personal-best time of 14.81.
Ahmad Nizamani won the B.C. long jump with a leap of 6.54m. However, Nizamani's jump was just 12 centimetres short of the provincial youth standard.
Also in the youth division, Ethan Strome took a bronze medal in the 300m hurdles with a personalbest time of 40.30.
Heading to the B.C. Summer Games along with Schultz and Jemal on the Zone 4 Fraser River Delta team were New Westminster athletes Shea Jobson-Stier, Fraser Stewart-Barnett, Raquel Tjernagel, Anjelika Ku, Justice Steer, Carly Harder, Brent Dhandwar, Sean Fitzsimmons, Preston Lupul, Tommy Robertson, Connor Robinson, Ashley Lawson, Mitchell Stokes, Matthew Buchanan, Nolan Duncan, Enzo Gentile, Max Gerhardt, Nikolas Lund-Murray, Dalton Lupul, Nathan Macedo, Kalan Mackay, Laiton Manuel, Dylan Sharpe, Iain Varley, Ryan Wilkinson, Dusan Miltrovic, Nikolas Papakyriakopoulos, Jennifer Hannay, Emma Isabelle Hughes, Maria Caray, Brian Ni, Stella Porcellato and Kendra Lawson.
The Games wind up on Sunday, July 22.
