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Royal City Track and Field Club turned out 39 athletes at the Annual Jesse Bent Memorial Meet June 7-8 and the little club from New Westminster performed well on both the track and in the field events against many larger lower mainland clubs.

Forty medals were won by Royal City Track and Field Club kids and more than 80 top 8 performances were demonstrated at the meet by club athletes.

Congratulations also to the many Track Rascals who participated at the meet and to the Royal City athletes who attained personal bests and competed in new events at the meet!

Highlights in the Field:

Royal City Track and Field Club pole vaulters took home 5 medals in all:

• For 16/17 year old girls, Kinsey Weir won silver with a pole vault height of 2.80m
• For 14/15 year olds, Brianna Bates (1.80m) took silver, Emmanuel Dadson won gold, vaulting 2.30m and Ian Hunter won bronze, vaulting 1.90m
• For 13 year old boys, Max Jones won gold with a vault of 1.90m

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Royal City Track and Field athletes performed to new heights in high jump and in the long jump pit.

• Devin Strome took silver for high jump (with a jump of 1.50m which is a qualifying standard in U16 for competing in Canadian Legion Youth National Championships in August in Langley) and 5^th for long jump in the 14/15 year old girls group, Kathryn Van Oostenbrink took 10th place in high jump and Jessica Klein took 7th in long jump
• In the 13 year old category, Ryan Jensen won bronze in triple jump and Jeremy Belcher took silver in long jump
• Kate Stewart-Barnett won gold in high jump in the 11 year old category and
• For 11 year old boys, Callum Eaket took 13^th place for his jump
• For 10 year old girls’ high jump, Monika Arcadi took 4^th place, Emily Bowles took 9^th place and Charlotte Taylor took 14^th place
  

  Emma Celle competes in long jump at Jesse Bent

Highlights by Royal City athletes in the throws events also demonstrate some top performances.

• Jenevieve Patry-Smith, 13, took gold in hammer throw (and qualified for Canadian Legion National Youth Championships in the U16 age group with her throw of 30.30m), silver in javelin, bronze in discus and 4^th place in shot put
• Courtney Vanee took 4^th place in hammer throw for 16/17 year old girls, with a performance just shy of qualifying standard for Canadian Legion National Youth Championships
• In the 14/15 year old category, Lauren Vanee won gold in javelin, Deirdre Bos took bronze in discus and 8^th place in shot put, Brianna Bates won bronze in javelin and 6^th in shot put, and Devin Strome took 5^th place in shot put.
• Ian Hunter won bronze in javelin for 14/15 year old boys
• In the 13 year old boys category, Jeremy Belcher won silver in javelin
• For the 12 year old girls, Michelle Dadson won a pair of bronze in shot put and discus, Emma Celle took home 6^th in shot put and 7^th in discus, Elizabeth Bowles won 7^th in shot put and Lauryn Savela won 6^th in javelin and 10^th in discus throw and 12^th in javelin
• For 11 year olds girls, Milena Kalisch won bronze in discus and in the 10 year old category, Kaia Polanska Richardson took 8^th place in javelin and 9^th in discus
  

  Lauryn Savela in the long jump pit

Highlights on the Track:

Royal City Hurdlers also competed to win:

• In the 14/15 year old age group, Devin Strome won 5^th place in the 80m hurdles and Lauren Vanee won 6^th place in the 200m hurdles
• For 13 year olds, Ryan Jensen won gold in 200m hurdles and 5^th in 80m hurdles, Jeremy Belcher won bronze in 200m hurdles and Max Jones won bronze in 80m hurdles
• For 12 year olds, Michelle Dadson and Lauryn Savela placed 14^th and 15^th respectively in the 60m hurdles
• Congratulations also to the 10 and 11 year old athletes who competed for pbs in their hurdles events
  

  Michelle Dadson competes in 60m hurdles

RCTFC Race Walkers compete with results:

• Grace Vanee won silver for her performance in the 1500m RW for 14/15 girls and Taylor Morrison took 5^th place
• Milena Kalisch took bronze for 11 year old girls in the 800m RW
  

  From left to right: Emily Chilton, Prachi Brahmbhatt, Amanda Scott, Grace Fetherstonhaugh, Grace Vanee, Brianna Bates, Devin Strome and Lauren Vanee

Royal City Track long, mid and sprint runner highlights include 3 all-time meet records:

• In the 14/15 year old girls category, Grace Fetherstonhaugh broke meet records and took gold in both the 1200m and the 2000m, qualifying for standard to compete in the Legions, Emily Chilton took gold in the 800m and bronze in the 1200m (qualified for Legions), Grace Vanee won 9^th in the 1200m, while Lauren Vanee won 8^th place in the 300m and Prachi Brahmbhatt won 9^th in the 300m
• For 13 year old girls, Amanda Scott won a pair of bronze medals for the 300m and the 1200m and placed 4^th in the 800m and the 200m
• For 13 year old boys’, Shea Janke won a trio of gold medals for his performances in the 800m, 1200m and the 2000m, Max Jones won bronze in the 100m, Jeremy Belcher won bronze in the 300m and 7^th place for the 100m and 200m
• In 12 year olds, Michelle Dadson placed 10^th in the 100m and Emma Celle placed 13^th in the 100m, Sabine Girt won bronze in the 800m and 7^th in the 200m and Elizabeth Bowles won 5^th for 1200m and 7^th for 800m
• For 11 year olds, Kate Stewart-Barnett took gold in the 1000m and bronze in the 600m while Milena Kalisch took bronze for the 1000m, 5^th in the 600m and 8^th in the 200m, Shankara Rajkumar took 8th in the 600m and 9^th in the 200m, Riley Storms placed 14^th in the 200m and Annette Scott took 7^th for her performance in the 200m and 9^th for the 600m
• Emily Bowles won gold in the 1000m and bronze in the 600m, Kate Bowles placed 8^th in the 600m and 6^th in the 1000m, Charlotte Taylor won 14^th place in the 600m, Sydney Christiansen placed 14^th in the 600m, Cameron DeWith won silver in the 600m for 10 year old boys
• In the 9 year old boys’ category, Angus Steele won gold in the 600m, breaking an all-time meet record in the process.
  

  Grace Fetherstonhaugh wins gold in the 2000m run