Its that time of year again for our annual Pizza and Awards Party. The event will be held on October 23rd at 1pm at the Royal Canadian Legion, 1335 – 7th Avenue, Prince George. Come on out and enjoy some pizza. Geoff Martinson will be attending to talk about his recent trip to the World Track and Field Championships in Korea.  There will be awards given out to athletes as well as door prizes. Cost is $7.00 per person.

Cross country season is now underway.  There will be 5 races in the high school series this year.

The first race was at Cottonwood Island on Saturday the 17th @11 am.

Medals will be awarded in various age groups plus draws will be made for fabulous prizes.

Elementary and Open runners are welcome to run as well.

The elementary race distance is 2.1 km, the high school girls and grade 8-10 boys run the 4.2 km course and the senior boys do 6.0 km.

XC Race Schedule 2011

Cottonwood IslandXC result2011

Otway xc results

Vanderhoof xc Results 2011-12

Can-Am Dual Meet Results

• August 14, 2011

http://newalkers.com/2011/08/14/canam-7/

Some big news to share today.

Alex Treasure

Alex was second in the high jump at the Western Canada Games yesterday.  She cleared 1.77m while the winner, Rachel Machin from Alberta, cleared 1.80m.

Event 117  Women High Jump

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Start @ 1.35, up by 5 cm to 1.65m and then by 3cm

Can. Senior: R 1.98m  9/2/1984    Debbie Brill

WCSG: # 1.72m  8/9/2003    Claire Poliquin, BC

Name                    Year Team                    Finals  Points

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Finals

1 MACHIN, Rachel               Athletics Alberta        1.80m#  20

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.65 1.68 1.71 1.74 1.77 1.80 1.83

P    P    P    P    P    P    O    P    O   XO    O    O  XXX

2 Treasure, Alyxandria         British Columbia         1.77m#  18

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.65 1.68 1.71 1.74 1.77 1.80

P    P    P    P    P    P    P    P    O    O    O  XXX

3 Kimoto, Emma                 British Columbia         1.74m#  17

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.65 1.68 1.71 1.74 1.77

P    P    P    P    P    P    P    O   XO   XO  XXX

4 Parent, Holly                British Columbia         1.71m   16

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.65 1.68 1.71 1.74

P    P    P    P    P    P    O   XO  XXO  XXX

5 Haselhan, Shalane            Saskatchewan             1.65m   15

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.65 1.68

P    P    O    P    O   XO  XXO  XXX

6 Glassford, Kennedy           Saskatchewan            J1.65m   14

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.65 1.68

P    P    P    O    O  XXO  XXO  XXX

7 Kowalchuk, Shaylyn           Saskatchewan             1.60m   13

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55 1.60 1.65

P    P    O    O   XO   XO  XXX

8 Lychuk, Brooke               Toba-WCSG                1.50m   12

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55

P    P    O    O  XXX

9 McCaffrey, Kathryn           Athletics Alberta       J1.50m   11

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50 1.55

O    O    O   XO  XXX

10 Prychitko, Alexis            Toba-WCSG                1.45m   10

1.35 1.40 1.45 1.50

P    O    O  XXX

11 Cooper, Shauna               NWT                     J1.45m    9

1.40 1.45 1.50

XO    O  XXX

12 Peterson, Kristjana          Toba-WCSG                1.40m    8

Here is a link to the results page:  http://viewserver.kamloops.ca/wcsg2011_results/default.aspx?tabid=41&sport=216

Kevin Gaiesky

Kevin leaves this Friday for Boston where he will compete in the Canada-USA Junior dual race-walk competition.

Good luck to Kevin.

Geoff Martinson

Geoff received official word today that he has been selected to the Canadian Track and Field to for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.

Geoff has previously represented Canada at the World Youth meet, World University games and at the NACAC meet.

Athletics Canada will make an official announcement on Thursday morning.

You can read more on Geoff’s blog page here: http://www.runmartinson.ca/

Here is the athletics Canada WC site: http://www.athletics.ca/page.asp?id=522

Here is the official website: http://www.daegu2011.org/do/front/main/en

Geoff leaves Sunday for a 10 day camp in Korea.

His first race will be the 1500m prelims on Aug. 30th at 11:20 am Korea time (I believe they are 16 hours ahead of us).  So if my calculations are correct that would mean 7:20 pm on the 29th here.

After that, the semi-finals are on Sept. 1st and finals are on Sept. 3rd.

Here is the schedule: Timetable

Brian

Eighteen  junior members of PG Track and Field are participating in the Junior Development Championship meet in Kamloops this weekend.

The athletes who attended are:

Back row, left to right Steph Gouin(coach) Kendall Samuelson, Shelby Jansen, Lauren Matheson, Jared Hicks, Ryan Gaiesky, Owen Trepanier, Keiran Leboe, Alexis Thornhill (coach)

Middle row: Kristopher Gaiesky (coach)  Jessica Pallot, Sylvia Masich, Rachael Kidd, Lindsay King

Front row: Kendel Rogers, Jillian Hepburn, Tanner Matheson, Regin Olsen-Grey

Missing from photo: Tyrell Laing, Brady Miller, Kienan Miller

Club athletes won 12 individual and 3 relay medals, and set 43 new personal bests!

Lauren Matheson (12)

3rd 100m

2nd 200m

Tanner Matheson (9)

2nd 60m

3rd 100m

2nd High jump

Brady Miller (11)

2nd 1000m

Tyrell Laing (13)

2nd 100m

2nd 200m

2nd 300m

1st Long jump

Keiran Leboe (13)

2nd Shot put

1st Hammer Throw

Here are the full results.

pgtf JD result

Brian

Junior Development meet.

Eighteen PG track athletes aged 9-13 will begin competition today in Kamloops. Looks like they will have some nice weather as well.

Good luck to all involved.

Geoff Martinson

Geoff ran a second “B” standard time (3:37.70) in his 1500m race in Lignano, Italy Wednesday.

1    26    LEGESSE Henok    1988    SM    ETH00 ETHIOPIA    3:36.45
2    33    MCNAMARA Jordan    1987    SM    USA00 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA    3:37.19
3    35    ULREY Dorian    1987    SM    USA00 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA    3:37.68
4    24    MARTINSON Geoffrey    1986    SM    CAN00 CANADA    3:37.70
5    29    ACOSTA Aj    1988    SM    USA00 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA    3:38.64
6    32    GARRETT Heath    1985    SM    USA00 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA    3:39.03
7    37    OUKHRID Lhoussaine    1984    SM    VA550 U.POL. GAVIRATE

Watch the race here:  http://www.runmartinson.ca/

He has now met the criteria for selection to Canada’s World Championship team as a “rising star”. There are a couple of ways to qualify for the WC team.

1. Finish in the top 3 at Nationals and then run the “A” standard time (3:35), or
2. Finish in the top 3 at Nationals and then run two “B” standard times (3:38). This is the “rising star” category. Its not automatic like the first option and is somewhat up to the discretion of Athletics Canada as outlined below.

“RISING STAR” SELECTION PROCESS
Notwithstanding the Criteria contained in this document and its appendices, and in exceptional
circumstances, the NTC may, in its sole discretion, identify athletes/relays as ‘rising stars’ and
may select them to the World Championship team.
6.1 Eligibility Pool
The ‘Rising Star’ Eligibility Pool will consist of athletes/relays who have not competed at an IAAF
World Championships in Athletics (Senior aged) or Olympic Games and who are not otherwise
selectable (as per the Repeat Performance Schedule in Appendix B), but have minimally
achieved two (2) “B” standards between May 20th and August 6th, 2011 and finished in the Top 3
at the Selection Trials (where applicable) and beat all athletes not selected through the standard
selection process.

Geoff believes he will find out if he has made the team in the first week of August.  In any case he will be spending time in Germany doing some training before his last meet in Gent on the 30th.

Alyx Treasure

NEWS UPDATE:  http://www.athletics.ca/display_news.asp?newsid=1207

Alyx is in Florida for the PanAm Junior meet.  The meet starts today.  Alyx jumps tomorrow evening.

Here is a link to the meet:  http://can.milesplit.com/meets/96049  or  http://can.milesplit.com/

Here is another link to live results:  http://halfmiletiming.com/Datafiles/Spring2011/PanAmJr11/Results/

You can watch the meet online here: http://www.livestream.com/bestseatjm?utm_source=lsplayer&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=footerlinks

Brian

The BC Athletics track and field Jamboree for athletes 14 and older was held this past weekend in Coquitlam.  This is the provincial championship meet for the midget and older age groups.  Nine PG track members attended the meet winning three medals and establishing a number of personal bests.

Alyx Treasure cleared 1.75m to win the Junior/Senior womens high jump.

Carly Frenkel jumped 4.71m to place second in the 15 year old girls long jump.

Emma Balazs was third in the Youth (16/17) girls 2000m steeplechase race.

Here are the complete results.

Emma Balazs – Youth (16/17)

1500m – 4:46 (4^th)  *PB by 4 seconds

3000m – 10:21 (4^th) *PB by 12 seconds

2000m steeplechase – 7:12 (3^rd)

Duncan Elliot – Youth (16/17)

200m 26.11 (17^th)                        Long Jump 5.45m (7^th)

400m 57.26 (16^th)                        Triple Jump  11.95 (4^th)

Carly Frenkel – Midget (14/15)

100m – 14.27 (23^rd)                        Long Jump – 4.71 (2)  *16cm PB

Triple Jump – 9.40m (6^th)            Discus – 23.38 (9^th)

Hammer Throw – 26.30 (6^th)

Sean Gaiesky – Midget (14/15)

800m 2:06 (5^th) *PB by 4 seconds                        1200m 3:24 (5^th) *PB by 6 seconds

Shauna Hepburn – Midget (14/15)

Long Jump – 4.14m (6) *PB by 24cm            High Jump – 1.30m (6)

Josh Hewitt – Youth (16/17)

400m – 54.64 (13)                                    800m – 2:05 (12^th)

Danielle Mitchell – Midget (14/15)

100m – 14.52 (27)                        300m – 47.12 (16)                        Triple Jump – 8.90m (7^th)

Nathan Ott – Youth (16/17)

100m 11.98 (10^th)                        200m – 24.13 (10^th)                        400m – 54.11 (12^th)

Results from Friday and Saturday are here: http://www.coquitlamcheetahs.org/p/2011-bc-athletics-championships_3176.html

The final meet for the club is the Junior Development Provincial Championships this weekend in Kamloops.

Meet information can be found here:  http://www.kamloopstrackandfield.ca/default.htm

A. Jack Brow Results.

Congratulations to all the athletes that competed in Kelowna.

First place finishers include:

Duncan Elliot – Triple Jump

Shelby Jansen – 300M

Lauren Matheson – 100m and 200m
Tanner Matheson – 100m

Simon Nemethy – 1000m

B. Harry Jerome Meet

At the Harry Jerome International Meet Geoff set a new pb and ran a “B” standard time* for the World championships to place second while Alyx won the Olympic development high jump.

* To qualify for the world championships in South Korea Geoff has to finish in the top 3 at Nationals in Calgary (he was 3rd) and run an “A” standard time (sub 3:36) or run two “B” standard times (sub 3:38) and go as a “rising star” athlete. Here are the results for todays run in Italy.

For those that would like to, you can follow Geoff on his blog site:  http://www.runmartinson.ca/

Full results are here:  http://www.harryjerome.com/results/2011-outdoor-jerome/

Timex 1500 Meter Men Invitational NTL
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Name                    Year Team                    Finals
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1 Nathan Brannen            82 Canada                 3:36.75
2 Geoff Martinson           86 Canada                 3:37.56
3 Mathew Gibney             88 Australia              3:38.34
4 Kyle Boorsma              88 Canada                 3:39.20
5 Ryan Foster               88 Australia              3:39.57
6 Anthony Berkis            89 Canada                 3:41.34
7 Justin Marpole-Bird       88 Canada                 3:41.34
8 Peter Corrigan            89 Canada                 3:41.57
9 Diego Borrego                Mexico                 3:41.74
10 Matt Lincoln             82 Canada                 3:42.21
11 Silas Kisorio               Kenya                  3:43.57
12 Taylor Milne             81 Canada                 3:45.86
– Christian Smith          83 USA Pace                   DNF

Vancouver Sun High Jump Women Olympic Development
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Name                    Year Team                    Finals
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1 Alyx Treasure             91 Canada                   1.81m
1.70 1.75 1.78 1.81 1.84
O    O  XXO   XO  XXX
2 Holly Parent              91 Canada                   1.75m
1.65 1.70 1.75 1.78
O  XXO    O  XXX
3 Emma Kimoto               91 Canada                   1.75m
1.65 1.70 1.75 1.78
O    O  XXO  XXX
4 Shelby Smithson              Canada                   1.60m
1.55 1.60 1.65
XXO    O  XXX
4 Rachelle Barnett          89 Canada                   1.60m
1.55 1.60 1.65
XO    O  XXX

C. Victoria International Meet.

Geoff was second again at the Victoria meet.  The meet turned into a tactical affair as conditions were quite windy.

Men 1500 Meter Run INT.
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Name                    Year Team                    Seed     Finals  Points
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1 Ellerton, Andrew             Canada               3:41.00    3:40.80
2 Martinson, Geoff             Canada               3:39.21    3:41.13
3 Foster, Ryan                 Australia            3:39.51    3:41.84
4 Kisorio, Silas               USA                  3:39.00    3:41.89
5 Gibney, Matthew              USA                  3:40.00    3:42.90
6 Marpole-Bird, Justin         Canada               3:46.91    3:43.20
7 Berkis, Anthony              Canada               3:42.54    3:44.83
8 Corrigan, Peter              Canada               3:43.76    3:45.53
9 Lincoln, Matt                Canada               3:47.42    3:45.90
10 Kellar, Adam                 Canada               3:45.01    3:46.28
11 Boorsma, Kyle                Canada               3:40.55    3:46.44
12 Borrego, Diego               Mexico               3:44.00    3:47.75
13 Nicol, Scott                 Canada               3:44.90    3:48.52

D.  Canadian Junior Meet.

Alyx won the high jump at the Canadian Junior Championships in Winnipeg last week.  Congratulations on your performance and selection to the National Team Representing Canada to the 2011 Panamerican Junior Championships taking place in Miramar, Florida July 22-24.

E.  Twilight Meet.

Last night we had our second annual Twighlight fun meet.  A great time was had by all.  Many thanks to all the volunteers that helped to put on the meet, in particular, Sally Balazs for doing much of the organization and Shirley Schroeter for baking the prizes.

F.  Jamboree.

The Midget-Youth-Junior-Senior championship (otherwise known as the Jamboree) is this weekend in Coquitlam.  Good luck to all the athletes participating.

Valley Royals Track & Field Club                         HY-TEK’s Meet Manager
BC Athletics 2011 Track & Field Jamboree Meet – 7/15/11 to 7/17/11
Coquitlam BC
Team Entries – All Events

PGTF – Prince George Track Club
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1. Balazs, Emma – Female
#43 Women 1500 Meter Run Youth 16-17             4:50.14
#53 Women 3000 Meter Run Youth 16-17            10:33.00
#77 Women 2000 Meter Steeplechase Youth          7:09.63
2. Cormier, Shaun – Male
#6 Men 100 Meter Dash Junior  18-19 Pre            11.71
#16 Men 200 Meter Dash Junior  18-19 Pr            23.90
3. Elliot, Duncan H. – Male
#14 Men 200 Meter Dash Youth 16-17 Prel            25.78
#24 Men 400 Meter Dash Youth 16-17 Prel            57.30
#94 Men Long Jump Youth 16-17                      5.77m
#102 Men Triple Jump Youth 16-17                  12.49m
4. Frenkel, Carly – Female
#1 Women 100 Meter Dash Midget 14-15 Pr               NT
#91 Women Long Jump Midget 14-15                   4.55m
#99 Women Triple Jump Midget 14-15                 9.78m
#131 Women Discus Throw Midget 14-15              23.95m
#139 Women Hammer Throw Midget 14-15              28.90m
5. Gaiesky, Sean K. – Male
#32 Men 800 Meter Run Midget 14-15               2:10.24
#42 Men 1200 Meter Run Midget 14-15              3:30.94
6. Hepburn, Shauna L. – Female
#91 Women Long Jump Midget 14-15                   3.90m
#107 Women High Jump Midget 14-15                  1.40m
7. Hewitt, Joshua – Male
#24 Men 400 Meter Dash Youth 16-17 Prel            53.47
#34 Men 800 Meter Run Youth 16-17                2:02.63
8. Mitchell, Danielle – Female
#1 Women 100 Meter Dash Midget 14-15 Pr            14.41
#21 Women 300 Meter Dash Midget 14-15 P               NT
#99 Women Triple Jump Midget 14-15                 9.06m
9. Ott, Nathan J. – Male
#4 Men 100 Meter Dash Youth 16-17 Preli            11.85
#14 Men 200 Meter Dash Youth 16-17 Prel            23.86
#24 Men 400 Meter Dash Youth 16-17 Prel            53.43

G. JULY 23 practise is cancelled.
Most of the junior group would like be in Kamloops for the JD meet and few of the senior athletes would likely be coming out after the Jamboree so it is not a great inconvenience that the City informed us that our practise time was given to another event.  The Canadian Junior Football League will be hosting the Chilliwack Huskers and the Kamloops Bronco’s.

Club practises will continue till July 3oth.

H.  Junior Development Meet

The entries for the JD Meet are due on Friday the 15th.  Hopefully we have most of the entries by tonight.  If you don’t get your entries in tonight you will have to email them directly to me by Friday.

Brian

Kelowna Jack Brow meet.

Good luck to the athletes attending the meet this weekend. For the first time in many years I will not be attending. I will be in Burnaby to watch Geoff at the Harry Jerome meet on the 1st and then Victoria on the 3rd for the Vic International. If you missed his run at Nationals in Calgary this past weekend you can watch it online. Go to his website and follow the link.

http://www.runmartinson.ca/

In case you missed it, Geoff ended up third in the 1500m. He now needs to run a couple of fast times to qualify for the World Championships in South Korea.

Kevin also finished third in his junior 10k racewalk and Alyx finish 5th in the high jump.

Track practises.

Due to the track meet in Kelowna there will be NO practise on Saturday. Practises resume Monday for the juniors and Tuesday for the Seniors.

We still have a couple of big meets yet that club members will be preparing for.

July 2- 3 Jack Brow Invitational Kelowna
July 15-17 BC Jamboree 14 and older Abbotsford

Info is here:http://www.coquitlamcheetahs.org/p/bc-athletics-championships-jamboree.html
July 22-24 BC Jr. Development (9-13) Kamloops

Info. is here: http://www.kamloopstrackandfield.ca/club-meet-schedule.htm

Typically the club workouts continue till the end of July.

We will start accepting entries for the Jamboree and JD starting next week. As always, if you cannot be at the track you can always email your entries to me.

Brian.

bca2011jamboreemeetpackage

2011 bcjd champs – meet package

2011 revised tentative schedule bc jd champs

PG Track News – June 22^nd, 2011