North Shore athletes shone at the 2014 Special Olympics Canada Summer Games, defending their home turf by scoring multiple medals at the event held July 8-12 in Vancouver.
According to SOBC-North Shore, here are the athletes from North Vancouver and West Vancouver Van who came away with medals:
Aquatics:
- Athlete Rob Misjak earned a gold in the 50-m butterfly with a time of 50.33 seconds. He also earned two bronze medals in the 100-m freestyle, with a time of 1:28.42, as well as the 4x50-m freestyle relay, with his team's time at 2:33.45. Misjak out swam his qualifying times in both his individual finals.
Gymnastics:
- Athlete Danielle Juilfs earned one gold and two bronze medals, placing fourth overall, and earned the title of Best in B.C.
Athletics:
- Athlete Kara Wilson earned a silver medal in the 200 m with a time of 34.72. This was a personal best.
- Athlete Manuel Enright earned a silver medal in the 1,500 m with a time of 6:39.90. He also earned a bronze medal in the 5,000 m with a time of 26:38.40.
- Athlete Steve Schoeller earned gold in the 200 m with a time of 28.08. He also earned a bronze in the 100 m, with a time of 13.55.
Basketball:
- Team BC GRRRizzlies, featuring North Shore athlete Sangon Yoo and coaches Zak Klein, Jimmy Peterson and Jayne Baggot, had a perfect record at the Games and won gold in the B division. Klein and Peterson started the basketball program at SOBC-North Shore eight years ago and, at 24, were the youngest coaches at nationals.
- North Shore athlete Pierce Burns was picked up by the BC Adanacs from Coquitlam and earned bronze in the B division. He was named MVP for the team.
- Athlete Tyrone Liebenberg was picked up by the B.C. Warriors from Langley and went on to earn a gold medal in the A division with them.
- Athletes Nick Kellof, Billy Peterson and Josh Moon were all picked up by the BC Eagles from Surrey and earned bronze medals in the A division.
