The North Shore will be well represented at the Pan Am Games this year, with 15 athletes and two coaches with ties to North or West Vancouver taking part in the event running Oct. 20 to Nov. 5 in Santiago, Chile.
The North Shore core is bolstered by half a dozen field hockey players who will be going for gold with the men’s and women’s national teams. Climbers Sean McColl and Alannah Yip, who both represented Canada in 2021 in Tokyo where their sport made its Olympic debut, will be aiming to climb to the top again in Santiago.
The list also includes a familiar name in Mike Darbyshire, who will be competing in stand up paddleboarding. Darbyshire is well known in North Van as the operations manager at Deep Cove Kayak.
Wakeboarder Hunter Smith is the youngest North Shore athlete at age 21, while equestrian show jumper Tiffany Foster is the oldest at age 39.
Here are all of the North Shore athletes and coaches making the trip to Chile:
Athletes
-Hunter Smith, North Vancouver, wakeboarding
-Gaelan Patterson, North Vancouver, water polo
-Raben Dommann, North Vancouver, swimming
-Mike Darbyshire, North Vancouver, stand up paddleboarding
-Alannah Yip, North Vancouver, sport climbing
-Sean McColl, North Vancouver, sport climbing
-Ethan McTavish, North Vancouver, field hockey
-Taylor Curran, North Vancouver, field hockey
-Findlay Boothroyd, West Vancouver, field hockey
-Chloe Walton, North Vancouver, field hockey
-Audrey Sawers, North Vancouver, field hockey
-Karli Johansen, North Vancouver, field hockey
-Elias Ergas, North Vancouver, rugby sevens
-Tiffany Foster, North Vancouver, equestrian
-James Dergousoff, North Vancouver, swimming
Coaches
-Geoff Matthews, North Vancouver, assistant coach, men’s field hockey
-Roberto Brogin, North Vancouver, coach and team leader, tennis
