Senior Tigers Update: June 16, 2022

TIGERS TRACK & FIELD TEAM AT PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

ADRIA, Grade 12, WINS GOLD IN 400m HURDLES AT BC CHAMPIONSHIPS!
Grade 12 track & field star, Adria, is the BC gold medalist, Provincial Champion in the 400m hurdles. Adria set a PB (personal best) and a new YHS school record running 64.26. Adria had to miss the 100m hurdles due to a conflict with the graduation ceremony. She is an outstanding track & field athlete who missed out on the past two high school track seasons due to the cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 competitive school seasons. Despite that, Adria holds four YHS school track & field records. She will be running track at McGill next year!

TIGERS JUNIOR 4 X 100M RELAY TEAM WINS GOLD MEDAL AT BC CHAMPIONSHIPS!
On Friday, our Tigers Junior 4 X 100m Relay Team (Grade 9 students Sofia V., Liv, Kate, and Sophia B.) ran 50.96 to win the BC Championship gold medal!

Congratulations to the entire track & field team and to coaches Mr. Jacob Emerson, Ms. Olivia Uliana ’20, and Ms. Jaxon Slaney.

What a season!

Top 10 Finishes at the BCs include:

  • GOLD Adria 400m H
  • GOLD Junior 4X100m relay (Sofia V, Kate, Liv, Sophia B)
  • SILVER Sofia V.: Junior Triple Jump
  • 4th Sophia B.: Junior 100m
  • 6th Julia: Grade 8 200m hurdles
  • 8th Annabelle: Javelin
  • 9th Grade 8  4X100m relay 
  • 10th Liv: Junior 100m
  • 10th Liv: Junior 200m
  • 10th Maddie: Junior High Jump

Other great results and personal bests from Julia M., Julia L., Nicole, Niamh, Hannah, Isabelle, and Situ.

2021-22 SEASON THANK YOU!

Thank you to all of our student-athletes who participated in extracurricular athletics this year as athletes, managers, officials, and student coaches. Without your effort, enthusiasm and commitment, we do not all get to enjoy these experiences. Athletics is never a perfect experience. Each season brings us highs and lows, wins and losses, successes and failures. It is easy to make excuses and blame others for failure. All of these experiences help us all grow and learn. Failure is inevitable and it is those people who keep trying who become successful.

Thank you to all the teachers and staff that support our program in so many ways whether they come out and cheer, help students who have missed class, drive our buses, and more.

Thank you to all our parents who support our students, cheer on our teams, share photos and often help our teams, our coaches and the Athletic Directors. Thank you!

Finally, a huge thank you to all our coaches who dedicate their time, their passion, and give their knowledge and experience to our student-athletes.

The 2021-22 Coaching staff includes both YHS and community coaches: Mr. Bester, Ms. Best, Ms. Angie Duncan, Mr. Jackson Liu, Mr. Carter Walls, Mr. Williams-Walshe, Ms. Atkinson, Mr. Matt Sarmento, Mr. John Smythe, Mr. Oliver Schofield, Ms. Kouzas, Ms. Christine Lee, Ms. Chang, Ms. Olivia Uliana ‘20, Ms. Rachel Cliff ‘06, Mr. Jacob Emerson, Mr. Kitengie, Ms. Brennan, Ms. Samantha Pyke, Ms. Erin Allan, Mr. Ben Dove, Ms. Jan Matthews, Mr. Lum, Mr. Bucifal, Ms. Gina O’Neil ‘15, Ms. Jaxon Slaney, Ms. Haley Shannon, Brianne Wager, Ms. Daisy Lin, Ms. Kat Ortega, Ms. Amel, Mr. Nathan Choi, and Mr. P.

And now, the 2021-22 Athletic Season is officially over!

Senior Tigers Update: June 2, 2022

A YHS FIRST: TIGERS COMPETE IN MOUNTAIN BIKING BC CHAMPIONSHIPS
For the first time ever, YHS competed at the BC High School Mountain Biking Championships on Friday, May 27 in Langford, BC.

Madeleine (Grade 10), Nicole (Grade 9) and Ruby (Grade 9) embraced the challenge to take on the best high school mountain bikers in BC in both Cross-Country and Enduro races.

Our bikers did well as Maddie placed 5th in the enduro race and 7th in Cross-country. Nicole placed 8th in enduro and 14th in Cross-country. Ruby placed 6th in Cross-country and 12th in enduro.

Congratulations to Nicole, Ruby, and Maddie! Who wants to join them next year?

This is no small event!

Video: Start of the Cross-Country Race
Video: Start of the Enduro Race

TIGERS AT TRACK & FIELD BC CHAMPIONSHIPS:
This is the final week of the spring sports season with the Track & Field BC Championships taking place in Langley on June 9-10-11. Good luck to all our Tigers participating.

Tigers performed very well at the first-ever Vancouver Sea to Sky Zone Championship meet on May 18-19 at Swangard Stadium. York House finished 9th overall out of 42 schools with 153 points. This of course is combined scores (girls + boys results) and is a great finish considering the size of YHS with all points scored in girls events only.