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Senior Tigers Update: May 18, 2018

TRACK TEAM TO BC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Congratulations to the entire Track & Field Team and their coaches: Jacob Emerson, Brianne Wager, Natalia Hawthorne, and Flo Chan. The following athletes have automatically qualified for the BC Championships held May 31 – June 2 in Langley, BC.

  • Sophie, Gr. 9
  • Claire, Gr. 9
  • Emily, Gr. 11

Congratulations girls! More YHS athletes may qualify through the open zone application process.

SENIOR A VARSITY ULTIMATE TEAM TO BCSS ULTIMATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
For the first time in the history of ultimate in BC, the BC Championships are being run and sanctioned by BC School Sports. Prior to this year, Ultimate BCs was always run by the provincial sports organization, BC Ultimate. Now, ultimate teams are competing for the highly coveted BCSS blue championship banner.

The YHS-St. George’s team, called TIGHT, competed at the AAA Lower Mainland Championships this past week. The team placed second in pool play and finished fifth overall.

SOCCER SEASON WRAP UP
Our Senior Soccer Team came up one win short from qualifying for the Vancouver – Richmond Zone Championships but congratulations to our girls and our coaches for some excellent results during the season! The Tigers easily defeated St. Pat’s in the final game of their season.

Our Junior (Gr. 8-10) Soccer Team wrapped up their season Wednesday with a 4-1 win over Notre Dame to place third in our LMISSAA league. Congrats to the girls and coaches.

SOCCER NEXT SEASON
At this time, we expect to field just one soccer team next season rather than two. We have faced too many challenges fielding both a Junior and Senior Soccer Team these past two seasons as so many girls are involved in Ultimate, Track & Field, or in their own community sports. Many of our busiest soccer players are unable to play at YHS due to their club commitments and many others, who play soccer in the community from August to March, are excited to play ultimate or run track during the spring. Fielding one Senior Team will mean a large roster of the best Grade 8-12 players at YHS are involved on the team.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Athletics Director at [email protected].

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Senior Tigers Update: May 10, 2018

ULTIMATE HEATS UP
Our Ultimate Teams have been busy competing at tournaments these past few weekends. Our Varsity Team competed at Ultimate Nationals this past weekend at Burnaby Lake. The combined St. George’s-York House Team, “TIGHT”, placed 7th overall after dropping a quarter-final match to the eventual champions. The previous weekend, TIGHT travelled to Bellingham, Washington for the annual Spring Reign Tournament to compete against many of the best ultimate frisbee teams in Western Canada and the US. This week, TIGHT faces the top teams in the Lower Mainland competing for the AAA Lower Mainland Championship and a berth to the 2018 AAA BC Championships. Games run Friday at Hugh Boyd in Richmond and Saturday, at Churchill Secondary.

Our Senior B Team and Junior Teams competed at the Pull for Parkinson’s Tournament last Friday. York House-St. George’s TIGHT Junior Team placed 1st overall at the tournament.

TRACK & FIELD ZONES
This past week our Senior Track & Field Team competed at the Lower Mainland Independent Zone Championship Meet. The girls competed hard and produced excellent results. Our Track Team was small with 20 YHS students attending zones. Despite low numbers, YHS scored exceptionally placing 2nd overall in the Girls Gr. 8 Division behind Crofton House: CHS 126, YHS 116, West Point Grey (WPGA) 99 and St. Thomas More Collegiate (STMC) 89. In the Junior (Gr. 9-10) Division, YHS placed 3rd overall: CHS 228, WPGA 165, YHS 158, Notre Dame (ND) 123. In the Senior Division, YHS placed 2nd: WPGA (86), YHS 56, CHS (50) and STMC (44).

While the YHS team was smaller than others schools, the girls did exceptionally well. You might ask “Why is the Tigers Track Team so much smaller than WPGA, Little Flower Academy (LFA), CHS?” There are a couple of key reasons: our overall student population is much smaller than CHS and LFA and secondly, we have approximately 50 girls committed to our Ultimate program (a program that neither CHS and WPGA have).

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Athletics Director at [email protected].