Our Combined Events coach for the past three years, Greg Peters, has retired from coaching.   The athletes he has been coaching will be assimilated into the Power Speed Group.

Greg brought a wealth of experience with him after he retired from teaching in Smithers where he had run one of the best high school programs in BC, sending, over the years, many athletes on scholarship into the collegiate programs in the United States.

When he joined Pacific Athletics in 2009, Greg brought great enthusiasm to the club and built his combined events group to 10 athletes in 2011.   Continuing the tradition he started in Smithers, in 2011 two of his athletes are continuing on scholarship to University programs this Autumn. Zarria Storm is off to Sacramento State University in California to compete in NCAA Div I heptathlon and David McKay is off to York University in Toronto to compete in CIS pole vault.

Greg has had a very successful career in Track and Field coaching as he has coached on several International teams for Canada and on numerous BC Teams.   He finishes his career this September by coaching at the Commonwealth Youth Games for Athletics Canada on the Isle of Mann in the British Isles.   Greg has also used his knowledge of the sport by instructing in many coaching education courses for both the old and new NCCP programs over the years including an international coaching course for the IAAF.

Thank you Greg, for your contribution to our club and to the sport of track and field.

Once again, we will be having our ANNUAL THANKSGIVING TURKEY SALE this Autumn.   Pickup day will be Friday, September 29th, 9 days before Thanksgiving on October 10th.   These fresh frozen organic free range turkeys will again be sold for $3.65 per pound in sizes from 11 to 22 pounds. Anyone who has eaten one of these turkeys can attest to their great taste and tenderness.

This is one of only two fund raisers we have each year and it needs your support.   Each turkey sold will also add $5.00 to the club account of the athlete making the sale. This money can be used by the athlete for membership, uniforms and travel to meets.   The profits from the sale go directly into the programs, equipment, entry fees and travel to meets for the club training groups.   For the Youth and older athletes, the money earned by selling the turkeys also enables athletes (who raise $100 or more in their athlete accounts with two successive fund raisers) to have their BC Team fees of $280 paid for by the Club.

Turkey sale flyers and instructions will be e-mailed to all members the first week of September.

Zarria Storm, Brett Hastings, Danielle Delage, Casey Atkin, John Minkley and Olivia Merritt competed in Kamloops in August for Team BC in the 2011 Western Canada Summer Games.   Zarria continued to give quality performances this Summer as she won gold in the Heptathlon with 4658 points (15.02 100m H, 1.54m HJ, PB 10.49m SP, 25.57 200m, 5.11m LJ, PB 31.81m JT, 2:13.51 800m) and also placed 4th in the 100m hurdles in 14.99.   Casey won bronze in the 400m with a 56.39 race. Olivia won bronze in Javelin with a 39.05m throw and John placed 6th in the 400m hurdles in 56.76 but was unfortunatley DQ'd for a trail leg infraction in a 3rd place 15.80 in the 100m hurdles. Danielle led off the BC Team 4x400m relay and passed to Casey in the second leg as the team won gold in a WCSG record of 3:41.41.   Brett Hastings from the throws group competed in both hammer and discus, placing 4th in the hammer with a 45.61m throw and 5th in the discus with a 37.01m throw.   Ron Parker was the sprints, hurdles and relays coach and created video and photo DVD's of the Games for the athletes and coaches in this, his last coaching assignment for TeamBC in Summer Games.

Two club athletes were part of the Canadian team to the Pan Am Juniors in Miramar, Florida in late July. Adam Keenan came home with bronze medal in the Hammer and new PB of 66.62m achieved on his final throw.   Zarria Storm placed 6th in the Heptathlon with a PB total of 4710 points (PB 14.80 100m H, 1.64m HJ, 9.51m SP, PB 25,52 200m, PB 5.49m LJ, 25.22m JT, 2:34.40 800m).