Zion Corrales Nelson of Burnaby has been lighting it up on the track down south.
The Grade 9 St. Thomas More student recently won the women's 400 metres against NCAA athletes in a time of 55.7 at the recent University of Oregon Twilight meet.
She was also a runner-up in the 200m with a 24.5 clocking.
Corrales Nelson was first in the 100m at the Oregon Relays junior event and second in the senior 200m.
Record setter
Georgia Ellenwood, daughter of Burnaby Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services director Dave Ellenwood, won the B.C. high school girls' heptathlon for a fourth time in Abbotsford last weekend.
The Grade 12 Langley Secondary student won all but the javelin in the seven-discipline multi-sport competition, compiling a provincial record total of 5,296 points.
The new mark also surpassed Ellenwood's 5,288 personal-best score set last month at the Mt. Sac Relays that bettered Burnaby Central grad Angela Anoliefoh's junior meet record score set in 2001 by 19 points.
Tier 2 shines
The Burnaby-based Action-Elite girls placed 21st out of 60 Tier 1 teams at the recent Western Canadian under-14 volleyball tournament.
Earlier in the month, the Grade 8 girls' team, including STM's Lauren Walker, Danielle Tarazi, Rebecca Smigel, Daniella Palmieri and Carling Bauer, as well as Carrie Anne Wong, Mernin Orago and Mecayla Mendoza of Burnaby South, New Westminster's Kathleen Caballero, Alexandria Carusi of Notre Dame and Little Flower Academy's Jordan Fahey, won the Volleyball B.C. provincial Tier 2 gold medal at Tradex in Abbotsford.
Invited to camp
Lindsey Bott and Calli Glover from Burnaby South Secondary and Byrne Creek's Amar Abdulkarim were among five Burnaby/ New Westminster zone girls invited to the Basketball B.C. under-15 provincial team tryouts.
The BNW zone u-14 girls' team fashioned a 2-2 record, despite having three Grade 6 and two Grade 7 players in the lineup at the provincial zone championships held in Langley last weekend.
