Byrne Creek Secondary student Henry Huang was a double bronze medallist at the B.C. high school swimming championships last weekend.
Haung placed third in both the B boys’ 50- and 100-metre freestyle races at Watermania in Richmond. He also won the B final in the 50m butterfly.
Burnaby Mountain swimmers also made a strong showing, earning individual and team medals to place eighth overall in the aggregate standings with 237 points behind provincial champion St. George’s and runners-up Penticton High and West Point Grey Academy. Mountain was also seventh overall in the boys’ aggregate and 14th in the girls’ combined.
Mountain’s Wendy Yang won a gold medal in the open girls’ 50m free, while teammates Elaine Lam and Robyn Lee finished third and fourth, respectively.
Lam and Lee shared a silver medal with Brian Fung and Andrew Woinoski in the open mixed 200m free relay.
Lee and Lam also placed fifth and seventh, respectively, in the open girls’ 100m free.
Woinoski and Fung joined Yang and Lee for another second-place medal in the mixed 200m medley relay.
Woinoski also won an individual bronze for Mountain in the open boys’ 200m individual medley won by New Westminster Secondary’s Hau-Li Fan. Fan also placed second in the open 100m fly. Fung placed fourth in the open boys’ 50m free.
Burnaby North, eighth-place finishers in the boys’ aggregate, won a team medal in the B boys’ 200m medley relay behind bronze-medal swims by Ethan Xue, Brady Liu, Aaron Cheong and Jacob Ng.
Philip He of Mountain led a number of other Burnaby students to final swims, placing fifth in the B boys’ 50m backstroke.
Lauryn Sartori of Notre Dame was fifth in the B girls’ 50m breaststroke. Brady Liu of Burnaby North was also fifth and William Truong of Mountain was sixth in the B boys’ 50m breast.
Dilip Rathinakumar of New West finished fifth in the B boys’ 50m fly. Rathinakumar joined Fan, Amar Fejzic and Xavier Lau for a fourth-place finish in the open boys’ 200m medley.
Ethan Laing of St. Thomas More Collegiate, Breanna Kossey of Notre Dame and Cheong also had top-10 swims at the provincials.
Rounding out the top 30 in combined team points were Burnaby North with 136 points, New West with 118 and STM with 110.
