New Westminster high school athletes broke seven meet records at the Burnaby/New Westminster high school district track and field meet last week.
Grace Fetherstonhaugh wrote her name into the record book following two juvenile girls’ races.
The New Westminster Secondary teen set a new mark of 4:57.20 in the 1,500 metres, while also running the fastest 3,000m to date with a 10:35.00 clocking in the BurWest girls’ final.
Nina Schultz leaped 5.28 metres in the long jump to set a new senior girls’ standard.
The NWSS A 4x400m relay team won its race in record time at 4:13.80. The Hyacks B team finished second at 4:44.16.
The rest of the New West records came in the javelin throw.
Jadya Shaw from Glenbrook threw 16.08m to win the bantam girls’ event. Brianna Bates hurled the spear 25.25m in the juvenile girls division.
Matthew Dheilly-Sturrock won the junior boys’ javelin with a record throw of 35.44m.
The other six records came from Burnaby public school athletes.
Mehar Thurkal from Burnaby Mountain set a new mark of 20.33 in the junior boys' 100m hurdles. Burnaby Central's Matthew Sam set a new standard of 47.20 in the junior boys' 300m hurdles. Central's Diego Medrano ran the fastest juvenile boys' 100m ever in a winning time of 11.58.
Danielle LeBreche of Central posted a record time of 56.04 in the junior girls' 300m hurdles. Lauren Gaffney of Mountain broke the junior girls' javelin record with a toss of 25.58 m. Burnaby South bantam Jasmine Lyck set a new meet record in the 100m with a time of 12.77.
Burnaby Central won the overall aggregate team title with 739 total points.
Burnaby Mountain was runner-up with 549 points, while New West was third at 433.
Glenbrook, which ran away with the bantam aggregate, placed fifth overall with 311 points.
Central topped the juvenile, junior and senior team aggregate at the meet.
The BNW/Richmond zone qualifying meet for the upcoming provincial championships was held Tuesday at Burnaby Central.
