A cadet with the 759 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, Burnaby’s Claire Weng knows her way around the ski trails. The 17-year-old secured first place in the female youth sprint race and finished fourth in the patrol race at the provincial biathlon championships in Comox last week.
“I didn’t make the cut for biathlon the first year I tried out, but I could tell that our biathlon team was a team that you wanted to be in. This sport is full of amazing people and I love that the Cadet Program makes it accessible to everyone,” says Claire.
More than 80 cadets competed, testing their fitness, skiing, teamwork and marksmanship skills against the best cadet biathletes in the province in hopes of achieving a spot on the B.C. National Cadet Biathlon team and attending the National Cadet Biathlon championship March 5-10 in Charlottetown.
