The Nanaimo Track and Field Club's Elwood Wylie Memorial Track and Field Meet was an especially big deal this year. A huge contingent of locals competed at Rotary Bowl stadium on Saturday and Sunday.
The meet was a B.C. Summer Games qualifier for midget athletes.
Results from the track meet include:
Nine-year-old girls - Erika Fay, first, 60m dash, first, 100m dash, first, 60m hurdles; Keira Murphy, second, 1,000m, third, long jump; Makenna Paugh, second, shot put; Tate Robinson, third, 600m; Caitlin Smith, second, high jump.
10-year-old girls - Carys Menard, first, high jump, first, javelin, second, 1,000m, third, long jump, third, shot put; Elise Palmer, second, high jump.
11-year-old girls - Clarice Burgert, second, javelin; Paige Higgins, second, high jump, second, long jump, third, javelin; Olivia Lundman, first, 1,000m, first, discus, first, 800m race walk, second, shot put, third, 60m dash, third, 600m, third, 60m hurdles, third, high jump; Madison Paugh, second, 1,000m, second, discus, second, 800m race walk, third, long jump.
12-year-old girls - Karly Dickenson, second, 800m, second, 1,200m; Makayla Mitchell, first, high jump, first, shot put, first, discus, first, hammer throw, first, javelin, first, 800m race walk, third, long jump; Nnya Nbaoma, first, 200m, second, 100m dash, second, javelin.
13-year-old girls - Ashley Thayer, third, 80m hurdles; Kaitlyn Watson, first, pole vault, first, long jump, first, triple jump; Courtney Anderton, first, 300m, second, 100m dash, second, 200m; Arielle Assaf, third, long jump; Grace Bradley, third, 1,200m; Julia Dimter, first, 1,500m race walk, second, pole vault; Maria Johnson, second, 200m hurdles, third, 100m dashm third, 200m; Amanda Merner, second, 1,500m race walk; Evelynne Pallard, first, 800m, first, 1,200m, first, 2,000m; Chelsa Stansfield, second, 1,200m, third, 800m.
14-15-year-old girls - Marina Andersen, first, race walk, third, 1,500m steeplechase, third, pole vault; Hassy Fashina-Bombala, first, 200m, second, 100m dash, third, high jump; Madison Heisterman, first, 800m, first, 1,200m; Jessica Katzberg, second, discus, second, hammer throw; Taylor Sayah, second, 1,500m race walk; Hope Stewart, first, 1,500m steeplechase, second, pole vault.
16-17-year-old girls - Rachel Jerome, first, long jump; Amy Morris, first, 800m; Alyssa Mousseau, first, 400m; Manon Prairie, first, triple jump; Jenaya Pynn, third, 400m.
Masters women - Nola Hendrie, first, 100m dash, first, 200m, first, long jump; Karen Shook, first, 100m dash, first, 200m.
Nine-year-old boys - Zachary Croome, second, 600m, second, 60m hurdles, third, shot put; Jack Sprott, third, 800m race walk; Cody Watson, second, long jump, second, 800m race walk, third, 60m dash, third, 600m, third, 1,000m, third, high jump.
10-year-old boys - Carter Dunstan, first, discus; Ryan Green, third, discus; Stirling Henry, second, 60m dash, third, 100m dash; Luke Lavery, first, shot put, second, 100m dash, second, 600m, second, 1,000m, second, discus, second, javelin, third, 60m hurdles, third, high jump; Nate Paris, first, 100m dash, first, high jump, first, long jump, second, 60m hurdles, second, shot put, third, 600m; Jake Putz, third, long jump; Jaydon Watson, first, 60m dash, first, 600m, first, 1,000m, first, 60m hurdles, second, high jump, second, long jump, third, shot put, third, 800m race walk.
11-year-old boys - Cameron Martiniuk, first, 100m dash, first, long jump, second, 60m dash, third, 600m, third, 60m hurdles; Brett Schlitz, first, high jump; Jake Seaman, second, 600m, second, 800m race walk; Ryan Seaman, second, javelin, third, 800m race walk.
12-year-old boys - Ethan Andersen, third, javelin; Keaton Heisterman, first, 800m, second, high jump, second, javelin, third, discus; Ethan Katzberg, first, high jump, first, hammer throw, first, javelin, second, long jump, second, discus.
13-year-old boys - Matthew Brown, second, 200m; Colby Day, first, high jump, first, triple jump, second, shot put, third, 200m hurdles, third, long jump; Jett Ferraro, first, javelin, second, pole vault; Nate Seaman, first, 2000m, third, high jump; Ben Toth, first, 100m dash, first, 200m, first, 300m, first, long jump, first, shot put, first, discus, first, hammer throw, second, high jump, third, 800m, third, javelin; Devin Tozer, first, pole vault.
14-15-year-old boys - Josiah Ano, first, long jump, first, triple jump; Dominic Boar, first, pole vault, second, 100m hurdles, second, 200m hurdles; Joshua Mitchell, first, pentathlon, second, triple jump.
16-17-year-old boys - Charlie Andrews, third, 100m dash, third, javelin; Jason Clare, first, pole vault, first, long jump; Carter Higgins, second, 400m; Isaac Sandri, third, hammer throw; Anthony Serban, second, 300m hurdles.
18-19-year-old men - Sean Miller, first, 400m, first, 800m.
Masters men - Tim Hendrie, first, high jump, first, pole vault;Sven Donaldson, first, pole vault; Vern Shook, first, 100m dash, first, 200m; Joe Geigerich, first, pole vault, first, long jump, first, hammer throw; Joseph Coyne, first, 100m dash.
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