Four UAC athletes ventured to Kelowna for the JD Championships this past weekend. The temperatures were very hot, but our athletes competed well, and were great representatives of our club.
Top Eight results were: Keerat Dhillon Gold (Discus) Gurleen Mander Gold (Discus, Shot Put) Jasleen Nagra Silver (100m), Bronze (200m), 7th (200mH) Mangot Nagra 8th (60mH) Well done UAC, and thanks to Coach Sabrina for supporting our athletes. Special appreciation to our parents who helped at the meet. |
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Top 8 finishers were:
Zone 3 Mitchell Gibbs 100m, 3rd 200m, 2nd LH, 2nd 4x100, 1st Taylor Sillars 300MH, 4th TJ, 2nd 4x400, 4th Zone 4 Estella Mainella 100m, 3rd 200m, 3rd 4x100, 1st Charity Obazughanmwen 200m, 4th 4x100, 1st Nathan Chan 300m, 6th 4x400, 1stt Praise Aniamaka 100mh, 2nd 300mh, 1st TJ, 1st 4x400, 1st Charanjit Nijjar SP, 2nd DT, 2nd Krysthina Vlahovic 300mh, 2nd 80mh, 7th Kyu Yoon 4x400 1st Zone 5 Robin Gill 300m, 7th |
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The 2018 BC High School Championship is history, and UAC has had our best results ever. We are SO proud of all our competitors.
Special recognition to coaches Jessie, Iuliana, and Luca for preparing our athletes, Kevin, Emily, Natasha, Sabrina and Sue for working as officials at the meet, and Julie for her management skills. Be sure to read these articles and pictures by Howard Tsumura on the "Varsity Letters" blog about two of our athletes. Please Click Here for one, Click Here for the other. Here are the Top 8 finishes from our wonderful athletes! Grade 8 Girls: Angelica Billows 4x100 8th Jasman Bhullar 200MH 8th Krysthina Vlahovic 80MH 1st 200MH 1st Imani Washington 100m 3rd Junior Girls: Karman Kang 80MH 5th Estelle Mainella 100m 2nd 200m 5th |
Junior Boys:
Praise Aniamaka 100MH 3rd 300MH 1st Triple Jump 1st 4X400 2nd Nathan Chan 4X400 2nd Mitchell Gibbs Long Jump 2nd 4X400 2nd Charn Nijjar Discus 2nd Shot Put 2nd Taylor Sillars 4x400 2nd Senior Boys: Kenny Blackman 100m 1st 200m 2nd Senior Girls: Simran Bangar Discus 8th Aaryanna Kurucz 400m 2nd 400MH 1st 4x100 1st 4x400 1st Jasneet Nijjar 100m 1st 200m 1st 400m 1st Amanda Moore 400m 4th Katarina Vlahovic 100MH 1st 200m 2nd |
Six Universal Athletics Athletes were selected for invitation to compete at the prestigious Oregon relays event in Eugene Oregon, April 14 and 15.
Amanda Moore, Kenny Blackman, Aaryanna Kurucz, Manreet Sangha, Jasneet Nijjar and Katarina Vlahovic traveled to "Track City" with their familes, and had a valuable developmental experience at this large meet with a high level of competition. Coach Jessie accompanied the UAC group. Top 8 finishes from UAC were: Katarina Vlahovic 1st 100m 12.19 1st 100MH 14.19 Jasneet Nijjar 2nd 100m 12.22 1st 200m 25.14 Aaryanna Kurucz 4th 400m 58.35 8th 4x400 1.47.61 Kenny Blackman 6th 100m 11.05 6th 200m 22.89 |
Along with Coach Jessie, a group of UAC athletes traveled to Seattle to compete at the 2018 Husky Indoor Open at the University of Washington. Many Indoor PB's were achieved during this very high level competition.
Top Ten Results include: Open Men Amar Sandhu 60m 7th, 200m 4th Open Women Katerina Vlahovic 60 metre hurdles 3rd, 60 metres 9th Jasneet Nijjar 60 metres 7th, 200 metres 2nd 4X400 relay 5th (Jasmine Gill, Natasha Friedmann, Jasneet Nijjar, Aaryanna Kurucz) |
The Harry Jerome Indoor Games, February 3, 2018, was a tremendous success for Universal Athletics. All of our athletes competed well, and most achieved Personal Bests at this very early season event.
Highlights: Midget Boys 4X200 relay team (Sillars, Aniamaka, Chan, Gibbs) set a meet record with their gold level performance. Jasneet Nijjar achieved a meet record in the 60 metres for youth women, and Iyimi Fagbamiye set the 12 year old boys 60 metre record, both winning gold medals. Outstanding Youth Womens athlete of the meet: Jasneet Nijjar Outstanding Open Womens athlete of the meet: Katarina Vlahovic UAC results: Women
Women's Midget 14-15, 60 metre hurdles 1st VLAHOVIC, Krysthina 9.51 2nd KANG, Karman 9.74 3rd MAINELLA, Estella 9.88 Women's Open, 60 metre hurdles 1st VLAHOVIC, Katarina 8.89 Womens's Youth 16-17, 60m hurdles 1 NIJJAR, Jasneet 8.97 10 2 SANGHA, Manreet 9.71 8 Women's Open, 60 metres 1st VLAHOVIC, Katarina 7.75 5th FRIEDMANN, Natasha 8.23 8th MOORE, Amanda 8.28 Women's Youth, 16-17 60 metres 1st NIJJAR, Jasneet 7.84 Women's Midget 14-15, 60 metres 1st MAINELLA, Estella 8.08 4th VLAHOVIC, Krysthina 8.46 Women's 12 Year Old, 60 metres 2nd NAGRA, Jasleen 8.91 Women's Midget 14-15, 300 metres 8th BHULLAR, Jasman 48.48 |
Special recognition to Universal Official Emily Kydd for her operation of the new entry and results technology for the meet.
Congratulations to all our athletes, coaches, officials, and families Full results are on the Harry Jerome website, Click Here. Club results below. Check out this article from the Jerome site, including some UAC photos. Click Here. UAC results: Men
Men's Midget 14-15, 60m Hurdles 3rd ANIAMAKA, Praise 9.08 5th SILLARS, Taylor 9.81 Men's Open, 60 metres 2nd SANDHU, Amarveer 6.96 3rd BLACKMAN, Kenny 7.04 Men's Youth 16-17, 60 metres 2nd IYUMVA, Cedric 7.30 Men's Midget 14-15, 60 metres 1st GIBBS, Mitchell 7.49 Men's 12 Year Old, 60 metres 1st FAGBAMIYE, Iyimi 8.40 Men's Midget 14-15, 300 metres 2nd ANIAMAKA, Praise 39.84 Men's Open 600, metres 4th DAVIS, Shemar 1:32.09 Men's Midget 14-15, 600 metres 3rd. GILL, Robin 1:37.05 Men's Midget 14-15, 4 x 200m Relay 1st UNIVERSAL ATHLETICS CLUB 1:44.46 Men's Midget 14-15, High Jump 1st SILLARS, Taylor 1.55m |