Mid-September saw senior athletes travel down to Langley for the BC Seniors Games, and come back up the coast wearing medals of all colours.
2014 has been a banner year for organizers of the BC games as well as all competitors. Many athletes achieved their personal bests, excelling at events.
Powell River’s Victor Njume headed the local medal count with one gold, one silver and two bronze in track and field.
Together with Njume in track and field, Mel Chatwin won two bronze medals and Lorne Morrow one bronze.
In the pool, Nancy May Lalonde won one silver and one bronze medal, while Patricia Lewis came home with two silver medals and a bronze.
As organizers look toward 2015, the games will be hosted in North Vancouver at the end of August and will be rebranded as the 55+ BC Games.
“The new 55+ BC Games will strive to maintain its leadership as the premier multi-sport event and become widely recognized among all 55+ British Columbians as being friendly, welcoming, supportive and transformative,” said BC Seniors Games Society president Wayne Naka.
The re-brand involves a new logo that is a stylized torch representing the people that embrace life, sport and friends within a multi-sport games environment.
Anyone wishing to participate as a volunteer or just to learn more about the 2015 games can visit online or contact Paul Kingan, sports chair for zone two at [email protected] or 1.250.338.2137.
