Mary Chewning to head power/speed group.

The Vancouver Thunderbirds are pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Chewning as the Head
Coach Power/Speed effective September 1, 2014.

Mary will be replacing Derrick Johnston who has been with the club for the past year, and now is moving
to Eastern Canada to pursue other coaching goals.

For the past 7 years Mary has held coaching positions at Ocean Athletics and several high schools in the
South Surrey area in hurdles, jumps, and sprints. She has been the Head Coach, Sprints and Hurdles at
Ocean Athletics for over a year and has recently been appointed Head Coach Sprints and Hurdles at
University of British Columbia. During her time at Ocean she coached athletes to represent Team BC at
National Championships and Canada Summer Games, as well as Team Canada for the World Youth
Games.

Mary is an Athletics Canada certified Performance Coach (formerly level 3) and will be responsible for
power/speed athletes from Grade 8 and upwards.

If you wish to contact Mary you may do so at mary@thunderbirdstrack.org

JD's EXCEL at BC CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thunderbird JD athletes achieved excellent results at the BC JD Championships held in Surrey; earning a total of three gold, four silver,  and seven bronze medals and an additional thirty-six top eight finishes.

Amelia Kristen had an excellent meet picked up two gold medals (6om and 600m), a silver (100m) and two bronzes (60m hurdles and high jump). Maya Baechler won the 1000m and finished second in the 600m. Luka Dolman earned a silver in the 100m and a bronze medal as part of the Medley (Luka, Jonah, Matthew and Dylan).  Jonah Glover Cook ran a big PB in the 800m to pick up a second bronze.  4*100m Luka, Dylan, Jeff & Cole) and Hanna Pawlik jump wonderfully to finish second in the long jump and Sophia Aitken had a great run to finish 3^rd in the 60m.  The grade 7 girls (Anna Aitken, Maggie MacKay, Ruby Fox and Cynthia Wei) matched the boys with a bronze in the medley relay, with Dylan Ulrich, Matthew Kieffer, Cole Gladders and Jeffrey Cheung,  picking up a bronze in the 4*100m relay.

While all of these results are commendable, equally heartening was the fact that Thunderbird athletes recorded fifty two seasonal best performances when it counts; in the championships.

Way to go all of you. A good summer vacation has certainly been earned.