NORTHEAST — It was a victory the three largest high schools in the Northeast could share.
Sydney Bromm and Makenna Furber of Tisdale, Brenna McRae of Nipawin, and Mackenzie Johnson of Melfort won silver in the junior girls relay at the track and field provincials in Prince Albert June 1 and 2. At provincials, relay teams are entered by district, not school.
“When you look at them on paper, all of them are talented, fast runners,” said Harvey Weber, the coach of the relay team.
“When I saw this team, I thought this was a team that could possibly medal, this is the team I want to coach and they pulled it off.”
Weber, who’s also the coach for Tisdale Middle & Secondary School, has coached relay at an advanced level for the Canada Games.
“I met with them the morning of the relay practice and I said to them, ‘your team has a really good chance to medal,’ and they were all skeptics.”
In their first heat, they placed first with a time of 53.02. In the finals, they finished faster with a time of 52.67, but were beaten by Saskatoon.
“The girls, I think, surprised themselves, coming away with a silver medal,” Weber said.
Kira Comfort of Nipawin’s LP Miller Comprehensive received gold for her midget girls javelin performance. She threw it 34.87 metres, a personal best.
On top of the relay win, McRae won bronze in the junior girls 80 metre, with a personal best of 12.98.
Daren Clergio of Tisdale placed fourth in the junior boys triple jump, leaping forward 12.19 metres.
“That was a personal best and it was 20 centimetres short of the bronze medal position,” Weber said.
Kyle Froehlich of Nipawin placed fifth in the junior boys javelin, throwing it 40 metres.
It was sixth place for Justina Burns of Melfort in the midget girls javelin. She threw it 28.55 metres.
Sydney Bromm of Tisdale also had a solid performance in the junior girls 100 metre, coming from behind to place within the top 10.
“She went into the B final ranked 15th. She got second in her heat, which placed her eighth overall once they combined the A and B finals,” Weber said. “That’s unbelievably exciting.”
