With school, and the high school track season coming to a close, the club outdoor track season is very much still in full swing in the province.
Yorkton Legion Track Club athletes attended the 2013 Saskatchewan Track & Field Championships and Western Canadian Tryouts held in Regina at the Canada Games Complex on June 15-16th.
Twenty two athletes attended for the YLTC club, hopeful that they could qualify to be the amongst the best track and field athletes in Canada by advancing to Westerns.
This was the club's biggest number of athletes to ever attend an outdoor or indoor track meet this season making it very exciting to watch for the YLTC as a group of over twenty athletes were on hand to cheer their teammates on in hopes of proving that they have one of the best track programs in the province.
In the end Yorkton posted a solid eight athletes from the area that were picked to be on Team Saskatchewan to attend the Western Canada Midget & Youth Championship on July 25-26.
Three of those athletes competed against each other in the 100m dash wining 1st, 2nd and 3rd, sweeping the podium. Coaches from the Saskatchewan Athletics program were astonished about how all three medal winners were from the same club in Yorkton. Naturally a relay team will be made with these three teammates for Westerns comprising of the YLTC trio and one more for the 4 x 100m in Calgary. These three sprinters were Devon Frounfelter, Jonah Sutter and Ethan Field.
Other YLTC athletes that qualified for Calgary were Jaden Porte, Cole Burkholder, Jaret Porte, Denton Dietz, Mikaila Ortynsky.
Kalyn Giroux qualified in shot put to attend Junior Nationals July 12-14 in Sainte-Terese, Quebec. The qualifying standards for Junior nationals is 11.25m for women. Kalyn threw 11.49m at the 2013 Saskatchewan High School Provincials winning a gold medal. She also won a gold medal at 2013 Sask Age Class Championship with a distance of 11.92m. This distance far surpassed the qualifying standard for the JuniorNationals. Giroux is from Stockholm, but trains with the Yorkton Legion Track Club for her club season in indoor and outdoor track.
Cole Burkholder has also qualified for National Youth Track & Field Championships in Langley, BC Aug .9-11. Cole had a time of 3:29 at the Saskatchewan Cham-pionships, beating the qualifying time is 3:30 in the 800 meter race. Congratulations Cole. The YLTC also has two athletes on the verge of posting qualifying results in Brenden Weber and Jaden Porte as the two YRHS athletes have a handful of meets left to post their standards but are improving with each week.
