Kamsack students returned home from the Yorkton Regional High School’s annual Run for Peace at the Cherrydale Golf Course September 9 with two medals and four ribbons for having placed well in the competition.
At the Kamsack Comprehensive Institute, two students won silver medals and two others received ribbons for having placed among the top 10 in their categories of competition, while at the Victoria School, two students placed among the top 10 of their categories.
At the KCI, Darren Kitsch and Chantelle Kitchen are the coaches of a cross-country team of about 20 students in grades 5 to 12. Students practice Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays after school.
At Cherrydale, where only 13 members of the KCI team attended, Maija Rousseau, a Grade 10 student competing in the junior girls category with about seven other athletes, and Kira Kitsch, a Grade 8 student in the bantam girls category with about 15 other students, each placed second in their categories and were presented with silver medals.
Cadence Campeau, a Grade 5 student in the sneaker girls category with about 40 others, placed seventh, while Jordyn Thomas, in weepee girls with about 30 others, placed 10th.
At Victoria School, a group of 32 grades 3 and 4 students are on the cross-country team that is being coached by Karie Thomas, Rhonda Thomsen, Kelly S a l a h u b a n d M a s a k o Knight. The students practice Tuesdays and Thursdays for a half hour after school and once or twice a week during the noon hour.
“All 32 of the students finished the course which was very hilly,” Thomas said last week. Two of the school’s Grade 4 students placed sixth in their categories of competition.
Levi Erhardt, competing with 69 students in the squirt boys group, and Ty Thomas, who was in beginner boys with 39 others, each placed sixth.
All but one member of the Victoria School team attended another two-kilometre race which was held at Deer Park in Yorkton on September 14, she said, adding that this course was not as hilly as the other.
At Deer Park, Levi Erhardt, competing with 110 runners in squirt boys, again placed sixth, while Ty Thomas, with 77 runners in beginner boys, placed ninth. Willow Davis, a Grade 4 student in squirt girls, placed eighth out of 105 runners.
The KCI and Victoria cross-country teams are preparing to compete at the Autumn Summit at Saltcoats tomorrow (Friday). The junior and senior runners of the KCI team will be attending the district competition hosted by the Yorkton Regional High School at the Cherrydale Golf Course on October 8, and those who place well there will qualify to advance to the provincial competition in Saskatoon.
