Team B.C.’s contingent of 350 athletes, coaches, managers, and Mission Staff contains a solid North Okanagan group heading to Prince Edward Island (PEI) for the 2023 Canada Winter Games.
The Games run Saturday, Feb. 18, to Sunday, March 5.
Competing/participating in PEI from the North Okanagan are:
ALPINE SKIING
Matthew Leach, Lumby, athlete; Amy Milne, Vernon, athlete; John Newton, Vernon, coach; Kim Leach, Lumby, participant assistant;
BIATHLON
Parker Munroe, Vernon, athlete; Liam Simons, Vernon, Athlete; Sebastian Solomonson, Coldstream, athlete;
FREESTYLE SKIING
Tate Garrod, Vernon, athlete;
FEMALE HOCKEY
Maya Serdachny, Vernon, athlete;
MALE HOCKEY
Hudson Kibblewhite, Vernon, athlete;
SNOWBOARDING
Laura Lucas, Vernon, athlete; Daniel Curtis, Vernon, coach.
It’s the third time that PEI has staged the Canada Games since the province hosted its first Winter Games in 1991. Athletes will compete in 20 sports at venues throughout PEI, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
Team B.C. will be led into the Opening Ceremony by 17-year-old flag-bearer Oonah Gamboa (Vancouver) from karate, which will be making its debut at the PEI Games. Gamboa enters the Games ranked fourth in the world and first in Canada in Junior Kata.
A BC Games alumni from 2018 and an active volunteer in her sport, Gamboa will be back at the provincial multi-sport event in 2023 as an apprentice coach for Zone 5 Vancouver-Coastal when the Games take place March 23-26 in Greater Vernon.
Team B.C. finished fourth with 87 medals and a record-setting 30 gold medals at the last Canada Winter Games in Red Deer in 2019.
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