VanNeck wins two golds at OFSAA

Chatham-Kent Secondary School’s Noah VanNeck had a successful OFSAA track and field championship in St. Catharines on the weekend—winning the junior boys shot put and discus gold,

Last year, VanNeck won gold medals in the novice boys shot put and discus categories.

The Grade 10 student won twice and set a record at the OFSAA West Region meet in the run up to OFSAA.

Here are how the other Chatham-Kent high school track and field athletes who qualified for OFSAA did in St. Catharines.

Ursuline
Mimo Atoyebi novice girls 100m 5th
Mimo Atoyebi novice girls 200m 7th
Madeline Verbeek junior girls 300m hurdles 4th
Madeline Verbeek junior girls 400m hurdles 7th
Aislyn DeHoey junior girls triple jump 12th
Ursuline’s Miles Carrington novice boys’ 400m 16th
DJ Destang-Phillip senior boys long jump 8th
Willow Sparling in the novice girls discus 17th
Novice boys 4x100m relay team of Emerson Alves, Carrington, Harper McPhail and Ben Bondy 16th

Chatham-Kent

Noah VanNeck junior boys shotput 1st

Noah VanNeck junior boys discus  1st
Lia Hillman junior girls 200m 8th
Felix Ostropolec novice boys’ shot put 21st
Gracie VanderGriendt open girls 2000m steeplechase 15th
Gavin Lumley novice boys 3000m 12th
Jack Saunders novice boys discus 14th
Alexander Crow novice boys javelin 5th
Ian Costello in the senior boys discus 8th

Wallaceburg
Dylan Leach novice boys triple jump 10th

Lambton-Kent
Anthony Hopkins novice boys’ discus 13th

McGregor
Kolton Jones intellectually impaired boys shot put 5th

Chatham Christian
Chris Vyn senior boys’ high jump 15th