The Coquitlam Cheetahs are on the prowl for greatness this summer.
The local track-and-field club corralled 10 provincial titles from the 2022 BC provincial championships earlier this month.
And four of those winning athletes will soon be heading east to the national youth championships after claiming their respective events.
Delaney Self brought back the most medals from Kamloops among her Cheetah teammates, reaching the top of the podium twice in under-16 womens' 80-metre (12.10 seconds) and 300-metre hurdles (45.86 seconds), and settling for silver in high jump (1.5 metres).
Her twin sister, Makenna, was the fastest woman under 16 years old in winning gold in the 100-metre (12.41 seconds) and 200-metre dashes (25.92 seconds) to qualify for Team BC.
Joining the Selfs includes Calib Gruninger, who rallied to win the under-18 boys' 100-metre race in a time of 10.88 seconds, but just fell short of the sprint double with a silver in the 200-metre dash (22.12 seconds).
As well, multi-event athlete Marty Bajarunas had the longest throw in under-18 boys' javelin at more than 55 metres to earn a gold medal around his neck, while also picking up a bronze in high jump (1.8 metres).
All four will compete in the 2022 Canadian Legion Track and Field Championships, Aug. 6 to 8 in Sherbrooke, Que.
Meanwhile, the Cheetahs were also led once more by veteran and 400-metre Canadian-champion Nathan George, who's flew past the field to win gold in the open men's 200-metre sprint.
George successfully defended his 200m crown from last year's provincials with a winning time of 21.29 seconds.
As well, Liepa Bajarunas racked up a gold medal in under-20 womens' javelin with a heave of the spear to nearly 37 metres.
Devon Meadows and Joshua Adehmar rounded out the gold medals for Coquitlam in the under-20 mens' 800-metre race (1:55.80) and 400-metre hurdles respectively (53.59 seconds).
Altogether, Coquitlam tallied 21 medals from the provincial meet, including 10 gold, eight silver and three bronze.
The medalists are as follows (in alphabetical order):
Gold
- Josh Adehmar = Open 400m hurdles
- Liepa Bajarunas = U20 Javelin
- Marty Bajarunas = U18 Javelin
- Nathan George = Open 200m
- Calib Gruninger = U18 100m
- Devon Meadows = U20 800m
- Delaney Self = U16 80m hurdles, 300m hurdles
- Makenna Self = U16 100m, 200m
Silver
- Anthony Amenta = U20 100m, 200m
- Calib Gruninger = U18 200m
- Ella Madsen = U18 2000m steeplechase
- Kalima Ngobi = U18 400m, Long Jump
- Delaney Self = U16 High Jump
- Payton Young = U18 Shotput
Bronze
- Marty Bajarunas = U18 High Jump
- Kai Hussein = U20 Shotput
- Svetlana Khrisanova = U16 High Jump
