Port Coquitlam's Reaghan Chadwick is not just your average 15-year-old girl.
She's well above average -- given she's prolific enough in both hockey and lacrosse to be named to Team B.C. in both sports for upcoming Canadian national championships.
Chadwick will join four other PoCo athletes who will represent the province in the national Midget girls lacrosse championships July 23-28 in New Westminster.
She made the squad following tryouts earlier this month in Richmond, and after having previously being chosen -- along with Coquitlam's Natasha Panahi -- to toil for B.C. in the Canadian Under-18 female hockey finals Nov. 2-6 in Saguenay, Que.
Chadwick's placing on both provincial teams raised no eyebrows. None but her own, that is.
"Yeah, I was surprised," said the Grade 10 Riverside secondary student. "I was not expecting to [make both teams]. That's not good to expect something like that."
Chadwick admitted she prefers hockey to lacrosse, but added she enjoys the variation the separate seasons permit.
She played boys lacrosse through Peewee and has been toiling in the Midget girls ranks for four years, having started competing against girls sometimes four years her senior.
"I was nervous at the beginning, I didn't know what to expect," Chadwick said. "But now I have older friends in high school because of it. I think that's pretty cool."
