Hapnot Collegiate ended the track and field season with an impressive haul – two golds, two silvers and a bronze.
The school received five medals at this year’s Manitoba High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) track and field provincials, held on the University of Manitoba campus on June 7, 8 and 9.
Joie Simon was the school’s top finisher, earning three medals, one at every spot on the podium. Simon grabbed a bronze medal in the JV girls’ 100-metre race, ending with a time of 14.12 seconds. Simon finished just behind Garden City’s Gracie Grift and Prairie Mountain’s Birtukan Jonk, who would be constant competitors with Simon throughout the meeting.
In the JV girls’ 800-metre race, Simon finished second and ended with a silver medal, just behind Grift.
However, in the JV girls’ outdoor pentathlon, Simon couldn’t be caught, ending with 2,283 points and winning the gold. Jonk ended in second with 2,248 points, while Grift finished with 2,208.
On the boys’ side, Myles Quick brought home a gold in the boys’ varsity 1.5 discus. Quick nearly hit the 40-metre mark with his throw, earning top spot with a finish of 39.96 metres and topping the silver medallist by almost two metres.
Another medal came courtesy of Jordan Pfoh in the JV boys’ high jump. Pfoh came just two centimetres short of the gold, but landed on the podium with a leap of 1.79 metres. Jonathan Chausse of Miles MacDonnell Collegiate won gold in the event.
