Salmon Arm brings home shiny selection of medals from BC Winter Games

Elias Rands delivers a rock to sweepers Nolan Beck (left) and Alex Watkins, while skip Kaiden Beck waits in the house. The Salmon Arm quartet claimed gold for Zone 2 Thompson Okanagan in men’s curling at the Greater Vernon B.C. Winter Games at the Vernon Curling Club. (Roger Knox - Black Press)Elias Rands delivers a rock to sweepers Nolan Beck (left) and Alex Watkins, while skip Kaiden Beck waits in the house. The Salmon Arm quartet claimed gold for Zone 2 Thompson Okanagan in men’s curling at the Greater Vernon B.C. Winter Games at the Vernon Curling Club. (Roger Knox - Black Press)
Larch Hills Para-athlete Kaden Baum from Salmon Arm claims gold in the 400-metre sit-ski cross-country skiing sprint event at the BC Winter Games in Vernon March 23-26. (BC Winter Games Society image)Larch Hills Para-athlete Kaden Baum from Salmon Arm claims gold in the 400-metre sit-ski cross-country skiing sprint event at the BC Winter Games in Vernon March 23-26. (BC Winter Games Society image)
Larch Hill’s Madeleine Wilkie brings home two gold medals and one silver in cross-country skiing from the BC Winter Games in Vernon March 23-26. (BC Winter Games Society image)Larch Hill’s Madeleine Wilkie brings home two gold medals and one silver in cross-country skiing from the BC Winter Games in Vernon March 23-26. (BC Winter Games Society image)
Larch Hill’s Madeleine Wilkie skis to a gold medal in the girl’s cross-country skiing sprint at the BC Winter Games in Vernon March 23-26. (BC Winter Games Society image)Larch Hill’s Madeleine Wilkie skis to a gold medal in the girl’s cross-country skiing sprint at the BC Winter Games in Vernon March 23-26. (BC Winter Games Society image)

Salmon Arm athletes brought home a beautiful bouquet of medals from the BC Winter Games in Vernon.

In cross-country skiing, Madeleine Wilkie earned two golds and a silver.

One gold was in the girls sprint and the second in the four-by-2-kilometre mixed relay. There she teamed up with two skiers from Vernon and one from West Kelowna to claim gold for Thompson-Okanagan Zone 2.

Madeleine’s silver came in the 5-km interval-start event.

Also highly successful in cross-country skiing was para-athlete Kaden Baum, who brought home two gold medals.

One was in the sit-ski 3.5-km event and the other in the 400-metre race.

Read more: Two Salmon Arm Para-Nordic skiers claim 5 medals at Canada Winter Games

Their coach, Donna Flatman, was ecstatic.

“They both skied incredibly well and represented Larch Hills amazingly. That was a highlight for me, to watch them ski. They were both incredible.”

Also bringing home shiny gold medals were members of Team Beck in curling.

Skip Kaiden Beck, as well as Nolan Beck, Elias Rands and Alex Watkins, took gold for the Thompson-Okanagan zone in the boys competition. They were well-supported by head coach Darryl Horne and adult supervisor Scott Beck.

Read more: Okanagan-Shuswap curlers crowd podium in BC Games competition

Cadence Tulak from Salmon Arm and her teammates earned a silver medal for Zone 2 in ringette. She was the lone Salmon Arm athlete, with players from Vernon, West Kelowna and Kelowna.

Well-known and versatile Shuswap athletes Lily Brook and Maggie Manning combined on a wheelchair basketball team with two players from Pender Island, one from Summerland and one from Kamloops, but just missed the medals.

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martha.wickett@saobserver.net
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