Chocolate Fundraiser for Month of May!

JD Chocolate Fundraiser details…

fund-benefitsWe are super excited to announce that we have an AMAZING opportunity for our JD Athletes (and now ALL of our Athletes) to help support the Valley Royals Track and Field Club!!

We have been in contact with World’s Finest Chocolates. We will be receiving chocolate suitcases for the JD team to help raise funds for the club. Each chocolate suitcase has a retail value of $90. The club will profit $48 on each suitcase. That’s a staggering 53% profit towards the club!!

EXCITING!!!! This means extra funds that can go towards new equipment, track meets and the possibility of funding our very own Track Meet. Something we are working very hard to make a reality!

Our goal is to have Every JD member (& interested Valley Royal Athletes) sell at least one or two chocolate suitcases in their neighborhood. Have the kids go door to door selling in the Royals Singlet or Hoodie-Anything with the Royals Logo!! Take them to work! Get out in the nice weather and sell at soccer games! Every event you attend make sure you bring your chocolate suitcase and SELL SELL SELL!!!! This is a great way to get your little athlete involved in
the community and supporting their activity.

At the end of the month of May/ beginning of June we will have locations set up for the kids to sell (Locations and Dates to be announced). We would love it if every JD Athlete could do a 3-4 hour shift of selling chocolates. We will also need a few parents to help supervise.

There will be PRIZES to whoever sells the MOST chocolates!!

DO WE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION NOW??

Read the rest of the details here… Chocolate Fundraiser

Lovett Gains Top Canadian Ranking at Mt. Sac Relays

Django Lovett claims top canadian ranking in Mt. Sac…

Django Lovett recorded a season best high jump performance of 2.23 meters Saturday at the Mt. Sac Relays in Los Angeles.   The event was won by American Jesse Williams who cleared an identical height to Lovett but accomplished his clearance on a second attempt to Lovett’s third.   But all in all it was a pleasing performance by the Valley Royal athlete who recorded his best height in several years and at present it ranks him first in Canada.

Other Valley Royal performances of note at Mt. Sac included Lindsay Butterworth’s   big break through and personal best 4:17.99 in placing 6th in the women’s 1500 meters.  Butterworth’s clocking gives her seventh place in the Canadian rankings for that event.    Jessica Smith was sixth in the women’s 800 meters (2:03.89) and Helen Crofts ran 2:07.21 in her section of the same event.

At the Oregon Relays in Eugene, OR four Valley Royal athletes took part in the high school division of the meet.  Tanner Geary ran 1:57.18 to place fifth in the field of more then 40 athletes.  Daniel James competed in the second section of the 800m and turned in a time of 2:03.94.  Kristin Biela ran a personal best 4:08.73 in the boys 1500 meters and proved to himself that even faster times are now very possible.

BC Summer Games Torch Lighting Ceremony

The torch lighting ceremony for the BC Summer Games takes place on April 13, marking 100 days till the beginning of the Games……

The torch lighting ceremony for the BC Summer Games takes place on April 13, marking 100 days till the beginning of the Games.

The ceremony kicks off at 7 p.m. at the Matsqui Auditorium, with the torch lighting taking place at 8:30 p.m. at Thunderbird Plaza.

The public is invited to attend both events.  BUT there is limited seating the Auditorium.

Geary & Gondara Lead Royals at Emilie Mondor Meet…

Tanner Geary’s four-second personal best in the 800-meters and Vikramjit Gondara’s win in the hammer……

Tanner Geary’s four-second personal best in the 800-meters and Vikramjit Gondara’s win in the hammer led Valley Royal performances Saturday at the Emilie Mondor Memorial held on the Simon Fraser University track.

Due to a mix up in the receipt of club entries, Geary was relegated to a weak section of the men’s 800-meters.  But instead of mopping about his status, Geary just took the lead, ran an aggressive race and finished first in his section with a time of 1:56.32 and four seconds in front of the second place finisher.  In addition, Geary’s time was a four second personal best and preps him for his race next week at the prestigious Oregon Relays in Eugene.

Vikramjit Gondara was not particularly happy with his performance but he still managed very creditable efforts for a 17-year old grade 11 athlete.  Throwing the 6kg hammer, Gondara recorded a distance of 54.64 meters in the hammer and followed that with in a toss of 39.60 meters in the discus for a second place finish. 

Jayden Driver, who will enter Simon Fraser University next September, had third place finishes in both the hammer (48.94m) and discus (37.20m).  Both performances demonstrated that Driver is well positioned to do well at both the upcoming high school provincial meet and then, hopefully, at the BC Athletic Association meets that include the BC Championship Jamboree.

Other medal performances by Valley Royal athletes saw Tasha Willing place second in the shot put (11.94m) and SFU graduate Lindsay Butterworth with a second place (56.35) in the women’s 400 meters, an event won by former Valley Royal athlete Chantel Desch (56.32).

Some good performances by the club’s younger athletes included 15-year old Rachel Mortimer with a second in her section of the 1500m (4:54.92), grade 10 runner Daniel James with a 2:04.64 clocking in the 800m, Kate Sokolowski who placed first in her section of the 800m (2:26.87) and Kristen Biela with a 4:11.75 in the 1500m.

OTHER VALLEY ROYAL PERFORMANCES AT THE MEET:

Hannah Konrad—4th in 400m section 2 (62.42)
Marley Hutchinson—4th in 400m section 1 (64.04)
Josephine Calverly—6th in 400m section 1 (66.38)
Cassidy Hutchinson—2nd in 800m section 1 (2:30.93); 3rd in 400m section 1 (2:30.93)