Going for Gold

nathan anderson
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Three-dozen local athletes will go for gold at the 2008 Alberta Summer Games.
This year’s games will be held from Aug. 7-10 in Medicine Hat. More than 3,200 athletes, coaches and officials will participate in the 29 sports. The athletes, including 31 from Airdrie, four from Crossfield and one from Balzac, range between 11 and 17.
Local competitors will represent Zone 2, Big Country, which finished fourth with 89 medals in 2006. Airdrie and area athletes will make up the backbone of several Zone 2 teams, including the female soccer team (nine members), the female softball team (five members) and the male soccer team (six members).
Local athletes to compete include:
• Christina Ulrich - BMX, 11-12 Female Event
• Caitlyn Duncanson - BMX, 11-12 Female Event
• Meaghun Scholfield - BMX, 13-14 Female Event
• Devon Chernow - Swimming, Male 100 Breastroke, Male 50 Fly, Male 400 Free, Male 200 MR, Male 50 Free, Male 100 Back, Male 200 FR
• Brandon Chernow - Swimming, Male 200 IM, Male 400 IM, Male 400 Free, 17 Male 200 MR, Male 50 Free, Male 100 Fly, Male 200 FR
• Lynsey Martin (Crossfield) Female Athletics, 1500m, 3,000m
• Zone 2 Female Softball Team - Demi Kammer, Katie Hlushak, Brittany Hebert, Melissa Samson (Crossfield), Payton Eldridge (Crossfield)
• Zone 2 Female Soccer Team - Breanne Bachand, Brooke Fouracres, Tristan Matthews, Kaitlyn O’neill, Emily Roth, Shelby Santer, Janelle Twomey, Rebecca Yellowega, Anastasia Gorda (Crossfield)
• Zone 2 Male Basketball Team - Mark MacEachen
• Zone 2 Male Baseball Team - Eric Whitnack, Ty Rattie
• Zone 2 Male Soccer Team - Jeremie Anderson, Curtis Contenti, Brandon Glowinski, Mitchell Kreis, Robin Schile, Matthew Wagner
• Zone 2 Football Team - Landon Bayda, Travis Larson, Tylen Lewis (Balzac)
• Zone 2 Lacrosse Team - Mitchell Quong, Justin Leavitt
• Zone 2 In-Line Hockey Team - Aaron Beaudry, Alex MacKenzie
This is one of the largest local contingents of athletes to ever compete in the Alberta Summer Games, up from less than a dozen in 2006. However, local athletes did bring home four medals that year, with James Tonks and A.J. Armstrong winning bronze in baseball, and Jill MacEachen winning a silver and two bronze medals in athletics.

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