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She added GOLD medals in the 4x400 with teammates **Amelia Humphrey** (’19), **Lindsay Hogan** (’19), and **Antonia Zeigler** (’19) and in the 4x100m relay with **Amelia Humphrey**(’19), **Kathleen Balcome** (’19), and **Jordyn Hickey** (’19).  Along with relay GOLD, **Jordyn Hickey** (’19) had another golden performance, this time as an individual, in her senior girls javelin throw.  **Brisnel Etou Bosseba** (’20) competed in four individual intermediate events and two relays, qualifying for Regionals in all and winning the 100m Dash, and High Jump and led in the winning 4x100m relay along with **Andrew Atwood **(’20)**, Duncan McLaughlin **(’20)**, Ryan Costello **(’20).  **Josh Mills** (’19) took home two GOLDS in the 100m and 200m Dash.  **Aria MacDonald** (’21) bested her competition by a large margin in striding to a GOLD medal in the intermediate 800m race. **Adeolu Kofoworade** (’18) seemingly hovered over the bar and the competition in winning the boys senior division high jump.  Though he didn’t collect any gold medals, **Luis Espinosa** (’19) definitely deserves the Iron Man award for placing 2nd in the 400m Dash (which would have been a District record were it not for the 1st place runner also breaking it), 2nd in the 800m, 2nd in the 1500m and 2nd in the 3000m.  **Espinosa** then led his team in the 4x400m relay to a (wait for it) 2ndplace finish.  It should be noted that he did not fall 2nd to the same person each time.  400m to 3000m is a very impressive range.                ![track 2](https://blog.kes.ns.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/track%202.jpg?width=300&name=track%202.jpg)The following list of athletes will be competing next week in the Regional Championship Meet at Acadia University (May 25, 26).  I should be receiving our Regional information soon and then I can pass along the schedule.  There will be some movements in the relays.  The top 4 competitors in track events and the top 5 in field events move forward to Regionals.  Even though our A and B team in the Junior Boys 4x400m race both placed in the top 4, we can only move forward one relay team.  This does show our great depth, however.  If I missed anyone, I can assure you it is not intentional, but please do let me know.  IB students who did not compete at Districts but will be competing at Regionals are not listed.   All this success does not come from one person, but rather as a bunch of people working as one team: Thank You to our coaching staff, **Mr. Manny Avila** (Boys Sprints, Hurdles, Horizontal Jumps), **Ms. Sue Bouwman** (Girls Sprints), **Mr. Jeff Smith** (Throws), **Mr. Brodi Robinson** (Mid-Distance, Distance),  **Mr. Derek Bouwman** (High Jump), **Mr. Brian Casey** (High Jump, Mid-Distance, Distance) and a special thank you to our **Master Head Coach Mr. Guy Payne** in his 51st year with KES athletics guiding our programme.   **Hurdles** Elena Julien 4th Junior Girls Mya Snarr 3rd Intermediate Girls Kaylee Hickey 4th Intermediate Girls Mae Batherson 1st Senior Girls Jordyn Hickey 3rd Senior Girls Kathleen Balcome 4th Senior Girls Tristan Alleyne 4th Senior Boys   **400m Dash** Brisnel Etou Bosseba 4th Intermediate Boys Amelia Humphrey 2nd Senior Girls Luis Espinosa 2nd Senior Boys Jarred Douglas 4th Senior Boys   **100m Dash** Magdalene Mills 3rd Junior Girls Brisnel Etou Bosseba 1st International Boys Andrew Atwood 2nd International Boys Kathleen Balcome 2nd Senior Girls Josh Mills 1st Senior Boys Derek Chan 4th Senior Boys   **1500m** Aria MacDonald 2nd Intermediate Girls Luis Espinosa 2nd Senior Boys   **200m** Magdalene Mills 2nd Junior Girls Brisnel Etou Bosseba 2nd Intermediate Boys Andrew Atwood 3rd Intermediate Boys Amelia Humphrey 3rd Senior Girls Mae Batherson 4th Senior Girls Josh Mills 1st Senior Boys Derek Chan 3rd Senior Boys   **800m** Roberto Silva Payan 4th Junior Boys Aria MacDonald 1st Intermediate Girls Amelia Humphrey 2nd Senior Girls Luis Espinosa 2nd Senior Boys   **4x100 Relays** Junior Boys 4th (Roberto Silva Payan, Rodrigo Morales Portillo, Eduardo Villalobos Arandia, Luis Alejandro Medina Ongay) Intermediate Girls 4th (Kaylee Hickey, Kelly Bouwman, Tyra Alleyne, Maritere Pozos Castro) Intermediate Boys 1st (Brisnel Etou Bosseba, Andrew Atwood, Duncan McLaughlin, Ryan Costello) Senior Girls 1st (Amelia Humphrey, Mae Batherson, Kathleen Balcome, Jordyn Hickey) Senior Boys 2nd (Josh Mills, Derek Chan, Zach Evelyn, Spencer Lockyer)   **3000m** Aria MacDonald 2nd Intermediate Girls Tanner Humber-Dredge 4th Intermediate Boys Antonia Ziegler 2nd Senior Girls Lindsay Hogan 3rd Senior Girls Luis Espinosa 2nd Senior Boys Yasuyuki Saji 4th Senior Boys   **4x400** Junior Boys 2nd (Roberto Silva Payan, Rodrigo Morales Portillo, Eduardo Villalobos Arandia, Luis Alejandro Medina Ongay) Junior Boys 4th (Cameron Stephens, Zane Scott, Zach Logan, Greyson Corbett-Lumb) Intermediate Boys 4th (Brisnel Etou Bosseba, Andrew Atwood, Duncan McLaughlin, Tanner Humber-Dredge) Senior Girls 1st (Mae Batherson, Amelia 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