Ontario athletes capture 
25 medals at Speed Nationals



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Challenging weather didn't stop Ontario athletes at the 2017 Sports Experts Speed Nation Nationals presented by Mazda Canada & FA Design held in Mont Tremblant April 5-9th 2017
 
Photo Credit Jeffrey Farber
Photo Credit Jeffrey Farber

Impressive Results in Junior Nationals
Kaylie Buck (Ontario Team) was crowned PGS Junior Nationals Champion followed by  Emme Weston 5th & Katie Lindsey 7th. Impressive results from our male Juniors as well with Jamie Behan placing 2nd, Matt Crawford 4th (Ontario Team), Riley Kilmer Choi 5th (Nat Dev Group) Michael Nazwaski 6th (Ontario Team)& Corey Farber 10th(Ontario Team).  Ontario Team SBX athlete Justin Lavictoire finished in 4th with teammate Riley Howell in 7th and Ontario's top female Jillian Sward placing in 11th.

Photo Credit Mike Nazwaski
Photo Credit Mike Nazwaski

 


















Photo Credit John Kunicek

Ontario U15 athletes
Ontario men swept the U15 PGS podium with Jacob Farber 1st, Adam Farber, 2nd, Ben Heldman 3rd and Michael Gyles 4th. Hannah Kilmer Choi took double bronze, standing on the podium in 3rd for both U15 PGS and U15 SBX while Katie Woodside and Lauren McKay took 1st and 4th in PGS respectively. The top Ontario athlete in the men's U15 SBX was Nikolas Cadieux in 4th

Photo Credit Elaine Kilmer Choi
Photo Credit Sue Cadieux

Photo Credit Alpine Ski Club

Photo Credit Alpine Ski Club


 

















The  NorAm/NationalChampionships  provided an opportunity for Ontario athletes to shine with National Team athletes from Ontario picking up 5 medals;  Katrina Gerenscer 1stPGS/2ndPSL , Megan Farrell 2ndPGS /3rdPSL & Darren Gardner 2nd PSL. National Development Group athletes Emma Van Groningen placed 7th PGS, Riley Kilmer Choi 10th/PSL 11th PGS & Will Malisch 7thSBX.

Photo Credit Jeffrey Farber

 
Ontario Provincial Team athletes posted some great times and came away with fantastic results; Kaylie Buck 4thPGS/11 th PSL, Emma Dorland 5 th PGS/6 th PSL, Michael Nazwaski 9 th PGS/14 th PSL & Matthew Crawford 15 th PGS.

Photo Credit Jeffrey Farber
 
Para SBX
Para National Team athletes from Ontario had fantastic results including John Leslie's silver and Alex Massie's bronze in Para-lower and Andrew Genge's silver in Para-upper.

Photo Credit John Kunicek

 
Congratulations to all of our athletes and a huge Thank You to all of our parents and officials that joined our athletes  in 
Tremblant to assist with the events! 

Prior to Canadian Nationals Ontario athletes attended the 
2017 US Nationals  April 1st-6th in Copper Mountain with 
outstanding results!
 
Ontario Provincial Team athlete Kaylie Buck took silver in the NorAm PSL and 7 th NorAm PGS while National Team athlete from Ontario Megan Farrell took Bronze in both PGS&PSL, Katrina Gerenscer PGS Silver, Darren Gardner and Rich Evanoff went gold and silver in PGS and National Development Group athletes Riley Kilmer- Choi 4 th and Emma Van Groningen 8 th in PSL. 

Photo Credit Tod McKay


Ontario U15 athletes didn't disappoint with Lauren McKay going double Gold in ladies 14-15YO while the 14-15 YO men each stood on the podium as well Adam Farber 2 nd GS/ 7 th SL, Ben Heldman - 3 rd GS/6 th SL , Jacob Farber 3 rd SL  /4 th GS.