News from British Columbia
By Donna Choo, British Columbia Provincial Co-ordinatorAnother season of playing School Reach on the West Coast has drawn to a close with a significant change. This year saw the end of B.C. Reach for the Top’s association with Knowledge Network after six successful years of televising the Provincial Championships. Unfortunately, with the closing of their production facilities, Knowledge Network can no longer produce and air our games. We will miss their involvement in the final stages of our competition and we wish to thank them for their support of Reach for the Top over the years.
Currently, more than 40 schools across the province have teams participating at the Senior and/or Junior/Intermediate levels, and these teams look forward to the annual tournaments.
On February 27th, the Junior/Intermediate Provincial Tournament was held at Vancouver College, where 20 schools competed for the championship. Thank you to Juan Pineda for hosting and organizing this event. After a series of seeding games, the top 16 schools proceeded to the championship rounds.
Congratulations to the Intermediate Reach for the Top champion: the team from St. George’s School (Vancouver) for winning the school trophy and gold medal. Second place went to Burnaby North Secondary (Burnaby) and third place to Sir Winston Churchill Secondary (Vancouver). Well-played!
The 2009 B.C. Reach for the Top Provincial Championship (Senior level) was held on April 3rd at Richmond High School. Many thanks to John Ryan for running the competition and for organizing the thirty schools that attended the tournament. After several fast-paced seeding games, the 16 highest scoring teams continued to the championship rounds.
At the end of the evening, it was a repeat victory. The 2009 B.C. Reach for the Top Provincial Champion Sir Winston Churchill Secondary team (Vancouver) who won gold and retained the school trophy. Silver went to Burnaby North Secondary (Burnaby) and bronze to University Hill Secondary (Vancouver). Kudos to all of the players of the winning teams. It was a very exciting and successful end to a year of pursuing knowledge. Thank you to all the players and their coaches for making this another great year for Reach for the Top in B.C.
Congratulations to Champion, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School and team members Roger Zhang, Marc Hewitt, Derek So, Aaron Lao, Richard Wang, Andrew Wang, Steven Zhu, Jason Lin, Iris Luo and Coach Donna Choo.
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