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Athlete takes off for 2014 Summer Games at top speed Laura Lavin News staff
Liam Gatensby has risen to the top of his sport in a matter of months. At age 15, with under six months with the UVic track club, the young athlete won the Men’s 14-15 100 Metre Dash at the BC Athletics Championships Jamboree in Kamloops last weekend with a Personal Best time of 11.52s. “He is “It felt really good,” he said “All that an intelligent hard work paid off.” athlete who Gatensby placed fifth in the Long and fourth in the Men’s 14-15 100 goes through Jump Metre Hurdles, a sport he first tried in an effort to April of this year. “He is an intelligent athlete who understand his goes through an effort to understand coaching.” his coaching,” said Dacre Bowen, - Dacre Bowen Gatensby’s personal coach and coach for UVic’s Speed and Agility Academy. “He brings knowledge of how to be coached from his hockey experience.” The Kamloops competition was just a warm up for the budding track star as he heads to the BC Summer Games in Nanaimo this weekend. “It’s my first time (going to the Summer Games). I’m looking forward to the whole experience and hanging out with my friends – and the event. It will be pretty fun, I think,” he said. The Oak Bay High student first joined track in Grade 4 and kept at it through school until his coach encouraged him to join the UVic club earlier this year. He currently trains four to five days a week in preparation for the event. Don Denton/News staff
Liam Gatensby is going to this year’s BC Summer Games in Nanaimo. The Oak Bay High student and UVic track club member practices at the university’s Centennial Stadium in preparation for the competition.
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