Looking more refreshed than spent, George Elliott's Taryn O'Neill glides over the finish line well ahead of the pack to set a new record in the senior girls 1,500m at the B.C.high school championships last Friday in Langley. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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Miles of smiles! On her way to Villanova, Lake Country’s Taryn O’Neill sets a new standard for B.C. girls middle distance running

LANGLEY — If you are a high school track fan with any degree of long-standing membership here in the province of B.C., you may have taken, over the course of the weekend past, a few moments to determine in your own mind just how significant the accomplishment’s of Taryn O’Neill really are in the grand […]

Desirae Ridenour (centre) of Cowichan, golden in the recent BCHS 3,000m, is flanked by silver medallist Taryn O'Neill (left) of George Elliot and New West's Grace Fetherstonhaugh. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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Epic 3,000m senior girls final put B.C. high school middle-distance front-&-centre

LANGLEY — As we get set to bid farewell to another season of B.C. high school sports, my mind can’t help but look forward to so many new plotlines, all enhanced by the happenings of an exciting 2016-17 season.

Vernon's Hannah Bennison adorned in her bib at the IAAF women's Under-20 World Cross Country championships March 26 in Kampala, Uganda. (Photo courtesy Athletics Canada)
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Hannah Bennison: The Vernon Panthers’ runner is a harrier with no barriers

There was moment this past March, over the late stages of the biggest race of her life, that Hannah Bennison reached what can only be described as a divine understanding with her sport.