Qualify and Cancelled: PG speedskaters deal with whirlwind week
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PRINCE GEORGE – It’s been a long road for a group of speed skaters here in Prince George, working their way from the learn to skate program up to the advanced programming, with goals of becoming high-performance athletes.
“The really neat thing about these skaters, they’ve been tracking the [BC] Winter Games for the last four years because all four of the skaters from our club have older siblings that qualified for the Games two years ago in Fort St. John,” said Taryn Vansickle, a coach with the PG Blizzards. “They’ve been tracking this for four years knowing they had an opportunity to qualify for the games and two years knowing they were age-eligible.”
Late last week, the BC Games Society, along with the Greater Vernon 2022 BC Winter Games Society announced this year’s games would not be taking place this year. The news came more than a month before the games were to open on February 24th, but the same week that a group of four local speed skaters were told they qualified. The four skaters, Megan Vansickle, Emily Clark, Kaitlynn Konwicki and Pippa Earl, each made the Top-24 criteria in the province.
