Conditions were ideal for snowshoe racing and 10 Prince George Special Olympics athletes made their marks with personal-best times Saturday at the Burns Lake competition.
Running on a groomed 400-metre track, athletes from Prince George, Burns Lake, Smithers and Williams Lake competed in six race distances - 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1600 metres.
Tegan Raines of Prince George was one of the fastest of the fast, reeling in one first-place ribbon and three second-place ribbons.
Other Prince George results were as follows:
Jenny Germann - two second-place ribbons and a 4th place finish;
Marinka VanHage - two first-place ribbons, a second-place ribbon and a third place ribbon;
Cindy Komosky - two first-place ribbons, one third-place ribbon;
Shannon Raczki - two second-place ribbons, one fourth-place finish;
Chase Caron - four second-place ribbons;
Michael Harris - one first-place ribbon, a 4th place finish and a 5th place finish;
Issac Goudal - one third- place ribbon, two fourth-place finishes;
Josiah Lecher - one second-place ribbon, two third-place ribbons,
Spencer Rourke - one first-place ribbon, a second-place ribbon, two fourth-place finishes.
