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Cochranites successful at Canada Winter Games

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That’s a wrap for the young Cochrane athletes representing Alberta at the Canada Winter Games.

The 2019 edition of the Games, held in Red Deer, ran for two weeks and came to a close on March 3. Nearly 3600 athletes took part.

Sarah Wozniewicz and the rest of the Team Alberta squad took home women’s hockey gold. The 15-year-old Wozniewicz, a grade 10 student at the Edge School in Springbank, was the youngest player in the tournament. She scored four goals in their six-games.

Team Alberta took down Team Quebec by a margin of 2-1 in the gold medal game.

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Max Halyk, a 19-year-old speed skater from Bearspaw, took home the gold along with his Alberta teammates in the team pursuit event. Their 4:05.41 time smashed the old Canada Winter Games record by 18 seconds.

Halyk also placed eighth in the 500-m long, seventh in the 1000-m long and seventh in the 1500-m long, setting personal bests in those events.

Adora Kruger,18, won gold along with her Alberta teammates in the artistic swimming event. While the team was present in Red Deer for opening ceremony festivities, they travelled back down to their home turf at Calgary’s Repsol Sport Centre for their event.

It was a family affair for the Cochranite, whose mother had represented Alberta in artistic swimming at the 1979 edition of the Games. Having graduated from the Edge School last spring, she is now in the Bachelor of Science program at Mount Royal University.

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Julianna MacKenzie and her Alberta teammates put on a strong performance in the women’s curling round-robin tournament, finishing in third place with a record of 7-3. They would end up falling to New Brunswick 4-5 in the quarterfinal.

Sophie Morrish, 21, competed as a guide for a visually-impaired alpine ski racing athlete in the slalom and giant slalom events, held at Nakiska. The pair, who have been training exclusively with one another for two years, took home gold.

The next Canada Winter Games will be held in four years time in Prince Edward Island, featuring women’s boxing and mixed doubles curling as new events.

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