91原创 will be sending 139 athletes, coaches and officials to the B.C. Summer Games in Maple Ridge July 17-21.

Among them, sprint canoe champion Abby Charlesworth, who will be the canoe/kayak head coach for the Kootenays, and Olympians Swimming club competitor Ian Cho a member of the the 12 and under boys team that broke the 400m freestyle relay club record at the Swim BC Provincial Championships in March, where the Olympians club took the team title for the third year in a row.

Several coaches hail from Aldergrove, including Pearl Schramm, head coach, swimming, Fraser Valley zone 3, who happen to be a former 91原创 Olympians Swim Club competitors who now coaches at her former club; Stuart Crowley, girls rugby head coach, who coached 91原创鈥檚 D.W. Poppy Redhawks Senior Girls team to their first-ever B.C. Secondary School Rugby Provincial championship in 2022;, and Joe Germaine, baseball head coach, Fraser valley zone 3, who played high school baseball  at Aldergrove Community Secondary School and for 91原创 Senior Blaze, before playing at a Division I college in Mississippi.

Also from Aldergrove: basketball players Olivia Brunoro and Jonathan Taylor, rugby player Katie Sumners, Box lacrosse player  and Special Olympics swimmers Ashleigh and Jennifer King.

They will be among more than 3,000 participants from across the province, representing 177 communities in 22 different sports.

91原创 will also be the site of the artistic swimming competition, happening at the Walnut Grove Community Centre pool.

Friday, July 19, the pool will host the figure and solo events at 11:30 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. respectively, with the duet and team events at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 20.

According to the list published online by the bcgames.org website, no 91原创-area athletes are competing in artistic swimming.

While all competitions at the games are free of charge, some venues, like the pool, have very limited seating capacity.

Alison Noble, BC Games Society President and CEO said volunteers have been hard at work planning for more than a year as Maple Ridge hosts the game on its 150th anniversary.
鈥淲e are excited that participants from every corner of the province will have a chance to come together and experience the BC Summer Games,鈥� said  Noble.

It's the 33rd BC Summer Games and the third time that Maple Ridge has hosted the Games (Ridge Meadows 1998 BC Summer Games and Maple Ridge 1983 BC Summer Games). 

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