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Countdown is on to the 2018 B.C. Summer Games

Cowichan Valley hosts on July 19-22

The torch is lit.

With 100 days left to go until the beginning of the 2018 B.C. Summer Games in the Cowichan Valley, the flame was ignited at DuncanB次元官网网址檚 BC Forest Discovery Centre on Thursday evening among musical performances and speeches by local dignitaries.

B次元官网网址淲e have been hard at work on these Games since its inception in 2012 when Cowichan was awarded this bid,B次元官网网址 said Cowichan 2018 president Jen Woike. B次元官网网址淚t has been a great honour to be leading this team towards what will be the best Games yet.B次元官网网址

The torch was carried into the ceremony by four specially selected individuals: Crofton gymnast Brooklyn Stobbe, who has won multiple medals in appearances at the 2016 and 2018 B.C. Winter Games; Duncan bowler Jenny Scholfield, a multiple medalist at the Special Olympics, Richard Peter, a five-time Paralympian and four-time medalist in wheelchair basketball; and Bill Keserich, the longtime leader of the Cowichan ValleyB次元官网网址檚 soccer community.

Peter, Keserich and University of Victoria field hockey coach Lynne Beecroft B次元官网网址 all members of the North Cowichan/Duncan Sports Wall of Fame B次元官网网址 are honourary chairs of the 2018 B.C. Summer Games.

The 2018 B.C. Summer Games will take place from July 19-22, with events throughout the Cowichan Valley, from Ladysmith to Mill Bay to Lake Cowichan.



Kevin Rothbauer

About the Author: Kevin Rothbauer

Kevin Rothbauer is the sports reporter for the Cowichan Valley Citizen
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