Central Ontario Does Well At National Tetrathlon

Central Ontario Does Well At National Tetrathlon

Victoria Pony Club members Zac and James McCue finished first and fourth, respectively, in the Senior Men Division at the Canadian Pony Club National Tetrathlon, held last week in Cochrane, Alberta. Together with a Junior rider from British Columbia, they also took first place in the men’s team competition (which is based on combined scores from the Senior and Junior Divisions). Central Ontario had no entries in the Junior Men Division.

Central Ontario did not fare quite so well in the Senior and Junior Women Divisions, but on a team basis came fifth and sixth. Among the Senior Women, Karen Foell of the Toronto & North York Pony Club had the best finish at eleventh. Samantha Galway of the Maple Pony Club finished fifth among the Junior Women, while Alexandra Kelly of the Victoria Pony Club was sixth.

Tetrathlon is a very demanding competition with four parts: swimming, shooting with air pistols, cross-country running and horse jumping (both stadium jumping and cross-country jumping). All the competitors in this event qualified for it by placing well in their own Regional Tetrathlons.

Here are details for all Central Ontario competitors.  We expect that complete scores will be available soon as a link from the Canadian Pony Club home page.

Individuals

Senior Men

Name	Branch	Swim Points	Swim Place	Shoot Points	Shoot Place	Run Points	Run Place	Ride Points	Ride Place	Total Points	Total Place
Zac McCue	Victoria	836	2	1055	1	944	3	1484	1	4319	1
James McCue	Victoria	668	5	1025	2	818	5	1475	2	3986	4

Senior Women

Name	Branch	Swim Points	Swim Place	Shoot Points	Shoot Place	Run Points	Run Place	Ride Points	Ride Place	Total Points	Total Place
Karen Foell	Toronto & North York	706	15	955	7	890	1	1369	15	3920	11
Kourtney Matysek	Victoria	727	10	706	19	926	4	1400	12	3756	13
Maddie Baker	Toronto & North York	871	3	875	14	538	20	1450	8	3734	15
Kathryn Robertson	Uxbridge-Scugog	434	21	695	20	866	14	1213	18	3208	19
Courtney Cotter	Toronto & North York	713	13	990	5	592	18	647	21	2942	20

Junior Women

Name	Branch	Swim Points	Swim Place	Shoot Points	Shoot Place	Run Points	Run Place	Ride Points	Ride Place	Total Points	Total Place
Samantha Galway	Maple	1011	2	835	9	1012	3	1324	14	4182	5
Alexandra Kelly	Victoria	734	6	965	2	996	4	1450	9	4145	6
Lauren Kelly	Victoria	456	13	825	11	940	11	1384	13	3605	13

Teams

Men – A team made up of Zac and James McCue, Roy Walker (a Junior Men rider from BC Islands Region) and a Ghost score, finished with 16,358 points to take first place.

Women – A team made up of Kourtney Matysek, Kathryn Robertson, Samantha Galway and Alexandra Kelly scored 15,292 points for fifth place.  A team made up of Karen Foell, Maddie Baker, Lauren Kelly and a Ghost score finished with 15,012 points for sixth.  Because teams could include no more than two Senior Women, Courtney Cotter’s score was included with Western Ontario Region riders Naomi Krucker, Lindsay McLaren and Amanda Usselman; this team scored 14,688 points to take seventh place.

For more details e-mail Bob Inglis, Central Ontario Regional Communications Chair, or call him at 416-493-1223 (office) or 416-491-4230 (home).