The high school track-and-field season came to a close over the weekend, but not before another strong showing from Moose Jaw athletes, who collected nine medals in total at the SHSAA provincial championship in Prince Albert.

Peacock's Alexis Thibodeau led the way as she capped off her great season with two medals at provincials, winning silver in the junior girls 100-metre and bronze in the 200m. She also finished fourth in the 80m hurdles.

"I thought I did better than I expected, I didn't think I was actually going to medal, so that's good," said Thibodeau. "Everything went pretty good considering the weather wasn't ideal, but we all pushed through it and the results turned out good."

In the 100m, Thibodeau finished with a time of 13.03 seconds, which was just .24 seconds behind gold medallist Ojamalie Attah from Saskatoon Tommy Douglas.

She said she's proud of how her season went overall as she dominated the Moose Jaw meets as well as districts.

"I just kept a positive attitude and just went out there and gave it my all," she said. "The season went good, training pays off."

Fellow Peacock athlete Caitlin Miller came away with a bronze medal in the midget girls javelin with a throw of 31.30 metres.

"I'm really happy with how things went, I wasn't expecting to do good, but it turned out good in the end," said Miller. "I did really good at cities and districts, so I feel like that gave me some good thoughts about what was happening."

Two Vanier long distance runners found their way onto the podium.

Vanier's Allison Grajczyk-Jelinski leads the pack during a race this season at Gutheridge Field. (Photo: Marc Smith)

Grade 11 Allison Grajczyk-Jelinski picked up a silver medal in the senior girls 1,500m with a time of 5:02.98.

"I got about a 10-second personal best, so that was quite a bit faster than I'd been running for most of the season, so I was very happy with my run," said Grajczyk-Jelinski.

There was some cold and wet weather throughout the weekend at provincials, but Grajczyk-Jelinski said they battled through the elements to have a really good time at the meet.

"It just added an extra element to it and it's always an adventure with track," she said.

Grajczyk-Jelinski added that this medal makes her hungry for next season already, "I'm going to a track camp this summer and then I'm going to start training for cross-country and it will be 12th year, so I'm hoping to go out pretty strong," she said.

Sam Moyse from Vanier earned a bronze medal in the junior boys 3,000m, finishing in 10:03.30. Moyse was just ahead of Central's Morgan Kilgour, who came in fourth with a time of 10:24.04.

"That felt amazing, I was excited the whole day going in," said Moyse. "I was hoping to finish on the podium, but I wasn't exactly expecting it to happen, so I'm glad it did."

Moyse ran a seven-second personal best during the race, "I left it all out there, it was the last run of the day, last run of the season, so I just left it all on the track," he said. 

Central's Carter Voth on the podium at the SHSAA track and field provincial championship in Prince Albert. (Submitted photo)

Central's Carter Voth ended his high school track career on a high note as he earned a bronze medal in the senior boys discus with a throw of 36.32m, which was just 3.05m away from gold.

"The whole season I was around 36-37 metres and I threw right around that, so I was pretty happy with that, I had a couple of good throws go out, but can't argue with a third place finish,"said Voth.

Voth didn't actually know that he had finished on the podium until they announced the top-eight after the event. He said that was a pleasant surprise.

"I was in shock, I looked back at my coaches with their eyes wide open and I couldn't even imagine what was happening at the time," he said.

Voth had finished in 22nd place in discus last year at provincials, so he said it felt great to show that improvement from one year to the next.

"I've been practicing over the summers, I practice by myself on weekends, so doing that for four years and finally getting a medal at provincials was awesome, the hard work paid off finally," said Voth.

Ryley Gross from Caronport High School picked up a bronze medal in junior boys discus with a throw of 34.00m. He was 6.48m behind gold medallist Hunter Wallster out of Estevan.

Assiniboia’s Logan Fettes found the podium twice, earning a pair of silver medals. He was second in the senior boys 100m hurdles with a time of 14.37, just 0.05 behind Saskatoon Holy Cross’ Jake Neufeld.

Fettes was also second in triple jump with a jump of 13.44m, which put him second behind Outlook’s Keandre Evans at 13.80m.

Click here for full results from provincials.

Photos courtesy of Lucas Punkari / Battlefords News-Optimist