Photo courtesy Alberta Winter Games

By Erika Rolling

AWG 2024

Zone 8 athletes take home 27 medals and two awards at Alberta Winter Games

Feb 20, 2024 | 10:54 AM

The Alberta Winter Games wrapped up Monday afternoon with a closing ceremony at the Grande Prairie Composite High School.

Three Zone awards were handed out; the Minister’s Cup for the most improved since the last games, the Alberta Cup for the most points, and the Spirit of Sport for fair play, sportsmanship, team spirit, and cooperation on and off the field.

The awards went to:

• Zone 8 – Minister’s Cup
• Zone 3 – Alberta Cup
• Zone 8 – Spirit of Sport

On top of Zone 8 receiving two of the three awards, athletes from our area took home 27 medals over the weekend. The breakdown of medals is five gold, seven silver, and 15 bronze.

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Gold medals:

• Grande Prairie’s Wesley Gaultier – Cross Country Skiing U12 Male Sprint
• Wesley Gaultier – Cross Country Skiing U12 Male Free Technique Event
• Grande Prairie’s Austin Dougherty – Archery U17 Recurve Male
• Grande Prairie’s Troy Martin – Cross Country Skiing U14 Male Free Technique Event
• Grande Prairie’s William Armstrong – Cross Country Skiing U16 Male Free Technique Event

Silver medals:

• William Armstrong – Cross Country Skiing U16 Male Sprint
• Calgary’s Issac Astete – Wrestling Male 40kg
• Grande Prairie’s Hayden Cooke – Wrestling Male 83+kg (95 max)
• Grande Prairie’s James Hartman – Biathlon Dev 1 (U15) Mass Start Male
• Curling U15 Male, team members below:
  • The County of Grande Prairie’s Dieter, Hyden, and Rolynd Helmrich
  • Grande Prairie’s Kale Myker
• The County of Grande Prairie’s Chase Krawetz – Speed Skating Group 1 (12-13) Male 2000m Relay
• Leduc’s Brooklyn Lenentine – Wrestling Female 80kg

Bronze medals:

• William Armstrong – Cross Country Skiing U16 Male Relay
• Grande Prairie’s Derian Boechler – Speed Skating Group 2 (14-15) Male 3000m Relay
• Grande Prairie’s Darion Carrier – Cross Country Skiing U16 Male Relay
• Speed Skating Group 1 (12-13) Female 2000m Relay
  • Peace River’s Clair Cook
  • Grande Prairie’s Aleksandra (ola) Gawlak
  • Peace River’s June Lynch
  • Peace River’s Ivy Nickonchuk
• Speed Skating Group 2 (14-15) Female 3000m Relay
  • Grande Prairie’s Kaley Kadyk
  • Peace River’s Leila Cook
• Sexsmith’s Trinity Dyck – Archery U15 Compound Female
• Bay Tree’s Malcolm Fraser – Freestyle Skiing U16 Slopestyle
• Grande Prairie’s Quinn Goldberg – Freestyle Skiing U14 Female Slopestyle
• Grande Prairie’s Sari Krauskopf – Artistic Gymnastics J07 Floor
• Troy Martin – Cross Country Skiing U16 Male Relay
• Grovedale’s Elyssa Mclellan – Figure Skating STAR 6 Women’s Freeskate

The Zone 8 Male Hockey team placed third in the eight-team tournament. They beat Zone 2 (Big Country) 6-5 in the bronze medal game. Zone 8 (Peace Country) team members below:

• Nikolai Auger – Red Earth Creek
• Emery Beaulieu – Fairview
• Jesse Beaulieu – Fairview
• Preston Desaulniers – Falher
• Riley Drake -Fairview
• Ryder Flynn – Peace River
• Jaxon Fournier – Falher
• Kelsie Fournier – Falher
• Mark Fournier – Falher
• Jarret Hicks – McLennan
• Caelen Hogan – Peace River
• Charlie Jeffs – Peace River
• Brock Kish – Peace River
• Troy Kish – Peace River
• Holter Lefthand – High Prairie
• Luke Murray – Grimshaw
• Trinden Noskey – Peace River
• Clint Reinders – Manning
• Kayton Reinders -Manning
• Noah Ruether -Peace River
• Dayton Sawan – Peace River
• Max Therriault – Donnelly
• Pauline Therriault – Donnelly

The next Alberta Games will be the summer edition in 2026 in Strathcona County.