Singer Donating Funds

With the games coming to a close Kate Morgan announced she will donate 50 per cent of the profits from the Summer games song

“You Were Made For This” to the Kamloops Canoe and Kayak Club.

She performed the song at the opening ceremonies and will sing it again at the closing ceremony as well. She is a former KCKC member who competed at the 2007 WCSG in Strathcona County, Alberta.

Her brother; (Zach) managed five medals – four Bronze and a Silver – with Team B.C. in the canoe/kayak competition held at Shumway Lake.

Song can be downloaded at iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/you-were-made-for-this-single/id450529163.

All participants met Saturday for a (four-hour) dress rehearsal that will at 6 p.m.

The final event for the Games will be an official party for the numerous volunteers that will be held outside the arena at 6 p.m. Larry Read is the sports information Director at Thompson River’s University (TRU) and the Director of Media for these Games and will be the “MC”.

Kinley Gibson of Edmonton placed third to grab a Bronze in the women’s cycling time trial in Dallas which was one of the first second-half medals handed out.
It was the third medal that Gibson (16) won at the Games. Gibson also is a triathlete, and helped Alberta relay teams win a pair of Silver Medals in the first half.

She was fifth in Saturday’s individual sprint triathlon, before helping Alberta finish second in the female team relay and also the female individual relay.

She is Alberta’s only dual athlete of these Games. The swimming events began in earnest Thursday at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre.

The event featured various events from sprints to the 5-K races (the only events posted) for the closing day. Special Olympics also has a competition for para-swimming.

The first swimming medals to be handed out were in the women’s 1,500-metre free-style, seeing B.C. nail two.

Calgary’s Tyra Rooney touched the wall in 16 minutes 32.51 seconds to capture gold, with Burnaby’s Sherry Liu second in 16:34.30 and Victoria’s Stefanie Schmidt third in 17:23.47.

The swimming competition had 54 medals for grabs as the swimming competition got started and was held at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre, seeing Alberta winning 22.

Leduc’s Kennedy Pasay won both the women’s 100-metre para-freestyle and para-backstroke, with Red Deer’s Elliott Moskowy winning the men’s 50m backstroke and 100m freestyle in the Special Olympics division.

Leah Troskot of Lethbridge won three silver medals, as she finished second in the women’s 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke, and was on the 800m freestyle relay team that placed second.

St. Albert’s Paige Kremer won the women’s 100m freestyle, with Calgary’s Ken Stairs finishing third in the men’s 200m breaststroke.

Both swimmers were training for the past month plus travelling and competing in Puerto Vallarta where they represented Canada at the North American Challenge Cup.

Six of the second-half sports opened Thursday.

B.C.’s rugby team, playing sevens, got off to a great start, beating Saskatchewan 24-0 and Manitoba 38-5, before topping Alberta 26-14.

The four-team rugby event features a double round-robin – meaning each team will play three times again today – before semi-finals and the final, scheduled for Sunday at 10 a.m.

B.C. soccer teams also won as the boys defeated Manitoba 3-0 in a match played at McArthur Island, with the girls downing Saskatchewan 4-2.

The Yukon Territory is the only team not to have won a medal in the first half of the Games, but the bulk of its team is competing in the second half. Yukon had four track and field athletes, five tennis players and a boys basketball team in the first half.

Along with a full badminton squad, Yukon also has boys and girls soccer and volleyball teams here for the final four days of competition. It also has four cyclists and 14 swimmers.

Yukon ended the last WCSG, in 2007 in Strathcona County, Alta., with 2 Silver and 4 Bronze.

Great event – “Thanks 2 the Volunteer’s that helped”