Tri-City javelin thrower Teagan Rasche capped off an impressive summer with a seventh place showing at the Panamerican Junior Athletic Championship in Edmonton last week.
The Riverside secondary graduate, who will start her collegiate career at Virginia Tech in a few weeks, finished with a personal best of 49.56 m. She was a meter behind sixth-place finisher Valentina Salazar of Chile (50.61 m) and ahead of a eighth-place competitor Luz Mariana Castro Felix of Mexico (46.99 m).
Rasche’s other throws hovered around the 45 m mark. She fouled in one toss, before hitting a 46.39, a 44.34, a 45.51 and a 45.
Prior to her showing last week, her personal best was 47.46 m, a throw she made during the qualification round for the Panamerican championship.
During that event, she finished in second place, behind the gold medal winner from Ontario, who threw for 47.9 m, and ahead of the Central Canada finisher, who threw 47.12 m.
The trip to Edmonton caps a big year for Rasche.
The Coquitlam Cheetah track and field team alum recently graduated from Riverside and is taking her javelin-throwing skills to the nCAA with Virginia Tech, where she recently received a scholarship.
The championships in Edmonton will not be Rasche’s first time facing off against international competition.
Back in 2013, she travelled to Donetsk, Ukraine, where she took part in the World Youth Championship.
