A handful of Tri-City athletes brought home some hardware in the final days of the Canada Winter Games in Prince George last week.
Coquitlam gymnast Seina Cho was one of six athletes to receive a bronze in the team event of the artistic gymnastics competition.
The 14-year-old Omega Gymnastics Academy member helped Team B.C. post a 56.550 on the vault, 53.150 on the uneven bars, 54.000 on the beam and 54.9000 on the floor for a total of 218.600.
The group came in third place behind Quebec, which took bronze, and Ontario, which took silver, while Alberta was behind them, just missing the podium in fourth place.
Cho was joined on the team by Port Coquitlam gymnast Haley de Jong, who also placed eighth in the individual bars event.
Kyle Carragher, another Port Coquitlam gymnast, finished eighth overall in the individual trampoline category.
He led in the opening flight of the event on Tuesday, with 65.9 points, but came up short in the finals, posting a 4.1 later in the day.
However, the Grade 12 Riverside secondary student did not come home empty handed.
In the team trampoline event, he helped B.C. pickup a bronze medal, leading teammates Emily Schmidt, Poppy Quinlan and Curtis Green to the podium.
On the badminton court, Allan Ng of Port Moody just missed placing in the top three, in the mixed competition, losing out to Team Quebec in the bronze-medal match. Ng also finished ninth in doubles and 17th in mixed doubles.
Dez Hawes was another Tri-City athlete that just missed the podium.
Her curling team, which practices at the Royal City Curling Club, finished in fifth place, after falling in the quarterfinals against New Brunswick.
Last week, Coquitlam curler Nicholas Umbach took home a bronze in with his team, after defeating to Team Saskatchewan in the third-place match.
In total, 348 athletes, coaches and staff made up Team BC and won 88 medals, including 21 goals, 34 silver and 33 bronze. The host province came in third in the medal count, with Quebec taking 141 and Ontario taking 111.
The team will take part in the 2015 Western Canada Summer Games in Wood Buffalo, A.B., and the 2017 Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg. The next Canada Winter Games will be held in Red Deer in 2019.
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