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Kristen Yawney is all business when she's on a judo mat. Just ask anyone who has tried to beat her.
Yawney, a member of the Prince George Judo Club, battled to a gold medal at the junior national championships in 2010 and followed that up with silvers in 2011 and 2012. An injury kept her away from nationals in 2013 but she's now back in form, as evidenced by her first-place finish at the Saskatchewan Open in January.
Yawney, now 16, has been involved in judo since the age of six.
Haley Black, Team Canada.
Black, who trains with the Prince George Barracudas, is the first member of the local swim club to make the junior national team. She recently represented her country at the Victorian Open championships in Australia and won the B final in the 200-metre backstroke. Black, 17, also made the A finals in the 50m backstroke and 200m butterfly and finished sixth in both those races. She's in her final year at Duchess Park secondary and has signed a scholarship agreement with Northern Kentucky University.
During her high school basketball career, Kayla Gordon was the heart and soul of the Cedars Christian Eagles. As a physically-dominant forward, she led the Eagles to three consecutive silver-medal finishes at the senior girls single-A provincials.
Outside of high school, Gordon played for Team B.C. at the Under-17 women's nationals in 2012. B.C. won bronze at the tournament and Gordon – who averaged 12 points and four rebounds per game – was chosen as an all-star. She's now playing on scholarship at Trinity Western University.
There's no slowing down Carolina Hiller.
Hiller, a member of the Prince George Blizzard speed skating club, has qualified for the junior national short track championships in each of the past two years. In her first year, in Toronto, she was a 15-year-old competing against mostly 17- to 19-year-olds and still zipped to a handful of top-30 finishes. Hiller attended her second nationals in January of 2014 in Montreal. She was one of only four B.C. skaters to make the trip.
Emily Dickson is part of Canada's next wave of top-level biathlates.
Dickson, who represents the Caledonia Nordic Ski Club, wore Team Canada colours at the 2013 youth/junior world championships in Austria. At worlds, her best finish was 54th. Last month, she was in Prince Edward Island for the 2014 world trials and earned a spot on the national team once again.
At the time of this writing, Dickson was preparing for worlds in Maine.
