A little over a week after their big win on home soil, the Duchess Park Condors Senior Boys Volleyball team raised their Provincial Championship banner this morning. (Monday)
A ceremony was held with the full school in attendance, featuring speeches from Mayor Simon Yu, Duchess Park Secondary Principal Sid Jawanda, and players and coaches.
“It’s been a whirlwind of a week,” said Head Coach Griffin Olexyn following the banner raising ceremony.
“It’s still hard to believe that we did it, we put a banner on the wall, we filled the missing spot, I can’t believe.”
Olexyn said it was an amazing feeling to see the banner go up.
“It’s really good to see it for the boys, very rewarding for them after seeing all the work they’ve put in this past year, past season, past three years going back to when I started coaching them,” he said.
“The amount of hard work they’ve put in, it’s definitely paid off, definitely well deserved.”
For grade 12 student Sam Kramer, putting the banner up was something that’s been on his mind since he was in grade eight.
“Starting in grade eight, I saw our boys do it, and I saw it up there every day at practice and at games, and I wanted to achieve the same thing,” he said.
“Now that it’s been achieved, it’s like I had a hole there and now it’s filled by that, it’s great.”
Grade 12 student Owen Ryan Martin said the win was great for the school as well.
“To know that they have our back, and are supporting us, that’s half the reason why we got through it,” he said.
“Without their support I don’t know if we’d be here right now.”
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