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Six Richmond athletes competing at Canada Winter Games

Competition starts Friday and runs to March 1 in Prince George
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Six Richmond athletes will be part of the Team BC contingent looking to thrive on home soil at the 2015 Canada Winter Games which get underway today in Prince George.
In total, 249 athletes, 49 coaches, 27 managers and 23 mission staff make up Team BC and they will compete against the best in the country in 19 sports.
This is the first time British Columbia has hosted the winter version of the Canada Games and Team BC is expected to be very competitive on home soil. Many high level athletes have launched their athletic careers through the BC Games and Team BC.
The local contingent includes: Duncan Yao (badminton), Matthew Lai (figure skating), Jordan Sandhu (hockey), Ario Nishimura (judo), Andrea Toth (squash) and Matthew Toth (squash).
Sandhu will be trying to help BC repeat as champions in men’s hockey. The Seafair Minor Hockey product was selected by the Kelowna Rockets in the 2014 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft. He is currently playing for the Greater Vancouver Canadians of the BC Major Midget Hockey League. Sandhu will have a familiar face on the bench as Seafair’s Ryan Weber is part of the Team B.C. coaching staff. It was his father — Russ Weber — who guided BC to gold four years ago. Both Webers have been active for a number of years in BC Hockey’s High Performance Programs.
Andrea and and Matthew Tosh are members of a Richmond family that has dominated the junior levels of squash, provincially and nationally.
Both play out out of the Shakiru Matti Squash Academy which operates out of Sport Central. Their older sister Alex is currently one of the top players at Princeton University where she is studying engineering in her sophomore year.
“It’s a big deal and I’m very excited,” said Matthew. “It is a once in a lifetime opportunity.  Since squash is not in the Olympics, a chance to play in a multi-sport Games is very exciting.
“It’s pretty cool to be competing with my sister.  She is younger than me so it’s great for her to get named to the team.  It will be fun to be there together.”
Lai was named Richmond Special Olympics athlete-of-the-year in 2014 and was second at the National Winter Games.
The Games will run until March 1.