There's still a chance local athlete and Velites Track Club coach Rachel Andres could make the Canadian Pan Am Games team.
The 2019 Pan Am Games take place July 26 - Aug. 11 in Lima, Peru.
The team has been initially named on the assumption that those chosen agree to go, and fill out the necessary paperwork.
However, there may be some quota spots that still need to be filled. If so, Andres is hoping she'll be contacted. It's her understanding the team will be finalized by July 11.
"My best chance now is that the Pan Am Games committee specifically requests more discus throwers in order to fill their field of 14 throwers," Andres wrote in an email.
"Currently in that field, I’d be sitting number 10 according to distance. So there is still a chance that might happen, even though I didn’t hit the bigger distance I was needing."
Andres gave it her best shot in discus during the CALTAF Track Classic and Legion Trials, held June 14-16 in Calgary.
"My discus did not go as well as I would have liked," she wrote. "I threw well with a 56 metre (m) toss to break the meet record that I held from a previous year. I just didn’t throw as well as I needed in order to take over the number 1 spot in Canada.
"I did have one throw that would have fit the bill, but it just barely went out of bounds."
That out of bounds throw gives Andres hope as she prepares for the Junior/Senior Provincials, which were scheduled for June 28-30 in Edmonton.
"I’m making steps in the right direction and should be able to hit a much better distance at the upcoming provincial championships at the end of the month being held in Edmonton at Foote Field," she wrote. "We’ll see what happens with the Canadian team for Peru."
