Brooke and Rhett Bates have been mountain bike racing since they were eight years old. As siblings, the West Kelowna duo have had a first-row seat watching one another grow as athletes and as people.

And, later this month, they'll watch each other compete at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in St. John's, N.L.

Rhett, 18, and Brooke, 16, were selected to take on the Games as part of Team B.C. The four other athletes on B.C.'s mountain bike squad are from the same competitive team as Batese's, Charge BC-XC Racing, which Rhett described as the premier cross-country team in Western Canada.

That means there will be several familiar faces alongside the Bates siblings at the Games — besides, of course, one another.

"It's cool (that) we know a bunch of the people that will be at the Summer Games,"

See Full Page