A jack of all trades, Mael Pronovost competed in almost every category he could at last weekend’s Alberta Whitewater Provincial Championships.

The teenage Whitehorse native travelled down to the Kananaskis River, 40 minutes west of Calgary for the weekend-long competition. He borrowed gear and threatened the podium in every event he competed in.

The schedule was full with events ranging across the whitewater board from boatercross, a full-contact heat race, to downriver, solo racing from A to B, to freestyle, performing tricks in a whitewater feature, to slalom, the Olympic event akin to slalom ski racing.

Pronovost started off the weekend with boatercross, winning his heat, quarter-final and semifinal before going against the best-of-the-best in the final.

Boatercross, which was popularized this year on the slalom world cup circuit, is a rapidly growing full-contact sport.

Pronovost had a strategy in the race, starting off in second or third and using a small eddy to bounce other competitors out and away from the gate they had to navigate.

“You’d body check them out of the eddy,” he said. “That’s where I’d always pass him.”

But in the final, junior national slalom team member Trevor Boyd, of Calgary, was just too fast and had left the eddy before Pronovost had a chance to put his tactic into play. He finished second.

In Sunday’s downriver races, Pronovost finished off the podium, but shone in the freestyle competition, held at a new feature from after the 2013 floods, below the race course.

During his winning ride, he amassed 240 points, finishing first by 50 points thanks to a series of loops and spins.

In Monday’s advanced slalom race, Pronovost finished sixth in kayak and first in canoe.

He had clean runs in both events and also teamed-up with Alberta kayaker, Hannah Penner for C2, finishing fourth.

With the tight schedule, he raced to the Calgary Airport for his flight, arriving in his drysuit so he could catch a flight back to Whitehorse in time for an eight day paddling trip down the Teslin River.