Danielle Tkach is in the middle of another busy season of competing in logger sports shows around North America. And like last year, she’s earning some very good results.
“I competed all but one weekend in July,” she says.
The last weekend of that month she was in Hayward, Wisconsin for the world championships in logger sports. Earlier in the month she competed at Powell River and at Revelstoke, Slocan, Williams Lake and Celista, B.C.
Some of her best results came on the July long weekend at Williams Lake and Celista. On the first day she placed second in the single saw event, beat by one of the top women in the world.
“The next day I beat her by four seconds,” says Tkach. “I was just thrilled.”
In the axe throw she was first one day and second the next. In the chopping competition she places third both days.
Tkach won the Jill & Jill sawing contest and also won the stock chainsawing event.
In Revelstoke she picked up a second place finish in the choker race.
Tkach’s season started in earnest in mid-June in Rochester Minnesota at the Midwest Championships. She placed second in the chop and 10th in sawing. With the best women in the U.S. competing, she says, “just to be in the finals is the best. I’ve made a lot of big improvements in my events this year.”
Those improvements continued to show up at events in July. In Powell River Tkach won the single saw event by a whopping eight seconds.
“Usually a decisive win is one second,” she says.
Teamed up with a woman from Washington, she placed second in the Jill & Jill crosscut event.
At the worlds in Wisconsin, Tkach finished eighth in chop but was disqualified on a technicality. She was 11th in sawing.
“It’s really, really tight competition,” she says. Competitors come from all over the Canada and the U.S. and as far away as New Zealand, where “they really know what they’re doing.”
Tkach is now preparing for the Lumberjill Championships in Boonville, New York at the end of this month. In September she’ll compete at the Canadian championships at Parry Sound, Ontario. That event pits the best in the west against the beasts from the east.
“I’m ranked number one in sawing and number two in chopping for Canadians,” she says.
After the Canadian championships, “it’s back to the gym for the winter.

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