Lucia Stafford, Cross Country, Toronto
The individual accolades just keep coming for Lucia Stafford, as she once again came through with a top finish for the Toronto Varsity Blues women’s cross country team, albeit on the national stage this time around.
Burlington, Ont. – Lucia Stafford has been named Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Female Athlete of the Week for the period ending November 10, 2019.
Female Athlete of the Week – Lucia Stafford, Toronto Varsity Blues, Cross Country
The individual accolades just keep coming for Lucia Stafford, as she once again came through with a top finish for the Toronto Varsity Blues women’s cross country team, albeit on the national stage this time around.
Stafford won the individual gold medal at the 2019 U SPORTS cross country championships on Saturday in Kingston, matching the result she captured at the OUA finale just two weeks prior. The fourth-year engineering major crossed the 8km finish line in 27:30.3, almost a full 14 seconds ahead of silver medalist Anne-Marie Comeau of the Laval Rouge et Or. A Toronto native, Stafford earned her first U SPORTS cross country athlete of the year honour, as well as a first team all-Canadian nod for the third time in her cross country career.
Stafford is the second Varsity Blue to win the U SPORTS individual gold medal in the past three years, after Sasha Gollish claimed the title in 2017.