January 21, 2013
TRACK AND FIELD ROUNDUP: Teams prepare for the OUA championships
There were two meets featured on the OUA Track and Field calendar over the weekend. Below see stories and results for the Fred Foot Classic hosted by the University of Toronto, and the Don Wright Invitational, hosted by the Western Mustangs. The Windsor Lancers competed at the Mike Lints Open at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, where four Lancer athletes qualified for the CIS Championships
TOP RESULTS AT FRED FOOT CLASSIC
The Varsity Blues track and field team hosted the annual Fred Foot Classic, January 18-19, at the Athletic Centre Field House.
2012 Olympian Sarah Wells placed first in the women’s 600m with a time of 1:32.09. The Unionville, Ont., native also finished second in the 60m hurdles (9.01).
James Turner won the men’s pentathlon on Friday night with a final score of 3566. Veteran high jumper Brett Georgevski topped the field, clearing a height of 1.93m, while Pierce Lepage (14.14m) and Julia Stille (11.08m) won the men’s and women’s triple jump competitions.
Source: Toronto Sports Info
Full Results
Men's Pentathalon Results
Women's Pentathalon Results
LIONS POST 13 PODIUM FINISHES AT FRED FOOT MEET
The York University Lions track and field team combined to record 13 top-three finishes at the Fred Foot Memorial Track Meet hosted by the University of Toronto this past weekend (Jan. 18-19).
The most impressive showing came in the men's long jump, where the Lions swept the podium with Richard Jansen (Bradford, Ont.), Divy Thasarathan (Scarborough, Ont.) and Dahn Pratt (Teaneck, N.J.) finishing first, second and third, respectively. Jansen won the competition with a jump of 6.71 metres, which was 24 centimentres better than the 6.24-metre distance Thasarathan recorded. Pratt's mark of 6.04 metres was good enough for the bronze.
The Lions also nearly turned the same trick in the men's shot put, as Umar Khan (Markham, Ont.) won the gold with a throw of 16.66 metres, Eric Brathwaite (Brampton, Ont.) grabbed the silver with a mark of 15.91 metres and Anojan Sivalingam (Scarborough, Ont.) finished just off the podium in fourth place with a personal-best throw of 14.24 metres.
Thrower Chris Preece (Cookstown, Ont.) gave the Lions a sweep of the throwing events as he won the gold medal in the weight throw with a distance of 15.96 metres.
The final medal on the men's side came from Wesley Huff (Elliot Lake, Ont.), who ran the 300 metres in a season-best time of 36.48 seconds to cross the finish line in second place. Just behind him were teammates Ayo Agusto (Toronto) and Stefan Ristic (Toronto), who both recorded personal bests of 37.04 seconds and 37.25 seconds, respectively, to finish fourth and fifth. Huff also ran a personal-best in the 60 metres with a time of 7.15 seconds, which put him in fourth place.
Several other Lions recorded personal bests in their respective events. Competing in the pentathlon for the first time this season, both Justin Massar (Anten Mills, Ont.) and Jonathan Jacobs (Toronto) recorded their highest ever point totals. Massar finished fourth with 2961 points and Jacobs was sixth with 2566 points.
Chris Pallota (Etobicoke, Ont.) and Esteban Clavijo (Maple, Ont.) both recorded a pair of personal bests on the track this past weekend. Pallota ran a 1:26.82 in the 600m and a 4:16.38 in the 1500m, while Clavijo recorded a 2:50.07 in the 1000m and a 4:19.43 in the 1500m.
Also in the 600m Birko Montinat (Toronto) posted his best ever time at 1:25.02 for a fifth-place finish in the race, while Harishan Karunenthiran (Brampton, Ont.) crossed the finish line of the 1000m race in a time of 2:37.65.
Rounding out the personal bests for the men were Matthew Barclay (Brampton, Ont.), who recorded a height of 1.70 metres in the high jump to finish in fourth place, and Suraj Sharma (Brampton, Ont.), who ran a time of 9:21.17 in the 3000m.
On the women's side the Lions won three of their six medals in the throws. Cynthia Appiah (Toronto) won a gold medal in the shot put with a season-best toss of 14.07 metres, and she also claimed a silver medal in the weight throw with a distance of 17.08 metres. Teammate Ciji Service (Sarnia, Ont.) picked up the bronze medal in the weight throw with a distance of 13.14 metres and was fourth in the shot put at 11.24 metres.
The Lions claimed two of the three podium positions in the women's long jump, as Allison Gallaugher (Surrey, B.C.) and Dunni Aladejebi (Toronto) both recorded a top distance of 5.12 metres. Gallaugher was awarded the silver medal with a better second jump, and Aladejebi finished with the bronze.
The final top-three finish for the women was courtesy of Kelsey Desjarlais (Maple Ridge, B.C.), who won the silver medal in the 1000m with a personal-best time of 3:00.83.
The Lions will be back on the road this weekend, this time in Montreal to compete at the McGill Team Challenge. The squad will host its won meet the following weekend, on Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Toronto Track & Field Centre.
Source: York Sports Info
Bone, Stewart set new Western records at Don Wright Meet
LONDON, Ont. - The annual Don Wright Team Challenge is always a highlight of the Western track and field calendar, and the 30th edition held on Saturday at Thompson Arena definitely proved to be a highlight of the season so far.
Two Mustangs broke arena, meet, and Western records at the event while another two Mustangs broke meet records.
Fresh off of breaking a decade-old Western record in the pole vault last weekend, first-year Mustang Robin Bone decided that once wasn’t enough, and shattered the record that she set just seven days prior. Bone posted a vault of 4.02m, surpassing the 3.92m vault from last weekend, also surpassing arena and meet records set by Waterloo’s Dana Ellis in 2000 and 2001 respectively. Robin is currently ranked 2nd in the CIS behind Olympian Melanie Blouin.
Also in his first full season competing for the Mustangs Taylor Stewart fell just short of a Western long jump record last weekend but would make no mistake on Saturday, breaking Trevino Betty’s 19-year-old mark of 7.48m with a 7.57m jump. Taylor’s record breaking leap not only puts him on top of the overall Western record book, but also gives him the meet and arena record as well with both of those being set by Betty with identical 7.45m jumps in 1993 and 1995.
Matt Diston, last year's CIS silver medallist vaulted 4.81m surpassing Toronto's Ross Girvin's meet record of 4.80m set in 1985.
Not to be outdone by his field event teammates, Western hurdler Matt Brisson moved to the top of the CIS leaderboard posting his best season opening time of 8.00 seconds in the 60m hurdles. Not only does Brisson’s time put him in first place in all of CIS it also tied a meet record set in 1987 by Al Hough.
Other highlights that move athletes into the CIS top nine included:
Scott Leitch posting his fastest ever season opening time in the 600m, taking first place with a time of 1.19.63, falling just shy of breaking both the meet and arena record. Leitch’s time now leaves him ranked first in the 600m in all of CIS track and field. Leitch lead his teammates Matt Muldoon and Triphon Moodie to personal best runs of 1:20.74 and 1:21.23, ranking them 3rd and 4th in the CIS respectively.
Caroline Ehrhardt improved her season's triple jump distance to 12.39 for silver and remains in the 2nd spot in the CIS. She also long jumped 5.61 finishing 3rd in the event and 7th in the CIS rankings.
Mila Simulik improved her season's best in the triple jump to 11.89m, placing 3rd in the meet as well as 4th in the country.
The women's 4 X 400m team of Cassandra McCaig, Sarah Clancy, Lauren Clancy and Jen Barbon ran 3:55.46 for the win and now rank 5th in the CIS.
The men's 4 x 400m team of Brent Bates, Brayden Bullen, Chris Cauley and Triphon Moodie won in 3:27.85 and sit 7th in the CIS.
Ike Omoruna was 2nd in the 60m with a time of 6.94 and ranks 7th in the CIS.
Melissa Caruao 1st in the 1500m and is now 8th in the CIS.
Katie Bell, won Don Wright gold in the 600m in a time of 1:34.87 and stands 9th in the CIS.
Full Results
Also this weekend five pentathletes competed at the Fred Foot Indoor Memorial at the Univeristy of Toronto on Friday night. Jen Pitman finished first in CIS competition and third overall with a score of 3228 points. The highlight for Pitman was a 1.68m mark in the high jump. Shaylyn Kowalchuk and Julia Hayman finished 4th and 6th respectively with 3051and 2787 points. In the men's competition Chris Bergin finished with 3108 points and currently sits 7th in the CIS.
Source: Western Sports Info
MARAUDER MEN SWEEP THE 1000M PODIUM, WYMAN WINS IN LONDON
The Marauder men swept the 1000m podium and Jill Wyman vaulted herself into the top ten in the country at that same distance as McMaster's track teams competed at the Don Wright Invitational meet hosted by Western University on Saturday.
The trio of Jeremy Walsh, Eric Barry and Sean Bowen dominated their competitors en route to personal-best times and an all-Marauder medal haul. The fourth-year veteran Walsh led the race from start to finish, and wrapped up the gold medal in 2:31.02, while Barry (2:32.99) and Bowen (2:33.92) followed close behind.
Wyman also led her 1000m race from the starting gun and ran what coach Paula Schnurr called a “smart race” in 2:57.76 to nab the top spot on the podium and the seventh-fastest time in the CIS. Teammate Claire Stewart finished two places behind Wyman to join her at the podium with a time of 3:06.56.
Other standouts from McMaster included long distance specialist Taylor Forbes and sprinter Connor Mabbott, who both raced for the first time this season in London. The rookie Forbes kicked off his 2013 campaign with a second-placed finish in the men's 1500m event, accomplishing a time of 4:02.85 that stands as a personal best. Fellow first-year Mabbott ran the men's 300m race in 37.47, placing third on the day and cracking the OUA standard in that event.
On the women's side, Kara McPherson reached the podium with a bronze-worthy effort in the 300m race, achieving a new personal best with a time of 43.53.
Source: McMaster Sports Info
Lancers qualify four at Mike Lints Open
The nationally ranked Lancer track & field team had four athletes qualify for the national championships on Friday at the Mike Lints Open at Grand Valley State University.
In addition to the four qualifiers, Windsor captured seven gold medals, five silver and nine bronze.
Qualifying for the CIS Championships were Fraser Kegel in the 3000m with a gold medal time of 8:13.15, and Amilia Di Chiara, who placed second in the 60m hurdles in a time of 8.69. Celine Freeman-Gibb also threw a CIS qualifying throw of 14.60m in the women’s shot put, while Nick Falk took home bronze in the 3000m in a time of 8:15.04.
Source: Windsor Sports Info
TOP RESULTS AT FRED FOOT CLASSIC
The Varsity Blues track and field team hosted the annual Fred Foot Classic, January 18-19, at the Athletic Centre Field House.
2012 Olympian Sarah Wells placed first in the women’s 600m with a time of 1:32.09. The Unionville, Ont., native also finished second in the 60m hurdles (9.01).
James Turner won the men’s pentathlon on Friday night with a final score of 3566. Veteran high jumper Brett Georgevski topped the field, clearing a height of 1.93m, while Pierce Lepage (14.14m) and Julia Stille (11.08m) won the men’s and women’s triple jump competitions.
Source: Toronto Sports Info
Full Results
Men's Pentathalon Results
Women's Pentathalon Results
LIONS POST 13 PODIUM FINISHES AT FRED FOOT MEET
The York University Lions track and field team combined to record 13 top-three finishes at the Fred Foot Memorial Track Meet hosted by the University of Toronto this past weekend (Jan. 18-19).
The most impressive showing came in the men's long jump, where the Lions swept the podium with Richard Jansen (Bradford, Ont.), Divy Thasarathan (Scarborough, Ont.) and Dahn Pratt (Teaneck, N.J.) finishing first, second and third, respectively. Jansen won the competition with a jump of 6.71 metres, which was 24 centimentres better than the 6.24-metre distance Thasarathan recorded. Pratt's mark of 6.04 metres was good enough for the bronze.
The Lions also nearly turned the same trick in the men's shot put, as Umar Khan (Markham, Ont.) won the gold with a throw of 16.66 metres, Eric Brathwaite (Brampton, Ont.) grabbed the silver with a mark of 15.91 metres and Anojan Sivalingam (Scarborough, Ont.) finished just off the podium in fourth place with a personal-best throw of 14.24 metres.
Thrower Chris Preece (Cookstown, Ont.) gave the Lions a sweep of the throwing events as he won the gold medal in the weight throw with a distance of 15.96 metres.
The final medal on the men's side came from Wesley Huff (Elliot Lake, Ont.), who ran the 300 metres in a season-best time of 36.48 seconds to cross the finish line in second place. Just behind him were teammates Ayo Agusto (Toronto) and Stefan Ristic (Toronto), who both recorded personal bests of 37.04 seconds and 37.25 seconds, respectively, to finish fourth and fifth. Huff also ran a personal-best in the 60 metres with a time of 7.15 seconds, which put him in fourth place.
Several other Lions recorded personal bests in their respective events. Competing in the pentathlon for the first time this season, both Justin Massar (Anten Mills, Ont.) and Jonathan Jacobs (Toronto) recorded their highest ever point totals. Massar finished fourth with 2961 points and Jacobs was sixth with 2566 points.
Chris Pallota (Etobicoke, Ont.) and Esteban Clavijo (Maple, Ont.) both recorded a pair of personal bests on the track this past weekend. Pallota ran a 1:26.82 in the 600m and a 4:16.38 in the 1500m, while Clavijo recorded a 2:50.07 in the 1000m and a 4:19.43 in the 1500m.
Also in the 600m Birko Montinat (Toronto) posted his best ever time at 1:25.02 for a fifth-place finish in the race, while Harishan Karunenthiran (Brampton, Ont.) crossed the finish line of the 1000m race in a time of 2:37.65.
Rounding out the personal bests for the men were Matthew Barclay (Brampton, Ont.), who recorded a height of 1.70 metres in the high jump to finish in fourth place, and Suraj Sharma (Brampton, Ont.), who ran a time of 9:21.17 in the 3000m.
On the women's side the Lions won three of their six medals in the throws. Cynthia Appiah (Toronto) won a gold medal in the shot put with a season-best toss of 14.07 metres, and she also claimed a silver medal in the weight throw with a distance of 17.08 metres. Teammate Ciji Service (Sarnia, Ont.) picked up the bronze medal in the weight throw with a distance of 13.14 metres and was fourth in the shot put at 11.24 metres.
The Lions claimed two of the three podium positions in the women's long jump, as Allison Gallaugher (Surrey, B.C.) and Dunni Aladejebi (Toronto) both recorded a top distance of 5.12 metres. Gallaugher was awarded the silver medal with a better second jump, and Aladejebi finished with the bronze.
The final top-three finish for the women was courtesy of Kelsey Desjarlais (Maple Ridge, B.C.), who won the silver medal in the 1000m with a personal-best time of 3:00.83.
The Lions will be back on the road this weekend, this time in Montreal to compete at the McGill Team Challenge. The squad will host its won meet the following weekend, on Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Toronto Track & Field Centre.
Source: York Sports Info
Bone, Stewart set new Western records at Don Wright Meet
LONDON, Ont. - The annual Don Wright Team Challenge is always a highlight of the Western track and field calendar, and the 30th edition held on Saturday at Thompson Arena definitely proved to be a highlight of the season so far.
Two Mustangs broke arena, meet, and Western records at the event while another two Mustangs broke meet records.
Fresh off of breaking a decade-old Western record in the pole vault last weekend, first-year Mustang Robin Bone decided that once wasn’t enough, and shattered the record that she set just seven days prior. Bone posted a vault of 4.02m, surpassing the 3.92m vault from last weekend, also surpassing arena and meet records set by Waterloo’s Dana Ellis in 2000 and 2001 respectively. Robin is currently ranked 2nd in the CIS behind Olympian Melanie Blouin.
Also in his first full season competing for the Mustangs Taylor Stewart fell just short of a Western long jump record last weekend but would make no mistake on Saturday, breaking Trevino Betty’s 19-year-old mark of 7.48m with a 7.57m jump. Taylor’s record breaking leap not only puts him on top of the overall Western record book, but also gives him the meet and arena record as well with both of those being set by Betty with identical 7.45m jumps in 1993 and 1995.
Matt Diston, last year's CIS silver medallist vaulted 4.81m surpassing Toronto's Ross Girvin's meet record of 4.80m set in 1985.
Not to be outdone by his field event teammates, Western hurdler Matt Brisson moved to the top of the CIS leaderboard posting his best season opening time of 8.00 seconds in the 60m hurdles. Not only does Brisson’s time put him in first place in all of CIS it also tied a meet record set in 1987 by Al Hough.
Other highlights that move athletes into the CIS top nine included:
Scott Leitch posting his fastest ever season opening time in the 600m, taking first place with a time of 1.19.63, falling just shy of breaking both the meet and arena record. Leitch’s time now leaves him ranked first in the 600m in all of CIS track and field. Leitch lead his teammates Matt Muldoon and Triphon Moodie to personal best runs of 1:20.74 and 1:21.23, ranking them 3rd and 4th in the CIS respectively.
Caroline Ehrhardt improved her season's triple jump distance to 12.39 for silver and remains in the 2nd spot in the CIS. She also long jumped 5.61 finishing 3rd in the event and 7th in the CIS rankings.
Mila Simulik improved her season's best in the triple jump to 11.89m, placing 3rd in the meet as well as 4th in the country.
The women's 4 X 400m team of Cassandra McCaig, Sarah Clancy, Lauren Clancy and Jen Barbon ran 3:55.46 for the win and now rank 5th in the CIS.
The men's 4 x 400m team of Brent Bates, Brayden Bullen, Chris Cauley and Triphon Moodie won in 3:27.85 and sit 7th in the CIS.
Ike Omoruna was 2nd in the 60m with a time of 6.94 and ranks 7th in the CIS.
Melissa Caruao 1st in the 1500m and is now 8th in the CIS.
Katie Bell, won Don Wright gold in the 600m in a time of 1:34.87 and stands 9th in the CIS.
Full Results
Also this weekend five pentathletes competed at the Fred Foot Indoor Memorial at the Univeristy of Toronto on Friday night. Jen Pitman finished first in CIS competition and third overall with a score of 3228 points. The highlight for Pitman was a 1.68m mark in the high jump. Shaylyn Kowalchuk and Julia Hayman finished 4th and 6th respectively with 3051and 2787 points. In the men's competition Chris Bergin finished with 3108 points and currently sits 7th in the CIS.
Source: Western Sports Info
MARAUDER MEN SWEEP THE 1000M PODIUM, WYMAN WINS IN LONDON
The Marauder men swept the 1000m podium and Jill Wyman vaulted herself into the top ten in the country at that same distance as McMaster's track teams competed at the Don Wright Invitational meet hosted by Western University on Saturday.
The trio of Jeremy Walsh, Eric Barry and Sean Bowen dominated their competitors en route to personal-best times and an all-Marauder medal haul. The fourth-year veteran Walsh led the race from start to finish, and wrapped up the gold medal in 2:31.02, while Barry (2:32.99) and Bowen (2:33.92) followed close behind.
Wyman also led her 1000m race from the starting gun and ran what coach Paula Schnurr called a “smart race” in 2:57.76 to nab the top spot on the podium and the seventh-fastest time in the CIS. Teammate Claire Stewart finished two places behind Wyman to join her at the podium with a time of 3:06.56.
Other standouts from McMaster included long distance specialist Taylor Forbes and sprinter Connor Mabbott, who both raced for the first time this season in London. The rookie Forbes kicked off his 2013 campaign with a second-placed finish in the men's 1500m event, accomplishing a time of 4:02.85 that stands as a personal best. Fellow first-year Mabbott ran the men's 300m race in 37.47, placing third on the day and cracking the OUA standard in that event.
On the women's side, Kara McPherson reached the podium with a bronze-worthy effort in the 300m race, achieving a new personal best with a time of 43.53.
Source: McMaster Sports Info
Lancers qualify four at Mike Lints Open
The nationally ranked Lancer track & field team had four athletes qualify for the national championships on Friday at the Mike Lints Open at Grand Valley State University.
In addition to the four qualifiers, Windsor captured seven gold medals, five silver and nine bronze.
Qualifying for the CIS Championships were Fraser Kegel in the 3000m with a gold medal time of 8:13.15, and Amilia Di Chiara, who placed second in the 60m hurdles in a time of 8.69. Celine Freeman-Gibb also threw a CIS qualifying throw of 14.60m in the women’s shot put, while Nick Falk took home bronze in the 3000m in a time of 8:15.04.
Source: Windsor Sports Info
