Track North News
by Dick Moss
Indoor
Track Season News
As of the next indoor season, the Laurentian
women's XC team will be able to officially compete in indoor
track. That will include both the OUA and CIS championships.
This reinstatement is designed to provide our women's XC
team with the opportunity (option) to continue competing
through the indoor season and to experience the indoor championships
- this isn't a return to a full indoor track program. Indoor
track will be restricted to participants in the women's
XC running program.
Great
Performances for Andrew Ellerton and Sarah Junkin
NCAA INDOOR
TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS: FAYETTVILLE ARKANSAS
Sudbury native, Andrew Ellerton, became an NCAA Championship
record-holder and All-American this weekend. Ellerton, running
the 2nd leg on the University of Michigan's Distance Medley
relay, blazed a 1:48.40 split over the half-mile, helping
his team to a time of 9:27.77. Michigan's gold medal performance
broke Stanford's old record of 9:28.83 by more than a second.
Ellerton, an alumni of Sudbury's Confederation Secondary
School and Track North Athletic Club, also won a bronze
medal in the Big Ten Championships two weeks ago. His time
in the 800m was 1:50.81.
You can get more information, including a play-by-play of
the race and a photo of Andrew, at the U. of Michigan website
at: http://www.mgoblue.com/section_display.cfm?section_id=199&top=2&level=2
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CANADIAN UNIVERSITY INDOOR
TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS - WINDSOR, ONTARIO
In Canadian University Indoor Track and Field Championship
action this weekend, Lo-Ellen Secondary and Track North
alumni, Sarah Junkin, won a bronze medal in the pentathlon
with a score of 3570 points. Junkin also won gold medals
on both the 4 x 200 and 4 x 400 relay teams, helping her
U. of Saskatchewan squad to its second consecutive CIS team
championships.
