“Laurentian
Indoor Track Team Embraces Last Chance Opportunity
in Ottawa”
The Laurentian University Indoor
Track and Field team competed in its final regular
season competition this weekend in Ottawa at
the Carleton University Last Chance Track and
Field Meet. The meet served as a final opportunity
for athletes to improve their marks prior to
the Ontario University (OUA) Championships which
will be held in Windsor, on February 23rd and
24th.
It was a solid day for the Voyageurs
as they collected two medals and set fourteen
personal bests. Twelve athletes eclipsed the
OUA qualifying standard in their respective
events.
The team was once again led
by Heidi Tuszkiewicz (Ajax, ON) who claimed
gold in the Women’s 1500 metre event,
setting a new personal best of 4 minutes 36.26
seconds. Teammate Megan Crocker (Mississauga,
ON), finished just a second behind Tuszkiewicz
to claim silver in 4:37.43 seconds, eclipsing
her own personal best by seven seconds.
A trio of local Sudbury products
turned in 4th place finishes. Caleb Beland in
the men’s 1000m (2:33.47), Liam Passi
in the men’s’ 3000m race (8:44.94)
and Skylar Savage-Perreault in the men's 60m
sprint (7.12). Each of these performances were
personal bests and qualified the trio to compete
at the provincial championship next weekend.
“We asked our athletes
to embrace the last chance theme of the meet
and apparently they listened” commented
Associate Head Coach, Darren Jermyn. “We
now have 14 athletes qualified for the OUA Championships
next weekend. That is the largest squad Laurentian
has sent to OU’s in the past twenty years,
so we are excited for both the athletes and
the program as a whole. We’ve worked hard
to develop a program that supports the sprints
right through to the distance events and that
work is now paying dividends.”
Complete Laurentian University
Results
60m Women
7th – Hannah Merjavec – 8.02, Personal
Best, OUA Qualifier
11th – Danielle Roy – 8.18, OUA
Qualifier
13th – Kirsten Crowe – 8.33
36th – Esther Nabatanzi – 9.47
60m Men
4th - Skyler Savage Perreault – 7.12 (7.23
in Heat), Personal Best, OUA Qualifier
13th - Eric Roque – 7.32 – Season’s
Best, OUA Qualifier
300m Women
15th – Kirsten Crowe – 42.76
41st - Esther Nabatanzi – 49.73, Personal
Best
300m Men
63rd – Ali El-Sahli – 40.74, Personal
Best
600m Women
16th – Natasha Mayer – 1:38.87,
Personal Best, OUA Qualifier
20th – Nicole Rich – 1:39.77, OUA
Qualifier
600m Men
5th – Liam Pederson – 1:23.30, OUA
Qualifier
16th – Walker Houghton – 1:29.31
1000m Men
4th - Caleb Beland – 2:33.47 – Personal
Best, OUA Qualifier
15th - Jarod Milford – 2:42.20 –
Personal Best
17th - Nick Orshinsky – 2:45.97 –
Personal Best
1500m Women
1st – Heidi Tuszkiewicz – 4:36.26
– Personal Best, OUA Qualifier
2nd – Megan Crocker – 4:37.43 –
Personal Best, OUA Qualifier
6th – Jenny Bottomley – 4:43.33
– Personal Best, OUA Qualifier
10th – Breanne Steven – 5:01.54
– Personal Best
12th – Lindsay Robinson – 5:11.37
1500m Men
16th – Jarod Milford – 4:31.94
3000m Women
5th - Lyndsay Greasley – 11:13.36 –
Season’s Best
8th - Kelsey Lefebvre – 12:08.04
3000m Men
4th - Liam Passi – 8:44.94 – Personal
Best, OUA Qualifier
Photos (by Adam Kalab):
• Skyler1_sm.jpg - Skyler Savage-Perrault
(middle), 60m
• Caleb-Jarod1_sm.jpg - Caleb Beland (4th
from Right) and Jarod Milford (2nd from Right),
1000m
Darren Jermyn
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