track and field
Back-to-back OUA MVP of track events Matt Walters will trade in his blue and gold Lancer colours for red and white later this month, as the CIS 1500m champion will join Team Canada at the 40th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Cross Country Championships taking place Sunday March 24 in Bydgoszcz, Poland....
John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR Matt Walters earned two medals to help the Lancers Men’s Track and Field team to a second-place finish on the weekend at the CIS Championships at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Winning the title 22 p[oints ahead of Windsor with 114 points were the Guelph Gryphons. The Lancers women’s team placed fifth, behind champions Calgary, Toronto, Guelph and Western. The Windsor team won a total four gold, six silver and two bronze medals. Walters won gold in the 1,500 metres event with a time of three minutes, 50.16 seconds. He also placed second in the...
John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR indsor’s Virginia McLachlan keeps things business as usual as the days dwindle down towards her Paralympic debut. She leaves this week for the 2012 London Games, competing Aug. 31 and Sept. 7 in the T35 class 100- and 200-metre events. “Nothing really has changed,” McLachlan said of the time between now and July 1, when she first discovered she was going to be a part of the Paralympic team. “Training is going well. Everything is going perfectly, actually.” McLachlan and her coach Ben Warnock competed earlier this month in a Twilight meet in Ottawa in preparation...
John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR wenty-two current and former Lancers are set to compete at the 2012 Canadian Olympic track and field trials June 27-30 in Calgary. Among them, three Lancer alumni hope to earn their ticket to this summer’s 2012 Olympic Summer Games in London. Egansville, Ont., native Melissa Bishop needs only a top-3 finish at the trials in the 800-metre evert in order to secure her sport on the Olympic team. The former University of Windsor athlete of the year met the Olympic A standard earlier this month at a meet in Oregon. “Going into (the trials), right now,...
John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR ormer Lancer track and field standout Melissa Bishop added another feather to her olympic-journey cap last Friday with a Canadian Olympic A standard finish in the 800-metres last Friday in Oregon. The Egansville, Ont., native, who already had two B standards tucked away, recorded a finish of one minute, 59.82 seconds, noticeably below the 159.90 A standard mark. It was a bonus unscheduled race and the A standard finish wasn’t expected. But, it’s a testament to Bishop’s methodology as she moves forward. “My heart was in my throat, the weather was not that great, but going...
John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR ancers Track and Field and Cross Country head coach Dennis Fairall will be inducted into the Windsor/Essex County Sports Hall of Fame Oct. 13 at the Giovanni Caboto Club. The award-winning coach will be joined by former NHL players Bob Boughner and Tie Domi, former Major League Baseball player Stubby Clapp, former CFLer Tony Dennis and former Canadian amateur women’s golf champion Laura-Henderson-Matthews. “When I took over the program, I didn’t want to just develop athletes, I wanted to build a program that could win national championships. Here we are 24 titles later,” Fairall said on...
