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John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR he top-ranked Lancers Track and Field team captured 40 medals, including 19 gold, at the Team Challenge Friday-Saturday at the St. Denis Centre. “It was a great night all around,” said coach Brett Lumley of the Lancers team, which also met 15 CIS qualifiers at the event and broke a meet record. Qualifiers with gold-medal performances included Nicole Sassine, who took two individual gold medals. She won in the 300-metre event with a CIS-qualifying time of 39.24 and in the 60 metres (7.62). Sassine also won gold with the CIS championship-bound 4×200-metre relay team of Emilie...
John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR here was no shortage of Lancers hitting national championship qualifying standards on the weekend in CIS track and field action. The Lancers Track and Field team had no less than 14 CIS qualifying marks at three separate events in both Canada and the U.S. At the York Open Saturday at York University, Amilia Di Chiara won a gold medal in the 60-metre hurdles while qualifying for the nationals with a time of 8.66 seconds. Qualifying with bronze medals were Steffi Stephenson in the shot put (13m80) and Ami Schimanski in the weight throw (16m79). Jacinta Cowan...
John Doherty SPORTS EDITOR anadian decathlete Jamie Adjetey-Nelson isn’t disappointed with his showing at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea this past August. The former Lancer had to pull out of the Olympic qualifier after two events following an hamstring injury, thereby forfeiting a bid for the July-Aug. 2012 London Olympics. There’s still plenty of time to qualify. “Track and field works different than other sports,” said Adjetey-Nelson. “The qualifying period is the year of the Olympics, so I was not disappointed after the world championships. I knew it was a possibility that I would not qualify then...
John Doherty SPORT EDITOR pending the past week in an intensive training camp in Miramar, Fla., Lancer Track and Field head coach Dennis Fairall feels confident the returning CIS men’s and women’s champions are destined for podium finishes at both the OUA and CIS levels. While the intercollegiate eligibility of several top athletes in the program came to an end last year―the woman’s team graduated 109 of their CIS record 154.5 points from last season―the 55-member team, which includes a new crop of 20 athletes, is expected to fill the void. “We expect that some will step right in and...