TRK | Mrozewski golden, Booth wins silver at Last Chance Meet in Guelph
The Laurentian Voyageurs track & field team concluded their regular season of indoor competitions this past weekend with "Last Chance" competitions hosted by the University of Guelph and Carleton University. The Vees had an outstanding weekend, collecting two medals, seventeen top-ten finishes and setting fifteen new personal bests.
Leading the way for the Vees was fourth year nursing student Kristen Mrozewski (Sudbury) who won gold in the women's 1,000 metre event in a season's best time of 3:00.61. Teammate and fifth year education student Sarah Booth (Peterborough) placed second in the same event in a time of 3:01.77, also a season's best.
Other top performances for the Laurentian women included first year kinesiology student Alissa Diavolitsis (Sudbury) who placed 4th in the 60 metres (8.20 seconds), and third year criminology student Shelly Hladin who placed 8th in the long jump with a season's best performance of 5.24 metres.
On the men's side, the Vees sprint squad led the way with five athletes establishing new personal bests. First year engineering student, Abdul Abiodun (Sudbury) placed seventh in the men's 60 metres with a time of 7.17 seconds in the heats and 7.18 in the final. Second year criminology student Josh Kim (Sudbury), tied Abdiodun in the final with a 7.18 clocking. Fifth year education student Skyler Savage-Perreault (Sudbury) placed tenth in the final in 7.19. Evan Jarvis (Syndenham), also established a new personal best of 7.30 seconds.
Competing at a different meet in Ottawa, fourth year architecture student Tristan Routhier (Saint Sixte, QC), established a new personal best in the 300 metres with a time of 35.51 seconds. This time places Routhier second in LU's all-time school rankings and leaves him just eight one-hundredths of a second off the school record.
Other Top-ten performances on the weekend included:
Women:
60m: Naomi Palmer, 5th, 8.31; Shelley Hladin, 6th, 8.36
1000m: Claire School, 5th, 3:10.46; Abby Lanteigne, 6th, 3:10.84; Georgia Lepage, 8th, 3:13.40; Maeve Blake, 9th, 3:26.66; Ariel Gibbons, 10th, 3:45.56
Men:
600m: Brandon Radey, 8th, 1:23.21; Alan Wilkin, 10th, 1:32.16
1000m: TJ Green, 6th, 2:44.25; Owen Roney, 7th, 2:45.01; Travis Annett, 8th, 2:47.00
"Coach Taylor and Coach Knor have done an outstanding job with our sprinters this season", noted Vees Head Coach, Darren Jermyn. "They have timed their training perfectly to have them running their fastest times of the season as we head into the OUA Championships next weekend in Windsor. We are excited to have qualified 22 athletes for the championships across eleven individual events and all six relays".
The Vees will next compete at the OUA Championships, Feb 21-22 in Windsor.