Monday, July 18, 2011

Huard Medals at the Provincial Seniors

Athletics Ontario Senior Track and Field Championships
Ottawa, Ontario, July 16-17, 2011

Two members of Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club competed at the Athletics Ontario Senior (20-and-over) Track and Field Championships in Ottawa this weekend.

Hanmer's Ashley Huard, only 17 and competing up an age category, continued her remarkable streak of medal performances by winning a bronze medal in the 100 metre event. Her time was 12.09.

Alicia Violin, 19 and also from Hanmer, competed in the long jump,  leaping a personal-best 5.17 for an 8th-place finish.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Dave McGill Article on Northern Life Website

Here's a nice Randy Pascal/Northern Life article on TNOR Masters runner, Dave McGill:


http://www.northernlife.ca/news/columns/pascal/14-dave-mcgill-track-sudbury.aspx
 

Andrew in Liege and Ross in Toronto

TRACK NORTH NEWS - ANDREW ELLERTON IN EUROPE AND ROSS IN TORONTO

Andrew Ellerton ran the first of his European meets last night, in Liege, Belgium, placing fourth in the 800m with a time of 1:48.65. You can see the results here:
http://www.timetronics.be/results/luik2011/event018h01.html

The video is here:
http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/238961-Liege-Meeting-2011-Meeting-I nternational-dathletisme-de-la-Province-de-Liege/video/500155-M-800-H01




Ross Proudfoot placed 8th in the 1500m at the Toronto International Track and Field Games, with a time of 3:45.02.

The video is here:
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=videos&year=2011& pg=1&event_id=6541&video_id=51575&folder_id=recent&offset=6#video
 

Monday, July 11, 2011

Track North Wins 3 Medals at National Juniors

Medal Haul for Track North at the Canadian Juniors

Six athletes from Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club competed at the Canadian  Junior (Under 20) Track and Field Championships in Winnipeg this weekend, returning with three medals and 3 top-eight finishes.
Ross Proudfoot nailed down a berth on Canada's Pan-American Junior Games team by winning a silver medal in the 1500 metres. In the highly tactical race, Proudfoot suffered through a slow pace for the first 800 metres, then took control and led the field for the remainder of the race. He fought off several attacks on the home stretch only to be passed at the line by a hard-charging Rob Denault of the Newmarket Huskies. Proudfoot's time was 4:05.15.
See Race Videos:
Ross - 1500m Finals
http://tinyurl.com/67h5crv
Ross - 1500 Semi-Final
http://tinyurl.com/63dlrhz
Seventeen-year old Ashley Huard of Hanmer surprised the national sprinting ranks by winning a silver medal in he 100 metre dash.  Showing incredible poise in her first national championship, Huard advanced through three rounds of competition over two days, winning her heat with a time of 12.3; then placing second in her semi-final  with a 12.12. She saved her best for the final, exploding from the blocks and moving into third place at the 60m mark. She then surged over the final 10 metres to narrowly out-lean Edmonton's Isatu Fofanah by 1/100th of a second. Her silver medal time was 11.95, which matched her personal best, set at Sudbury's OFSAA Track and Field Championships.
See Race Videos:
Ashley - Finals
http://tinyurl.com/5t5n3x8
Ashley - Semi-Finals
http://tinyurl.com/6xcvlzh
Katie Wismer's bronze medal in the 2000 metre steeplechase was another surprise, with Wismer running an 18-second personal best to place ahead of both the gold and bronze medalists from OFSAA. Using a risky but effective technique over the waterpits, Wismer ran in fifth place until the final lap, where she moved through the pack to her medal finish and a time of 7:12.87. Wismer, a Lockerby Secondary  graduate, will compete for Laurentian University this Fall.
See Race Video:
Katie - Steeple:
http://tinyurl.com/68uq6fe

Jeremy Cooper improved on last year's 11th place finish in the 5000 metres, running a personal-best  15:12.97 to cross the finish line in 5th place. Cooper ran with the lead pack until the final kilometer, where the top-three runners broke from the pack. Cooper fought off all but one runner in the chase pack as he kicked down the home stretch.

Alicia Violin of Hanmer placed 6th in the triple jump, with a breakthrough personal-best leap of  11.46 metres on her fourth round of jumping.  It was a significant improvement over last year as Violin, better known as a gymnast and in only her second year of jumps training, did not make the top-12 final last year. Violin also placed 16th in the long jump with a distance of 5.14 metres.
Matt Taylor, only 17 and competing up an age category, broke into the nation's top ranks by finishing eighth in the triple jump with a leap of 13.06 metres.
Espanola's Caroline Ehrhardt, representing the London Western track club, placed 1st in both the long jump and triple jump, with distances of 5.74 and 12.78 metres respectively. Erhardt will join Ross Proudfoot on the Pan-American Junior Games team.

"It was an amazing nationals for us," said Track North jumps coach Jim Taylor. "It's a large country with excellent talent, and to have six Track North athletes return as national medalists and three others finish in the top-eight is a major accomplishment."

Monday, July 04, 2011

Photos and Videos Updated

Track North News

I've finally caught up with my photos and videos. You can see all the
photographs and videos that I've taken since the City Championships. Sorry -
most of the videos are of my technical event people.

Here's the video link:
http://vimeo.com/user5842745/albums

And here's the photo link. You can see the album titles on the right:
http://s843.photobucket.com/albums/zz355/tracknorthac/2011/

Dick

Sunday, July 03, 2011

Firecracker 5k Road Race Results

The results from the Firecracker 5km road race have been posted on the Track North website at:

Congratulations and thanks to Katie Maziarski, who was the main organizer for the race and Dave McGill who was the driving force behind it. Also thanks to Vince & Lise Perdue, Judy and Katelyn Roberts, Bill Thompson, Frank and Sally Lesk, Verna Tallman, Karen and Dale Caverson, the Maziarski clan, Dr. Lawrie Oliphant, Amanda Kosmerly, and the many other volunteers who came out to help!

The race raised $1300 for the Laurentian Women's XC/Track team!

You can see a large number of photos from the race (taken by Sally Lesk) on the Laurentian PhotoBucket site at the following link (photos can be downloaded):

 
P.S. There were a lot of TNOR and LU alumni in attendance, including Natalie Lefort, Andre Lefort, Kerry Lamarche (Salmoni), Caitie Wylie (Bowerman), Dave Endleman, Neil Phipps, Todd Withers, Lauren Paille (Hotti) and Brent Walker.

P.S. Katelyn Roberts, who volunteered at the finish line last night and just graduated from the Radiation Therapy course at Laurentian, will soon be starting her first job at the cancer centre in St. John's Newfoundland! Congrats!

Ellerton - 1:45.04!!!

Andrew Ellerton won the 800m at the Harry Jerome Invitational tonight with a breakthrough time of 1:45.04!!!!! That crushes his old PB and breaks the "A" standard for selection to the World Championships.

Andrew now has only to run a time of 1:46.30 (the B-Standard) in order to qualify for Worlds to be held in Daegu Korea on August 27-September 4.

And...he won the race.

You can see video of the race at the following link:

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/238919-Harry-Jerome-International-Track-Classic-2011/video/498829-M-800-Andrew-Ellerton-145

Note the splits: about 50.0 for the 400m and 1:17 for the 600m!