Sunday, May 31, 2009

Kait Tallman at NCAA East Regionals

NCAA East Regional Championships
Greensboro, North Carolina
May 29th, 2009
 
Track North's Kaitlyn Tallman placed 10th at the NCAA Division I East Regional Championships held this weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Tallman, a junior at Villanova University ran to a new personal best of 16:29.02.
 
Kaitlyn's outdoor season has led to new personal bests over 1500m, 3000m and 5000m!
 
Congratulations Kaitlyn!!! 
 


Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Ottawa Race Weekend Results

Results: Ottawa Race Weekend
 
Half-Marathon (Chip Times)
Mathilde Demory, 1:46.21.3 (44:49/10k split), 240th in the 25-29 age group
Celeste Woods, 2:01.58.5 (44:20/10k split) 105th in the 20-24 category),

5km (Chip Times)
Mike Coughlin - 18:36
Steph Fieler - 20:13
Madeleine Woods- 20:16
 
Also
Kelly Laing - 20:37
Chantry Cargill - 16:01 (PB)  (Track North)
 

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Ottawa Spring Open Results

Ottawa Spring Open - May 16-17th,09
 
Several Track North athletes took advantage of perfect weather conditions on Saturday to post some great PB's this past weekend in Ottawa!
 
Open Women's 800m
Emma Tallman - 4th - 2:17.43 - PB! Just 0.43 off Junior Nats standard!
 
Open Women's 1500m
Emma Tallman - 3rd - 5:06.14
 
Open Men's 3000m
Ross Proudfoot - 1st - 8:43.95 - PB! Qualifies for Junior Nats for 5000m
Chantry Cargill - 2nd - 8:51.42 - PB! Qualifies for Junior Nats for 5000m
Jeremy Cooper - 3rd - 9:10.81
 
Open Men's 400m
Andre Pelland - 1st - 49.60
 
Open Men's 200m
Andre Pelland - 1st - 22.59
 
Open Men's 1500m
Chantry Cargill - 1st - 4:10.87 PB!
 
 

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Sudbury Rocks Results + York Opener

RESULTS FOR THE SUDBURY ROCKS RACE & THE YORK SPRING OPENER

SUDBURY ROCKS ROAD RUN FOR DIABETES
Here are the Track North (and alumni/affiliated) + Laurentian results from the Sudbury Rocks Marathon Races held yesterday. If I missed anyone, my apologies!

Gender places are listed beside each athletes name.
Full results at: http://www.sudburyrocksmarathon.com/results/

5km - Men
Ross Proudfoot (1) 15:55 - PB
Jeremy Cooper (3) 16:03 - PB
Chantry Cargill (4) 16:23 - PB
Sebastian Diebel (7) 18:01
Stephane Jacques (8) 18:42
Todd Boeker (10) 20:03
Bob Lesk (19) 21:08
Zack Caverson (23) 21:46
Dave McGill (26) 22:17
Randy Pascal (71) 26:11

5km - Women
Emma Tallman (1) 20:08
Katie Maziarski (2) 21:08
Kayla Gallo (6) 23:13

10km - Women
Mathilde Demory (3) 45:36
Celeste Woods (7) 47:12

Half Marathon - Men
Mike Coughlin (4) 1:27:16
JP Butler (6) 1:28:07
Klaus Ehrhardt (24) 1:40:29
Ron Poirier (88) 2:09:36

Half Marathon - Women
Donna Mae Robins (1) 1:26:42

Marathon
Matt Strickland (2) 3:04:05






York Spring Opener, 5/2/09

Eric Roque
100m, 8th, 11.10 (Wind 2.7) PB
200, 11th, 22.78 (Wind 2.0)

Andre Pelland
200, 5th, 22.25, (Wind 2.0) PB

400, 5th, 49.85

Monday, May 04, 2009

Tallman Places 6th at Big East Champs

Track North's Tallman Places 6th at Big East Track and Field Championships

Kaitlyn Tallman, of Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club and a junior at Villanova University finished 6th in the women's 5000m race at the Big East Track and Field Championships held this past weekend at the Jumbo Elliot Track in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Tallman ran to a new personal best time of 16:38.34. Her time exceeded the qualifying standard for the NCAA Division 1 Regional Championships - the next step towards NCAA National Championship qualification.

Up next for Tallman is a 3000m race at the Eastern College Athletic Association (ECAC) championships in two weeks followed by another 5000m race at the NCAA Division 1 Regional Championships.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Cardinal Carter Results - Double Gold for Caroline! Bronze for Joe!

Track North's Caroline Ehrhardt jumped to 2 gold medals at the Cardinal Carter Classic Track and Field meet held in Toronto this past week (Thurs and Friday)

Caroline won the Senior Girls Long Jump with a best distance of 5.35m

She also set a new meet record in winning the Triple Jump with a distance of 12.39m.

Joe Burke, also competing for Espanola High School finished 3rd in the Senior Boy's 400m race with a time of 52.50.
He also finished 4th in the 800m with a time of 2:01.41

Congratulations Caroline and Joe!!

Monday, April 27, 2009

Channel 10 Video - Spring Training & Kerissa Blacklock

Watch the video by Channel 10's Randy Pascal on TNOR's Spring training during the outdoor track reconstruction. Also an interview with hurdler, Kerissa Blacklock. It's posted on our Facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=2223499300

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Jeremy in Afghanistan

A shout-out to TNOR and Laurentian alumni sprinter, Jeremy Lajeunesse, who's currently posted with the armed forces out of the Kandahar air field in Afganistan.

Jeremy's job is planning how to support all the forward elements in the province, including planning for fuel, ammo, rations, convoy schedules, air replenishment etc. A LOT of responsibility.

Jeremy is still running to stay fit - usually at 5:00 AM.

Get back home safe, Jeremy!!

Kait Tallman article

There's a nice article on Kaitlyn Tallman in the Saturday edition of the Sudbury Star.

It's also on their website (minus photo). The link is:
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1540312

Kaitlyn Tallman at Penn Relays

Track North's Kaitlyn Tallman (Mindemoya), a junior at Villanova University, placed 6th in the 3000m at this weekend's prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Tallman's time was 9:39.88, six seconds off the winning time of 9:33.18, set by Danielle Tauro of the U. of Michigan.

Beginning with a pedestrian pace over the first six laps, Tallman kicked with 600m to go to move from 10th position into 6th place.


Video coverage of the event can be seen at the following link (white jersey,black shorts)
http://www.flotrack.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234918/173252

Monday, April 06, 2009

Caroline Ehrhardt Interview

Check out the video interview by Channel 10's Randy Pascal with TNOR triple jumper Caroline Ehrhardt. It's on the Track North Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2223499300

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Hockey Worlds and Ben's Jav

TNOR alumni Rebecca Johnston is now at the World Women's Hockey Championships in Finland. In the team's exhibition game against China, Rebecca got three points, with two goals and an assist (score was 12-1).

A photo of Rebecca is attached.

At Duke University, Ben Charbonneau tossed another javelin with a 59.98 metre toss.He placed fourth in the event.

TNOR Results - Harry's Spring Run Off 8km and Florida Pepsi Relays

Harry's Spring Run-Off 8km - High Park, Toronto
 
Track North's Jeremy Cooper, 15, from Manitowaning, finished 2nd in the 15-19 age group and 20th overall in a field of 2,500 runners at the Harry's Spring Run-Off 8km race today.
Jeremy finished the 8km hilly course in a time of 27:25. 
Official results here:
 
Florida Pepsi Relays - Gainsville Florida
 
Track North's Kaitlyn Tallman (Mindemoya), a junior at Villanova University, placed 2nd in the Women's 5000m race at the Florida Pepsi Relays, finishing with a new personal best time of 16:48.67.  This time qualifies Kaitlyn for both the Big East Championships and NCAA Regional Championships meets later this season.
Official results can be found here:
 

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Charbonneau Sets School Javelin Record


Ben Charbonneau, competing for Lake Superior State University, set another school record in the javelin last weekend throwing a personal best 59.24 metres at the Dick Small Invitational in Defiance Ohio.


Charbonneau, a College Notre Dame graduate and member of Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club, met the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Championships and is currently ranked 3rd in the NCAA Division II. His academic work this year has also earned him academic All-American honors.


http://www.lssulakers.com/sports/c-track/2008-09/news/dick_small_3-22-09

Monday, March 09, 2009

Ben Charbonneau at North Florida Open

University of North Florida Spring Break Open, March 7, 2009

Ben Charbonneau competed in his first outdoor meet for Lake Superior State University this weekend, throwing 57.61m (189-00), breaking LSSU's school record set by another TN Alumni, Andrew Anathasopoulis.

Ross at Ontario Junior Champs

Athletics Ontario Bantam-Midget-Junior Indoor Track and Field Championships
York University
March 7-8,09

Track North's Ross Proudfoot had 2 solid performances this past weekend at the Athletics Ontario BMJ Championships this past weekend at York University. Still only 16, Ross competed in the Junior division (19 and under)

1500m - 11th place - 4:12.50

3000m - 9th - 9:07.74

Congrats Ross!!

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Kaitlyn Tallman at ECAC

Congratulations to Kaitlyn Tallman for a huge personal best and a stinkin' fast time of 9:34.49 in the 3000M for 6th overall at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Indoor Track Championships (12 second PB).

Kaitlyn just missed NCAA provisional time of 9:34 flat.

Full results at http://www.ecacsports.com/ECAC_Day_2_Results_and_Final_Team_Scores.htm

SuperSaturday Results

Super Saturday Meet #5, Ottawa, 3/7/09

Track North athletes returned from the Super Saturday meet in Ottawa this weekend with four medals and several personal bests. They were competing on Ottawa's 400m indoor track.

100m
2nd, Eric Roque (Snax), 11:49 (Heat), 11:31 (Final)

200m
2nd, Eric Roque, 23.13 (Indoor PB)

400m
2nd, Andre Pelland, 49.92 (Indoor PB)

800m
2nd, Paul Chauvin, 1:55.20 (TNOR alumni, now with Ottawa).

3000m
4th, Chantry Cargill, 9:11 (PB!)

Way to run fellas!

Monday, March 02, 2009

OUA Indoor Track Results

OUA Indoor Track and Field Championships,
York University, Feb 27-28, 2009

Laurentian's Women's track team competed at the OUA championships this weekend, bringing home a top-six finish.

Madeleine Woods finished sixth in the 600m with a season's best time of 1:34.76, only .59 seconds out of a bronze medal. With 60m to go and still in contention for the medal, Woods found herself boxed in and unable to kick through the pack.
"I felt great, and had lots left at the end for a kick, but I just couldn't find any open space," said Woods.

Also competing at the meet were rookies Emma Tallman and Gracie Tetzlaff, who placed 15th and 16th in the 1500m, and Maggie Robins, who placed 17th in the 1000m.

Laurentian Results
600m
6th, Madeleine Woods, 1:34.76

1000m
17th, Maggie Robins, 3:09.80

1500m
15th, Emma Tallman, 4:54.57
16th, Gracie Tetzlaff, 4:59.47

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

OTFA Results - Juv/Snr Champs

Athletics Ontario Youth (17 and under) and Senior (19+) Indoor Championships
York University
Feb 21-22,09

Track North's Caroline Ehrhardt (Espanola) jumped her way to 2 GOLD medals at the AO Indoor Championships this past weekend. Caroline, who finished 3rd at last year's Olympic Trials in the Triple Jump won both the Triple Jump (11.70m) and Long Jump (5.54m) in the Youth Girls Division. These performances would also have won both Senior Events!

Several other Track North athletes ran to personal or seasonal bests at this competition.

They include:
Youth Boys
Joe Burke - 6th, 400m - 54.04; 7th, 800m - 2:04.64
Jeremy Cooper - 9th, 1500m - 4:17.92 - PB!; 9th, 3000m - 9:17.39 - PB!

Senior Men
Chantry Cargill (still Junior age) - 7th, 1500m - 4:11.55 - PB!; 6th, 3000m - 9:14.83 PB!