Kyle Beaudry & Kristine Lalonde

Kyle Beaudry - Canadian Engineering Champ!
Congratulations to TNOR alumni, Kyle Beaudry, whose team of four engineering students won a gold medal in the Senior Team Designe category at the Canadian Engineering competition. Kyle is a 3rd-year student at Laurentian U and a former 400m hurdler.

Here's an article:
http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2010/03/luengcomp-240310.aspx

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Kristine Lalonde at the NCAA's
Alumni hurdler, Kristine Lalonde's Vermont Catamounts are out of the NCAA basketball competition after falling in the second round to Notre Dame 84-to-66. Kristine got three minutes of floor time in that game, tallying an assist and garnering some valuable NCAA tournament experience!
There's a YouTube video on the Vermont squad here - Kristine is #5, and she's interviewed at 4:45 on this season preview video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8kY3K1BusQ

By the way, there are six players from Ontario on that team, four of whom are freshman!

 

York High School Indoor Meet

Track North athletes, competing for their respective high schools, won a total of 7 medals (2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze) this past weekend at the York University High School Indoor Track and Field Meet.

Some very impressive results for athletes finishing up their indoor training and gearing up for the outdoor high school season.

TN Results are as follows:

Senior Boys 400m

Ross Proudfoot 2nd - 52.77 (PB!)

Sebastian Diebel - 7th 53.46 (PB!)

Senior Boys 800m

Ross Proudfoot - 1st 800m - 1:57.78 (PB!)

Joe Burke - 2nd - 2:02.44

Sebastian Diebel - 8th 800m - 2:08.19

Senior Boys 1500m

Joe Burke - 5th - 4:22.89

Junior Boys 800m

Zack Caverson - 6th - 2:15.45

Junior Boys 1500m

Zack Caverson - 6th - 4:44.82

Midget Boys 400m

Brandon Beland -  4th - 1:00.14 (PB!)

Midget Boys 800m

Brandon Beland - 2nd -  2:18.22 (PB!)

Senior Girls 60mH

Serena San Cartier - 1st - 9.05 (8.95 heat)

Senior Girls 60m

Serena San Cartier - 3rd - 8.17

Kyla Pettigrew - 4th - 8.52

Senior Girls 400m

Kyla Pettigrew - 3rd - 1:02.36

Ronnie Spencer at Jacksonville

Well, we've had alumni who compete in hockey, nordic skiing, gymnastics, football, baseball and basketball. And also, tennis!

Ronnie Spencer is currently on the varsity tennis team at the University of Jacksonville in Florida.

Here's her roster link (it looks very international):
http://www.judolphins.com/wtennis/roster/

Ellerton in Arizona

Congratulations to Andrew Ellerton, who ran his first race in more than a year and a half, running a 48.2 in the 3rd leg in a 4 x 400m relay at the Arizona State Meet last weekend.

Andrew is now training with Wynn Gmitroski (and Gary Reed) and living in Phoenix and Victoria. He has been off with a navicular bone (foot) fracture but it looks like the foot is ready and that Andrew's new training situation is starting to kick in!

Kristine Lalonde at the NCAA's

Congratulations to alumni hurdler, Kristine Lalonde. Kristine is in her first year of playing basketball for the U. of Vermont, and her squad just advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. They play Notre Dame today.

Ehrhardt Wins New York Gold

Event: National Interscholastic Indoor Championships - New York, New York
March 12-14, 2010

Track North's Caroline Ehrhardt (Espanola) successfully defended her title as the girl's triple jump champion at the 2010 National Interscholastic Indoor Track and Field Championship contested this past weekend in New York City.

Competing against a large field of 49 competitors from across North America, Ehrhardt jumped a season's best of 12.48 metres to win gold.

Ehrhardt also placed 5th in the Long Jump with a jump of 5.72 metres.

Full results can be found at:
http://www.dyestat.com//?pg=us-2010-Indoor-NSIC-Results-Girls

Provincial Juniors Indoor Results

Athletics Ontario Junior Indoor Track Championships

Metro Center Track, Toronto

Members of Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club competed at the Athletics Ontario Junior Championships last weekend, competing against other athletes 19 years of age and younger.

They returned with four gold medals and four personal best performances.

Emma Tallman, who also competes for the Laurentian university team, closed out her indoor campaign by winning gold in the 800 metres with a time of 2:13.41. It was a three-second personal best.

Ross Proudfoot out-kicked the competition in the 3000m with a personal best time of 8:40.37. He also placed 9th in the 800m with a time of 1:59.95.

Triple jumper Caroline Ehrhardt place first in both the triple and long jump with leaps of 12:01 and 5.52m respectively.

Grace Thomson ran personal bests in the heats and finals of the 60m hurdles, finishing in 6th place with a best time of 9.32.

Joe Burke placed 23rd in the 800m with a time of 2:03.84 and 33rd in the 400m with a time of 54.78 .

Emma's 800m race can be seen on video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArVYt88eyGg

 

Grace Thomson's 60m hurdles at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwHroETdrA

 

Full results are at:

http://www.athleticsontario.ca/Groups/Results/2010/2010_A0_Bantam_Midget_Junior_results.htm