OUA Championships - Windsor

OUA Championships - Windsor

Madeleine Woods
600m - 4th - 1:36.57 PB!!
4 X 400m - Team 2nd - qualified to run at CIS in Winnipeg
She may also run on 4 X 800m team at CIS

Liz Forbes
3000m, 9th, 10:30.62
Will race the 3k at CIS

Tammy Dufresne
1000m - 8th - 3:05.83
4 X 800m - Team 1st!! Will run this event at CIS

Julie Forbes
1000m - 14th - 3:22.1

Great Lakes Conference Champs
Meghan Juuti
800m, 15th, 2:21.23

Devon Makes Olympic Standard

Congrats to TNOR Alumni, Devon Kershaw - Devon placed 25th in a World Cup Nordic Ski race in Reitim Winkl Germany, meeting the top-30 qualification standards for the Winter Olympics next year in Turin Italy.

So, if the selection process goes the way it should, Devon will be an Olympian next year!!

Track North Results

Harold Silverstein Invitational (Ann Arbor)
Andrew Ellerton
800m, 2nd 1:50.60 (off a big kick)

Hamilton Spectator Games
(Note - this track is 146m long - 10+ laps for 1500!)
Open Girls 1500m
Kaitlyn Tallman - 4:51.30 - 2nd final (5:11.2 in heat during morning session)

Where do multi-event athletes go when they retire? To the ultimate frisbee fields, that's where! Check out a photo and article of Dave Walton playing ultimate at the Snowplate 2005 Tournament
http://www.northernlife.ca/sportsarticle.asp?view=81810

Findlay University Open
Steve Eles
Mile, 2nd, 4:23.70

Kent State Tuneup
Steve Eles
Mile,11th, 4:18.17 (last 800m in 2:05)

Kaitlyn at Legions

Ontario Legion Indoor Championships, Toronto

Girls 17 and under:
Kaitlyn Tallman
800m - 3rd: 2:25.26
400m - 6th: 1:04.77

There are some neat photos and an interview with Kaitlyn at the Copps Indoor Games Website.
http://www.coppsindoor.org/tallman.htm

Lisa Selected for Worlds

Labrecque Selected to World Cross-Country Running Team

Lisa Labrecque, of Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club, has been selected to represent Canada at the World Cross-Country Running Championships in Saint Galmier France in March.

Labrecque will compete on the short-course four kilometre team that, in a major upset last year, placed third in the world. Last year, Labrecque competed for the 8k team that placed seventh."

Canada's 4km squad beat everybody but Ethiopia and Kenya in 2004, so the European teams will really be gunning for us this year." said Labrecque. "Even though we're missing two of our top runners from that squad, we're still aiming for a quality finish."

Labrecque earned selection by placing fifth at the Canadian Cross-Country Running Championships in December and running personal best times in the New York mile and Boston 3000m races in January."

Lisa is primarily an 800/1500m runner," said Track North coach, Dick Moss. "So for her to be running at an international level over four kilometres is truly exceptional."

Members of the 4k team include:
Carmen Douma-Hussar, Cambridge, ON
Hilary Edmondson, Sarnia, ON
Courtney Inman, Mt. Lehman, BC
Lisa Labrecque, Sudbury, ON
Megan Metcalfe, Cornwall
Rebecca Stallwood, Burlington, ON

Penn & Windsor Results

After an injury-riddled Fall and early Winter, it looks like Andrew Ellerton is starting to get fit. Nice PB's by Mad-Dawg Woods and Tammy Dufresne who did their Siamese Twins impression across the finish line. Also a solid run by Serena and a nice comeback by Liz after a nasty bout of potato poisoning.

Sykes-Sabok Challenge (Penn State)
Distance Medley
Andrew Ellerton (U of Michigan), 2nd, 1:48.5/800m split

Open 800m
Andrew Ellerton, 3rd, 1:50.10

Windsor Team Challenge
600m
Madeleine Woods (Windsor U): 1:37.95 (5th)PB!
Tammy Dufresne (Windsor U): 1:37.99 (6th) PB!

1500m
Serena Jennings (Guelph U): 4:49.68 (6th)
Liz Forbes (Guelph U): 4:57.61 (10th)

New Baby Sprinter

Congratulations to Dawn and Tony Scott who are now the proud parents of a healthy baby boy - Brandon Andrew - delivered on January 26th. Brandon is 100% healthy, but has been crying ever since he learned that he resembles Tony more than Dawn.

Results: York, Notre Dame

York Classic
Candie Sabel - 12th - 600m: 1:46.88 PB!!
Note: Candie was the first Laurentian athlete to compete in Indoor Track since 2000.

Meyo Invitational, Notre Dame
Liz Forbes - 3000m - 10:10.7 PB!
Serena Jennings - 1000m - 3:04.59

Madeleine Woods: 4 X 400m split - 58.6
Tammy Dufresne: 1000m - 15th - 3:00.83, also a sub 59 second 4 X 400m split

Andrew Ellerton:
800m - 7th - 1:50.31
Distance Medley, 1st, 1:51 Split

Boston Photos

Here are two excellent photos of Lisa Labrecque racing in Boston. By the way, the winner of Lisa's race, the Olympic 5000m champion, was less than a second off the World Indoor 3000m record.

http://www.fast-women.com/photos/2005/reebokbostonindoor05/rbig128.jpg

http://www.fast-women.com/photos/2005/reebokbostonindoor05/rbig125.jpg

Findlay Ohio Results

Results from University of Findlay (Ohio) Track Classic

Women's 600m
Madeleine Woods - 6th 1:38.69 PB!

Women's 1000m
Tammy Dufresne - 5th 3:06.53

Boston & Penn State Results

Some great results this weekend!

Reebok Boston Indoor Games
Women's 3000m
Lisa Labrecque, Track North, 6th, 9:14.37 (15.7 second PB!)

It's the 3rd fastest 3k time in the Canada so far this year-Lisa blazed through the first mile in 4:49 (her 3rd fastest open mile time ever).

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Boston University Invitational
Men's 800m
1st, Andrew Ellerton, U. of Michigan, 1:49.75
http://www.lancertiming.com/results/winter05/buinvm.htm

Penn State Invitational
Women's 1000m
Serena Jennings, U. of Guelph, 11th, 3:00.98 (PB!)

Women's 3000m
Liz Forbes, U. of Guelph, 17th, 10:14.59 (Huge PB!!)

Lisa is Top-Five in the World

Lisa Labrecque's 4:35.69 mile in New York last weekend was indeed a fast race. It places her fifth in the world at this point in the season!

Wedding Bells

Here's some shocking news. All TNOR old-timers, please be sure you're seated. After only 14 years of dating, Tony Scott has asked Dawn to marry him...and she accepted! He did the deed on New Year's eve. Projected wedding date is a little hazy - possibly two summers from now (or sometime within the next 14 years).

TNOR Results: New York, Saginaw Valley, Western Open

New Balance Indoor Games - New York City

Lisa Labrecque uncorked a huge one in the invitational mile at the New Balance Games this weekend. Competing at New York City's Armory track, only two blocks from the Trump Tower, she ran an 11-second personal best of 4:35.69 for a fifth place finish. The time is equivalent to a 4:14/1500m and places her 8th on the all-time Canadian list in the indoor mile. For some more perspective, a 4:35 would win or medal at the NCAA indoors championships in most years.

It was a nice trip for Lisa - the meet promoters picked up her flight and accomodations expenses in the Big Apple.

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Saginaw Valley State Invitational
Megan Juuti,
800m, 7th, 2:28.21

Madeleine Woods
200m, 4th, 26.73

Andrew Athanasopoulos
Shot Put, 12th, 37.08

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Western Open

Tammy Dufresne,
300m, 42.
(no official results yet).

Can-Am Results

TNOR results from the Can-Am meet at Windsor this weekend.

Serena Jennings
1500m - 4:49.09 - 1st

Madeleine Woods
600m - 1:39.76 - PB - (6th)
4 X 400m - 59.4 split - team was 1st

Julie Forbes
1500m - 5:16.21 (24th)

Liz Forbes
1500m - 4:54.83 (5th)
3000m - 10:47.74 (8th)

Tammy Dufresne
600m - 1:43.70 (13th)

Lisa's Race by Mike Coughlin

Lisa Labrecque Gives 100% at Nationals
by Mike Coughlin

Have you ever been in a race where you finished knowing you gave 100percent? I don't just mean a good solid effort, I mean the kind of effortwhere going back over the event you could not come up with a way you couldhave gone even 1 second faster. Ever done that? Well, Sudbury's LisaLabrecque had such an experience this past Saturday at the National crosscountry championships in Toronto. I have had the privilege of trainingwith Lisa a bit in recent weeks, and there was no question that she wasready for a personal best performance. With a 14th place at Nationals last year, this meant a good chance at cracking the top 10.

At Saturday's race, Lisa didn't just crack the top 10, she cracked the top 5with a stunning 5th place performance. In fact, Lisa was a mere 1 secondout of third, with placings 3-6 tearing across the line in a tight pack.

Talking to Lisa afterwards, it was clear that she had given everything,claiming that she had never been more completely expended at the end of arace. In going for it with everything she had, Lisa showed herself and therest of us what is possible when you commit yourself fully to a goal.

Great job Lisa! Details of her race and other local performances at this eventcan be found below in the Track North News Section.
http://www.sudburyrocks.ca/

Good Start to Season for Woods

University of Windsor Track and Field Press Release

Madeleine Woods, (Sudbury, ON - Track North) who is in her second year of competing for the Univerisity of Windsor's Indoor Track and Field Team (but first year running without being held together with glue and duct tape) started the 2004/2005 indoor season with some solid opening season performances at the annual Blue vs. Gold intrasquad meet held earlier this week.

Departing from her regular long sprint events, Madeleine took on the role of "track superhero" in attempt to lead her Gold team to victory. Despite outstanding performances of 7.50m in the shot (apparently the poor fellow stuck officiating this event strained his wrist because he had to shorten the measuring tape so much) and a 3000m time over 16 minutes (Madeleine was forced to finish this in the dark because everyone left and they turned the lights off), Woods' Gold Team was unable to catch Blue this year.

It should be noted that Madeleine did run times of 1:41.44 for the 600m (run solo) and 43.29 for the 300m at this low key meet. Both of these times are very close to Madeleine's best times from her injury plagued season last year and are a good indication of things to come this season. Woods also set a new 60m PB of 8.31 seconds and ran a 27.5 second 200m relay split and also competed in the 1000m race (no word on if the lights got turned off for that one as well but it's a safe bet).

Following the meet, Woods commented that she looks forward to some appointments with massage guru Rickey Goudreau upon her return to Sudbury for the Christmas holiday. She did not comment on whether or not she would continue as a multi-eventer but in an unrelated story, OTFA field event officials have planned an emergency meeting to discuss the possibility of replacing measuring tapes with short lightweight rulers to prevent future overuse injuries among officials.

Canadian XC Champs, Sunnybrooke Park

Canadian Cross-Country Championships, Sunnybrooke Park, Toronto
Lisa Labrecque, of Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club, placed 5th at the Canadian Cross Country Running Championships at Toronto's Sunnybrooke Park this weekend. Labrecque, a member of Canada's team at the 2004 World Championships,improved on last year's 14th place finish with a personal best time of 20:53 over the 6 km course.

With 600m to go, Labreque was 10 metres behind the lead pack,but mounted a furious finish to move to fifth place. Her time in the blustery conditions was only one second away from a bronze medal.

"I've been coaching for 25 years, and I've never seen a cross-country finish like that," said Track North coach, Dick Moss. The third through 6th runners were neck and neck over the last 60 metres. It was a like the final round of a heavyweight fight with everyone exhausted but still swinging with everything they had."

The race was a qualifier for Canada's team for the 2005 World Championships in St. Galmier France in March, and Labrecque's performance puts her in the selection pool for the team.

"I've never hurt that much with 600m to go and be still be able to kick," said a tired but happy Labrecque. "It was a huge improvement and I feel like I've stepped up a level. And I've improved my chances of making the funded 4k squad at Worlds. Last year that team finished third in the world and was only beaten by two African teams.

"Also in the race was Laurentian's standout rookie runner, Kirsti Dolson, who finished 38th with a time of 23:53. Dolson, the youngest runner in the race, and Labrecque, who is an assistant coach with Laurentian and a teacher with the Rainbow School Board, train together in Sudbury.

In the Junior race, were Kaitlyn Tallman, 89th in 20:15/5k and Emma Tallman, 120th in 21:15/5k out of 148 runners.

"This is a unique race." said Moss. "It brings together the best runners in every event from 800m to marathon, including Olympians, National Team members,and Canadian Champions. They put them all on the line at the same time,fire the gun and tell them to duke it out."

The race was was won by Hamilton's Rebecca Stallwood, followed by Calgary's Malindi Elmore, Vancouver's Leah Pells, Edmonton's Megan Metcalfe,then Lisa Labrecque.

OTFA XC Results

Here are the results of the OTFA XC Championships, held in Pickering this weekend (it took until today to get the results). Outstanding time by Lisa on a very hilly course.

SENIOR WOMEN, (6125 m)
3rd, Lisa Labrecque, 21:12 (PB!) (5K Split: 17:18)
8th, Donna Mae Robins, 22:33

JUVENILE GIRLS (3855m)
11th, Kaitlyn Tallman, 14:33

MIDGET GIRLS (3135M)
51st, Annagret Henninger, 13:08
89th, Stephanie Hart, 14:34
99th, Ronnie Spencer, 15:20

BANTAM GIRLS (1985m)
6th, Emma Tallman, 7:48

CIS XC Results

CIS Cross-Country Running Championships,
Guelph Lakes Golf Course, November 13th, 2004

The Laurentian Women's cross-country running team placed 13th at the CIS Championships this weekend in Guelph.
Leila Angrand finished 41st with a time of 18:57 over the 5km course. She was followed by rookie Kirsti Dolson, in 18:59, Alicia Kaye, 77nd in 19:36, rookie Jennie Oliver, 106th, 20:55, Melanie Muise, 108th in 20:59, and rookie Marnie Smith, 112th in 21:13.

"Leila had some bad luck." said Rickey Goudreau, the squad's massage therapist. "She made a mis-step at the 1km mark, took a major jolt and actually popped a rib. I'm amazed she was able to finish the race."

"Aside from Leila's injury, it was a great way to finish the season," said head coach, Dick Moss. "The girls had their best race of the year and every runner gave absolutely everything they had. We beat a team that was ahead of us at the OUA's and another that has been top-ten-ranked for most of the season."

"I was hoping to finish in the 12-15 range, so 13th was a solid result for us."

Results
Leila Angrand, 41st, 18:57
Kirsti Dolson, 46th, 18:59
Alicia Kaye, 77th, 19:36
Jennie Oliver, 106th, 20:55
Melanie Muise, 108th, 20:59
Marnie Smith, 112th, 21:13

Team Score: 363

Other TNOR Results
Also in the race were Sudbury's Serena Jennings, and Liz Forbes, representing the university of Guelph. Jennings placed 26th with a time of 18:37 and Forbes was 34th in 18:49. Their Gryphons squad placed second in the team standings.

Tammy Dufresne placed 54th in a PB 19:07, helping her Windsor squad to an 11th place finish