"Moore wins silver at National Legion Track and Field Championships"

Ottawa, ON
National Legion Track and Field Championships

Track North Athletic Club's Keegan Moore (Sudbury), 15, won a silver medal
at the National Legion Track and Field Championships contested this past
weekend in Ottawa.  Competing in the boys U16 javelin event, Moore's best
throw of 45.13 metres earned him the silver medal.  Aaron Stroda of British
Columbia won the gold with a best throw of 51.23 metres.

"Keegan was very well composed during his first national championship.  His
first throw wasn't as far as he hoped but he battled back in the third
round.  Keegan is a newcomer to this event so I am excited to see what next
season will bring with more training" commented Track North jumps and throws
coach, Jim Taylor.

Other Track North results included Matt Taylor and Sean Moore placing 9th
and 17th respectively in the U18 Triple Jump.

This competition marked the end of national age class track and field
competitions that saw Track North athletes win five medals including one
gold, three silver and one bronze in addition to four other Top-10 placings
(see below).

Also - Track North's Andrew Ellerton is currently preparing for the IAAF
World Track and Field Championships to be held in Daegu, South Korea from
August 27th to September 4th.  Ellerton will compete in the 800 metre event.

2011 Track North Top 10 Results at National Championships

Gold (1) - Andrew Ellerton, Senior Men 800m (back to back champion,
2010/2011)
Silver (3) - Ashley Huard, Junior Women 100m; Ross Proudfoot, Junior Men
1500m (qualified at Pan-Am Junior Champs); Keegan Moore, Midget Boys Javelin
Bronze (1) - Katie Wismer, Junior Women 2000m Steeplechase
Other Top 10 Results (4): Jeremy Cooper, Junior Men 5000m (5th place);
Alicia Violin, Junior Women Triple Jump (6th); Matt Taylor, Junior Men
Triple Jump (8th) and Youth Men's Triple Jump (9th)

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.

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

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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

 

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."

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

Firecracker 5k Road Race Results

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

http://tracknorth.weebly.com/firecracker-5km-road-race.html

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):

http://tinyurl.com/6b5fg6m

 

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!

Track North Twilight #2 Results

 Licensed to RCL Ontario District H Championship Meet                                        HY-TEK's Meet Manager 6/29/2011 06:55 PM                    2011 Track North Twilight #2 - 6/29/2011                                                        6/29/2011                                                                        Results                                       Mixed 100 Meter Run ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================ Section  1     1 Groom, Jaclyn            W11 Track North              14.72     2 Black, Holly             W11 Track North              16.29     3 Podlatis, MacKenna       W10 Track North              17.35     4 Hansen, Anja             W11 Track North              18.72     5 Pickering, Angela        W11 Track North              20.04   Section  2     1 Sargeant, Chelsea        W13 Track North              14.25     2 Byrnes, Allison          W12 Track North              14.29     3 Nahwegahbow, Begiizhik   W12 Track North              14.67     4 Groom, Jordan            W13 Track North              14.81     5 Emiry, Daniel            M12 Track North              17.95   Section  3     1 Guy, Kory                W15 Track North              13.48     2 Predon, Alenna           W16 Track North              13.70     3 Black, Rebecca           W14 Track North              13.85     4 Wise, Sara               W16 Track North              13.93     5 Brunette, Samantha       W15 Track North              14.17     6 Mayer, Natasha           W14 Unattached               14.35   Section  4     1 Predon, Alex             M17 Track North              11.93     2 Athanasopolous, Andrew   M24 Track North              11.94     3 Giusti, Rudy             M15 Track North              12.25     4 Diebel, Simon            M18 Track North              12.50     5 Moore, Sean              M16 Track North              12.63     6 Taylor, Matt             M17 Track North              13.19     7 Philopow, Jennie         W14 Track North              13.54     8 Sloan, Kathleen          W16 Track North              14.10     Mixed 200 Meter Run ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================ Section  1     1 Black, Holly             W11 Track North              33.74     2 Podlatis, MacKenna       W10 Track North              36.48     3 Emiry, Daniel            M12 Track North              39.14     4 Hansen, Anja             W11 Track North              43.53     5 Pickering, Angela        W11 Track North              49.33   Section  2     1 Sargeant, Chelsea        W13 Track North              29.50     2 Nahwegahbow, Begiizhik   W12 Track North              30.57     3 Byrnes, Allison          W12 Track North              31.24   Section  3     1 Predon, Alex             M17 Track North              24.20     2 Giusti, Rudy             M15 Track North              24.53     3 Guy, Kory                W15 Track North              27.73     4 Predon, Alenna           W16 Track North              28.38     5 Black, Rebecca           W14 Track North              28.54     6 Groom, Jaclyn            W11 Track North              29.33     Mixed 400 Meter Run ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================ Section  1     1 Leck, Rachel             W13 Track North            1:09.67     2 Groom, Jaclyn            W11 Track North            1:18.45     3 Podlatis, MacKenna       W10 Track North            1:24.29     4 Hansen, Anja             W11 Track North            1:38.99     Mixed 800 Meter Run ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================   1 Diebel, Sebastian        M18 Track North            2:00.91     2 Caverson, Zack           M16 Track North            2:10.14     3 Mazal, Zvia              W15 Track North            2:38.65     4 Wiwchar, Katie           W16 Track North            2:38.82     Mixed 3000 Meter Run ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================   1 Cooper, Jeremy           M18 Track North            8:46.42     2 Leck, Rachel             W13 Track North           12:36.71     3 Sandre, Ashley           W14 Track North           13:23.82     4 DePaolis, Andrea         W14 Track North           13:43.29     Mixed 100 Meter Hurdles ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================   1 Sloan, Kathleen          W16 Track North              18.11     Mixed 300 Meter Hurdles ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================   1 Guy, Kory                W15 Track North              52.51     Mixed High Jump ================================================================     Name                     Age Team                    Finals  ================================================================ Flight  1     1 Moore, Sean              M16 Track North              1.77m     2 Athanasopolous, Andrew   M24 Track North              1.68m     3 Taylor, Matt             M17 Track North              1.60m     4 Groom, Jaclyn            W11 Track North              1.38m     5 Groom, Jordan            W13 Track North              1.25m     6 Byrnes, Allison          W12 Track North              1.20m     6 Sargeant, Chelsea        W13 Track North             J1.20m   

The results from Twilight meet #2 are attached and posted to www.tracknorth.com

 

Ehrhardt Medals at National Track Championships

Canadian Senior Track and Field Championships
Calgary Alberta
June 23-25, 2011

Espanola native and Track North alumni, Caroline Ehrhardt, won a gold medal in
the triple jump at the Canadian Senior Track and Field Championships in Calgary
Alberta this weekend.

Representing the London Western Track Club, Erhardt jumped 12.64 metres to win
her first senior championship. She also placed 7th in the long jump with a leap
of 5.79 metres.

Ellerton Wins His 2nd National Championship

Canadian Track and Field Championships,

Calgary, 6/24-6/25, 2011

Ellerton Wins His Second National Championships

Sudbury native, Andrew Ellerton, won his second senior national title at the Canadian Track and Field Championships this weekend. Ellerton, who trains in Victoria and Phoenix, but maintains his affiliation with Track North Athletic Club, entered the meet as the defending 800 metre champion and left with his second consecutive championship.

Running in heavy winds, Ellerton took the lead after 300m of a pedestrian pace, surging at the 400m mark, then unleashing his kick with 100m to go, eventually pulling away in the final 40 metres for the win. His splits were 58 seconds for the first 400m and 52 for the second, for a final time of 1:52.12.

Ellerton now participates in two more domestic meets before leaving for a month of European competition in July.

Ross Proudfoot, still a Junior but competing in his first Senior track nationals, became involved in a tactical semi-final, was out-kicked down the homestretch and did not qualify for the final. He placed 17th with a time of 3:54.26.

Twilight #1 Results

 Licensed to RCL Ontario District H Championship Meet                                         HY-TEK's Meet Manager 6/22/2011 05:41 PM                   2011 Track North Twilight Series - 6/22/2011                       Laurentian University Community Track                                      Results  Mixed 100 Meter Dash ===================================================================      Name                     Age Team                    Finals  H# =================================================================== Finals    1 Brzezynski, Ben          M21 Nipuxc                   13.50   1    2 Burley, Alex             M22 Nipuxc                   13.80   1    3 Philopow, Jennie         W14 Track North              13.90   1    4 Mayer, Natasha           W13 Unattached               15.30   1    5 Wilkinson, Taylor        W11 Track North              15.84   2    6 Wilkinson, Logan         W12 Track North              16.03   2    7 Moxam, Riley             W11 Track North              19.31   2  Mixed 200 Meter Run ================================================================      Name                     Age Team                    Finals ================================================================    1 Brzezynski, Ben          M21 Nipuxc                   28.53    2 Burley, Alex             M22 Nipuxc                   28.54    3 Tallman, Emma            W20 Track North              28.97    4 Philopow, Jennie         W14 Track North              29.91    5 Leck, Rachel             W13 Track North              30.22  Mixed 400 Meter Run ================================================================      Name                     Age Team                    Finals ================================================================    1 Beauchamp, Ty            M14 Track North            1:00.29    2 Brzezynski, Ben          M21 Nipuxc                 1:02.05    3 Phipps, Neil             M41 Unattached             1:02.79    4 Burley, Alex             M22 Nipuxc                 1:05.83    5 Spoel, Aidan             M14 Track North            1:08.53    6 Leck, Rachel             W13 Track North            1:08.69  Mixed 800 Meter Run ================================================================      Name                     Age Team                    Finals ================================================================    1 Cargill, Chantry         M21 Track North            1:58.62    2 Diebel, Sebastian        M18 Track North            1:58.77    3 Brzezynski, Ben          M21 Nipuxc                 2:08.27    4 Caverson, Zack           M16 Track North            2:12.89    5 Phipps, Neil             M41 Unattached             2:14.40    6 Tallman, Emma            W20 Track North            2:15.37    7 Burley, Alex             M22 Nipuxc                 2:22.34  Mixed 1500 Meter Run ================================================================      Name                     Age Team                    Finals ================================================================    1 Brzezynski, Ben          M21 Nipuxc                 4:32.35    2 Phipps, Neil             M41 Unattached             4:50.17    3 Burley, Alex             M22 Nipuxc                 5:06.82    4 Spoel, Aidan             M14 Track North            5:10.81    5 Richardson, Dave         M41 Unattached             5:36.80    6 Sandre, Ashley           W14 Track North            6:15.82    7 McIlraith, Sara          W39 Unattached             6:52.30    8 Richards, Kate           W11 Unattached             6:52.47    9 Spoel, Philippa          W48 Unattached             7:04.61  Mixed Long Jump ================================================================      Name                     Age Team                    Finals ================================================================    1 Moore, Sean              M16 Track North              5.86m    2 Burley, Alex             M22 Nipuxc                   4.78m    3 Brzezynski, Ben          M21 Nipuxc                   4.37m    4 Wilkinson, Taylor        W11 Track North              3.90m    5 Moxam, Riley             W11 Track North              2.88m  Mixed Triple Jump ================================================================      Name                     Age Team                    Finals ================================================================    1 Moore, Sean              M16 Track North             12.42m    2 Violin, Alicia           W19 Track North             10.12m    3 Brzezynski, Ben          M21 Nipuxc                   9.05m    4 Burley, Alex             M22 Nipuxc                   8.70m    5 Wilkinson, Taylor        W11 Track North              8.63m    6 Wilkinson, Logan         W12 Track North              8.17m    7 Moxam, Riley             W11 Track North              5.48m 

A number of hardy souls came out for the Twilight meet tonight (for
those of you who are new, we only cancel practices and races for
thunderstorms...and even then, it's usually only a delay).

Thanks to everyone who volunteered as officials!!

The results are on the website at:
http://www.tracknorth.com

Legion Results & Photos & Thanks!

LEGION MEET RESULTS & THANKS!!

A link to the results from the Legion District H Meet on Saturday are on the Track North website at: http://www.tracknorth.com

Well done, everybody, and thanks to the many TNOR volunteers who came out to help!!!

LEGION MEET PHOTOS

In today's edition, the Sudbury Star published a tremendous page of photos from the Legion meet this weekend (I love the one with the group of Bobcats cheering on their teammates!!). Thanks to reporter Ben Leeson for the pics. You can see the photos on their online photo-gallery at:

http://www.thesudburystar.com/PhotoGallery/PhotoGallery.aspx?abID=1356928&pageID=3

LEGION MEET ARTICLE

Randy Pascal has written a recap about the meet, including all the even winners.

http://www.sudburysports.com/?content=articles.php&articleId=3801

Dave McGill - More Gold

Correction: Dave McGill won in the 65-69 category for his 1500m win yesterday.
Today, in the 800 he won gold for his age group. 2:43 time.

Dave McGill - Canadian Masters Champ!

Congratulations to Dave McGill, who is now the Canadian Masters Champion in the
1500m in the 60-64 year-old category. Dave won the 1500m this weekend at the
Canadian Masters Championships in Toronto, with a time of 5:30.

Ashley & AO Jrs in Sudbury Star

Nice article on Ashley Huard and the Athletic Ontario Junior competitors in
today's Sudbury Star (photo was taken by Grace Thomson).

http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3173176

Proudfoot approaching sub-4 minute mile

"Proudfoot approaching sub-4 minute mile"

Track North Athletic Club's Ross Proudfoot, 18 (Lively, ON) has taken another
step closer to eclipsing the elusive sub 4 minute mile barrier.

Competing in the "metric mile" 1,500 metre distance at the American Miler's High
Performance Series in Indianapolis, Indiana on Wednesday night, Proudfoot ran to
a new personal best of 3 minutes, 45.00 seconds.  This equates to a mile time of
4:02.

The race was won by fellow Canadian and 2008 Olympian, Taylor Milne of Calendar,
ON in a time of 3 minutes 38.78 seconds.

Proudfoot's time keeps him ranked first in the national junior (age 19 and
under) rankings.  Proudfoot's next competition will be the Canadian Senior
Championships in Calgary, June 24th and 25th.

For more information:
Official Results:
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?title_id=313&event_id=147&do=title&pg=1&folder_id=861&page_id=2066

Track North Media Release - Ontario Junior Championships

Results: Ontario Junior Championships & National Qualifier track meet

York University Track, Toronto

June 10-11, 2011

Eleven athletes from Sudbury's Track North Athletic Club competed at the Ontario Junior Championships and National Qualifier track and field meet in Toronto this weekend.

Ashley Huard, fresh from a bronze medal performance at the OFSAA Championships in Sudbury, continued her remarkable climb up the national sprint rankings, running a personal best 11.95 in the 100m to win a silver medal.  Huard's time was only .05 seconds from the qualifying standard for the Pan-American Junior Championships and ranks her second in the National Junior rankings. Huard also placed 17th in the 200m with a personal best time of 25.72.

Teammate, Emma Tallman, who competes for both Track North and Laurentian University, also set a personal best in winning a bronze medal in the open women's 1500m. Tallman's new mark of 4:37.61 was 10 seconds better than her former best time. Tallman also placed 6th in the 800m with a time of 2:16.57.

Andrew Athanasopolous, marked his return to javelin competition by placing 3rd in the open men's javelin with a distance of 49.65 metres.

Ross Proudfoot, dropping down a distance, placed 4th in the 800m with a time of 1:53.21.

Matt Taylor placed 6th in the Junior Men's triple jump with a huge personal best leap of 13.13 metres. He also placed 17th in the long jump with a jump of 5.45m

Grace Thomson, a finalist at the OFSAA track championships, made the finals over a higher hurdle height at this competition, placing 7th in a time of 15.53.

Jeremy Cooper placed 7th in the Junior Men's 5000m, with a time of 15:36.74. and training partner, Chantry Cargill placed 7th in the Open Men's 5000m with a time of 15:44.98.

Alicia Violin placed 13th in the Junior women's long jump with a leap of 5.07m. She also placed 10th in the triple jump with a distance of 11.12m. Fellow jumper, Sean Moore, placed 13th in the Junior Men's long jump with a leap of 5.75 and 9th in the triple jump with a distance of 12.49m.

Brandon Shirk, hampered by a sore hamstring, ran 51.99 in the 400m heats but was forced to withdraw from the final.

Track North alumni, Caroline Ehrhardt of Espanola, now competing for London Western, won both the LJ and TJ with jumps of 5.98 and 12.66m.

More Awards

One other TNOR athletes who was involved in last night's awards banquet - Ross Proudfoot was nominated for Amateur Elite Athlete of the Year.

Darren - Coach of the Year, Plus Other Awards

Congratulations to TNOR and LU coach, Darren Jermyn, for winning the Coach of the Year award at the Sudbury House of Kin Sports Celebrity Awards dinner last night.

A number of other Track North members and alumni were represented, with Devon Kershaw winning the Amateur Elite Athlete of the Year, Katie Wismer nominated for the Female High School Athlete of the Year, Eric Leishman for the Import Athlete of the Year and Track North itself nominated for Team of the Year. Vince Perdue, who frequently assists TNOR & LU host road and XC races, was nominated for the Administration Award.

Here's a nice article in the Sudbury Star in which TNOR figures prominently, from an interview with Darren:

http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3162751