Thankfully all the snow from Friday melted away and we had beautiful conditions for the races at Canmore Park today.
We are so proud of all of our athletes. They ran impressive races, found gears that they didn’t know they had and had excellent finishes in the home straight.
Individually our athletes placed extremely well overall. We came together as a Team in all 4 divisions and were rewarded with 2 Provincial Championship Team titles – Midget Girls and Bantam Boys and a Silver Medal – Midget Boys and Bronze medal – Bantam Girls.
The Midget Girls team of Jenna S 8th 12:24, Ella M 9th 12:24, Sydney B 11th 12:44 and Eden B 16th13:23 had a great team effort and finished as the 2016 Provincial Cross Country Champions.
The Midget Boys race was incredibly competitive. Matthew F 10th Overall, 7th in the Team Championship 14:19; Huw Morgan 15th OA, 9th TC 14:56; Evan V 18th OA, 12th TC 15:15; Marcus G 26th OA, 8th finisher for CALTAF in 16:10 along with Liam K, Dylan L, Kyle S, Kells M and Nathan V had a great battle with UCAC and ended the day with the silver medal.
The Bantam Girls race was a tight battle between the Harriers, St. Timothy and Caltaf. When the dust settled the Harriers were first with 21 points, the Thunder had 34 points and the Caltaf Bantam Girls won the Bronze with 35 points. The team of Ella C 5th OA, 5th TC 7:41; Sarah F 7th OA, 7th TC 7:45; Kya M 14th OA, 11th TC 8:14; Sophie P 15th OA, 12th TC 8:26; Hazel M 17th OA, 13th TC 8:29; Kamilla K 25th OA, 19th TC 8:51; Lexie S 30th OA, 7th finisher for Caltaf 9:16 did a terrific job.
Our Bantam Boys led by Emiliano got out to a very strong pace and our 4 scoring runners finished within 44 sec of each other. The team was rewarded and crowned the Provincial Champions!
Emiliano V 4th OA 1st TC 7:17; Jackson Hill 6th OA, 2nd TC 7:40; Malcolm B 7th OA, 3rd TC 7:42; Nick E 13th OA, 4th TC 8:01; Shackleton M 21st OA, 5th TC 9:06.
Congratulations on a great job team!
Full results can be found at: http://uofcathletics.ca/stewart-memorial-cross-country-cup/
