I would like to congratulate all of the JD athletes – Nicholas, Rui, Austin, Matthew Springer, Eric, Patrick, Alex McDuffie, Abtin, Matthew Schalm, Tyler, Brent Stephen, Alex Charlesworth, Nathan Kalmakoff, Sean, Katie, Lauren Garnett, Ellie, Maria, Jessica, Melissa, Kendall, Antha, Lauren Fridman, Siri, Emily, Delainy, Dana, Anna, Emma Martin, Madelaine, Emma Chong, Rhea, Mia and Heather – who traveled to St. Albert to compete in the Alberta Provincial Track and Field Championships this past weekend. Among them, these thirty-four athletes produced some outstanding results.
Here are the highlights:
I would like to congratulate our Provincial Champions and gold medalists: Austin (gold in the javelin and gold in the triple jump), Emma Martin (gold in the bantam multiple events and gold in the 4x100m), Kendall (gold in the high jump), Ellie (gold in the 4x400m), Dana (gold in the 4x100m), Emma Chong (gold in the 4x100m) and Mia (gold in the 4x100m). Alberta Provincial Champion! That’s a pretty impressive title – well done!
I would also like to congratulate our provincial silver and bronze medalists: Austin (silver in the 4x100m, bronze in the shot put, bronze in the discus throw and bronze in the long jump), Nicholas (bronze in the 100m and bronze in the 200m), Tyler (silver in the 4x100m), Katie (silver in the 2000m and silver in the 4x400m), Ellie (silver in the 300m and bronze in the long jump), Matthew Schalm (silver in the discus and silver in the javelin), Emma Martin (silver in the bantam multiple events), Emily (bronze in the triple jump), Lauren Fridman (silver in the 4x400m), Lauren Garnett(silver in the 4x400m), Siri (silver in the 4x400m), Alex McDuffie (silver in the 4x100m), Rui (silver in the 4x100m),Abtin (bronze in the 100m hurdles) and Eric (bronze in the javelin).Well done provincial medalists!
Congratulations to our multiple medal winners: Austin (2 gold, 1silver, 3 bronze), Emma Martin (2 gold, 1silver), Ellie(1 gold, 1 silver, 1bronze), Nicholas (2 bronze), Katie (2 silver) and Matthew Schalm (1 silver, 1 bronze). Well done athletes! Quite an achievement at the Provincial Championships!
If my math is correct, then I believe the JD Group brought home 9 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 9 bronze medals. An impressive medal haul – well done athletes!
Many JD athletes rose to the challenge and recorded at least one personal best performance during the meet: Nicholas(200m), Matthew Springer (long jump), Alex McDuffie (200m), Abtin (100m), Matthew Schalm (javelin), Tyler(100m), Alex Charlesworth (150m), Katie (2000m), Lauren Garnett (100m), Antha (200m), Lauren Fridman(javelin), Siri (shot put), Rhea (shot put), Mia (150m) and Heather (150m). Several athletes recorded personal bests in more than one of their individual events: Rui (100mH, 200mH), Patrick (100mH, 200mH), Brent Stephen (long jump, shot put), Eric (800m, 1200m, discus, javelin), Ellie (200m, long jump), Kendall (200m, high jump, long jump),Emily (80mH, 200mH), Delainy (150m, 800m, 1200m, shot put), Dana (150m, shot put, long jump, javelin), Anna(80m, 150m), Emma Martin (80m, 150m, discus) and Madelaine (80m, javelin). It isn’t easy with the travel and the pressure of an important meet to compete at your best, so congratulations to all of you for achieving a personal best.
Austin’s very impressive results of two gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals earned him a place on both Team Alberta that will represent the province at Legion Nationals in Ottawa in August and on the provincial team that will challenge Manitoba and Saskatchewan at the Western Canadian Midget and Youth Championships in Winnipeg at the end of July. Austin was one of only five midget men and twelve Alberta midget athletes selected to compete at Legion Nationals. Well done Austin!
Ellie’s 2nd place finish in the midget 300m along with her time of 42.15s, which she had achieved at the CALTAF Classic and which beat the 42.45s standard required to go to Legion Nationals, earned her spot on Team Alberta for Legion Nationals in Ottawa. Ellie was one of only seven midget women and twelve Alberta midget athletes selected to compete at Legion Nationals. Ellie also earned a place on the team that will travel to Winnipeg for the Western Canadian Midget and Youth Championships. In addition to her 2nd place finish in the 300m, Ellie was 3rd of twenty-two athletes in the long jump with a personal best jump of 4.48m, 4th of twenty-seven athletes in the 200m, where she recorded a personal best of 27.50s, and 6th of twenty-five athletes in the 100m. Well done Ellie!
There were 28 Alberta midget athletes (16 women, 12 men) selected to the team that will represent Alberta at the Western Canadian Midget and Youth Championships in Winnipeg and four of them are from the JD Group. Congratulations to Austin, Ellie, Katie and Nicholas. I am looking forward to traveling to Winnipeg with you as a coach for Team Alberta. Other CALTAF athletes who will travel to Winnipeg with the team are Adrianne Erdmanfrom the Middle/Long Distance Group, and Alex Bymoen, Allison Stephen and Nicole Squires from Power and Speed. Kendall, as the winner of the high jump competition, was offered a place on the team but was unable to accept.
Multiple medal winner Nicholas earned his spot on Team Alberta for the Midget/Youth Championships by finishing 3rdin both the 100m and 200m. His performance in the 200m preliminary, which was a personal best 24.76s, was remarkable given that Nicholas was still recovering from an earlier and nasty fall in the 100m hurdles, which left him with many deep scratches and puncture wounds from his spikes. Congratulations Nicholas!
Katie’s impressive performance in the 2000m, where she finished in 7:20.93s, a personal best of just under twenty seconds, earned her the silver medal and a place on Team Alberta for the Midget/Youth Championships. Katie also finished 6th in the 1200m and 7th in the 800m and led her team off with a great start in the 4x400m relay, helping to assure them of the silver medal. Well done Katie!
The top performance from the bantams came from Emma Martin, who captured the gold medal in the bantam multiple events on Saturday and the silver medal in the bantam multiple events on Sunday. On Saturday, Emma’s 2nd place finish in the 1200m, where she finished in 4:12.40s, along with her 3rd place finish in the 80m, where she finished in a personal best of 11.12s, her 6th place finish in the discus, with a 1.36m PB of 17.38m, and her 13th place finish in the high jump, earned her 23 points and the gold medal. Emma finished 1st of 42 bantam girls. Well done Emma! On Sunday, Emmaaccumulated 22 points, enough to finish 2nd of forty-seven bantam girls. Emma finished 3rd in the 150m in a personal best time of 20.79s, 3rd in the 800m, 6th in the shot put and 10th in the long jump. Emma also ran the lead leg for the gold-medal-winning 4x100m bantam relay team. Well done Emma!
First-year midget Kendall won the high jump competition with a personal best jump of 1.56m. Kendall also added another 12cm to her PB in the long jump, where she cleared 4.14m to finish 12th of twenty-two athletes. Kendall also ran the 200m in a personal best time of 29.96s. A gold medal and three personal best performances! Well doneKendall!
Matthew Schalm’s personal best throw of 28.77m in the javelin, an impressive PB of over 3 metres, earned him the bronze medal, while his throw of 25.16m in the discus earned him the silver medal. Well done Matthew! Excellent results for a first-year midget!
First-year midget Eric certainly demonstrated that he is one of JD’s most improved athletes, recording personal bests in all four of his individual events. In the javelin, Eric added 17cm to his PB, and his throw of 13.69m earned him the bronze medal. In the 800m, Eric took 4.5 seconds off his PB, while in the 1200m, he took an impressive 11.0 seconds off his PB. Eric also recorded an 11cm PB in the discus. Well done Eric – a great way to end the year!
First-year midget Abtin won the bronze medal in the 100m hurdles, finishing 3rd of eleven athletes in 17.47s. Abtin also finished 6th in the 200m hurdles. Well done Abtin!
In her very first attempt at the triple jump, first-year midget Emily walked away with the bronze medal, clearing 9.28m to finish 3rd of ten athletes. Emily also ran a personal best time of 14.18s in the 80m hurdles, where she finished 8th of fourteen athletes, and a personal best of 32.88s in the 200m hurdles, where she finished 7th. Well done Emily!
It certainly bodes well for next year to have first-year midgets Eric, Abtin, Matthew Schalm, Tyler, Kendall, Emily, Alex McDuffie, Lauren Fridman and Siri and first-year bantams Emma Chong and Mia winning medals at this year’s Provincial Championships. Congratulations to all of you for winning medals despite having to compete against older athletes. Well done!
Our bantam girl’s 4x100m relay team of Emma Martin to Dana to Mia to Emma Chong won the gold medal, finishing 1st of seven teams in 56.58s. The team finished 3 seconds ahead of the second place team from St. Albert. The team of Delainy to Madelaine to Heather to Anna finished sixth. Well done ladies!
CALTAF’s midget women’s 4x400m relay team of Allison Stephen to Nicole Squires to Jasmine Galey, all of CALTAF’s Power and Speed Group, to Ellie won the gold medal, finishing 1st of three teams in 4:18.77s. In addition to finishing 1st of the midget teams, the girls also finished ahead of two youth teams. In that same race, the team of Katieto Lauren Fridman to Lauren Garnett to Siri captured the silver medal in a time of 4:42.74s. Well done ladies!
Our midget men’s 4x100m relay team of Tyler to Alex McDuffie to Austin to Rui captured the silver medal, finishing 2nd of five teams in 49.14s, an impressive performance given that there were two first-year midgets on the team.. Well done gentlemen! In that same race, the team of Matthew Springer to Abtin to Patrick to Brent Stephen was disqualified for exchanging outside of the zone. The younger team of Alex Charlesworth to Nathan to Eric to Sean Tfinished fifth.
Our midget women’s 4x100m team of Antha to Emily to Kendall to Jessica finished just out of the medals in 4thplace with a time of 56.03s.
Bantam Madelaine had an outstanding meet, finishing 8th of forty-two athletes in the bantam multiple events on Sunday and 10th of forty-seven athletes in the bantam multiple events on Sunday. Madelaine won the bantam shot put competition, placing 1st of forty-one athletes with a throw of 7.88m. Madelaine was also 2nd of eleven athletes in the discus with a throw of 20.71m. In the midget javelin, where Madelaine competed up against the older athletes, she finished 6th with a 1.70m PB throw of 17.15m. Madelaine also ran a PB in the 80m. Well done Madelaine!
First-year midget Antha took more than half a second off her PB in the 200m, finishing in 28.99s. Well done Antha!
First year midget Lauren Fridman added another 1.88m to her PB in the javelin, throwing 17.89m to finish fifth.Lauren also finished just out of the medals in 4th place in the high jump, clearing 1.40m. Well done Lauren!
First-year midget Siri recorded a personal best throw of 7.98m in the shot put, where she finished sixth. Well doneSiri!
Bantam Delainy had an excellent meet, achieving personal bests in four of her six events. Delainy took almost a full second off her PB in the 150m, finishing in 23.42s. In the 800m, Delainy took just shy of two seconds off her PB, while in the 1200m, Delainy took an impressive 13 seconds off her PB. Delainy also added another 27cm to her PB in ths shot put. Well done Delainy!
Bantam Dana also recorded personal bests in four events, most notably in the midget javelin where, despite competing up with the older athletes, Dana finished 7th with a 1.79m personal best throw of 15.91m. Dana also added another 36cm to her PB in the long jump, another 5cm to her PB in the shot put, and took almost half a second off her PB in the 150m, where she finished in 22.37s. Well done Dana!
Bantam Anna demonstrated how much faster she is becoming by recording personal bests in both of her sprinting events. In the 80m, Anna finished in a persoanl best time of 12.45s, while in the 150m, Anna finished in a persoanl best time of 23.59s. Well done Anna!
Our youngest athlete at the meet, first-year bantam Rhea, added another 23cm to her PB in the shot put with a throw of 4.23m. Well done Rhea!
Rui finished just out of the medals in 4th place in the long jump, where he cleared his personal best of 5.03m. Rui ran a personal best time of 28.85s in the 200m hurdles, to again finish just out of the medals in 4th place. Rui also ran a persoanl best time of 17.29s in the preliminary of the 100mH to qualify 5th of ten athletes for the final, where he finished fifth. Well done Rui!
Matthew Springer added an impressive 23cm to his PB in the long jump, clearing 4.90m to finish seventh. Well doneMatthew!
Hurdle coach Lou will be pleased to learn that first-year midget Patrick ran PBs in both the sprint and intermediate hurdles. In the 100mH, Patrick finished 7th in a personal best time of 18.64s, while in the 200m hurdles Patrickfinished 8th in a personal best time of 30.36s. Well done Patrick!
First year midget Alex McDuffie took almost half a second off his PB in the 200m, finishing 10th in 26.52s. Well doneAlex!
First-year midget Tyler ran a personal best time of 12.32s in the 100m preliminary to qualify 8th for the final, where he finished fifth. Tyler was also 8th of seventeen athletes in the 300m, where he finished in 40.83s, and 7th of fifteen athletes in the 200m, where he finished in 25.84s. Well done Tyler!
Bantam Alex Charlesworth finished 3rd of sixteen athletes in the high jump, where he cleared 1.35m, and 8th of seventeen athletes in the long jump, where he cleared 3.71m. Alex also finished the 150m in a personal best time of 21.73s. Well done Alex!
Bantam Nathan was 5th of thirteen athletes in the discus with a throw of 18.10m, and 5th of sixteen athletes in the high jump, where he cleared 1.30m. Well done Nathan!
Lauren Garnett ran a personal best in the 100m and earned her silver medal in the 4x400m, which she wasn’t all that keen to run. Well done Lauren!
First-year bantam Mia ran a personal best time of 22.65s in the 150m to finish 19th of forty-five athletes, and was also 15th of forty-three athletes in the 80m, where she finished in 12.11s. Mia was also 16th of thirty-five athletes in the high jump, where she cleared 1.15m. Well done Mia!
First-year bantams Mia and Emma Chong ran very strong 3rd and final legs for the bantam 4x100m relay team, keeping the lead acquired for them by second-year bantams Emma Martin and Dana, thus assuring the team of the gold medal and provincial championship title. Well done Mia and Emma Chong!
First-year bantam Heather ran a PB in the 150m, where she finished in 23.75s, and matched her PB of 1.15m in the high jump to finish 16th of thirty-five athletes. Well done Heather!
Brent Stephen added 71cm to his PB in the shot put with a throw of 6.09m, and cleared 3.32m in the long jump, a PB of 9cm. Well done Brent!
For complete meet results, go to athleticsalberta.com, click on “results” near the top of the page and follow the links.
I would like to wish Team Calgary athletes Lauren Fridman, Jessica, Emily, Lauren Garnett, Maria, Kendall, Brent Bester, Matthew Schalm, Tyler and Antha good luck at the Alberta Summer Games, Team Alberta athletesKatie, Ellie, Austin and Nicholas good luck at the Western Canadian Midget and Youth Championships in Winnipeg, and Team Alberta athletes Ellie and Austin good luck at Legion Nationals in Ottawa. Go well all of you, and congratulations for qualifying for these teams. I am certain that you will do the JD Group and CALTAF proud. I will look forward to following your results and hearing all about your experiences.
Those of you who have qualified for Team Calgary or Team Alberta should continue to train until you leave for these meets, as should athletes competing at the final New Balance meet on 13th July (Nicholas, Rui, Tim, Austin, Eric, Alex McDuffie, Matthew Schalm, Nathan, Katie, Ellie, Jessica, Kendall, Antha, Lauren Fridman, Dana, Anna, Madelaine, Emma Chong and Rhea). The entry list for the New Balance meet is attached
Just a reminder that the JD training schedule for July is as follows:
(Note that this schedule may be affected by your attendance at the hurdle camp or by training sessions offered by the Alberta Summer Games coach, Brenda Van Tighem – give the camp and the ASG sessions priority over JD sessions.)
Monday 28th June – no session – rest after the CALTAF Classic and Provincials
Wednesday 30th June – no session – rest after the CALTAF Classic and Provincials
Thursday 1st July – no session – Canada Day – enjoy!
Mondays 5th July and 12th July – Glenmore Track 5:30 to 7:30pm
Wednesdays 7th July and 14th July Glenmore Track 6:00 to 8:00pm
Thursday 8th July and 15th July Glenmore Track 6:00 to 8:00pm
Monday 19th July Glenmore Track 5:30pm to 7:30pm – Midget/Youth Championships athletes only – ASG athletes will be preparing to depart for their meet
Wednesday 21st July Glenmore Track 6:00 to 8:00pm – Midget/Youth Championships athletes only – ASG athletes will be at their meet
Feel free to email or call me if you have any questions. For those of you who have finished competing for the year, have a wonderful, restful and safe summer. I look forward to seeing you in the fall. I will be in touch in August with the JD schedule. Go well! Robin
