Day Three Recap

EDMONTON – The third and final day of the CIS Track & Field Championships was another successful one for the Western Mustangs, with the team earning medals in five different events en route to a fourth place finish on the women’s side and a third place finish for the men’s team.
 
Western’s men’s squad finished with 59 points, tying for third with York behind Windsor in second with 92 points and Guelph in first with 114. The Mustangs women’s team took fourth place with 62.25 points, while Guelph finished third with 85.25, Toronto in second with 111.50 points, and Calgary claimed first place with 115 points.
 
On the individual front Caroline Ehrhardt led the way for the Mustangs on day three, winning the gold medal in the triple jump on her final attempt, putting up a 12.47m mark to capture her second consecutive CIS gold medal in the triple jump. Teammate Mila Simulik joined Ehrhardt on the podium with a 12.04m jump to earn the bronze medal.
 
Along with Ehrhardt’s and Simulik's medals the Mustangs earned silver medals in four events to pick up six medals for the second consecutive day.
 
Taylor Stewart added to his gold medal in the long jump on Friday by picking up a silver medal in the men’s triple jump with a 14.88m jump.

Matt Diston earned the silver in the men’s pole vault for the second consecutive season taking second with a 4.85m vault.
 
Scott Leitch earned a CIS medal in the 600m for the fourth straight year, finishing with a time of 1:20.25 to take silver.
 
The women’s 4x200m relay team of Brenna Thomson, Cassandra McCaig, Sarah Clancy, and Lauren Clancy earned the Mustangs final medal of the championship, picking up the silver medal in 1:37.74. The silver was Thomson’s second medal of the championships after winning bronze in the women’s 300m on Saturday.
 
Other Mustangs results included Jen Pitman taking sixth place in the women’s high jump (1.70m), Alex Kopacz finished in fifth place in the men’s shot put (16.41m), Emma Tallman claimed ninth place in the women’s 1500m (4:37.27), the men’s 4x400m relay finished ninth (3:20.86), and the women’s 4x400m relay finished just off the podium in fourth (3:48.88).
 
Full results are available at the championship website: http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/trackfield/index


Day Two Recap

EDMONTON - Day two of the CIS Track and Field Championships was a strong one for the Western Mustangs with the team picking up five medals on the second day of competition, as the team added to their point total on both the men's and women's overall leaderboard.
 
The Mustangs men's team took sole possession of fifth place, ending the day with 31 points, while the women's team moves up to fifth with 30.25 points after two days.
 
Easily one of the day's highlights of Friday’s action was the men's 60m hurdles that saw both Matt Brisson and Izzy Ogieva take their place upon the podium, with Brisson claiming gold in 7.87 seconds while Ogieva finished in 8.04. It’s the fourth consecutive year Brisson has medaled in the 60m hurdles as he brought home a silver from last year’s CIS Championships, gold in 2011, and bronze in 2010.
 
Taylor Stewart continued his record-breaking season jumping 7.87m to take the gold medal in the men's long jump event. The 7.87m jump establishes a new Western record, breaking the mark that Taylor set earlier this season.
 
Robin Bone also had another strong performance in her first season with the Mustangs, claiming the silver medal in the pole vault with a vault of 3.85m tying with Rebecca Marchant of Trinity Western for second place.
 
Brenna Thomson captured the Mustangs fifth and final medal of the day, running a time of 38.56 to pick up the bronze medal. Thompson’s time of 38.56 breaks her own Western record and she becomes the first Western women’s team member to ever run the 300m in less than 39 seconds.
 
Other Mustangs results included Emma Tallman taking seventh in the women’s 1000m (2:54.63), Payam Saboni finishing 11th in the men’s high jump (1.85m), Caroline Ehrhardt in sixth in the women’s long jump (5.78m), Lydia Foley also taking sixth in the women’s shot put (12.59m), and the women’s 4x800m relay team coming in fifth (9:09.61).
 
The third and final day of the CIS Championships gets underway tomorrow afternoon beginning with the women’s triple jump. Fans can tune in live at cis-sic.tv to watch all the action.
 
Note – Western originally finished first in the men’s 4x800m relay, but that was later changed to a disqualification

Day One Recap

EDMONTON – The CIS Track & Field Championships got underway on Thursday afternoon in Edmonton and the Western Mustangs men’s and women’s teams had a successful first day. The Mustangs ended the day with two fourth place finishes and two other first place finishes in preliminary events.
 
With the majority of the first day dedicated to the various events of the pentathlon the Mustangs competed in a limited number of events, with athletes competing in six different events.
 
Only two of the Mustangs’ six events saw their finals scheduled for day one with the teams’ best finish coming in both of the 60m dash events.
 
On the women’s side Brenna Thomson finished third in her preliminary heat before finishing in fourth place in the finals to pick up five points for the Mustangs in the overall team competition. In the men’s event Ike Omoruna also placed third in his preliminary and fourth in the finals to give the defending champion Mustangs five points on the team leaderboard.
 
Also participating in the finals on day one was OUA Female Community Service Award Winner Jenine McCutcheon who finished in tenth spot in the weight throw with a top throw of 15.05m.
 
Next up for Western were the men’s and women’s 600m run events and three-time CIS champion Scott Leitch put himself in good position to win another gold on Saturday, winning his heat with a time of 1:18.67. In the women’s 600m Katie Bell represented the Mustangs, finishing in sixth place in her heat in 1:35.45.
 
Rounding out the day for Western was the women’s 4x200m relay prelims which ended with another first place finish for the Mustangs. The team of Brenna Thomson, Cassandra McCaig, Sarah Clancy, and Lauren Clancy took their heat in 1:39.70 to qualify for Saturday’s final.
 
At the end of the first day of competition the men’s and women’s teams each have five points with the women tied for seventh and the men tied for fifth.
 
Day two gets started on Friday afternoon with the men’s weight throw.