By Earl Zukerman
2004-05 McGill Athletics Press Release #72
MONTREAL -- Three Fieldhouse marks tumbled in addition to 11 meet records at the 10th annual McGill Team Challenge, a two-day track and field meet, billed as the second-largest university competition in Canada, that wrapped up at Tomlinson Fieldhouse over the weekend.
As expected, Canadian Olympian Nicolas Macrozonaris of the St. Laurent Selects, won a special invitational 60-metres race in 6.67 seconds, although he was short of the McGill Fieldhouse record (5.56), which he set in 2002.
Sherbrooke took the overall men's team title, while women's team honours went to Dalhousie. McGill placed sixth in the final standings for both men and women.
Dalhousie's Adrienne Power won three gold medals, setting meet and Fieldhouse records in the women's 60m and 300m sprints. She was also part of the winning 4x200 relay squad, which produced a meet record. The only other Fieldhouse mark to fall was in the men's 4x800 relay, which Laval shaved one second off with a hand-timed 7:40.8 (also a meet record).
McGill won nine medals in the meet, four of them in relay events, including one gold, which came in the men's 4x200. Dan St. Michael -- a sophomore from Renfrew, Ont., who also plays cornerback with the Redmen football team -- anchored a winning quartet that included rookies David Faille of St. Hilaire, Que., Aaron White of Trenton, Ont., and Brendan Rehel of Dollard des Ormeaux, Que. They won in 1:30.56, the fourth-fastest time in the country, edging out Sherbrooke by just. 0.16 seconds.
Andrea White, an 18-year-old arts freshman from Ottawa, took silver in the women's 60-metre hurdles, in a time of 9.34 seconds, only four-hundredths of a second behind Amara Gossin of the University of Toronto. White also ran the anchor-leg of the silver medal-winning 4x400 relay, joining teammates Catherine Foley of Sherbrooke, Que., Camille Costa of St. Lazare, Que., and Sonia Jean-Philippe of Pointe Claire, Que.
McGill qualified for the CIS national championships in one event, the men's 4x800, with a silver-medal winning time of 7:46.5. The quartet was composed of Pat McAuliffe from Seattle, Wash., and Stephen Douglas of Pictou, N.S., plus Toronto natives Jeff McCabe and anchor Marty Fox.
McGill garnered individual bronzes from Hannah Moffat (pole vault) of St. John's, Nfld., Troye Carrington (women's 300m), Tiffany DiRico (weight throw) of Greenfield Park, Que., and Aaron White (300m).
The Martlets also bronze in the 4x200 relay, composed of Foley, plus Montrealers Vanessa Horobjowsky and Maryse Dubreuil, in addition to Troye Carrington of Kitchener.
Dalhousie finished first on the women's side with 63 points, leading all teams with six gold medals in addition to a silver. Toronto was second with 58 points and led all teams in total medals with nine (3 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze). York was third with 44 points and six medals (3-2-1), followed by Western (43.5; 2-5-0), Sherbrooke (29.5; 2-1-2), McGill (38.5; 2-4-0), Queen's (36.5; 1-0-3), McMaster (12; 0-0-1), Montreal (7; 0-1-0), UQAM (4; 0-0-1), Moncton (3; 0-0-0), Laval (2; 0-0-0), plus Concordia (0), Guelph (0) and RMC (0).
On the men's side, Sherbrooke was first overall with 68.5 points and won the medal count with five golds, three silvers and a pair of bronze medals. Queen's was second with 54.5 (2-3-5), followed by Western (50; 1-2-4), Toronto (49; 2-3-1), Laval (34; 2-2-1), McGill (29.5; 1-1-1), Dalhousie (26; 2-0-0), York (21.5; 1-1-2) and McMaster (8; 0-0-0). Other competing teams that failed to score points were UQAM, Moncton, Concordia, Guelph and RMC.
Dalhousie smashed three other meet records, including Leanna McLean (1500m, 4:26.93), Paul Chafe (3000m, 8:26.41) and two women's relays (4x200, 1:41.05 and 4x800, 9:13.3 hand-timed).
Other meet records were broken by Sherbrooke's Natalie Thenor (weight throw, 16.22m), Toronto's Jocelyn Adu-Guimfi (long jump), plus York's Paula McLaughlin (600m, 1:32.41) and Kristen Matthews (high jump, 1.80).
======================================== 10th annual McGill Team Challenge Track & Field Meet Results (Jan. 28-29, 2005) ======================================== FINAL TEAM SCORES & MEDAL COUNT MEN INDIVIDUAL POINTS: 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 RELAY POINTS: 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 TEAM MEDAL RANK TOT. PTS (GOLD-SILVER-BRONZE) 1 SHERBROOKE 68.5 (5-3-2) 2 QUEEN'S 54.5 (2-3-5) 3 WESTERN 50.0 (1-2-4) 4 TORONTO 49.0 (2-4-1) 5 LAVAL 34.0 (2-2-1) 6 McGILL 30.5 (1-1-1) 7 DALHOUSIE 26.0 (2-0-0) 8 YORK 21.5 (1-1-2) 9 McMASTER 8.0 (0-0-0) 10 (tie) RMC 0.0 (0-0-0) 11 (tie) CONCORDIA 0.0 (0-0-0) 11 (tie) GUELPH 0.0 (0-0-0) 11 (tie) MONCTON 0.0 (0-0-0) 11 (tie) UQAM 0.0 (0-0-0) WOMEN INDIVIDUAL POINTS: 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 RELAY POINTS: 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 TEAM MEDAL RANK TOT. PTS (GOLD-SILVER-BRONZE) 1 DALHOUSIE 63.0 (6-1-1) 2 TORONTO 58.0 (3-2-4) 3 YORK 44.0 (3-2-1) 4 WESTERN 43.5 (2-5-0) 5 SHERBROOKE 39.5 (2-2-3) 6 McGILL 38.5 (0-2-4) 7 QUEEN'S 36.5 (1-0-3) 8 McMASTER 12.0 (0-0-1) 9 MONTREAL 7.0 (0-1-0) 10 UQAM 4.0 (0-0-1) 11 MONCTON 3.0 (0-0-0) 12 LAVAL 2.0 (0-0-0) 13 (tie) RMC 0.0 (0-0-0) 13 (tie) CONCORDIA 0.0 (0-0-0) 13 (tie) GUELPH 0.0 (0-0-0) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FINAL INDIVIDUAL MEDALS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #1 WOMENS 60M SPRINT Fieldhouse Sonia Paquette Sherbrooke : 7.49 2000 Meet Records Lami Oyewumi Toronto : 7.62 1999 1 Adrienne Power DALHOUSIE 7.47* 2 Jocelyn Adu-Guimfi TORONTO 7.61 3 Marie-Eve Dugas UQAM 7.69 * meet and fieldhouse record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #2 MENS 60M SPRINT Fieldhouse Nick Macrozonaris St-Laurent Selects : 6.56 2002 Meet Records Kofi Yevanpor, Concordia: 6.79 1998 1 Martin Grenier SHERBROOKE 6.93 2 Anthony Garber YORK 6.94 3 Randy McAuley UWO 6.97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #3 WOMENS 300M Fieldhouse Lami Oyewumi Toronto: 38.42 1999 Meet Records Martine Cloutier Sherbrooke: 39.30 2002 1 Adrienne Power DALHOUSIE 37.55* 2 Marie-Andree Leblanc SHERBROOKE 40.37 3 Troye Carrington McGILL 40.41 * meet and fieldhouse record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #4 MENS 300M Fieldhouse Shane Niemi York :32.95 2002 Meet Records Shane Niemi York :32.95 2002 1 Emanuel Parris SHERBROOKE 34.60 2 Daniel Barbarie TORONTO 34.92 3 Aaron White McGILL 35.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #5 WOMENS 600M Fieldhouse Sarah Ali-Khan McGill 1:32.22 2002 Meet Records Isabelle Gervais U of Ottawa 1:33.85 1999 1 Paula McLaughlin YORK 1:32.41* 2 Emilie Venturelli MONTREAL 1:34.89 3 Liane Heale TORONTO 1:36.03 * meet record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #6 MENS 600M Fieldhouse Alexandre Marchand Sherbrooke 1:17.26 2000 Meet Records Sebastien Ouellet Sherbrooke 1:20.38 2000 1 Steve Morin SHERBROOKE 1:21.26 2 Jose Carvalho TORONTO 1:21.55 3 Gino Levesque LAVAL 1:22.01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #7 WOMENS 1000M Fieldhouse Nathalie Cote Ottawa Lions TFC 2:47.60 2000 Meet Records (tie) Dianne Wiseman York 2:54.45 1996 (tie) Sarah Ali-Khan McGill 2:54.45 2000 1 Karen Gilbert UWO 2:59.73 2 Shayna Boland UWO 2:59.80 3 Ruth Weaver YORK 3:05.80 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #8 MENS 1000M Fieldhouse Sebastien Ouellet Sherbrooke 2:23.08 1999 Meet Records Alex Hutchinson McGill 2:26.05 1997 1 Steve Anthony TORONTO 2:32.38 2 Ryan O'Hagan UWO 2:32.56 3 Nathan DeWitt UWO 2:34.13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #9 WOMENS 1500M Fieldhouse Nathalie Cote U of Ottawa 4:26.85 1998 Meet Records Tambra Dunn McGill 4:29.05 1998 1 Leanna MacLean DALHOUSIE 4:26.93* 2 Beth Wightman TORONTO 4:30.88 3 Genny McInnes TORONTO 4:39.51 *meet record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #10 MENS 1500M Fieldhouse Andrew McGuigan McGill Olympic TFC 3:49.89 1996 Meet Records Rob Tyndall Western Ontario 3:52.10 1996 1 David Gill LAVAL 3:52.96 2 Daniel Blouin LAVAL 3:55.86 3 Jose Carvalho TORONTO 3:57.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #11 WOMENS 3000M Fieldhouse Sarah Dillabaugh Ottawa Lions TFC 9:15.83 2000 Meet Records Sarah Dillabaugh Waterloo 9:25.12 1997 1 Hilary Burn DALHOUSIE 9:58.01 2 Tara Johnson UWO 10:18.80 3 Andrea Giajnorio McMaster 10:25.90 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #12 MENS 3000M Fieldhouse Jeremy Deere Calgary 8:14.68 1999 Meet Records Tyler Coady Western Ontario 8:34.27 1998 1 Paul Chafe DALHOUSIE 8:26.41* 2 Robert Kitz QUEEN'S 8:32.87 3 François Menard-Kildrane SHERBROOKE 8:34.37 *meet record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #13 WOMENS 60m HURDLES Fieldhouse Sonia Paquette Sherbrooke : 8.42 2000 Meet Records Sonia Paquette Sherbrooke : 8.56 2000 1 Amara Gossin TORONTO 9.30 2 Andrea White McGILL 9.34 3 Fiona Hall QUEENS 9.56 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #14 MENS 60m HURDLES Fieldhouse Andrew Lissade Sherbrooke : 7.87 2000 Meet Records Andrew Lissade Sherbrooke : 7.87 2000 1 Wilson St-Jean SHERBROOKE 8.55 2 Mark Stewart TORONTO 8.77 3 Greg Boots UWO 8.80 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #15 WOMENS 4x200M RELAY Fieldhouse Saskatchewan 1:37.57 1999 Meet Records Waterloo 1:41.09 1997 1 DALHOUSIE 1:41.05* (Leanne Huck, Lauren Grant, Joanna Hathcote , Adrienne Power) 2 YORK 1:44.15 (Fatihat Momoh, Paula McLaughlin, Edith Iwundi, Shannon Patterson ) 3 McGILL 1:44.89 (Catherine Foley, Vanessa Horobjowsky, Maryse Dubreuil, Troye Carrington) * meet record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #16 MENS 4x200M RELAY Fieldhouse Sherbrooke 1:26.48 2000 Meet Records Western Ontario 1:27.73 1999 1 McGILL 1:30.56 (David Faille, Aaron White, Brendan Rehel, Dan St-Michael) 2 SHERBROOKE 1:30.70 (Martin Grenier, Emanuel Parris, Yan Brodeur, Jean Pois Montreuil) 3 QUEENS 1:30.72 (Bryan Crawford, Peter Mitchell, Rumaan Ahmad, Pat Fordyce) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #17 WOMENS 4x400m RELAY Fieldhouse Saskatchewan 3:47.77 1999 Meet Records Syracuse 3:50.38 1997 1 YORK 3:57.80 (Fatihat Momoh, Loni Griffin, Kaitlin Coopman, Paula McLaughlin) 2 McGILL 4:01.08 (Catherine Foley, Camille Costa, Sonia Jean-Philippe, Andrea White) 3 SHERBROOKE 4:02.45 (Emilie Beauregard, Marie-Andree Leblanc, Katia Germain, Marie-Claude Foley) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #18 MENS 4x400m RELAY Fieldhouse Sherbrooke 3:15.21 2000 Meet Records Western Ontario 3:17.91 1997 1 UWO 3:21.62 (Randy McAuley, Jason Rhodes, Abdull Zabair, Lennie Kwan) 2 SHERBROOKE 3:24.65 (Michel Lavoie, Antoine Remillard-Savard, Louis-Philippe Laplante, J.P. Morency) 3 QUEEN'S 3:25.51 (Pat Fordyce, Peter Mitchell, Mike Bale, David Burr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #19 WOMENS 4X800m RELAY Fieldhouse McGill 9:05.20 1999 Meet Records Western Ontario 9:23.88 2002 1 DALHOUSIE 9:19.30h* (Monique penny, Caroline McInnes, Hilary Burn, Leanna MacLean) 2 UWO 9:26.00h (Karen Gilbert, Tara Johnson, Ashley Korman, Shayna Boland) 3 TORONTO 9:39.40h (Elizabeth Montgomery, Megan Melnyk, Jacqueline Stillman, Mary Hein) * meet record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #20 MENS 4X800m RELAY Fieldhouse Windsor 7:41.80 1999 Meet Records Western Ontario 7:46.08 1998 1 LAVAL 7:40.80h* (Mathieu Gingras, Gino Levesque, Laurent Vantyghen, David Gill) 2 McGILL 7:46.50h (Pat McAuliffe, Stephan Douglas, Marty Fox, Jeff McCabe) 3 SHERBROOKE 7:51.00h (Yassine El Fouladi, Marc Malo, Jean-Philippe Morency, Steve Morin) * Meet and Fieldhouse record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #21 WOMENS HIGH JUMP Fieldhouse Natalja Jackheere Belgium 1.89 1998 Meet Records Olga Mankovskaya, York 1.78 2003 1 Kristen Matthews YORK 1.80* 2 Felicia Smart UWO 1.60 3 Imola Major QUEENS 1.60 * meet record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #22 MENS HIGH JUMP Fieldhouse Kwaku Boateng Concordia 2.27 1996 Meet Records Kwaku Boateng Concordia 2.15 1998 1 Mark Dillon TORONTO 2.12 2 Mitch Vermue UWO 2.10 3 Lance Mukoro QUEEN'S 1.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #23 WOMENS POLE VAULT Fieldhouse Elyse Menard Sherbrooke 3.85 2002 Meet Records Elyse Menard Sherbrooke 3.85 2002 1 Amara Gossin TORONTO 3.70 2 Jen Sulpher UWO 3.50 3 (tie) Hannah Moffatt McGILL 3.40 3 (tie) Caroline Jean SHERBROOKE 3.40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #24 MENS POLE VAULT Fieldhouse Francois Thenault Sherbrooke 5.30 1999 Meet Records Francois Thenault Sherbrooke 5.20 1998 1 Simon Belanger SHERBROOKE 4.75 2 Rene Gauthier SHERBROOKE 4.65 3 Maxime Hawey YORK 4.10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #25 WOMENS LONG JUMP Fieldhouse Alice Falaiye Toronto 6.17 1998 Meet Records Tasha Monroe York 5.82 2003 1 Jocelyn Adu-Guimfi TORONTO 5.xx* 2 Jenny Jordan UWO 5.86 3 Edith Iwundi YORK 5.53 * meet record (yet to be corrected) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #26 MENS LONG JUMP Fieldhouse Craig Cavanaugh York 7.61 1999 Meet Records Craig Kavanaugh York 7.52 1999 1 Jon Martin QUEEN'S 7.04 2 Adam Betzelt TORONTO 6.72 3 Bill Woods QUEEN'S 6.62 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #27 WOMENS TRIPLE JUMP Fieldhouse Michelle Hastick Independent 12.76 1999 Meet Records Jennifer Williamson York 12.22 1997 1 Danae Benjamin QUEEN'S 10.92 2 Rosanna Los DALHOUSIE 10.00 3 Lindsay Williamson TORONTO 9.82 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #28 MENS TRIPLE JUMP Fieldhouse Patrick Massok UQAM 15.89 2002 Meet Records Patrick Massok Laval 15.09 2003 1 Marlon Nagnle YORK 14.48 2 Bill Woods QUEEN'S 14.24 3 Artem Korostelev YORK 13.29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #29 WOMENS SHOT PUT Fieldhouse Tina McDonald Toronto 14.43 1999 Meet Records Kate Forbes Western Ontario 14.36 2002 1 Dominique Bilodeau SHERBROOKE 12.76 2 Nathalie Thenor SHERBRROKE 11.82 3 Daniella McKee QUEEN'S 10.98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #30 MENS SHOT PUT Fieldhouse Paul Drogaris McGill 16.35 1999 Meet Records Paul Drogaris McGill 16.35 1999 1 Jonathan Doucette DALHOUSIE 14.78 2 David McPhee QUEEN'S 13.15 3 Jonny Adornetto UWO 12.62 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #31 WOMENS WEIGHT THROW Fieldhouse Nathalie Thenor Sherbrooke 17.59 2002 Meet Records Nicole Clarke Queen's 15.86 2003 1 Nathalie Thenor SHERBROOKE 16.22* 2 Nerissa Yee TORONTO 13.88 3 Tiffany Dirico McGILL 13.83 * meet record ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Event #32 MENS WEIGHT THROW Fieldhouse Murray Heber Alberta 19.58 1999 Meet Records Mike Melaney Queen's 15.59 2004 1 Tipper McEwan QUEEN'S 14.41 2 Dominic D'Almeida LAVAL 12.39 3 David McPhee QUEEN'S 11.03 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 60m SPECIAL INVITATIONAL Final Lane Name Club result 1 Nicholas Macrozonaris St-Laurent Select 6.67 2 O. Akinremi Independent 6.83 3 Alamou Souhalia Independent 6.87 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 200m SPECIAL INVITATIONAL final Lane Name Club result 1 Alamou Souhalia Independent 22.41 2 Jatta Musa Perfmax Racing 22.55SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
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