Eight years. That was the length of time between competitions in a Lions uniform for Adam Nuraddeen. The fourth year psychology student at Carleton University returned to the sport in earnest last summer, competing in the annual Twilight Series of meets before donning the black singlet of the Ravens this past fall. In the time since, he has re-written the school record book in the triple jump and last Friday, he jumped his way to an RSEQ Conference championship and a spot in the national university championships.
In Friday’s competition, Nuraddeen led the Ravens to a 1-3 finish in the triple jump – the first time it’s happened in school history. Although falling short of his one week old school record, the Glebe Collegiate graduate’s leap of 13.31 metres was good enough to best the rest of the field by more than a metre and earn himself an automatic bid into the USports Championship next week as the conference champion.
Joining Nuraddeen on the podium Friday was teammate Samuel Chilima, who placed third. The first year student extended his personal best by more than a quarter of a metre to land out at 12.06 metres.
The men’s triple jump medals were part of a four medal haul for the Ravens on day one of the Championship.
Getting it done in the field was another first year student, Connor Fraser, in the men’s shot put. Fraser, heaved the 16 pound shot put out to a personal best 14.43 metres to take home the bronze. Fraser’s effort fell just short of the Raven’s record of 14.55 set by last year’sRSEQ silver medalist Alec Jeffrey.
Rounding out day one was a bronze medal effort in the 4×200 metres by the team of Michael Pinnock, Samuel Chilima, Kanique Thomas, and Lachlan Mahan. The quartet got the stick around to finish in a time of 1 minute and 36.10 seconds, just ahead of the University of Sherbrooke.
The only medal on day two for the Ravens came in the very first event as first year student Kendal Williams took home the bronze in the women’s weight throw on her birthday. Williams’ best throw of the day measured 10.58 metres.
In addition to the Ravens’ medal haul, Lion Vanessa Lu Langley picked up a silver and bronze. Running on the McGill 4×200 metre relay team on Friday, Lu Langley helped the Martlets to a bronze medal before running a personal best of 9.09 seconds the next morning in the 60 metre hurdles to claim silver. It was Lu Langley’s second straight RSEQ silver in the hurdles.
For complete results from the RSEQ Championship: https://ottawalions.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023_RSEQ_Track_Results.pdf
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