Just two weeks away from conference championships across the continent, Lions varsity athletes are showing peak performances at just the right time, with several impressive results this weekend.
Maddie Seaby set the tone on Friday morning with a significant personal best over 5,000 metres. The University of Louisville freshman clocked an impressive 16 minutes and 46.20 seconds at the Valentine Invitational at Boston University. Seaby maintained consistent laps of 39 and 40 seconds for 25 laps around the Track and Tennis Center, securing second place in the unseeded section.
Seaby’s time has now elevated her to fourth on the Club’s all-time U20 list and 10th overall.
In Boston, Lauren Gale secured her second podium finish in as many weekends, taking second place in the 400 metres on Friday. Despite topping her heat in a time of 53 seconds flat, Gale was surpassed by the University of Houston’s Sydni Townsend in the following heat.
North of the border, impressive personal bests were achieved at the Windsor Team Challenge.
The two-day event kicked off with a bang on Friday night as Katie Manor broke her own University of Ottawa 60-metre record in the preliminary rounds with a blazing 7.53-second performance. Manor finished fourth in the final with a time of 7.54 seconds, once again surpassing her previous record of 7.57.
Bianca Borgella, Manor’s Gee-Gee teammate, also set a new personal best in the 60 metres that night, finishing two spots behind Manor with a time of 7.65 seconds – a hundredth of a second improvement on her previous best.
Carleton’s Rose Basu achieved a pair of personal bests of her own. After breaking eight seconds for the first time with a 7.93 in the heats, the first-year student followed up with an impressive 7.89 in the final, securing 10th place in the two-heat final. Basu’s final time places her third in school history.
Kathryn Moreland demonstrated she is rounding into shape ahead of the OUA Championships in two weeks by producing three personal bests en route to victory in the pentathlon and a new lifetime best score of 3206 points. Moreland’s new individual lifetime bests included a 1.53 metres clearance in the high jump and a leap of 5.23 metres in the long jump, before she topped the field at 800 metres with her 2:28.97 clocking. Moreland’s point total now ranks seventh in Gee-Gee history.
In the field, second-year nursing student Jessica Gyamfi launched the 20-pound weight out to 14.65 metres, moving her to number three on the Gee-Gee’s all-time list. Gyamfi’s previous best was 14.16 metres set in early January.
The weekend of competition concluded on Saturday with a pair of personal bests in the 60-metre hurdle final in Windsor. David Adeleye took the top spot in the event with a sizzling 7.90-second clocking, marking the third-fastest time in Club history. Additionally, the University of Toronto student now ranks second in USports this season. Clubmate Leewinchell Jean produced a lifetime best of his own, finishing fourth in a time of 8.12 seconds. Jean’s time ties him for seventh on the Club’s all-time list with Tyler Fawcett.
Results from this weekend can be found on our results page
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