All posts by : Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club

Among the 35 athletes named today to represent Canada at the upcoming NACAC U23 Championships are two of the Ottawa Lions very best - hurdler Ashlea Maddex and sprinter Devin Biocchi. The three day championship, which brings together the best espoir athle ...

Lions athletes wrapped up the 2014 Canadian Championships with a bang on Sunday, walking away with seven of the club’s total 15 medals for the championship. Highlighting the day’s medal haul was Josh Cassidy’s double medal day as well as back to back gold ...

The 2014 Canadian Track and Field Championships are set to kick off Friday in Moncton with 20 Lions athletes ready to do battle over the three day competition. The contingent is led by defending champions, Sultana Frizell, Melissa Bishop, Rachael Burrows, ...

Another Twilight Meet, another record for Claire Smith. Actually, make that another two records as the 17 year old Glebe Collegiate student smashed her own Canadian Youth Record in the 3000m and at the same time took out a 22 year old Meet Record. Claire' ...

It's been a busy and highly successful week for Glebe Collegiate grade 11 student Claire Smith. How else would you characterize a week that included a World Junior Championship standard, provincial championship, Ontario record and Canadian record! While S ...

Not since 2009 had a contingent of Lions athletes brought home as many medals from OFSAA, the Ontario High School Championships, as 13 athletes won 16 medals, including five gold. The first gold came Friday from Maggie Scheunert of Garneau HS in the open ...

With 49 days to go before the 20th Commonwealth Games kick off in Glasgow, Scotland five Ottawa Lions athletes have been given the nod to suit up for Team Canada. Leading the Lions contingent will be 2010 medallists Sultana Frizell and  Josh Cassidy as th ...

He keeps getting older and his times keeping getting faster. For sprinter Michael Robertson, record breaking seems to have a become a bit of a habit of late as he bettered his own club 400m record for the third time in less than 10  months on Saturday at ...

It was a busy weekend for Lions athletes competing both near and far on the weekend. At the NCAA Division III Championships in Delaware, Ohio horizontal jumper Divya Biswal had a weekend to remember, picking up her first national championship in the tripl ...

Tommy Des Brisay, 22, was diagnosed with autism at an early age, but that hasn't stopped him from winning countless racing medals or from clocking a half-marathon race time of 1:14:55. But Tommy will be lacing up on Ottawa Race Weekend for his first ever ...