The five hour plus bus ride back from Laval University's PEPS Stadium was made all the more enjoyable by the clang of medals around athletes necks. In total, 29 athletes brought home 20 medals from the Quebec U14/U16/U18 Championship led by Joe Fast and B ...
Robertson upgraded to Gold
In a press release issued Monday, USports, the governing body for university athletics in Canada, announced that Lions record holder Michael Robertson and his Canadian 4x400 metre relay teammates had been upgraded to gold from silver. The move follows a d ...
Samuel sets Canadian record
Six more inches and it could have been a different ending Sunday morning as the 14th IAAF U20 World Championships concluded in Tampere, Finland with the customary running of the 4x400 metre relay. While Sharelle Samuel and her teammates posted a Canadian ...
Samuel off to 4x400m final
It was a good morning for Sharelle Samuel and her Team Canada 4x400 metre relay teammates on the penultimate day of competition at the 14th IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland as the quartet handily advanced to tomorrow's final. Running third ...
Cassidy rolls to second fastest 1500m in the world for 2018
Just four days ago, after a third place finish in the Utica Boilermarker 15k, Joshua Cassidy said, "Felt good, happy with my performance but some things to work on." Clearly, the two time Paralympian found the quick fix as he captured gold in the wheelcha ...
Trapeau and Samuel fall short of final
With a trip to a global final on the line today for Maeliss Trapeau and Sharelle Samuel, both athletes fell short of advancing despite registering near personal best performances. Maeliss Trapeau, first on the track in the 800m semi-final, crossed the lin ...
Trapeau and Samuel advance to semi-finals at World Championships
The 17th edition of the IAAF World U20 Championships got off to a fantastic start for the Lions on Tuesday with both Maeliss Trapeau and Sharelle Samuel advancing out of their respective heats and on to the semi-finals. The journey to Tampere, Finland was ...
Lions own relays; Pick up 8 medals on final day
As the dust began to settle on another edition of the Canadian Track and Field Championships, the Ottawa Lions went out with a bang, picking up a total of eight medals on the final day of competition. The medal haul was driven primarily by the relay crews ...
Lions pick up four more medals on Saturday evening
Well it was certainly a case of good things coming in bunches Saturday evening as Lions athletes picked up four medals in a mere 45 minutes to close out the evening's track session. Training partners Jonathan Rioux and Andre Alie-Lamarch went 2-3 in the U ...
Poirier and Frank leap to medals at Nationals
The Canadian championships had a definite touch of youth Saturday morning with a total of seven U20 finals being contested in the field. Among the many medalists were pole vaulter Caroline Poirier and high jumper Philip Frank who captured the eighth and n ...