The first big weekend of the summer track season went off with a bang for Ottawa Lions' athletes as a sprinter Farah Jacques re-wrote the record book with a stunning performance at the Florida Relays in Gainesville. Racing over 200m, Jacques produced a ne ...
NEDOW LOOKING TO BE A BIG SHOT IN PORTLAND
Canadian athletes had an outstanding time at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015, taking eight medals across a variety of events, and while Tim Nedow finished a modest 20th in the men’s shot put qualifiers, he was infected by the ebullient spirt tha ...
McCulloch breaks Canadian Record
At the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York City last night, grade 11 student Shona McCulloch ran her way to a bronze medal with a time of 16:31.22 - 0.08 seconds faster than the previous Canadian Junior best set by Heather Petrick in 2014. WIth her n ...
Lions pick up two more gold on second day of Championship Weekend
It was another successful day on Championship weekend as Lion athletes picked up another two gold on Saturday. Both victories came from Carleton University athletes as the school finished participating in the first RSEQ Conference Championship. Telvin Tav ...
Two Gold to Start Championship Weekendi
It's conference championship weekend across North America, and Lions athletes kicked things off Friday with two golds, a silver and two bronze. Highlighting the list of accomplishments on Friday was Devyani Biswal, a fifth year math and economics student, ...
Melissa Bishop has record-breaking start to her pre-Olympic season
Melissa Bishop has won her last three races and broke the Canadian indoor record twice in the last three days. Talk about a perfect way to kick off an Olympic year for the world championship silver medallist in the women’s 800 metres. “Obviously, it feels ...
Bishop Breaks Canadian Record
While Melissa Bishop broke the Canadian outdoor 800m record at last summer's World Championships in Beijing there was still the matter of taking over the indoor record. Until today of course, as Bishop set a new national standard of 2 minutes 0.60 seconds ...
Nedow wins in Germany
Shot putter Tim Nedow continued the wave of momentum coming off his club record throw last week, winning the Karlsruhe Indoor Meeting in Germany on Saturday. Improving throughout the competition’s four rounds (six is standard), Nedow was able to put the s ...
Nedow breaks club record again
In only his second meet of the season, shot putter Tim Nedow broke his own club record for a second time Saturday with a massive throw of 21.00m - the second farthest throw in the world this year. Competing at the York University Open in North York, the B ...
Lions Win Big At Ottawa Sport Awards
It was a big night for the Ottawa Lions at the 2015 Ottawa Sport Awards held Wednesday night at Algonquin College. Members of the club pulled in a combined seven awards including two of the majors - Female Athlete of the Year and Coach of the Year. Meliss ...