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 ...
Three Lions up for Major City Awards
The Ottawa Sport Awards announced their major award nominees Friday with Lions being nominated in the male athlete, female athlete and coach of the year categories. Coach Glenroy Gilbert is being nominated for his work with Canada's bronze medal winning w ...
Eight Lions Nominated for Quest for Gold
Athletics Ontario has released their list of nominations for the Quest for Gold Ontario Athlete Assistance Program and it features an impressive eight current Lions athletes. Quest for Gold is a program run by the Government of Ontario who’s principle ai ...
Melissa Bishop opens season with World Leading Time
World Championship silver medalist Melissa Bishop stepped up in distance to open her 2016 season Saturday at the University of Windsor, running a world leading time of 4 minutes 17.91 seconds to win the 1500m. The Eganville native took control from the gu ...
Practices to resume January 4th
Hello Lions! Reminder to everyone that Ottawa Lions practices start up again January 4th. Reminder to bring in your bottles for our Bottle Drive Fundraiser happening Tuesday, January 5th and Thursday, the 7th 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, January 9 ...