On Wednesday night's broadcast of the Mercer Report on CBC, host Rick Mercer caught up with Lions athletes, Josh Cassidy, Jason Dunkerley and his guide Joshua Karanja. The trio give Rick an introduction to how they compete in the lead up to this summer's ...
Lions win two medals at CIS and NCAA Championships
Championship weekend has come to a close and Lions athletes walked away with two silver medals from the Canadian Interuniversity (CIS) and NCAA Championships. Divya Biswal leapt to a silver at the NCAA Division III Championships while Ashley Connell grabb ...
Gale re-writes record book
The Dome Super Saturday Series ended with a bang this past weekend with no less than 15 Dome records falling by the wayside. Leading the way was 15 year old Lauren Gale who broke no less than six age group records across the 100m, 200m and 400m. With a ne ...
Big Championship Weekend for Lions
It was conference championship weekend across most of North America and Lions athletes made themselves known, picking up 12 medals. 2 conference records and 1 school record. At the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Championships at York University, Devya ...
Smith helps Canada to gold in Colombia
It may not have been like any cross country meet she's run in Canada, but 17 year old Claire Smith performed well in the inaugural Panamerican Cross Country Championships Saturday in Barranquilla, Colombia. The grade 12 student completed the 5km course of ...
Annual General Meeting To Be Held March 2nd
The Ottawa Lions will host their Annual General Meeting on the evening of Monday, March 2, 2015 at 7:00pm. The meeting will take place at École Secondaire Louis-Riel. All members are invited to attend. Details Annual General Meeting École Secondaire Louis ...
Lady Lions rewrite record book
They say records are made to broken, but at Saturday's University of Ottawa Winter National Invitational three young Lions smashed some of the longest standing age class records at the Louis Riel Dome. In the women's 600m, former Lion Fiona Callender took ...
Ottawa sprints to success in New York City
It was big lights, fast city for the group of Ottawa athletes who headed to the Big Apple over the weekend to compete at the Amory Invitational. The competition, one the most well attended south of the border, featured many top flight track and field prog ...
Lions Honoured at Ottawa Sports Awards
It was a packed house Wednesday night for the 62nd annual Ottawa Sports Awards banquet at Algonquin College. As the local community gathered to celebrate the best of amateur sport in the nation's capital, the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club was once aga ...
Two meet records close out McGill Team Challenge
Ottawa athletes finished up day two of the McGill Team Challenge on Saturday with seven medals highlighted by two new meet records. Added to the five medals on Friday night brought the club's total to 12 for the meet. Sekou Kaba kicked things off with a b ...