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 ...
Ottawa wins 5 medals on day one of McGill Team Challenge
If you've ever been, the McGill Team Challenge can be in just three words - "doooown the backstretch!" However, it wasn't just the backstretch that was good to club athletes as they captured five medals on day one of Canada's largest indoor track and fiel ...
Ottawa tallies 16 victories in New York
Nearly 100 club athletes made their way south of the border Saturday for the St. Lawrence University Invitational, the visitors had a considerable amount of gold to declare when they returned home. In total, Ottawa athletes captured 16 gold medals, 12 sil ...
Why (and how) to get your kids into running this year
Our Manager of Junior Programs, Andrew Pagé, was a guest author on the Run Ottawa blog this week discussing "Why (and how) to get your kids into running this year". Please find an excerpt from Andrew's blog below, with a link to the complete article. The ...
Lions kick off new year in style
It was the first weekend of competition in 2015, and Lions athletes did their best to kick things off on the right foot. Adam Palamar got things started Friday night in Fayetteville at the Arkansas Invitational by taking a commanding victory in the men's ...
2014 – A look at the numbers
As we set out on a new year, we thought it would be helpful to take a look back at 2014 and a few of our accomplishments. Our sport is, by nature, one decided by the numbers. So as we look back, here are some of our numbers for 2014. 1 One Commonwealth Ga ...
Holiday Training Hours
Please be advised that due to the Holiday Season, training times for Ottawa Lions athletes at the Louis Riel Dome will be slightly altered. The Dome has advised us athletes will be allowed to use the track for $5 on days where the facility is only open ha ...
7 Dome Records Fall in Final Meet of 2014
The first Super Saturday Series Meet of the year always seems to produce some record setting performances and this past Saturday's event was no difference with no less than seven facility records falling on the day - all set by females. Among the Lion ath ...