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Lions help Glebe to OFSAA senior boys title

November 5, 2023

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Cross country running may commonly be thought of as individual effort, but the team atmosphere is very strong in this sport. For the Glebe Gryphons senior boys, the team effort meant an OFSAA gold medal Saturday afternoon. The quartet of Lions runners Saul Taler, Russell Heins, Derek Strachan, and Keifer Melinz-Dupuis put up a modest 193 points to best London Central by 22 points.

Taler was the top finisher for Glebe as the grade 11 student cracked the top-10 with his 7th place finish. Heins would follow in 29th, while Strachan and Melinz-Dupuis rounded out the scoring in 73rd and 84th respectively.

The win by Glebe was the school’s 20th team medal and 7th team title under the tutelage of head coach Kirk Dillabaugh, who also coaches all four boys with the Lions.

City champion Daniel Cova of Louis-Riel placed 13th overall in the six-kilometre race in 19:08.39.

Ottawa’s only other team to make the medal podium in Etobicoke was the Colonel By Cougars junior boys team, which took home OFSAA silver for the second year in a row. The Lions’ Austin Walker was the Cougars second scorer, finishing 26th overall in a time of 15 minutes and 45.18 seconds over the five-kilometre course.

Hillcrest’s Charlie Mortimer ninth place finish, was the best among Ottawa area athletes in the junior boy’s race.

The senior girls race featured four Lions among the top-20 finishers, led by 2022 junior girls bronze medalist Grace Streek. In her first year competing at the senior level, Streek placed 12th overall on the six-kilometre course in a time of 22 minutes and 35.80 seconds. Club training partners Lauren Alexander of Glebe (14th) and Jocelyn Giannotti of Holy Trinity (15th) finished closely behind. Ashbury’s Kate Johntson-Zemek rounded out the group in 20th.

Also cracking the top were Laila Lebel in the novice girls and Kyra Lauter in the junior girls race. Lebel, a student at Colonel By, placed 12th while Lauter, running for Franco Cité was 17th.

Luke Van Brabant was the top Lion in the novice boy’s race, placing 32nd.

Below is a full break down of the Lions results:

Novice Girls (4km)
Laila Lebel (Colonel By) 12th – 15:03.44
Riley Daniels (The Element) 26th – 15:34.53
Dahlia Loreti (Pierre Savard) 28th – 15:35.89

Novice Boys (4km)
Luke Van Brabant (Earl of March) 32nd – 13:48.79
Yusuf Elmasry (John McCrae) 98th – 14:40.38

Junior Girls (5km)
Kyra Lauter (Franco Cité) 17th – 18:15.00
Sofia Lefaivre (Louis-Riel) 58th – 19:16.38
Maya Allibon (John McCrae) 66th – 19:24.08

Junior Boys (5km)
Charlie Mortimer (Hillcrest) 9th – 15:15.20
Austin Walker (Colonel By) 26th – 15:45.18 (Team Silver)
Conlin Burnett (Lisgar) 78th – 16:41.23

Senior Girls
Grace Streek (Peak Academy) 12th – 22:35.80
Lauren Alexander (Glebe) 14th – 22:38.38
Jocelyn Giannotti (Holy Trinity) 15th – 22:47.67
Kate Johnston-Zemek (Ashbury) 20th – 23:05.86
Waverley Lyons (Glebe) 101th – 25:13.54
Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) 144th – 26:23.58

Senior Boys
Saul Taler (Glebe) 7th – 18:52.88 (Team Gold)
Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel) 13th – 19:08.39
Russell Heins (Glebe) 29th – 19:38.13 (Team Gold)
Noah Smith (Immaculata) 47th – 20:02.75
Derek Strachen (Glebe) 73rd – 20:29.71 (Team Gold)
Kiefer Melinz-Dupuis (Glebe) 84th – 20:37.69 (Team Gold)
Barrett Goold (Sir Robert Borden) 87th – 20:40.89
Cohen Kaye (Louis-Riel) 98th – 20:50.17
Matteo Padoin-Castillo (Immaculata) 105th – 20:58.74

Full results from OFSAA XC can be found here.

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26 Lions qualify for OFSAA Cross Country Championships

October 30, 2023

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A pride of 26 Lions are headed off to the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association Cross Country Championships in Etobicoke after their performances at the National Capital and Eastern Ontario Championships last week. In Total, Lions athletes captured 9 of the available 18 individual medals, including 4 golds at the Ottawa Championships.

Lions senior athletes dominated the podiums of both the boys and girls races at the Hornet’s Nest in Gloucester last Thursday – sweeping both podiums.

On the boy’s side, Daniel Cova of Louis-Riel captured top spot over the six-kilometre course with a time of 20 minutes and 27.7 seconds. Defending OFSAA junior boy’s champion, Saul Taler was second across the line, 22.5 seconds behind Cova.

Taler led a tremendous team performance from Glebe that saw the Gryphons amass a meagre 15 points to take the team title. Derek Strachan, also of Glebe rounded out the podium at 21:26.8. Kiefer Melinz-Dupuis was Glebe’s fourth scorer in sixth place.

Glebe also took the senior girls team title led by Lauren Alexander and her gold medal winning effort of 24 minutes and 10.2 seconds. Holy Trinity’s Jocelyn Giannoti placed second in 24:19.3 while last year’s OFSAA junior girls bronze medalist Grace Streek was third across the line in 24:41.0. A step behind Streek in fourth was Ashbury’s Kate Johnston-Zemek who helped the Colts to a team silver and OFSAA berth.

Grade 10 students Kyra Lauter and Charlie Mortimer each took top spot in their respective junior races. Lauter enjoyed a comfortable 21.7 second margin victory in the girls race, finishing the five-kilometre course in 21:20.0. Mortimer found himself in a much tighter race, narrowly edging out Colonel By’s Owen Siderius by 3.4 seconds in 17:41.2.

Cameron Allard and Austin Walker of Colonel By teammed with Siderius for junior boy’s team gold.

Dahlia Loreti of Pierre Savard was second across the line in the novice girls four-kilometre race in 16:26.2, while Isla Bilcock took home team gold running for Nepean.

While just missing the novice boy’s podium in fourth, Luke Van Brabant led Earl of March to the team title with his 15:07.7 run.

At the EOSSAA Championships on Kingston’s Fort Henry hill, Quinn Coughlin placed fifth in the senior girls race with a time of 24 minutes and 38.06 seconds to earn her spot at OFSAA. Malachi Kenny just missed out on qualifying in the senior boys race with his sixth place finish with 20:29.18 clocking.

The full list of qualifiers for OFSAA XC are included below:

Novice Girls
Dahlia Loreti (Pierre Savard)
Riley Daniels (The Element)
Isla Bilcock (Nepean)

Novice Boys
Luke Van Brabant (Earl of March)
Yusuf Elmasry (John McCrae)

Junior Girls
Kyra Lauter (Franco Cité)
Sofia Lefaivre (Louis-Riel)
Maya Allibon (John McCrae)

Junior Boys
Charlie Mortimer (Hillcrest)
Conlin Burnett (Lisgar)
Austin Walker (Colonel By)
Cameron Allard (Colonel By)

Senior Girls
Lauren Alexander (Glebe)
Jocelyn Giannotti (Holy Trinity)
Grace Streek (Peak Academy)
Kate Johnston-Zemek (Ashbury)
Waverley Lyons (Glebe)
Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo)

Senior Boys
Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel)
Saul Taler (Glebe)
Derek Strachen (Glebe)
Noah Smith (Immaculata)
Kiefer Melinz-Dupuis (Glebe)
Barrett Goold (Sir Robert Borden)
Cohen Kaye (Louis-Riel)
Matteo Padoin-Castillo (Immaculata)

Full results from the NCSSAA XC Championships are available on our website.

Full results from the EOSSAA XC Championships are available at https://sites.google.com/limestone.on.ca/xctf/2023/eossaa-xc

(Ottawa, Canada---10 June 2023) Quinn Coughlin of Opeongo - Cobden competes in the intermediate hurdles at the 2023 OFSAA Ontario High School Track and Field Championships. Photograph Copyright 2023 Sean Burges / Mundo Sport Images.

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Lions bring home 14 medals from OFSAA Track and Field Championships

June 12, 2023

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Three days of competition and more than 2200 athletes means only one thing in the province of Ontario – OFSAA Track and Field. For the first time in 16 years the Championships returned to Ottawa and the performances put forward by our own local contingent certainly rose to the occasion. In total, Lions athletes took home 14 medals from OFSAA, half of them gold.

Arnprior’s Louise Stonham kick started the medal haul with a gold in the open girls 2000 metre steeplechase. The grade 12 student led from start to finish as she crossed the line in a seasonal best time of 7:02.80.

Jorai Oppong-Nketiah is a name you will want to remember. The grade nine student at Pierre-de-Blois became just the fourth athlete in Club history to ever complete the sprint double at OFSAA taking top spot in both the 100 and 200 metre events. Running just off her personal best times from the week before, Jorai crossed the line in times of 12.34 and 25.17 seconds respectively.

Before the championship, if you were asked for similarities between Quinn Coughlin and Zachary Jeggo you may have been at a loss. Following OFSAA the answer was a little bit clearer as the pair swept the boys and girls 300 metre hurdles and 400 metres.

Coughlin enjoyed a breakthrough performance in the 400 metre heats as she set a new lifetime best of 56.77 seconds and followed it up in the final with a 56.89 run for the gold. In the hurdles, which are a new event for Coughlin this season, the Opeongo student crossed the line in 43.69 seconds to win by nearly a second. The personal best performance moved the 16 year old into fourth on the Club’s all-time rankings in the event.

Similarly, it was a pair of outstanding performances that lifted Jeggo to the top of the provincial podium. While he fell just short of his personal best over 400 metres, the Louis-Riel student’s run of 49.70 seconds was still more than three quarters of a second faster than his nearest competitor. He would return a day later to best himself as he smashed his previous best in the 300 metre hurdles with a 39.29 second clocking.

While Timeo Atonfo didn’t manage to bring home a gold medal, the Gisele-Lalonde student did something few in the Club have done before. The grade 10 student picked up a silver in the junior boys long jump as well as a pair of bronzes in the triple jump and 100 metre hurdles. The three medal haul meant Atonfo became just the 12th athlete in Club history to accomplish the feat.

The remaining OFSAA medalists were Ingrid Moreau (JG 4x100m silver), Grace Streek (JG 3000m silver), Maddie Seaby (SG 3000m bronze), Ange-Mathis Kramo (NB 200m silver), and Daniel Cova (JB 1500m bronze)

For full results from OFSAA, visit https://ottawalions.com/results/2023-results/2023-ofsaa-track-and-field-championships/

For updated Club rankings, visit https://milesrowat.shinyapps.io/ottl_rankings/

Club results from OFSAA are included below for your convenience.

Novice Girls 100m – Jorai Oppong-Nketiah (Pierre-de-Blois) 12.34 – Gold

Novice Girls 200m – Jorai Oppong-Nketiah (Pierre-de-Blois) 25.17 – Gold

Novice Girls 400m – Shannon Dewar (St. Francis) 1:02.16 – 15th

Novice Girls 400m – Meredith McCabe (Lisgar) 1:01.07 – 8th

Novice Girls 800m – Kyra Lauter (Franco-Ouest) 2:33.67 – 16th

Novice Girls 1500m – Julia Van Wesenbeeck (Glebe) 5:05.34 – 18th

Novice Girls 1500m – Kyra Lauter (Franco-Ouest) 5:11.92 – 19th

Novice Girls 3000m – Julia Van Wesenbeeck (Glebe) 11:16.57 – 13th

Novice Girls 3000m – Evelyn Davies (Immaculata) 11:54.84 – 22th

Novice Girls 4x100m – Odelia Niangoran (Holy Trinity) DQ

Novice Girls 4x100m – Cate O’Brien (Holy Trinity) DQ

Novice Girls 4x100m – Ingrid Andersen (Holy Trinity) DQ

Novice Girls Long Jump – Charlotte Carr (Cornwall) 4.12m – 21th

Junior Girls 100m – Amy LeBlanc (St. Francis) 12.95 – 13th

Junior Girls 100m – Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) 12.94 – 6th

Junior Girls 200m – Amy LeBlanc (St. Francis) 26.52 – 11th

Junior Girls 200m – Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) 26.12 – 8th

Junior Girls 400m – Molly Barber (Nepean) 1:00.60 – 14th

Junior Girls 400m – Sophia McIntyre (St. Francis) 1:02.90 – 22th

Junior Girls 400m – Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) 56.89 – Gold

Junior Girls 800m – Molly Barber (Nepean) 2:19.35 – 9th

Junior Girls 800m – Ciara Villeneuve (Paul-Desmarais) 2:18.69 – 5th

Junior Girls 1500m – Grace Streek (Peak Centre) 4:41.33 – 5th

Junior Girls 1500m – Ciara Villeneuve (Paul-Desmarais) 4:43.86 – 8th

Junior Girls 3000m – Grace Streek (Peak Centre) 10:14.94 – Silver

Junior Girls 3000m – Kate Johnston-Zemek (Ashbury) 10:52.71 – 8th

Junior Girls 80m Hurdles – Jamie Hennessy (Sydenham) 12.72 – 9th

Junior Girls 80m Hurdles – Stella Humeniuk (Nepean) 13.13 – 17th

Junior Girls 300m Hurdles – Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) 43.69 – Gold

Junior Girls 4x100m – Ingrid Moreau (Merivale) 50.73 – Silver

Junior Girls 4x100m – Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) 52.73 – 10th

Junior Girls 4x100m – Lei-Lei Fan-Saschenbrecker (Sacred Heart) 53.24 – 16th

Junior Girls 4x100m – Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) 53.24 – 16th

Junior Girls High Jump – Waverley Lyons (Glebe) 1.50m – 7th

Junior Girls Pole Vault – Balqis Chouikhi (Sir Wilfrid) 2.90m – 4th

Junior Girls Long Jump – Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) 5.35m – 4th

Junior Girls Long Jump – Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) 4.92m – 9th

Junior Girls Triple Jump – Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) 11.03m – 4th

Senior Girls 100m – Danica Mulvihill (Louis-Riel) 12.89 – 15th

Senior Girls 200m – Tatiana Pender (Franco-Ouest) 26.68 – 18th

Senior Girls 400m – Koree Yach (Arnprior) 1:00.81 – 17th

Senior Girls 400m – Andie Harris (John McCrae) 1:00.94 – 18th

Senior Girls 400m – Tatiana Pender (Franco-Ouest) 1:01.06 – 19th

Senior Girls 800m – Jocelyn Giannotti (Holy Trinity) 2:17.57 – 11th

Senior Girls 800m – Lauren Alexander (Glebe) 2:20.38 – 15th

Senior Girls 1500m – Maddie Seaby (Carleton Place) 4:41.40 – 10th

Senior Girls 1500m – Lauren Alexander (Glebe) 4:47.96 – 16th

Senior Girls 3000m – Maddie Seaby (Carleton Place) 9:56.79 – Bronze

Senior Girls 3000m – Olivia Baggley (Gloucester) 10:20.91 – 10th

Senior Girls 3000m – Louise Stonham (Arnprior) 10:24.36 – 12th

Senior Girls 100m Hurdles – Danica Mulvihill (Louis-Riel) 16.09 – 15th

Senior Girls 400m Hurdles – Koree Yach (Arnprior) 1:06.26 – 9th

Senior Girls 400m Hurdles – Sophie Trott (Glebe) 1:11.17 – 16th

Senior Girls Pole Vault – Meg Varden (Cairine Wilson) J2.40m – 10th

Senior Girls Long Jump – Adelle MacLeod (AY Jackson) 4.67m – 21th

Senior Girls Triple Jump – Adelle MacLeod (AY Jackson) 10.71m – 15th

Senior Girls Javelin – Elise Katsube (Sir Robert Borden) 32.98m – 9th

Open Girls 2000m Steeplechase – Louise Stonham (Arnprior) 7:02.80 – Gold

Open Girls 4x400m – Louise Stonham (Arnprior) 4:09.19 – 12th

Open Girls 4x400m – Koree Yach (Arnprior) 4:09.19 – 12th

Open Girls 4x400m – Sophie Trott (Glebe) 4:12.60 – 15th

Open Girls 4x400m – Lauren Alexander (Glebe) 4:12.60 – 15th

Novice Boys 100m – Ange-Mathis Kramo (Paul-Desmarais) 11.54 – 7th

Novice Boys 100m – Connor England (North Dundas) 12.05 – 20th

Novice Boys 200m – Ange-Mathis Kramo (Paul-Desmarais) 22.45 – Silver

Novice Boys 200m – Connor England (North Dundas) 24.11 – 18th

Novice Boys 200m – Xavier Jeglic (St. Pius X) 24.19 – 20th

Novice Boys 1500m – Austin Walker (Colonel By) 4:23.82 – 14th

Novice Boys 3000m – Charlie Mortimer (Hillcrest) 9:37.25 – 13th

Novice Boys Long Jump – Eli Mordel (SirRobert Borden) 5.85m – 9th

Junior Boys 100m – Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) 11.81 – 21th

Junior Boys 400m – Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) 49.70 – Gold

Junior Boys 800m – Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel) 2:01.33 – 6th

Junior Boys 1500m – Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel) 4:02.79 – Bronze

Junior Boys 1500m – Saul Taler (Glebe) 4:18.36 – 12th

Junior Boys 3000m – Saul Taler (Glebe) 9:14.51 – 6th

Junior Boys 3000m – Noah Smith (Immaculata) 9:36.46 – 16th

Junior Boys 100m Hurdles – Jonah Gratton (La Citadelle) 15.05 – 9th

Junior Boys 100m Hurdles – Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) 13.71 – Bronze

Junior Boys 300m Hurdles – Mason Brennan (Colonel By) 41.62 – 9th

Junior Boys 300m Hurdles – Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) 39.29 – Gold

Junior Boys 300m Hurdles – Jonah Gratton (La Citadelle) 41.49 – 4th

Junior Boy 4x100m – Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) 44.93 – 6th

Junior Boy 4x100m – Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) 45.20 – 8th

Junior Boys 4x100m – Francis Mullowney (Colonel By) 45.66 – 12th

Junior Boys 4x100m – Mason Brennan (Colonel By) 45.66 – 12th

Junior Boys 4x100m – Joshua Haughton (Immaculata) 46.16- 15th

Junior Boys 4x100m – Brody Fraser (Immaculata) 46.16- 15th

Junior Boys Pole Vault – Owen Tyo (Char-Lan) J3.30m – 5th

Junior Boys Long Jump – Owen Whike (Glebe) 3.00m – 12th

Junior Boys Long Jump – Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) 6.84m – Bronze

Junior Boys Triple Jump – Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) 13.81m – Silver

Junior Boys Triple Jump – Kai Gibson (Longfields) J12.19m – 13th

Junior Boys Discus – Jack Mines (Char-Lan) 48.60m – 7th

Senior Boys 100m – John McGowan (St. Michael) 10.99 – 5th

Senior Boys 200m – William Sanders (Mother Teresa) 22.65 – 12th

Senior Boys 400m – William Sanders (Mother Teresa) 50.12 – 10th

Senior Boys 400m – Nolan Legare (John McCrae) 50.70 – 16th

Senior Boys 400m – Safwan El Mansari (De La Salle) 51.33 – 18th

Senior Boys 400m – Ethan Lavictoire (St. Joseph) 52.29 – 21th

Senior Boys 800m – Nicolas Belan (Canterbury) 1:58.54 – 12th

Senior Boys 1500m – Nicolas Belan (Canterbury) 4:00.88 – 6th

Senior Boys 400m Hurdles – Eric Zielonka (Brookfield) 57.95 – 7th

Senior Boys 400m Hurdles – Nathaniel McNeil (St. Peter – O) 1:01.47 – 19th

Senior Boys 4x100m – Logan Reid (Merivale) 44.80 – 8th

Senior Boys 4x100m – Beckham Tapp (West Carleton) 44.31 – 9th

Open Boys 2000m Steeplechase – Derek Strachan (Glebe) 6:11.57 – 5th

Open Boys 4x400m – Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) 3:37.71 – 20th

(Ottawa, Canada —02 June 2023) Zachary Jeggo of Louis-Riel - Ottawa competing on Day 2 of the 2023 East Regional High School Track and Field Championships at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility

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71 Lions Qualify for OFSAA Track and Field Championships

June 5, 2023

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When the Ontario high school track and field championships begin Thursday at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility, 71 Lions will be in action representing their respective high school teams in individual events and relays.

Athletes qualified for the championship by virtue of finishing among the top four in their respective event at last week’s East Regional High School Championships.

Lions athletes captured an impressive 71 medals in individual events and added a further 10 in the relays.

Topping the medal haul was Louis-Riel’s Zachary Jeggo who won a trio of gold medals, a bronze, and even broke a pair of meet records. The grade 10 student dominated the junior boys 400 metre field, winning in 50.17 seconds – more than two seconds clear of second place. The performance also bested Mike Robertson’s 18-year-old record of 50.39.

Jeggo’s other record came as a member of Louis-Riel’s junior boys 4×100 metre relay. The Rebels got the stick around Terry Fox in 44.86 seconds to take 0.22 seconds off the previous standard set by Thousand Islands Secondary School.

The final gold for Jeggo came in the 300 metre hurdles, where he won handily in 39.80 seconds. For good measure, he also added a bronze in the 200 metres.

Gisele-Lalonde’s Timeo Atonfo and Opeongo’s Quinn Coughlin were the only two athletes to take home a trio of individual golds. Both athletes also broke meet records along the way.

Atonfo twice broke the meet record in the junior boys 100 metre hurdles. In the heats he crossed the line in 13.90 seconds to trim a hundredth of a second off the previous best before bettering that effort in the final with a winning run of 13.76 seconds.

In the field, Atonfo swept the horizontal jumps with efforts of 6.48 and 13.57 metres respectively in the long and triple jump.

For Coughlin, she easily disposed of Sarah Jackson’s nine year old junior girls 300 metre hurdle record. The Opeongo student’s time of 44.32 seconds took nearly three tenths off the former Lion’s mark, and left her more than three seconds clear of the rest of the field in Thursday’s race.

Coming back on Friday, Coughlin pulled off a difficult 400/800 double within a matter of a few hours. Over 800 metres, Quinn used her 400 speed to run away from the field on the second of the lap to win in 2 minutes and 21.48 seconds.

The one lap race saw Coughlin jet out of the blocks, making up the stagger on the full field well within the first 200 metres. Pushing right through to the finish, she finished more than two seconds clear of the field, producing a winning time of 57.95 seconds.

Finally, Arnprior’s Koree Yach may be the busiest woman of the OFSAA Championships. The grade 11 student qualified for the provincial meet in no less than five events at Regionals. A winner of the senior girls 400 metre hurdles, Yach also helped Arnprior to a bronze in the open girls 4×400 metre relay. She also added a trio of fourth place finishes in the 400 and 800 metres as well as the senior girls 4×100 metres.

Bellow is a list of Lions qualifiers for OFSAA:

Adelle MacLeod (AY Jackson) – Senior Girls Long Jump (4th)

Adelle MacLeod (AY Jackson) – Senior Girls Triple Jump (Bronze)

Amy LeBlanc (St. Francis) – Junior Girls 100m (Bronze)

Amy LeBlanc (St. Francis) – Junior Girls 200m (4th)

Andie Harris (John McCrae) – Senior Girls 400m (Silver)

Ange-Mathis Kramo (Paul-Desmarais) – Novice Boys 100m (Gold)

Ange-Mathis Kramo (Paul-Desmarais) – Novice Boys 200m (Gold)

Austin Walker (Colonel By) – Novice Boys 1500m (4th)

Balqis Chouikhi (Sir Wilfird) – Junior Girls Pole Vault (4th)

Beckham Tapp (West Carleton) – Senior Boys 4×100 (Silver)

Brody Fraser (Immaculata) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Silver)

Cate O’Brien (Holy Trinity) – Novice Girls 4×100 (4th)

Charlie Mortimer (Hillcrest) – Novice Boys 3000m (Bronze)

Charlotte Carr (Cornwall) – Novice Girls Long Jump (Silver)

Ciara Villeneuve (Paul-Desmarais) – Junior Girls 1500m (Silver)

Ciara Villeneuve (Paul-Desmarais) – Junior Girls 800m (4th)

Connor England (North Dundas) – Novice Boys 100m (Bronze)

Connor England (North Dundas) – Novice Boys 200m (Bronze)

Danica Mulvihill (Louis-Riel) – Senior Girls 100m (Gold)

Danica Mulvihill (Louis-Riel) – Senior Girls 100m Hurdles (Bronze)

Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 1500m (Bronze)

Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 800m (Silver)

Derek Strachan (Glebe) – Open Boys 2000m Steeplechase (Silver)

Eli Mordel (Sir RobertBorden) – Novice Boys Long Jump (Silver)

Elise Katsube (Sir RobertBorden) – Senior Girls Javelin (Gold)

Eric Zielonka (Brookfield) – Senior Boys 400m Hurdles (Silver)

Ethan Lavictoire (St. Joseph) – Senior Boys 400m (4th)

Evelyn Davies (Immaculata) – Novice Girls 3000m (4th)

Francis Mullowney (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Bronze)

Grace Streek (Peak Centre) – Junior Girls 1500m (Bronze)

Grace Streek (Peak Centre) – Junior Girls 3000m (Silver)

Ingrid Andersen (Holy Trinity) – Novice Girls 4×100 (4th)

Ingrid Moreau (Merivale) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Gold)

Jack Mines (Char-Lan) – Junior Boys Javelin (4th)

Jamie Hennessy (Sydenham) – Junior Girls 100m Hurdles (Silver)

Jay Yetman (Glebe) – Senior Boys 200m (Silver)

Jay Yetman (Glebe) – Senior Boys Long Jump (4th)

Jocelyn Giannotti (Holy Trinity) – Senior Girls 800m (Gold)

John McGowan (St. Michael) – Senior Boys 100m (Gold)

Jonah Gratton (La Citadelle) – Junior Boys 100m Hurdles (4th)

Jonah Gratton (La Citadelle) – Junior Boys 300m Hurdles (Silver)

Jorai Oppong-Nketiah (Pierre-de-Blois) – Novice Girls 100m (Gold)

Jorai Oppong-Nketiah (Pierre-de-Blois) – Novice Girls 200m (Gold)

Joshua Haughton (Immaculata) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Silver)

Julia Van Wesenbeeck (Glebe) – Novice Girls 1500m (4th)

Julia Van Wesenbeeck (Glebe) – Novice Girls 3000m (Bronze)

Kai Gibson (Longfields) – Junior Boys Triple Jump (Silver)

Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Bronze)

Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls 100m (Gold)

Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls Long Jump (Gold)

Kate Johnston-Zemek (Ashbury) – Junior Girls 30000m (Bronze)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Open Girls 4×400 (Bronze)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 4×100 (4th)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 400m (4th)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 400m Hurdles (Gold)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 800m (4th)

Kyra Lauter (Franco-Ouest) – Novice Girls 1500m (Bronze)

Kyra Lauter (Franco-Ouest) – Novice Girls 800m (Bronze)

Lauren Alexander (Glebe) – Open Girls 4×400 (Gold)

Lauren Alexander (Glebe) – Senior Girls 800m (Bronze)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Silver)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls 200m (Silver)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls Long Jump (4th)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls Triple Jump (Gold)

Lei-Lei Fan-Saschenbrecker (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Bronze)

Logan Reid (Merivale) – Senior Boys 4×100 (Bronze)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Open Girls 4×400 (Bronze)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Open Girls 2000m Steeplechase (Gold)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 1500m (4th)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 3000m (Bronze)

Maddie Seaby (Carleton Place) – Senior Girls 1500m (Silver)

Maddie Seaby (Carleton Place) – Senior Girls 3000m (Gold)

Mason Brennan (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Bronze)

Mason Brennan (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 100m Hurdles (Silver)

Mason Brennan (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 300m Hurdles (Bronze)

Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) – Junior Boys 4×100 (4th)

Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) – Junior Boys 100m (4th)

Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) – Open Boys 4×400 (4th)

Meg Varden (Cairine Wilson) – Senior Girls Pole Vault (4th)

Meredith McCabe (Lisgar) – Novice Girls 400m (Gold)

Molly Barber (Nepean) – Junior Girls 400m (Silver)

Molly Barber (Nepean) – Junior Girls 800m (Silver)

Nathaniel McNeil (St. Peter) – Senior Boys 400m Hurdles (Bronze)

Nicolas Belan (Canterbury) – Senior Boys 1500m (Bronze)

Nicolas Belan (Canterbury) – Senior Boys 800m (Gold)

Noah Smith (Immaculata) – Junior Boys 3000m (Bronze)

Nolan Legare (John McCrae) – Senior Boys 400m (Silver)

Odelia Niangoran (Holy Trinity) – Novice Girls 4×100 (4th)

Olivia Baggley (Gloucester) – Senior Girls 3000m (Silver)

Owen Tyo (Char-Lan) – Junior Boys Pole Vault (Silver)

Owen Whike (Glebe) – Junior Boys Pole Vault (Bronze)

Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) – Junior Girls 300m Hurdles (Gold)

Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) – Junior Girls 400m (Gold)

Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) – Junior Girls 800m (Gold)

Safwan El Mansari (De La Salle) – Senior Boys 400m (Bronze)

Saul Taler (Glebe) – Junior Boys 1500m (4th)

Saul Taler (Glebe) – Junior Boys 3000m (Silver)

Shannon Dewar (St. Francis) – Novice Girls 400m (4th)

Sophia McIntyre (St. Francis) – Junior Girls 400m (4th)

Sophie Trott (Glebe) – Open Girls 4×400 (Gold)

Sophie Trott (Glebe) – Senior Girls 400m Hurdles (4th)

Stella Humeniuk (Nepean) – Junior Girls 100m Hurdles (4th)

Tatiana Pender (Franco-Ouest) – Senior Girls 200m (Silver)

Tatiana Pender (Franco-Ouest) – Senior Girls 400m (Bronze)

Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) – Junior Boys 100m Hurdles (Gold)

Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) – Junior Boys Long Jump (Gold)

Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) – Junior Boys Triple Jump (Gold)

Waverley Lyons (Glebe) – Junior Girls High Jump (Gold)

William Sanders (St.Mother Teresa) – Senior Boys 200m (Bronze)

William Sanders (St.Mother Teresa) – Senior Boys 400m (Gold)

Xavier Jeglic (St. Pius X) – Novice Boys 200m (4th)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Gold)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 200m (Bronze)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 300m Hurdles (Gold)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 400m (Gold)

Jorai Oppong-Nketiah (Pierre-de-Blois) – Novice Girls 100m (Gold)

Jorai Oppong-Nketiah (Pierre-de-Blois) – Novice Girls 200m (Gold)

Meredith McCabe (Lisgar) – Novice Girls 400m (Gold)

Shannon Dewar (St. Francis) – Novice Girls 400m (4th)

Kyra Lauter (Franco-Ouest) – Novice Girls 800m (Bronze)

Kyra Lauter (Franco-Ouest) – Novice Girls 1500m (Bronze)

Julia Van Wesenbeeck (Glebe) – Novice Girls 1500m (4th)

Julia Van Wesenbeeck (Glebe) – Novice Girls 3000m (Bronze)

Evelyn Davies (Immaculata) – Novice Girls 3000m (4th)

Charlotte Carr (Cornwall) – Novice Girls Long Jump (Silver)

Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls 100m (Gold)

Amy LeBlanc (St. Francis) – Junior Girls 100m (Bronze)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls 200m (Silver)

Amy LeBlanc (St. Francis) – Junior Girls 200m (4th)

Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) – Junior Girls 400m (Gold)

Molly Barber (Nepean) – Junior Girls 400m (Silver)

Sophia McIntyre (St. Francis) – Junior Girls 400m (4th)

Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) – Junior Girls 800m (Gold)

Molly Barber (Nepean) – Junior Girls 800m (Silver)

Ciara Villeneuve (Paul-Desmarais) – Junior Girls 800m (4th)

Ciara Villeneuve (Paul-Desmarais) – Junior Girls 1500m (Silver)

Grace Streek (Peak Centre) – Junior Girls 1500m (Bronze)

Grace Streek (Peak Centre) – Junior Girls 3000m (Silver)

Kate Johnston-Zemek (Ashbury) – Junior Girls 30000m (Bronze)

Jamie Hennessy (Sydenham) – Junior Girls 100m Hurdles (Silver)

Stella Humeniuk (Nepean) – Junior Girls 100m Hurdles (4th)

Quinn Coughlin (Opeongo) – Junior Girls 300m Hurdles (Gold)

Waverley Lyons (Glebe) – Junior Girls High Jump (Gold)

Balqis Chouikhi (Sir Wilfird) – Junior Girls Pole Vault (4th)

Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls Long Jump (Gold)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls Long Jump (4th)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls Triple Jump (Gold)

Danica Mulvihill (Louis-Riel) – Senior Girls 100m (Gold)

Tatiana Pender (Franco-Ouest) – Senior Girls 200m (Silver)

Andie Harris (John McCrae) – Senior Girls 400m (Silver)

Tatiana Pender (Franco-Ouest) – Senior Girls 400m (Bronze)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 400m (4th)

Jocelyn Giannotti (Holy Trinity) – Senior Girls 800m (Gold)

Lauren Alexander (Glebe) – Senior Girls 800m (Bronze)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 800m (4th)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 1500m (4th)

Olivia Baggley (Gloucester) – Senior Girls 3000m (Silver)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 3000m (Bronze)

Danica Mulvihill (Louis-Riel) – Senior Girls 100m Hurdles (Bronze)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 400m Hurdles (Gold)

Sophie Trott (Glebe) – Senior Girls 400m Hurdles (4th)

Meg Varden (Cairine Wilson) – Senior Girls Pole Vault (4th)

Adelle MacLeod (AY Jackson) – Senior Girls Long Jump (4th)

Adelle MacLeod (AY Jackson) – Senior Girls Triple Jump (Bronze)

Elise Katsube (Sir RobertBorden) – Senior Girls Javelin (Gold)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Open Girls 2000m Steeplechase (Gold)

Connor England (North Dundas) – Novice Boys 100m (Bronze)

Connor England (North Dundas) – Novice Boys 200m (Bronze)

Xavier Jeglic (St. Pius X) – Novice Boys 200m (4th)

Austin Walker (Colonel By) – Novice Boys 1500m (4th)

Charlie Mortimer (Hillcrest) – Novice Boys 3000m (Bronze)

Eli Mordel (Sir RobertBorden) – Novice Boys Long Jump (Silver)

Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) – Junior Boys 100m (4th)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 200m (Bronze)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 400m (Gold)

Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 800m (Silver)

Daniel Cova (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 1500m (Bronze)

Saul Taler (Glebe) – Junior Boys 1500m (4th)

Saul Taler (Glebe) – Junior Boys 3000m (Silver)

Noah Smith (Immaculata) – Junior Boys 3000m (Bronze)

Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) – Junior Boys 100m Hurdles (Gold)

Mason Brennan (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 100m Hurdles (Silver)

Jonah Gratton (La Citadelle) – Junior Boys 100m Hurdles (4th)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 300m Hurdles (Gold)

Jonah Gratton (La Citadelle) – Junior Boys 300m Hurdles (Silver)

Mason Brennan (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 300m Hurdles (Bronze)

Owen Tyo (Char-Lan) – Junior Boys Pole Vault (Silver)

Owen Whike (Glebe) – Junior Boys Pole Vault (Bronze)

Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) – Junior Boys Long Jump (Gold)

Timeo Atonfo (Gisèle-Lalonde) – Junior Boys Triple Jump (Gold)

Kai Gibson (Longfields) – Junior Boys Triple Jump (Silver)

Jack Mines (Char-Lan) – Junior Boys Javelin (4th)

John McGowan (St. Michael) – Senior Boys 100m (Gold)

Jay Yetman (Glebe) – Senior Boys 200m (Silver)

William Sanders (St.Mother Teresa) – Senior Boys 200m (Bronze)

William Sanders (St.Mother Teresa) – Senior Boys 400m (Gold)

Nolan Legare (John McCrae) – Senior Boys 400m (Silver)

Safwan El Mansari (De La Salle) – Senior Boys 400m (Bronze)

Ethan Lavictoire (St. Joseph) – Senior Boys 400m (4th)

Nicolas Belan (Canterbury) – Senior Boys 800m (Gold)

Nicolas Belan (Canterbury) – Senior Boys 1500m (Bronze)

Eric Zielonka (Brookfield) – Senior Boys 400m Hurdles (Silver)

Nathaniel McNeil (St. Peter) – Senior Boys 400m Hurdles (Bronze)

Jay Yetman (Glebe) – Senior Boys Long Jump (4th)

Derek Strachan (Glebe) – Open Boys 2000m Steeplechase (Silver)

Odelia Niangoran (Holy Trinity) – Novice Girls 4×100 (4th)

Ingrid Andersen (Holy Trinity) – Novice Girls 4×100 (4th)

Cate O’Brien (Holy Trinity) – Novice Girls 4×100 (4th)

Ingrid Moreau (Merivale) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Gold)

Lecia Patrick (Ashbury) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Silver)

Lei-Lei Fan-Saschenbrecker (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Bronze)

Kaiya Woodcock (Sacred Heart) – Junior Girls 4×100 (Bronze)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Senior Girls 4×100 (4th)

Sophie Trott (Glebe) – Open Girls 4×400 (Gold)

Lauren Alexander (Glebe) – Open Girls 4×400 (Gold)

Louise Stonham (Arnprior) – Open Girls 4×400 (Bronze)

Koree Yach (Arnprior) – Open Girls 4×400 (Bronze)

Zachary Jeggo (Louis-Riel) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Gold)

Joshua Haughton (Immaculata) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Silver)

Brody Fraser (Immaculata) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Silver)

Francis Mullowney (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Bronze)

Mason Brennan (Colonel By) – Junior Boys 4×100 (Bronze)

Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) – Junior Boys 4×100 (4th)

Beckham Tapp (West Carleton) – Senior Boys 4×100 (Silver)

Logan Reid (Merivale) – Senior Boys 4×100 (Bronze)

Matteo Nicolini (Ashbury) – Open Boys 4×400 (4th)

Full results from East Regionals are available at https://ottawalions.com/results/2023-results/2023-east-regional-high-school-track-and-field-championship/

For update Club rankings, please visit: https://milesrowat.shinyapps.io/ottl_rankings/

Ottawa, Canada. 25 May 2023. Jorai Oppong-Nketiah (734) of Pierre-de-Blois - Ottawa competing at the 2023 Ottawa City High School Track and Field Championships. Copyright 2023 Sean Burges / Mundo Sport Images

Records fall at NCSSAA and EOSSAA Championships

May 27, 2023

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As local high school athletes continue their journey to the OFSAA Track and Field Championships set for June 8-10 here in Ottawa, a few Lions did so in record breaking fashion.

For the second week in a row, Jorai Oppong-Nketiah etched her name into the record book, becoming the fastest grade nine girl in Ottawa track and field history. The Pierre-de-Blois student bested the field by more than a second in the final as she broke the tape in a blistering 12.25 seconds.

Oppong-Nketiah’s performance bested the 48-year meet record of 12.40 set by Anne Liuzzo from Canterbury.

Jorai also advanced to the East Regional Championship next week by taking top spot in the 200 metre. While falling short of Lauren Gale’s meet record, her time of 25.91 gave her a nice 1.4 second margin of victory.

At the EOSSAA Track and Field Championships at Thousand Island Secondary School in Brockville, a trio of meet records fell at the feet of Lions’ athletes.

Quinn Couglin took down two records over the course of the two day championship, beginning on day one with the junior girls 300 metre hurdles event. The grade 10 student at Opeongo High School sped her way to a victory in 44.67 seconds Thursday afternoon – more than five seconds clear of second place. The performance bested the old record of 46.85 set by Catherine Farish of Frontenac Secondary School set in 2006.

Coming back the next day, Coughlin took down another record. This time it was her idol’s, Melissa Bishop-Nriagu, junior girls 400 metre record that fell. Last year’s OFSAA silver medalist completed one lap of the TISS track in 57.65 seconds to shave 39 hundredths of second of Bishop-Nriagu’s 19 year old record.

While not in record time, Coughlin did add a third individual gold to her EOSSAA Championship performance in the 800 metres. Winning time for the grade 10 student was 2 minutes and 21.74 seconds.

Rounding out the record breakers was Louise Stonham. The grade 12 student at Arnprior District High School bested her own record in the open girls 2000 metre steeplechase event. Louise stopped the clock in a time of 7 minutes and 15.63 seconds – more than 37 seconds ahead of second place. Her previous meet record of 7:21.13 had been set last year.

Stonham also picked up a pair of bronze medals in the senior girls 1500 and 3000 metres.

While he didn’t get his name in the NCSSAA record books, Glebe’s Jay Yetman put forward a very impressive performance over the two day championship, completing a sweep of the senior boys 100 and 200 metres as well as the long jump.

The grade 12 student put together massive personal bests in both sprint events, as he joined the sub-11 and and sub-22 clubs with winning times of 10.99 and 21.79 seconds respectively. Yetman’s winning leap in the long jump measured 6.22 metres, a mere centimetre ahead of second place.

The road to OFSAA continues next week here in Ottawa with the East Regional High School Championships on Thursday and Friday at Terry Fox.

For full results from the NCSSAA and EOSSAA Championships, please visit https://ottawalions.com/results/2023-results/

For updated Club rankings, please visit https://milesrowat.shinyapps.io/ottl_rankings/

(York, Canada — 3 June 2022) Timeo Atonfo of Gis?le-Lalonde - Ottawa competing in the sprint hurdle heats at the 2022 OFSAA Ontario High School Track and Field Championships held at the Toronto Track and Field Centre at York University. 2022 Copyright Sean Burges / Mundo Sport Images.

Records fall as Lions begin road to OFSAA Championships

May 23, 2023

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The march to the OFSAA Track and Field Championships has begun and three athletes have already made it known they should be considered forces to be reckoned with after record setting performances at both the National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association East and West Conference Championships taking place last week.

In just her first high school season, Jorai Oppong-Nketiah quickly made her name known as one to keep an eye out. The grade nine student at Pierre-de-Blois set records in both the 100 and 200 metre sprint events at the West Conference Championship.

Oppong-Nketiah bested former Lion Remy Wade’s 10 year old 100 metre record in the preliminary rounds, stopping the clock at 12.39 seconds. Wade’s old mark was 12.44 seconds. Jorai was a hair slower in the final, finishing in 12.40 seconds.

Over 200 metres, Oppong-Nketiah equalled the meet record of 26.03 seconds in the heats before taking top spot in the final with a blazing time of 25.96 seconds. The previous record had been set by Shelani Fernando in 2010.

At the East Conference Championship, it was the wind that kept Timeo Atonfo from breaking a pair of records for the second year in a row. The Gisèle-Lalonde student captured top spot in the junior boys long jump with a leap of 6.44 metres to eclipse Japhet Divita’s seven year old mark of 6.40.

The record is the second long jump record for Atonfo at the East Conference meet. He set the novice boys mark a year ago.

On the track, Atonfo topped the junior 100 metre hurdle race with an impressive 14.04 second clocking – besting the previous meet record by more than three tenths of a second. Unfortunately for the grade 10 student, the wind gauge registered a trailing wind in excess of the allowable 2.0 metres per second (+2.6), nullifying the record.

Atonfo made it a three gold medal day as he hopped, skipped, and jumped his way to top place in the triple jump. His best mark of the day was 13.04 metres, more than 1.2 metres ahead of second place.

Rounding out the record breakers was Olivia Baggley in the senior girls 3000 metres as he took down Alex McGowan’s nine year old mark of 10:21.96. The Gloucester senior completed the seven and half lap race in 10 minutes and 20.83 seconds to best the next closest competitor by nearly two full minutes.

All three athletes and a host of others will compete this Wednesday and Thursday at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility for a spot at the East Regional Championship. The top five finishers at the city championship will advance to regionals.

For updated Club rankings, please visit https://milesrowat.shinyapps.io/ottl_rankings/

For full results from the East and West Conference Meets as well as the LCIAA and UOVHSAA Meets, please visit https://ottawalions.com/results/2023-results/

(York, Canada — 2 June 2022) Saul Taler of Glebe - Ottawa competing in the novice boys 1500m heats at the 2022 OFSAA Ontario High School Track and Field Championships held at the Toronto Track and Field Centre at York University. 2022 Copyright Sean Burges / Mundo Sport Images.

Lions bring home hardware from OFSAA XC return

November 7, 2022

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Saturday marked the return of the OFSAA Cross Country Championships for Ottawa athletes after a two year hiatus and the performances turned out, did not disappoint. Following the event’s cancellation in 2020 and self-imposed travel restrictions for National Capital Secondary School Athletic Association schools in 2021, Lions athletes returned to the provincial high school championships to take home two individual and two team titles.

A combination of a hilly course at the Dagmar Ski Resort in Uxbridge and unseasonably warm temperatures that climbed toward 20 degrees celsius by mid day pushed the field of runners to their limits Saturday. However, Glebe’s Sauler Taler was able to rise above it all as he claimed gold in the junior boy’s five kilometre race.

Holding steady in the lead pack of 5-6 runners through the bulk of the course, Taler found himself clear of the field with about 400 metres to go and didn’t look back. “It was exhilarating,” he recalled to Ottawa Sport Page. “I said to myself: ‘Don’t let someone pass you. I really want to win.’ So, I kept pushing. ‘You’re going to win OFSAA, keep pushing, keep pushing,’ I said.”

With the victory, Taler became just the 14th Lions runner to claim individual OFSAA Cross Country gold.

For Peak Academy’s Grace Streek, her pathway to Dragmar was a little more involved than her competitors, which made her bronze medal in the junior girls race all the more sweet. Before Streek could even take to the starting line in the NCSSAA East Conference Championship, she had to win an appeal of the OFSAA transfer policy before she was allowed to compete.

In Uxbridge, Grace was the leader for the bulk of the five kilometre race, before suffering from a stitch in the final stages and settling for third.

On the team side, Matteo Padoin-Castillo took home team gold with his Immaculata teammates in the junior boys event. Lauren Alexander led Glebe to a silver medal in the senior girls race with her seventh place finish.

(York, Canada — 3 June 2022) L-R, William Bigler of Appleby College - Oakville, William Sanders of Mother Teresa - Ottawa, Chris Jackson of St. Mary's - Kitchener competing in the junior boys 400m final at the 2022 OFSAA Ontario High School Track and Field Championships held at the Toronto Track and Field Centre at York University. 2022 Copyright Sean Burges / Mundo Sport Images.

Lions take home 14 medals from OFSAA Championships

June 7, 2022

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For the high school athletes of the Ottawa Lions, it was a long two year hiatus, but they returned to the OFSAA Championships this past weekend in Toronto without missing a beat. In total, the athletes amassed 14 medals, including four golds, and one Canadian Interscholastic Record.

The national record went to Elizabeth Vroom in the 2000 metre steeplechase as the grade 12 student won the event in a blistering six minutes and 52.19 seconds. Teammate Gillian Porter took home the silver in 7:01.47, while Louise Stonham placed 5th in 7:14.90.

The aptly named Vroom is a relative newcomer to the sport, having only joined the Club this past winter. The Sir Wilfred Laurier student has translated her successful playing time on the pitch with the Ottawa South United Soccer Club to the track quite well, setting meet records at every competition in the lead up to the OFSAA Championships.

Vroom’s run now ranks as the second fastest U20 performance in Club history behind former Canadian record holder Danelle Woods.

Also running to the top of the OFSAA podium this weekend were Vroom’s training partners Amelia Van Brabant and Maddie Seaby. The pair swept the top two spots in the women’s 3000m. Amelia Van Brabant took home the gold in a personal best nine minutes and 47.94 seconds, while Seaby followed behind in 9:55.43 – also a personal best.

Vroom just missed a second OFSAA medal in the 3000, taking fourth in a personal best 10:03.51. Louise Stonham rounded out the group with her sixth place finish in a lifetime best of 10:09.13.

Mother Teresa student William Sanders continued his dominance of the junior boys 400 metres on Friday afternoon, capturing his first OFSAA gold medal in a personal best time of 51.51 seconds. Sanders, who had won every race prior to the provincial championships by nearly two seconds or more, took a hold of the lead at the 200 metre mark, and withstood the late charges from William Bigler to win by nearly a quarter of a second.

Off the track, Kai Gibson captured the only other gold medal of the weekend in the novice boys high jump. The grade nine student from Longfields-Davidson Secondary School cleared 1.80 metres to claim top spot. Second place finisher Jeramiah Zomerman of Chatham Christian also cleared 1.80 metres, but Gibson took top spot by virtue of his first attempt clearance of the height.

A complete list of all the medal winners from this year’s OFSAA Championship are included below.

Novice Boys	Kai Gibson	Longfields-Davidson	High Jump	GOLD – 1.80m
Junior Boys	Dustin Coldrey	Colonel By	Shot Put	BRONZE – 14.01m
Senior Boys	Connor Fraser	Immaculata	Discus	SILVER – 47.71m
Open Girls	Elizabeth Vroom	Sir Wilfred Laurier	2000m Steeplechase	GOLD – 6:52.19
Open Girls	Gillian Porter	Frano-Cité	2000m Steeplechase	SILVER – 7:01.47
Senior Girls	Audrey Goddard	Merivale	100m Hurdles	SILVER – 13.99
Novice Girls	Quinn Coughlin	Opeongo	400m	SILVER – 57.88
Senior Boys	Luca Nicoletti	Paul-Desmarais	110m Hurdles	BRONZE – 14.14
Junior Boys	William Sanders	Mother Teresa	400m	GOLD – 51.51
Novice Boys	Will Batley	West Carleton	100m	BRONZE – 11.38
Senior Girls	Amelia Van Brabant	Earl of March	3000m	GOLD – 9:47.94
Senior Girls	Maddie Seaby	Carleton Place	3000m	SILVER – 9:55.43
Senior Boys	Luca Nicoletti	Paul-Desmarais	400m Hurdles	SILVER – 54.62
Novice Girls	Quinn Coughlin	Opeongo	800m	SILVER – 2:18.14

Lions Top OFSAA XC Performers: #1 Murray Link (1991-1995)

November 7, 2020

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If you have been around the Club long enough, you already know who holds the number one spot. Heck, you have likely known since we started writing this list. Murray Link of North Dundas District High School is widely considered to be the GOAT (the greatest of all-time) high school cross country runner in this area of the province. It is no surprise to see his name atop this list. A dominant force, the Winchester native would finish his high school career as a back-to-back-to-back winner of the provincial crown.

Link’s first go around at the OFSAA cross country championships was a fruitful endeavour, claiming silver behind Toronto’s Ricardo Santos in what would be the first of three battles the pair would engage in over the years.

In grade 10, Link finished off the podium in seventh, while Santos sat out the competition due to the OFSAA transfer policy. However, a year later the pair would again go head-to-head for provincial bragging rights. What transpired on that six kilometre course that day is certainly not something you hear of every day.

Link would win his first gold medal at the Championships, braving winter temperatures at the Boyd Conservation area in Woodbridge, but a chill in the air wasn’t the only thing trying to slow him down that day. While Link crossed the line two seconds ahead of Santos in a time of 20 minutes and 38 seconds, the margin of victory could have been much larger.

Link added his own touch of intrigue to the battle when he ran 40 metres off course before realizing the error of his way. “I knew something was wrong when I looked behind and no one was there,” said Link to the Toronto Star. “Then I saw Ricardo running another route and decided to quickly backtrack.”

A year later, the pair of Santos and Link went to battle once more, with Murray again taking victory, this time in the senior boy’s race. Link would again emerge victorious in his final championship run, winning in London by a comfortable 10 second margin to complete the three peat.

By winning back-to-back senior boy’s titles, Link became just the sixth runner at the time to accomplish the feat in the near 40 year history of the OFSAA championship, joining the likes of Olympians Bruce Kidd and Kevin Sullivan as well as famed high school runner Greg Anderson.

Following his graduation, Link accepted an athletic scholarship to the University of Arkansas where he would study Agri-business and run for the Razorbacks. Link helped the Razorbacks capture three NCAA team titles and twice earned All-American honours in cross country. After finishing his collegiate career, Link returned to the family farm in Winchester where he was a dairy farmer for over 16 years before having to step away because of a congenital bone deformity in 2017. Link’s name continues to live on at the Club with his son Jack running in the Aspire Program these days.

Lions Top 10 OFSAA XC Performers: #2 Yves Sikubwabo (2010-2011)

November 6, 2020

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The penultimate athlete on our countdown may not have had a long high school running career in Ottawa, but he certainly made the strongest of impressions in his short time. Glebe Collegiate’s Yves Sikubwabo was a dominating runner during his two-year high school career in Ottawa, going undefeated and winning back-to-back OFSAA cross country titles.

Sikubwabo arrived in Ottawa by happenstance and fear for his life in the summer of 2010 at the age 17. The Rwandan native, who had lost both parents at the age of one to ethnic fighting in 1994 had been in Canada to race the 1500 metres at the World Under 20 Championships in Moncton. Following the Championships, his aunt, who had raised him, advised he stay in Canada for his personal safety. With less than 200 hundred dollars in his pocket, he made his way to the Moncton bus terminal, and remembering from his geography class that Ottawa was the capital, reasoned it would be the best place for him to claim refugee status. With the help of his Canadian parents, Nicole Le Saux and James Farmer, Yves enrolled at Glebe and the rest they say, is history.

The grade 11 student made an immediate impression on the local running scene. At that city championships, Sikubwabo gave good preview of what was in store for the rest of the province when he annihilated the field, including future Canadian U20 record holder at 1500 metres, Adam Palamar, who finished in second, more than 90 seconds behind. A week later at OFSAA, Sikubwabo found himself running in the coldest weather he had faced as a runner, which left him unsure if he could even finish the seven-kilometre race under the conditions. However, by the second loop of the course his body had begun to warm up . “My body was changing and I felt good. I attacked the first-place people and I caught them. I was comfortable and I said to myself I can win,” he told The Ottawa Citizen. Sikubwabo would be the first across the line that day, 12 seconds ahead of silver medalist Rob Denault, in 21 minutes and 22.02 seconds.

Sikubwabo ended his short high school career with one of the strongest season’s high Canadian high school cross country has witnessed as he would win each of the six races he entered that season in a course record time. Running at home at the Hornet’s Nest in Gloucester was a special end his short high school career. “This was the hardest course I’ve ever done. The hills and the forest made it hard, but I did my best to defend my gold medal here at home,” he told The Ottawa Citizen. Yves’ course winning time of 22 minutes and 25.9 seconds on the seven-kilometre course was 24 seconds ahead of the silver medalist and an impressive 75 seconds faster than his previous record on the course.

After graduating from Glebe, Sikubwabo made his way to the University of Guelph where he would study mathematics for three years before transferring to Laval University in Quebec City to finish his studies. During his collegiate career, Sikubwabo captured four team titles, earned All-Canadian honours all five years and was back-to-back national champion in his final two years. Since finishing school, Yves has represented Canada at the World Cross Country Championships and set up an organization, Running Changed My Life, geared toward helping Rwandan and Kenyan Children attend school as well as take part in sport.