Lancers return to podium in team competition at OUA track and field championships

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The Windsor Lancers hit their mark.

Aiming for a podium end for the primary time since 2018, the Lancers males’s crew and girls’s crew every completed within the bronze-medal place after the completion of Saturday’s OUA observe and discipline championships on the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse

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“I do know the final couple years, simply the form of feeling of defeat sinking in as a result of we had been simply on the cusp of creating the rostrum each occasions,” mentioned Lancers’ third-year thrower A.J. Stanat, who gained gold within the males’s shot put and weight throw. “I believe each occasions we had been in fourth place, so it’s a stinging feeling and it’s good to be again on the rostrum. I believe it’s good for the crew and hopefully larger and higher issues for years to come back.”

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Ben Tilson had the opposite gold medal for the boys’s crew by taking the 600 metres in a single minute and 20.4 seconds. Teammate Noah Waldmann was proper behind with the silver in 1:20.49.

“I knew I needed to get out and cleared the path,” the 21-year-old Tilson mentioned. “I had a reasonably good race and hoped I might maintain a few the blokes off figuring out it was a reasonably stacked discipline.

“To have my teammate (Waldmann) end proper behind me and get that (computerized) spot at U Sports activities, I used to be extra excited once I heard that. I used to be blissful for myself, however much more him as a result of I understand how onerous he works.”

The Lancers had been projected to get eight factors within the race, however with Will McBride ending within the seven spot, the crew completed with 20 factors within the occasion.

“One other two factors (from McBride), 20 factors for the crew, and that’s big and set us aside,” Tilson mentioned. “Bronze medal (for the crew), that’s a fair larger accomplishment for us.

“We haven’t completed on the rostrum for a loads of years. We’ve been fourth the final two-three years, only a couple factors behind U. of T(Toronto). To come back away and get on the rostrum once more is big for us and solely the start of what we’re going to do within the subsequent couple years.”

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The Lancer males additionally acquired a silver medal from Nojah Parker within the pole vault by clearing 4.85 metres. Owen MacNeill gained a pair of bronze medals with a soar of 14.66 metres within the triple soar and seven.22 metres within the lengthy soar. Caleb Keeling additionally captured a bronze medal in excessive soar by clearing 2.03 metres. With 101.5 factors, the Lancers simply completed forward of Toronto, which had 76 factors, for the bronze.

The ladies’s crew picked up three medals. Mandy Brunet gained silver within the triple soar with a greatest effort of 12.64 metres. Harley Martin gained bronze within the weight throw with a toss of 16.03 metres whereas Grace Elford earned a bronze medal in pole vault by clearing 4 metres.

“I nonetheless haven’t absolutely taken that (crew medal) in as a result of I’ve by no means skilled that,” the 23-year-old Brunet mentioned. “It’s undoubtedly an incredible feeling to understand how shut we’ve gotten this 12 months and we’re simply going to proceed that momentum.”

It left Windsor with 70 factors and within the bronze-medal place with Toronto, which got here in ranked larger within the nation, in fourth place.

“It means lots,” Lancers’ head coach Colin Inglis mentioned. “To see the children develop, develop, to progress means lots and I believe it means we’re on our means again. We’re beginning to transfer again to the place we wish to be, be this system we wish to be right here on the college and hopefully it’s solely going to assist us in recruiting get extra youngsters in.

“We’ve acquired some good youngsters in, we simply must fill in a number of extra holes and we’ll be on our means. Now, they’ve had a style of ending third and so they’re wanting on the subsequent color. Subsequent 12 months, OUA and U Sports activities are right here and hopefully stepping to one thing larger and higher.”

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