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Season award winners announced
MONTREAL (CIS) - University of Sherbrooke's Marie-Ève Dugas, Regina's Janine Polischuk, Guelph's Lindsay Carson, St. Francis Xavier's Sarah Skotty, Calgary's Sam Effah, Laval's Tommy Lecours and Western Ontario teammates Andrew Judge and Randy McAuley were honoured Thursday morning at the Holiday Inn Montreal Midtown as Canadian Interuniversity Sport presented its 2007-08 track and field season awards.
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Dugas of Montreal and Effah of Calgary were named outstanding female and male athletes of the year in track events, while Polischuk of Regina and Judge of London, Ont. received the nod for their performances in field events.
Carson of Cambridge, Ont. and Lecours of Quebec City were chosen top rookies, while Skotty of Greene, NY and McAuley of London received the student-athletes community service awards.
Dugas is undefeated this season in the 60-metre and the 60m hurdles and set a meet record in the 60m hurdles (8.43) at the QSSF championships where she was also crowned in the 60m and 4x200 relay. The MBA student is currently ranked first in the nation in her top two individual events, as well as eighth in the 300m. A former CIS rookie of the year in 2004-05 as a member of the UQAM Citadins, she captured CIS gold in the 60 hurdles and silver in the 60m two years ago, and finished second in the 60 hurdles back in 2004-05.
Effah, a second-year communications and culture student, was a triple gold medallist at the Canada West championships in the 60m, 300m and 4x200m relay, and enters the CIS meet ranked first in the nation is his two individual events. Undefeated against CIS rivals this season, he has season bests of 6.72 in the 60m and 34.19 in the 300m.
Polischuk was named outstanding female athlete of the meet at the Canada West championships after she captured individual gold in the long jump, triple and 60m hurdles, to go with a second-place finish in the high jump. The fourth-year kinesiology and health studies student is ranked first in the nation in the triple jump (12.54m), third in both the long jump (5.76m) and 60m hurdles (8.7 secs), and sixth in the high jump (1.70m) going into the CIS championships. She is defending CIS champion in the triple jump and claimed silver in the long jump at last year's Nationals.
Judge took home a gold medal in the men's long jump with a leap of 7.20m and finished second the triple jump (14.54) at the OUA championships, and enters the CIS meet ranked first and second in the nation in his top two events. The fourth-year King's College arts student hopes to improve on the bronze medal he claimed in the long jump at last year's Nationals.
Carson, a first-year biological engineering student is a dual-sport athlete at Guelph who already enjoyed an incredible rookie season this fall with the cross country program, capturing the CIS individual gold medal, helping the Gryphons women defend their national team title and leaving Victoria with both the CIS female athlete-of-the-year and rookie-of-the-year awards. In her university track and field debut, she took home three silver medals at the OUA championships, finishing second in the 1000m (2:50.58), 1500m (4:31.47) and in the 4x800m (9:16.43).
Carson comes from an athletic family. Her mother, Leslie, snared a bronze medal in the 3000m at the 2001 CIS championships as a 38-year-old student-athlete.
Lecours made noise in his first appearance at the QSSF championships claiming male-athlete-of-the-meet honours after he tallied four medals including gold in the 600m with a time of 1:19.31, the third fastest in the nation this season. The 19-year-old leisure student also has the fastest time in the country this year on 1000m (2:25.67).
Skotty, a co-captain of the X-Women track team, was crowned in the 3000m and was part of the silver-medal winning 4x800m relay at the AUS championships. She maintained a 95.5% academic average this fall in the second year of her education degree. In her community, she is a member of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, is the founder and president of the Physical Education Society at StFX, and is involved in a multitude of programs such as Outdoor Active Living, X-Out Bullying and X-Nightline.
McAuley will leave Western Ontario as one of the most storied student-athletes in the athletic department's history. He has set a number of records as both a track and field and football star with the Mustangs, and qualified for his final CIS championships in the 60m, 300m and the 4x200 and 4x400m relays. In the classroom, he will graduate with an honours degree in philosophy with a 75% average. As a musician and member of The McAuleys, he has played at numerous charity benefit concerts and was honoured in 2004 appearing in the Legacy Black History Month Calendar for being an outstanding youth ambassador in London and Southwest Ontario, and in 2006 during Black History Month.
The 2008 CIS track and field championships get under way Thursday at McGill University's Richard Tomlinson Fieldhouse. The three-day meet concludes Saturday afternoon.
The Calgary Dinos women and Sherbrooke Vert & Or men are defending national champions.
CIS TRACK & FIELD: 2007-08 SEASON AWARDS
Women
Athlete of the year (track): Marie-Ève Dugas (Montreal), Sherbrooke
Athlete of the year (field): Janine Polischuk (Regina), Regina
Rookie of the year: Lindsay Carson (Cambridge, Ont.), Guelph
Student-athlete community service award: Sarah Skotty (Greene, NY), StFX
Men
Athlete of the year (track): Sam Effah (Calgary), Calgary
Athlete of the year (field): Andrew Judge (London, Ont.), Western Ontario
Rookie of the year: Tommy Lecours (Quebec City), Laval
Student-athlete community service award: Randy McAuley (London, Ont.), Western Ontario
CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 6
13:00 Weight Throw (F) Final
14:15 60m Hurdles (M) Pentathlon
14:30 60m Hurdles (F) Pentathlon
14:45 Long Jump (M) Pentathlon
15:15 High Jump (F) Pentathlon
16:05 Shot Put (M) Pentathlon
17:15 Shot Put (F) Pentathlon
17:15 High Jump (M) Pentathlon
18:25 Long Jump (F) Pentathlon
19:00 600m (F) Heats
19:15 600m (M) Heats
19:30 60m (F) Heats
19:45 60m (M) Heats
20:00 1000m (M) Pentathlon
20:15 800m (F) Pentathlon
20:30 60m (F) Final
20:40 60m (M) Final
Friday, March 7
13:30 60m Hurdles (F) Heats
13:45 60m Hurdles (M) Heats
14:00 4x200m Relay (F) Heats
14:15 4x200m Relay (M) Heats
14:30 Weight Throw (M) Final
18:00 60m Hurdles (M) Final
18:05 Pole Vault (F) Final
18:15 60m Hurdles (F) Final
18:20 Long Jump (F) Final
18:30 300m (F) Heats
18:45 300m (M) Heats
18:50 High Jump (M) Final
19:00 1000m (F) Final
19:10 Shot Put (F) Final
19:15 1000m (M) Final
19:30 3000m (F) Final
19:50 3000m (M) Final
19:50 Long Jump (M) Final
20:30 300m (M) Final
20:45 300m (F) Final
21:00 4x800m Relay (F) Final
21:15 4x800m Relay (M) Final
Saturday, March 8
12:00 Triple Jump (M) Final
12:30 High Jump (F) Final
13:00 Pole Vault (M) Final
13:30 600m (F) Final
13:40 Shot Put (M) Final
13:45 600m (M) Final
14:20 Triple Jump (F) Final
14:45 4x200m Relay (F) Final
15:00 4x200m Relay (M) Final
15:20 1500m (F) Final
15:30 1500m (M) Final
15:30 4x400m Relay (F) Final
15:45 4x400m Relay (M) Final
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