North Star track and field team does well at WECSSAA
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- 2 days ago
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The North Star High School track and field athletes had a successful WECSSAA meet last week.
The school had 21 athletes compete and 14 of those athletes have secured their place at SWOSSAA with 25 event entries.
The novice athlete roster of Maddy Storino, Molly Reaume, Landon Young, Brooklyn Myles and Kadan Dufour showed consistent dedication and enthusiasm which resulted in many new personal bests throughout the season. Kadan Dufour, who won fifth place in javelin, will be extending his season at SWOSSAA, and for the rest we hope that you will join us again next year.
North Star’s Grade 10 Junior athletes embodied the true spirit of competition by putting forth a huge effort in their events while also extending kindness and support to their fellow competitors and officials. While each athlete is competing individually, it was the collective efforts of the team that led to everyone successfully qualifying for SWOSSAA. The girls also earned the “AA” title for the second consecutive year.
Junior competitors include:
Autumn Triolet: first in high jump (1.30m), sixth in 300m hurdles (52:38 seconds)
Jack Schmidtgall: second in Para Shot Put (5.02 metres) and sixth in 800m para race
Sidney Myles: fourth place 100m dash (final time of 13.64 seconds), sixth place triple jump (9.1m)
Leora Sharman: 3rd place discus (27.03 m) and third place in shot put (10.83m)
Ava Mayrand: second place discus and shot put, and eighth in javelin
Tyler Lamarche set a new WECSSAA record with a throw of 12.64m in shot put and earned first place in discus (32.83 m) and fourth in javelin.
Lamarche said she was “extremely happy” with her record. She said it was in the back of her mind to go for it and she focused on her personal bests. She said she will try to continue improving at SWOSSAA.
Wakan Rainville set a new WECSSAA record with a time of 14.33 seconds in the 100m hurdles and also took first place in 300m hurdles (41.11 seconds)
Wakan, Elijah Rusenstrom, Luke Rusenstrom and Jonah Benoit will also run the 4x100m relay and look to improve their sixth place finish time of 48.06 seconds.
In senior action, Camryn Maxwell and Emma Rudling earned their places at SWOSSAA through all of their hard work and training this year. Camryn will be competing in the 800m (ninth place) and 3000m (seventh place). Emma qualified in all three of her events placing first in 3000m (10 minutes 40:99 seconds), second in 1500m (five minutes) and also 2000m steeple chase with a record setting time of 10 minutes and 40 seconds.
Rudling said she beat her steeplechase record by four seconds. She said she enjoyed the experience at WECSSAA.
“It was really fun. It was fun to do,” she said.
Rudling said she trains a lot in the offseason and hopes to make it to OFSAA.
They will be joined by track newcomer and para athlete London Robinson, who placed second in 800m and first in 100m setting the WECSSAA record in her division for 16.78 seconds.
Robinson said it was “awesome” to do so well. She said she doesn’t do a lot of training, but is naturally fast. She looks forward to competing at SWOSSAA.
North Star track and field team does well at WECSSAA
Special to the RTT