Over the weekend, the 4 Canadian U Sports activities conferences hosted their championships, which decided who will probably be heading to the 2022 U Sports activities XC championship in Halifax, N.S. on Nov. 12. Laval received the boys’s and ladies’s RSEQ title for the second consecutive yr, whereas UBC swept the Canada West convention.
Canada West XC Championships – Abbotsford, B.C.
UBC’s Tyler Dozzi upgraded his 2021 silver to gold, successful the boys’s Canada West XC title with a time of 23:55, Dozzi led the T-birds to their second straight males’s convention title as 5 Thunderbirds completed within the high 10. 2022 Canadian marathon champion Trevor Hofbauer was the favorite heading into the race for UBC Okanagan, however a shoe malfunction value him a while, in the end ending sixth in 24:12.
🏃♀️ XC | Main @ubctrack to a FOURTH consecutive @CanadaWest Cross Nation championship, Kiana Gibson took particular person gold for the blue & gold! pic.twitter.com/8nIvxEXBTf
— UBC Thunderbirds (@ubctbirds) October 29, 2022
Within the ladies’s race, UBC received their fourth consecutive banner as Kiana Gibson received the 8K by a 24-second margin. In 2021, Gibson additionally received the OUA championship with the Guelph Gryphons. Joanna Brown of UBC Okanagan completed second in 27:32, whereas Gibson’s teammate Holly MacGillivray joined her on the rostrum for third in 27:37.6.
RSEQ XC Championships – Rawdon, Que.
Regardless of lacking two of their high abilities, head coach, Félix-Antoine Lapointe, led the proficient Laval males’s and ladies’s groups to their second consecutive titles. Laval’s Philippe Morneau-Cartier duelled Matthew Beaudet of McGill over the ultimate few kilometres however took the win in 24:31. Morneau-Cartier has received three of his 4 races and will probably be one of many contenders for the person title in Halifax.
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗮𝘁 𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗤 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆
Un 2e doublé de bannières provinciales de suite pour le @RetOathletisme ! Jessy Lacourse et Philippe Morneau-Cartier sont champions individuels du @RSEQ1 !BIENVENUE À QUÉBEC! pic.twitter.com/VHXu7M4bXX
— Rouge et Or (@rougeetor) October 29, 2022
The defending U Sports activities champion, Jessy Lacourse, received her seventh straight race and her second straight RSEQ convention title, successful the 8K race in 28:37.8. Laval took the primary 4 spots with Catherine Beauchemin, Florence Caron and Sara-Pier Paquet, all ending behind Lacourse, serving to Laval earn their sixth crew title in eight years.
AUS XC Championships – Charlottetown, P.E.I.
For the third yr in a row, it was Andrew Peverill of Saint Mary’s College who received the AUS particular person title. Peverill patiently picked away at Jared Howse of UNB Reds till one mile to go, when made his transfer to take the win in 24:37. The Dalhousie Tigers males’s crew had 5 runners inside the highest 12 to get again on high of the AUS podium. The Dalhousie Tigers will probably be internet hosting the highest groups from throughout Canada for U Sports activities XC on Nov. 12.
WXC: Large congrats to Allie Sandluck, the person AUS ladies’s cross nation champion!! Technique to go Allie! #goxgo pic.twitter.com/lVegSuw4nr
— StFX Athletics (@StFXAthletics) October 29, 2022
There was an upset within the ladies’s race, as Allie Sandluck of St. Francis Xavier bested her teammate Eileen Benoit and Ivy Bialowas of UNB to win her first convention title. Sandluck received the 8K race in 30:17, whereas her teammate Benoit completed fourth to assist the X-Ladies earn back-to-back titles.
OUA XC Championships – London, Ont.
The highest crew within the nation, McMaster Marauders, swept the rostrum on Saturday afternoon to win OUA gold. Max Turek continued his successful methods beating his teammates Andrew Davies and Alex Drover to win the person title in 24:36. The McMaster males’s crew will probably be the favourites to win heading into U Sports activities.
Within the ladies’s race, it was Sadie-Jane Hickson of the Guelph Gryphons who received the 8K race in 29:26. Hickson obtained her redemption after lacking out on the rostrum in 2021. Her teammate Nina Whitford completed in second, solely six seconds again of Hickson, serving to Guelph earn back-to-back OUA titles.
In two weeks, the highest groups throughout Canada will converge at The Hyperlinks at Brunello Golf Course in Halifax, N.S., for the 2022 U Sports activities XC Championships. Try our latest males’s and ladies’s energy rankings for all of your U Sports activities info.
