Canadian Working and Beneath Armour have teamed up for the 2024 Canadian U Sports activities indoor observe and subject season to spotlight among the high homegrown abilities throughout the nation. Every week, main as much as the 2024 U Sports activities Indoor Observe and Discipline Championships in Winnipeg subsequent month, Canadian Working will choose one female and male observe and subject athlete because the Beneath Armour Athlete of the Week.
The award will go to a female and male U Sports activities observe and subject athlete who achieved a standout efficiency, broke a college document or crushed a private finest. These athletes will probably be featured on Canadian Working and awarded an Beneath Armour prize pack that includes the brand new UA Infinite Elite coaching shoe. This week we spotlight one other two sensational athletes: middle-distance runner Dawson Mann of the College of Manitoba and sprinter Amy Stieh of Lakehead College, for his or her performances between Jan. 29 and Feb. 4.
Feminine Athlete of the Week: Amy Stieh–girls’s 300m
On the Jim Daly Bison Basic in Manitoba final weekend, Amy Stieh of Thunder Bay, Ont., gained the ladies’s 300m in a season’s finest time of 39.84. Though her time fell in need of her college’s program document set on the identical meet in 2020, she nonetheless claimed victory within the brief dash by greater than a second.
Stieh, who sometimes focuses on the 400m distance, has shifted her consideration to the longer 600m occasion this U Sports activities indoor season. “It’s thrilling to see that I can run some quick 300m occasions,” says Stieh. “It was a great race. I used to be capable of execute the race plan for the place I’m within the season proper now.”
With the 2024 Canadian U Sports activities Observe and Discipline Championships in Winnipeg only a month away, Stieh goals to compete within the 300m/600m double and hopes to win a number of medals. “I need to medal within the 600m. It’ll be a quick group of ladies, so I’m excited to be a part of it,” says Stieh. I additionally suppose now we have a great likelihood to medal within the dash relays. Up to now this 12 months, we’ve damaged the varsity document within the 4×200 and 4×400 a number of occasions,” she says.
Subsequent 12 months will mark Stieh’s remaining 12 months competing for the Lakehead Thunderwolves, however she plans to proceed competing post-collegiately. “I need to run for Group Canada internationally within the 400m,” says Stieh. “Proper now, I’m simply going to benefit from the course of, after which see what I can do on the out of doors circuit.”
Male Athlete of the Week: Dawson Mann–males’s 600m
College of Manitoba runner Dawson Mann has been dominant this season. He has gained three of his final 4 races and ran the quickest 600m time of the 2024 U Sports activities season, clocking 1:18.53 on the Jim Daly Bison Basic final weekend. Mann’s time was an indoor private finest and his quickest time on a 200m observe.
Regardless of posting the quickest U Sports activities time this season and being the top-ranked runner within the 600m occasion, Mann was nonetheless “pissed off” together with his efficiency. “I wished to guide the race from the beginning and run 1:17, however I used to be in second on the cut-in and needed to wait till the ultimate lap [of three] to make a transfer,” he says. “I’m nonetheless completely happy to get the win, and in a private finest time.”
Mann has set lofty objectives for this season, particularly with the U Sports activities championships happening at his dwelling observe in Winnipeg. “Final 12 months I completed fourth within the 600m, so this 12 months I need to be on the rostrum,” Mann says. “I’m capturing for gold within the 600m, gold within the 4x400m, and gold within the 4x800m.”
Wanting past this season, he plans on becoming a member of the Canadian Observe and Discipline League (CTFL) and competing on the Bell Olympic Observe and Discipline trials in Montreal in June. “My primary objective will simply be to proceed to decrease my private bests within the 400m and the 800m,” says Mann.
Max Davies and Audrey Leduc named Beneath Armour U Sports activities Athletes of the Week
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