Canadian Working and Beneath Armour have teamed up for the 2024 Canadian U Sports activities indoor monitor and subject season to spotlight among the high homegrown skills throughout the nation. Every week, main as much as the 2024 U Sports activities Indoor Observe and Area Championships in Winnipeg subsequent month, Canadian Working will choose one female and male monitor and subject athlete because the Beneath Armour Athlete of the Week.
The award will go to a female and male U Sports activities monitor and subject athlete who achieved a standout efficiency, broke a faculty file or crushed a private greatest. These athletes shall 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 who shattered college data: Chloe Richardson of Dalhousie College and middle-distance star Jonathan Podbielski of the College of Regina, for his or her performances between Feb. 19 and Feb. 25.
Feminine Athlete of the Week: Chloe Richardson–ladies’s 600m
On the Atlantic College Sport (AUS) convention championships, Richardson racked up three gold medals within the ladies’s 600m, 1,000m, and the 4x800m relay to assist the Dalhousie ladies’s monitor and subject group win their thirty fourth consecutive convention title, a U Sports activities file throughout all Canadian college sports activities.
In addition to profitable three golds, Richardson additionally did it in fashion by setting two AUS convention data. On the primary day of the championships, she gained the ladies’s 1,000m in an AUS file time of two:52.32 to safe gold, and on Day 2, she adopted up her win with a brand new private greatest within the ladies’s 600m, profitable gold by two and a half seconds in 1:33.14. To cap all of it off, Richardson additionally anchored the Dalhousie ladies’s 4x800m relay group to a brand new AUS file of 9:17.48.
Richardson was ecstatic about her record-setting weekend, which has earned her a spot on the Canadian U Sports activities Observe and Area Championships in Winnipeg, in two weeks’ time. “I’m wanting ahead to operating on a banked monitor at U Sports activities and hopefully operating some PBs there,” says Richardson. “I believe our 4x800m relay group has a whole lot of potential to problem for a podium spot. I’m excited to see what our group can do.”
The fourth-year regulation pupil has had a novel journey so far in her college profession. Richardson, who’s a standout on the Dalhousie ladies’s soccer group as a ahead, began her monitor and subject profession as a sprinter and just lately made the change to operating middle-distance occasions. Subsequent fall, Richardson plans to totally embrace the transition to distance operating as she’s going to shift her focus to her first cross-country season with Dalhousie.
Male Athlete of the Week: Jonathan Podbielski–males’s 1,500m
The College of Regina Cougars gained a complete of 9 medals on the CanWest convention championships final weekend in Edmonton, and Podbielski gained 4 of them. The second-year middle-distance monitor star gained gold within the 1,500m and the 1,000m, breaking his personal college file within the 1,500m (3:47.45) and narrowly lacking the CanWest convention file of three:47:43 by two one-hundredths of a second. He additionally gained a silver and bronze medal within the relay occasions.
Regardless of narrowly lacking the file, Podbielski wasn’t disheartened, as he helped one in every of his teammates, Brayden Mytopher, qualify for U Sports activities. “It’s his final yr competing, and he’s been sidelined for many of the indoor season with an harm, so once I noticed he crossed the road in second to qualify, that was all that mattered to me,” says Podbielski.
Podbielski faces a full plate on the 2024 U Sports activities Observe and Area Championships on March 7-9, competing within the 1,500m, 1,000m, and 4x800m relay with the Regina Cougars. “I’d be mendacity if I mentioned I’m going for something lower than the win in all my races,” says Podbielski. “Our males’s 4x800m group is ranked #1 within the nation heading in; I do know nothing would make my coach Steve Davis happier than a win in probably the most thrilling relay at U Sports activities.”
After the indoor season involves an finish, Podbielski says he plans on turning his consideration to restoration, each bodily and educational. The reigning U20 800m and 1,500m nationwide champion doesn’t intend to take a lot break day coaching earlier than the out of doors season and goals to make an impression on the Bell Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal in June.
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