Athletics Canada names 2010 NACAC Cross Country Team
Thursday, February 04, 2010
OTTAWA – Athletics Canada announced today the cross
country team that will travel to Trinidad and Tobago to compete in the North
American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Championships.
As well as looking to capture NACAC titles on March 6th, these
athletes will also be attempting to qualify for the 2010 IAAF World Cross
Country Championships staged later in March.
Returning to the junior women’s team is Moncton, NB’s
Geneviève Lalonde. Lalonde is also a hopeful for the Canadian Track and
Field team which will compete on home soil in Moncton at the IAAF World Junior
Track & Field Championships in July. She swept last year’s NACAC
Championships capturing both the individual and team gold medals. The junior
men’s team is led by Mohammed Ahmed of St. Catharines, ON who helped capture
the 2009 team silver medal and took home the individual bronze; Ahmed is also a
team Canada hopeful for the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships.
The 2010 NACAC Cross Country Team
|
Junior Women 4km
|
|
|
|
Name
|
Hometown
|
Coach
|
|
Caroline Pfister
|
Sherbrooke, QC
|
Simon Croteau
|
|
Chelsea Graham
|
Edmonton, AB
|
Glen Playfair
|
|
Geneviève Lalonde
|
Moncton, NB
|
Joël Bourgeois, Dave Scott-Thomas
|
|
Ciara Kary
|
Calgary, AB
|
Mike Van Tighem
|
|
Madie Davidson
|
Toronto, ON
|
Jill Mallon
|
|
Samantha Walkow
|
White Rock, BC
|
Ben Kotanen, Jake Stewart
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Men 6km
|
|
|
|
Mohammed Ahmed
|
St. Catharines, ON
|
Mike Byrne, Stuart Galloway, Sharon Stewart
|
|
Dylan Haight
|
Victoria, BC
|
Keith Butler, Brent Fougner
|
|
Daryl Smith
|
Windsor, ON
|
David Scarrow
|
|
Wyatt Baiton
|
Regina, SK
|
Darrell Baiton, Graeme McMaster
|
|
Lucas Bruchet
|
White Rock, BC
|
Ben Kotanen, Marek Jedrzejek
|
| Mattias Wolter |
Bridgewater, NS |
Tanya Daniels |
In order to be selected for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships held
March 28, 2010 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, teams must finish in the top 2 at the
NACAC Championships. Individual winners at NACAC are also eligible for Worlds
if their respective squad does not place top 2.
For more information visit: http://www.athletics.ca/page.asp?id=429.
-AC-
Return to News
|
