Tons of of scholar athletes took half in Atlantic College Sport championship tournaments over the weekend and those sporting black and gold had a number of success.
The Dalhousie Tigers laid declare to a number of championships and particular person honours at occasions in a number of places.
Nova Scotia athletes led the cost for the Tigers on the observe and area championships held in Moncton together with three athletes who have been all previously workforce mates at Avon View Excessive Faculty in Windsor.
Dan Lord, named the male most useful participant of the AUS championship, received 4 medals together with two gold. He received gold within the 600-metre race and silver within the 300-metre race. He additionally ran the anchor leg for the Tigers gold-medal successful 4 x 400 and silver-medal successful 4 x 200 relay groups.
He set an AUS report within the 600-metre race, eclipsing the earlier mark set by Zach James, one other Avon View alumnus who runs for Dalhousie, who set the report final 12 months.
“I did not know in the beginning of this 12 months if I used to be going to be any good on the 600-metre distance as a result of I had moved up from working the 300 final 12 months,” stated Lord, a scholar in Dalhousie’s faculty of nursing. “It was a giant shock for me to get the report on the Moncton observe as a result of it is a bit slower than most tracks, so it actually was a cool shock.”
One other Dalhousie runner and former Avon View teammate, Jacob Benoit, received gold within the males’s 3,000-metre race. The Hants County runners paved the way in which for the Tigers males’s workforce to win the workforce title.
Lord credit their success on the college degree to the teaching they acquired at Avon View from coaches Paula and Edward James, Zach’s dad and mom.
“I am proud to be part of our group from Avon View and it has been cool having Jacob and Zach as teammates,” stated Lord. “It nearly seems like we’re all again in highschool once more.”
Dalhousie’s ladies’s workforce additionally received the top-team banner. Twenty-three members of the Dalhousie observe workforce, together with Lord, Benoit and James, certified to compete within the USports nationals in Winnipeg subsequent month.
The boys’s and girls’s AUS basketball titles have been handed out Sunday at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. The Saint Mary’s ladies’s workforce beat the College of New Brunswick Reds 64-49 that means they’ve now received back-to-back titles and 6 AUS championships within the final eleven years.
The Saint Mary’s Huskies defence turned it up a notch within the fourth quarter to cruise to the win.
“Enjoying good defence has form of been our mantra all 12 months and that is why we have been the perfect defensive workforce with reference to factors given up this season,” stated Huskies coach Scott Munro.
Alaina McMillan scored 22 factors within the ultimate for Saint Mary’s and was named the match MVP for the second straight 12 months. Enjoying in entrance of a big crowd, McMillan obtained the followers going within the second half.
“With the fourth quarter about to start out and we have been down by 4 factors, the tune Nation Roads was being performed and there was Alaina standing at centre court docket and he or she obtained the entire crowd occurring each side,” stated Munro.
“I feel that was the turning level as a result of it form of loosened us up and offered some nice vitality.”
Up subsequent is the USports ultimate eight match in Edmonton with the Huskies touring to Alberta subsequent week.
On the boys’s aspect of the draw, Dalhousie beat St. Francis Xavier College in additional time as match MVP Malcolm Christie scored 21 factors within the Tigers 77-67 win. The X-Males compelled additional time by making a 3 level shot as time expired.
Dalhousie will now head to nationals in Quebec Metropolis.
Dalhousie additionally got here up the massive winners on the AUS swimming championships at Dalplex. Each the Dal males’s and girls’s workforce received the workforce titles with Acadia ending second.
Ten Dalhousie swimmers certified for the upcoming nationals in Montreal, together with some who’ve certified for a number of occasions.
