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05.31.06
RND
Track Success - The Word is Spreading 05.27.06
Twenty Talented Panthers at EOSSAA Track 05.17.06 The RND Track and Field team sent 20 athletes to compete at the EOSSAA Championship in Ottawa this past Monday and Tuesday. Highlights of the meet include a new record in the midget boys high jump set by Jason Steels. He also captured gold in the 100m. Adding another gold for the team was Veronica Catry in the 100m. Two silvers were earned by junior sprinter Kevin Cooper in the 100m and 200m and junior girl Angela Lanteigne in the 1500m and 3000m. Also placing second was the senior girl 4x100m relay team of Shauna Justinich, Laura King, Kate Gillis and Veronica Catry. Rounding out the day with bronze medals was Jairus Streight in the 3000m, and Alex Mercer in the 110m hurdles. Congratulations also go to Whitney Desarmia, Bambi Gray, and Laura King who will represent RND at the EAST Regional meet in Belleville next week. ( 12 athletes in all) At the East Regionals the top 4 qualify for the OFSAA Provincial Track and Field Championships. 
KASSAA
Championships Results
05.13.06 . Track & Field at Thousand Islands Secondary 05.08.06 Regi sprinters find silver lining despite the rain clouds in Brockville this past weekend. Three of Regi's sprinters captured silver medals in the 100m. Jason Steels, Kevin Cooper and Veronica Catry. The lone gold medal for Regi was won by Jason Steels in the high jump. Bronze was also won by Dan Mulville in the 1500m. All athletes are to be commended for the top quality effort despite the rain. The team manged to place 16 th out of 48 schools! Be sure to catch all the action as Regi takes to the track and field this week at the KASSAA championship held at Queen's. RND Highlights: Jason Steels - Gols in High jump, silver in 100m, and 4th on 4x100 relay Kevin Cooper - silver JB - 100m Veronica Catry - silver SG- 100m, 6th in 100 m hurdles Dan Mulville - 3 rd in JB - 1500m Whitney Desarmia 4 th - Jg - Javelin, 5 th in Shot put Angela Lanteigne - 5th in JG 1500 m Kyle Kilpatrick 5 th - Jb - Javelin, 8 th in JB - Long jump Alex Mercer - 5 th in 110 m hurdles - SB Julianne Murphy - 6 th in Discus - JG 
By Claude Scilley Local Sports - Saturday, May 27, 2006 @ 07:00
Jason Steels was a young man in a hurry yesterday. In a matter of just a few minutes, the midget-aged competitor from Regiopolis-Notre Dame qualified for the provincial high school track and field championships in two events. Under a grey sky at the East region qualifying meet, Steels finished second in the 100 metres, then he went straight from the finish line to the high jump area, where they were waiting for him. He promptly cleared 1.65 metres, assuring himself of at least a fourth-place finish, thereby qualifying for OFSAA in that event, too. "I ran the 100-metre final and I just didn't stop. I came right over here from the finish line," he said. "When I did my first jump I still hadn't caught my breath from the final." Steels ultimately tied for the victory in high jump, clearing 1.75 metres. It was a much different timetable from a week earlier, when there were about 90 minutes between events, but Steels allowed that it may not have been such a bad thing. He awoke yesterday to the realization that this was likely to be a much tougher meet. "This morning I kind of felt it a bit," he said. "I was seeded first for high jump and I was seeded second for the 100 metres and it threw me off a bit because I'm usually seeded first for both. This one was a little more nerve-racking, to think about how many more good people there were. "I probably would have got more psyched out if I'd had time to think about it. My warmup for high jump was mostly the race." Steels, who cleared a personal-best 1.78 metres in winning the eastern Ontario championship last week, said he wasn't concerned about having to pass until 1.65 metres. He said he'd have done that anyway. "When I practise, I like 1.60, 1.65 just to get my form down," he said. "It's not that high for me. It was good." Though he finished second to Segun Makinde of Gloucester's Colonel By in the sprint, Steels' time of 11.57 seconds was a personal best on a day for such performances from Regi track athletes. Veronica Catry, the senior, claimed person bests in both the 100-metre hurdles, which she won, and the 100 metres, in which she was fourth. The hurdles race was particularly pleasing for Catry, the county champion who nicked a hurdle near the end of last week's race and finished fifth, barely managing to advance. "I just lost my focus and my toe caught the hurdle with my trail leg," she said. "It was the second-last hurdle, and it just threw everything off. Luckily, I still qualified and made it here, redeemed myself. "It was a nice turnaround." In the period between the two meets, the mishap caused some concern for both the athlete and her hurdles coach, Walt Sepic. "I was real apprehensive," Catry said. "My coach mentioned to me at practice that I seemed scared to fall. "I did a lot more practising in the warmup with my hurdles, instead of regular acceleration, and I think that prepared me a lot better." Indeed. This time, when Catry again snagged a toe, on the third-last hurdle, she was able to keep her stride. "I was already gaining the lead and then it caught but I kept pushing," she said. "I realized it because it hurts, but I was more prepared for it. You try to block it out, think, Just run. Keep going. Don't stop.' " Catry, who reached the OFSAA final in the 100 last spring, didn't qualify in the hurdles. She credits work with Sepic and sprint coach Diane Gillis for the improvement. "I'm getting over the hurdle a lot faster," she said. "Instead of jumping over it, I'm snapping my legs over it. That's a lot faster and it helps because you're not landing so hard on your lead leg." Catry will contest three events at OFSAA, running a leg on Regi's senior girls 400-metre relay team, a group that staged a remarkable performance Thursday by finishing third, though using a substitute, Paige Kasaboski, in place of Kate Gillis, who was in B.C. at a field hockey camp. With Kasaboski, the senior team qualified for OFSAA with two Grade 9 students on it. "We have such a great team," Catry said. "We had to bring up our replacement. She was a little nervous but she did a great job. She ran the third leg and she did a great pass and we're very proud of her." With a season-best time of 51.22 seconds, the Regi girls are achieving a level of success none of them expected. "At KASSAA we were goofing around," Catry said. "It was the end of the day. We just thought it'd be fun. Then when we won, we started taking it seriously. At EOSSA, coming second, we were on top of the world. "Coming third
here is a great feeling. We're going to
OFSAA."
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