Quebec runner leads her faculty to third-straight nationwide title

The 2024 CCAA Nationwide Cross-Nation Championships on Saturday noticed thrilling performances in each the ladies’s 6K and males’s 8K races, with new and defending champions climbing to the highest of the rostrum. The competitors was hosted at Malden Park in Windsor, Ont., by St. Clair Faculty Windsor.

Ladies’s 6K

Léane Baril, a 20-year-old standout from Cégep Garneau, claimed the person ladies’s title with a time of twenty-two:08, main her college to their third consecutive workforce title with a commanding 56-point margin. The Rouyn-Noranda, Que., native was the bronze medallist in 2023.

Baril’s teammate Gabrielle Hamel claimed second in 22:16, whereas Maelly Lamontagne of Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu rounded out the rostrum, clocking 22:25.

Cégep Garneau has established itself as a powerhouse in producing top-tier distance runners. Notable alum Jessy Lacourse, who made her mark on the U Sports activities and now the Canadian highway working circuit, gained the CCAA particular person title for the college in 2017. Final yr’s championship runner-up, Marika Couture, now competes for the College of Utah within the NCAA.

Full outcomes will be discovered right here.

Males’s 8K

Nathan Woyessa of Southern Alberta Institute of Know-how (SAIT) dominated the boys’s race, clocking 24:25 to win the person title by 19 seconds. The second-year pupil claimed seventeenth on the 2023 championships. Matt Talbot of Fanshawe Faculty claimed silver in 24:44, whereas Charles Gendron-Jette of Champlain Lennoxville took the bronze-medal spot in 24:51.

With Woyessa, 19, main the cost, the SAIT males’s workforce got here out victorious by a 33-point margin. The Trojans reclaimed their title from 2022, after being upset finally yr’s championships by Cégep de Sainte-Foy and Cégep Garneau.

Full outcomes will be discovered right here.