MHSAA 2017 Track and Field Championship
June 10, 2017 by admin
Filed under Provincial and Territorial News
The following is a summary of any records set at this Year’s Milk Provincial High School Track & Field Championships:
Athlete, School, Time/Distance, Category, Event
Taylor Heald, Grant Park High School -12.90m Varsity Girls Shot Put
*Tied Record held by Susanne Dandenault of Glenlawn, which was set in 1987
Taylor Heald, Grant Park High School – Varsity Girls Discus
Previous Record was 44.98 by Sami Jo Small of Jeanne Sauve in 1994
Aggregate Team Banners
“A” Schools – Prairie Mountain High School
“AA” Schools – Warren Collegiate
“AAA” Schools – Neelin High School
“AAAA” Schools – Kelvin High School
Junior Varsity Girls – Warren Collegiate
Varsity Girls – Kelvin High School
Junior Varsity Boys – Garden City Collegiate
Varsity Boys – St. Paul’s High School
*Medley Relay – 400 m, 200 m, 200 m, 800 m
MHSSA 2017 WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP |
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| (NR) = new record | JUNIOR VARSITY | VARSITY |
| 100 m | Daniele Dyck, Vincent Massey HS | Brianna Tynes, Sisler HS |
| 200 m | Alex Chester, Warren Collegiate | Brianna Tynes, Sisler HS |
| 400 m | Tracy Towns, Shaftesbury HS | Victoria Tachinski, Vincent Massey Collegiate |
| 800 m | Tracy Towns, Shaftesbury HS | Victoria Tachinski, Vincent Massey Collegiate |
| 1500 m | Margaret Watt, Garden City Collegiate | Erin Valgardson, Kelvin HS |
| 3000 m | Margaret Watt, Garden City Collegiate | Hailee Morisseau, Portage Collegiate |
| Sprint Hurdles | Kira Kirzinger, Sturgeon Heights | Sarah Smith, Dakota Collegiate |
| Pentathlon 100 m | Birtukan Jonk, Prairie Mountain | Sydney Michelyshen, Oak Park HS |
| Pentathlon 800 m | Meagan Smith, Westwood Collegiate (NR) | Kate Loeppky, Niverville Collegiate |
| Pentathlon High Jump | Carly Bell, Oak Park HS | Brooklyn Knaggs, Alonsa |
| Pentathlon Long Jump | Madeline Boonstra, Warren CI (NR) | Brooklyn Knaggs, Alonsa |
| Pentathlon Shot Put | Tiffany Paul, Helen Betty Osborne Ininew Education Resource Centre | Carley Matkowski, Gimli HS (NR) |
| Pentathlon Championship | Madeline Boonstra, Warren CI | Brooklyn Knaggs, Alonsa |
| 4 x 100 Relay | Warren Collegiate Institute ‘A’ | Sisler High School ‘A’ |
| 4 x 400 Relay | Warren Collegiate Institute ‘A’ | Kelvin High School ‘A’ |
| Medley Relay* | Garden City Collegiate ‘A’ | Kelvin High School ‘A’ |
| Discus | Alexandria Buhler, Steinbach Christian | Taylor Heald, Grant Park HS (NR) |
| Javelin | Grace Goodman, Warren Collegiate | Ashleigh Laube, Fort Richmond Collegiate |
| Shot Put | Chloe Manaigre, College Regional | Taylor Heald, Grant Park High (Tied Record) |
| High Jump | Natalie Gundrum, Prairie Mountain | Madisson Lawrence, Oak Park HS |
| Long Jump | Kira Kirzinger, Sturgeon Heights | Brianna Tyner, Sisler HS |
| Triple Jump | Asha Gurney, Lord Selkirk | Eniola Adepouju, University of Winnipeg School |
| Special Needs 100 m | Regan Hofley, Dakota Collegiate (NR) | |
| Special Needs 200 m | Regan Hofley, Dakota Collegiate (NR) | |
| Special Needs Shot Put | Darlene Prince, Alonsa | |
MHSSA 2017 MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP |
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| (NR) = new record | JUNIOR VARSITY | VARSITY |
| 100 m | Garen Nault, École Point-des-Chêne | Brian Lewis, West Kildonan Collegiate |
| 200 m | Garen Nault, École Point-des-Chêne | Luc Deleau, St Paul’s HS |
| 400 m | Ben Perret, Neepawa Area Collegiate | Luc Deleau, St Paul’s HS |
| 800 m | Ethan Clark, Carman Collegiate | Josh Samyn, Shaftesbury HS |
| 1500 m | Ethan Clark, Carman Collegiate | Noel Kendle, Kelvin HS |
| 3000 m | Ethan Clark, Carman Collegiate | Alain Baraka, Elmwood HS |
| Sprint Hurdles | Michael Silverie, Sisler HS | Luke VanDamme, Pilot Mound Collegiate |
| Pentathlon 100 m | Preston Kull, Murdoch MacKay | Abdul Gassama, Vincent Massey Collegiate |
| Pentathlon 800 m | Michael Bachmier, St Paul’s Collegiate | Cassius Meeches, Sisler HS |
| Pentathlon High Jump | Preston Kull, Murdoch MacKay | Nathan Smith, St John’s HS |
| Pentathlon Long Jump | Michael Bachmier, St Paul’s Collegiate | James Jose, West Kildonan Collegaite |
| Pentathlon Shot Put | Michael Bachmier, St Paul’s Collegiate | Ryan Labossiere, Westwood Collegiate |
| Pentathlon Championship | Preston Kull, Murdoch MacKay (NR) | Cassius Meeches, Sisler HS |
| 4 x 100 Relay | Kelvin High School ‘A’ | St Paul’s High School ‘A’ |
| 4 x 400 Relay | Garden City Collegiate ‘A’ | St Paul’s High School ‘A’ |
| Medley Relay | St Paul’s Collegiate ‘A’ | St Paul’s High School ‘A’ |
| Discus | Zach Veitch, Rivers Collegiate | Ben Funk, Hapnot Collegiate |
| Javelin | Joshua Cameron, Peguis Central | Braedon Sul, River East Collegiate |
| Shot Put | Farouq Aladeusi, Glenlawn Collegiate | Ryan Labossiere, Westwood Collegiate |
| High Jump | Logan Schreyer, Sanford Collegiate | Nathan Smith, St John’s High |
| Long Jump | Jestoni Villanueva, West Kildonan Collegiate | Harjaspreet Poonia, Sisler HS |
| Triple Jump | Ilyich Gharahmadani, Glenlawn Collegiate | Markus Rurangirwa, Fort Richmond Collegiate |
| Special Needs Shot Put | Ethan Ponask, Winnipegosis College (NR) | |
| Special Needs 100 m | Patrick Wabasan, Ste Rose Collegiate (NR) | |
| Special Needs 200 m | Patrick Wabasan, Ste Rose Collegiate (NR) | |
Kelvin athletes take home top prize
High school gains most overall points for second year in a row
For the second year in a row, Kelvin High School has earned the right to claim they have the best athletes in the province.
When the Manitoba Track and Field Provincial Championships came to an end Saturday at the University of Manitoba Stadium, Kelvin athletes stood atop the podium proudly holding their aggregate team banner, which is awarded to the school with the most overall points in all junior varsity and varsity events. They led the way with 222 points, Sisler finished second with 175 points and Garden City rounded out the top three with 135 points.
“We definitely needed to get that banner this year,” says Grade 12 student Eric Urbanovich, who won a silver medal in varsity boys’ shot put and a bronze in the 4×100 for Kelvin. “It’s my last year, I just needed it.”
Urbanovich says winning the aggregate banner was the team’s goal coming into the weekend and that he and his teammates pushed each other hard in practice to successfully defend their title.
“With Kelvin track, we always push for the best. We definitely compete with one another,” Urbanovich says.
Urbanovich and Lexis Chesley, a Grade 11 student who won gold in the 4×400 and bronze in the triple jump, say their coach, Tim Shynkaruk, is the main reason for the school becoming a track and field powerhouse. In Shynkaruk’s 12 years of coaching and teaching at Kelvin, the school has won at least one banner every year except for one and has won three aggregate banners in total. Since Shynkaruk has taken charge of the program, the only school that has won more is Sisler, as it has six aggregate championship banners hanging in its gym.
“He comes out every single morning every single day and yells at people in the hallway to come to track. He recruits everybody. He’s always there and he’s the most encouraging,” 16-year-old Chesley says.
Shynkaruk’s been coaching track and field for more than 25 years and he says he loved working with kids and seeing them progress as athletes through their high school careers. He likes that with track and field, he can work with boys and girls from all different age groups.
“I always think back to the picture of Donovan Bailey when he won the gold medal in the 1996 Olympics, the picture of his face filled with elation. I get to see that all the time with kids and that’s the biggest reward for me,” Shynkaruk says.
Sisler Superstar
Brianna Tynes of Sisler was carrying a lot of weight around her neck when she left the University of Manitoba Stadium.
Tynes brought home four gold medals for the Spartans, finishing first in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump events.
“At my zone track meet, I hurt my hamstring. I really didn’t expect this weekend to go so well,” Tynes says.
The University of Manitoba Bisons’ track team can look forward to adding Tynes to its roster in the fall as she is graduating high school this month. Tynes says she has worked really hard these past four years and she couldn’t have dreamt of a better way to wrap up her high school athletics career.
The event Tynes takes the most pride in is the 100m race. She’s dominated the event, winning a provincial gold each of the past four years.
“I feel like I left behind a legacy doing that. I’m really happy.”
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS
• Taylor Heald said Friday she wanted to break Sami Jo Small’s 1994 discus record and that’s exactly what she did Saturday afternoon. Heald tossed a record-breaking distance of 45.06 metres, narrowly beating Small’s 23-year record of 44.98m.
• The St. Paul’s Crusaders proved to have the fastest team as they sprinted their way to first place in the 4x100m varsity boys’ final. The final Crusader crossed the finish line at 44.49 seconds to win gold. W.C. Miller Collegiate from Altona was close behind with a time of 44.79 seconds. St.Paul’s ended up winning the varsity boys’ championship banner
• Vincent Massey Trojans’ track star Victoria Tachinski was less than half a second away from adding another provincials record to her resumé. Tachinski won the 800m gold in 2:09.37, barely behind the 2012 record of 2:09.05 that belongs to Julia Zrinya, who also went to Vincent Massey. Tachinski also won gold in the 400m and silver in the 200m.
• Prairie Mountain High School continued their dominance of the provinces’ Single A division, as the school of 111 students captured its ninth consecutive provincial banner. Head coach Marvin Gundrum has proven to be an excellent coach as his four oldest children, all graduates from Prairie Mountain, have gone on to have successful track careers at the University of Manitoba.
The winning schools
Junior Varsity Girls – Warren Collegiate
Varsity Girls – Kelvin High School
Junior Varsity Boys – Garden City Collegiate
Varsity Boys – St. Paul’s High School
Aggregate Team Banners:
“A” Schools – Prairie Mountain High School
“AA” Schools – Warren Collegiate
“AAA” Schools – Neelin High School
“AAAA” Schools – Kelvin High School
Grant Park hurler ties 30-year-old record
17-year-old Heald aiming for a fourth high school provincial record
Susanne Dandenault has sat atop the varsity girl’s record book for shot put for 30 years, but now she’s got company.
“It’s unfortunate that it took this long,” says Dandenault, who continued her throwing career at the University of Washington after she broke the provincial record in 1987. “I’m not selfish, I don’t want to keep the record. Progress is good for everyone.”
Taylor Heald of Grant Park tied Dandenault’s 1987 record of 12.90m Friday at the Manitoba high school track and field provincials. Heald was four millimetres away from 12.91m, which would have broken the old record. She also threw two metres farther than this year’s second place finisher.
“It’s tough because I know I can do better, but at the same time, it’s an accomplishment as it has been 30 years which is awesome,” says Heald, who won a gold medal in shot put at the 2014 Legion Canadian Youth Championships.
Heald, who threw a 13.87 at an event in Lethbridge, Alberta several weeks ago, now has her name next to three records in the Manitoba high school record book. In 2015, Heald broke the junior varsity shot put and discus records for girls. However, Heald still has one more record she has her eyes on before her high school career comes to an end. She’s aiming to beat Sami Jo Small’s discus record from 1994. Without hesitation, Heald can tell you the exact number she needs to beat.
“44.98m,” says Heald, who will have her chance at the record today at 3:15 pm at the University of Manitoba Stadium.
If the 17-year old Heald, who has thrown a discus 55m in practice, is successful in taking down Small’s record, she will be in elite company. She would become only the second athlete to currently have four high school provincials records to their name. Robyn Wear, who graduated from Vincent Massey Collegiate in 2014, is the only person who currently has four records. The junior varsity and varsity girl’s long jump and multi-event records belong to her.
Heald says she would love to share that achievement with Wear, but shes not putting any extra pressure on herself. When she steps up to throw, she doesn’t think about breaking records. She tries to stay loose and enjoy the competition.
Bruce Pirnie saw Heald compete for the first time when she was in grade eight and knew she was something special right away. Pirnie, who represented Canada in shot put at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games and won a gold medal at the Pan Am Games in 1975, has been a coach and mentor to Heald ever since.
“He’s like my grandpa,” says Heald. “We have an awesome relationship.”
After nearly every throw, Heald turns around and looks at Pirnie to see what he thinks. She says they’ve grown so close Pirnie doesn’t even have to say a word, she knows exactly what he’s thinking and she adjusts her throw accordingly.
“She’s definitely international caliber as a thrower, there’s no doubt about it,” says Pirnie, who was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 1987. “She has the tools to be as good as she wants to be.”
Pirnie isn’t the only one who thinks Heald has potential to make it far in the sport. 64 coaches from across the United States have tried to recruit Heald for the upcoming fall. She says she’s not sure what she’s going to do yet, but she definitely plans to go to school somewhere. For now, she wants to focus on enjoying her last moments of high school and prepare for the upcoming Canada Games that will be held in Winnipeg.
“There’s a lot of competitors coming out to (the Canada Games) so it will for sure be a competition. It’s going to be exciting to go into a competition not knowing that I’m going to win.”
Friday highlights
West Kildonan Collegiate sprinter Brian Lewis crossed the finish line in the 100m final for varsity boys at 11.48 secs to win the gold. It was the closest 100m final race of the day, as Branson Powell of Hapnot Collegiate was close behind with a time of 11.59.
Natalie Gundrum from Prairie Mountain Highschool in Somerset, Manitoba, won the junior varsity girls’ high jump with a score of 1.56m. Madisson Lawrence from Oak Park won the varsity girls’ high jump with the exact same score.
Harjaspreet Poonia of Sisler High School has only been competing in track for two years and he’s already one of the best in the province. Poonia took home the gold in the varsity boys’ long jump with a distance of 6.49m. Poonia will look to add another medal to his resume today in the triple jump.
Farouq Aladeusi had the farthest shot put throw for junior varsity boys. The Glenlawn Collegiate athlete won gold with an impressive throw that landed at 14.32m. Treyshaun Bollers from Kelvin High School was less than a metre behind, with a toss of 13.68m to claim the silver.
Tachinski runs
Record-setting Vincent Massey track star looking forward to competing in Canada Games
It was a beautiful summer day – the perfect weather to go outside and play, but Victoria Tachinski, who was 5 at the time, had no desire to leave the couch.
The 2004 Summer Olympics were on television and she didn’t want to miss a second of the action. All she wanted to do was watch people “run in circles”.
“(My parents) said it was so weird because nobody in my family ever participated in track and field. I kinda just fell in love with the sport and I told them one day, I’m going to do this for Canada.” said Tachinski, who is competing this week at the Manitoba high school track and field championships in the 200-, 400- and 800-metre events for the Vincent Massey Trojans.
Tachinski says track and field have been her passion ever since, and the 17-year old track star already has quite the impressive resume.
She won silver at the 2016 New Balance Indoor Nationals in the 200m and 400m, won bronze (and broke a Canadian record) at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in the 4x400m team relay and has the junior women record in the 400m and 800m for the Canadian junior national team. Tachinski also entered the Manitoba high school record books at last year’s provincials when she broke the record for the fastest time in the 400m.
“It’s a huge honour to have your name in the (record) book. If you look down the list, there are so many great names in there and athletes that have accomplished so much.I feel it would be really cool to have my name in there a couple times,” she says.
Her success on the track hasn’t gone unnoticed, as over 20 different American schools recruited her. After visiting five different schools down south, Tachinski decided to continue her career in the fall at Penn State.
“They have a really fantastic 400 and 800 m program there, which are the events that I enjoy the most. I have such a good connection with the coach already. I’ve been down there twice for visits already and I just feel like it’s the team where I fit in the most, and where I can be myself,” she says.
But before Tachinski races against the best the NCAA has to offer, she has some goals for the near future.
Tachinski is aiming to break the Manitoba high school provincials 200m and 800m records on Saturday. The 800m record was set by another Trojan, Julia Zrinya, with a time of 2:09.05 in 2012 and the 200m record hasn’t been touched since 1980 when Tanya Brothers of John Taylor finished with a time of 00:24:05.
Liam Francis, a teacher and track and field coach at Vincent Massey since 2006, says it would be no surprise to see Tachinski get her name in the record book again this week.
“Every time she steps on the track, she breaks a record,” says Francis. “She gets better every race.”
Francis says in all his years of coaching, Tachinski is right near the top of the list of the most impressive athletes that he has seen.
“We’ve had some really good athletes come through that have gone down to the state and have broken provincial records, but her times are above and beyond anything we’ve seen come through our school,” he says.
Tachinski is also looking forward to competing in the Canada Games next month here in the city. She believes she has a big advantage over the competition as she trains at the University of Manitoba Stadium, where the track events for the games are being held, at least four times a week.
“I’ve done a lot of competing away from my hometown, so it’s super exciting being able to have all my family and friends come watch me (at the Canada Games).”
Tachinski takes it one race at a time, but her dream is to one day represent Canada at the Olympics. She says she’s been really lucky to represent her country at several events already in her career.
“It’s honestly so amazing. I love Canada so much and I really hope to come back here when I’m done my university career. It’s just awesome to represent something that you love.”
If it’s up to Tachinski, one day little Canadian girls will stay inside on a beautiful summer day and watch her on television.
THURSDAY HIGHLIGHTS
-Kelvin High School dominated the 1500m final, with two Clippers winning gold. Noel Kendle won gold in varsity boys with a time of 4:11.69 and Erin Valgardson won the varsity girls race by nearly 13 seconds, with a time of 4:59.52.
-The girl’s junior varsity 1500m was the definition of a photo finish. Margrett Watt of Garden City Collegiate claimed gold for the Gophers with a time of 4:54.43, but Ceci Howes of Kelvin High School was right there with her, finishing the race at 4:54.49 to win silver.
-The boy’s junior varsity 1500m final also came down to the wire. Ethan Clark from Carman Collegiate edged out Dawson Mann of Sanford Collegiate by less than a second to win gold. Clark finished the race at 4:12.27 and Dawson crossed the line at 4:12.56.
