U Sports cross-country mid-season power rankings
Many Canadian made the trip to the states last weekend, and those individual and team efforts have altered some of our early-season predictions
Canadian university cross-country is well underway. Having lots of race results to check out, and only five weeks until the national championship in Kingston, it’s time for some mid-season predictions.
Many Canadian made the trip to various American meets last weekend, and those individual and team efforts have altered some of our early-season predictions.
The Kingston course is deceptively hard. What appears to be a relatively flat course, is actually continuously rolling terrain, with a gradual hill to the finish. The course is run in loops, and after a couple of laps, the rolling hills take a toll on the legs.
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Last year’s winners, Sasha Gollish and Yves Sikuwabo have both completed their eligibility, making space for new champions. The 2017 second place female, Claire Sumner, has also completed her eligibility, meaning the women’s podium could be entirely new faces.
Cross-country is a highly variable event, but here’s how athletes stack up in Canadian Running‘s projection of the U Sports Cross-Country Championships, based on PBs, past race results, with national experience weighted, and early results from the late-summer and fall of 2018.
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Women (8K)
- Brogan MacDougall – Queen’s
- Courtney Hufsmith – Saskatchewan
- Kristina Popadich – Western
- Branna MacDougall – Queen’s
- Lucia Stafford – Toronto
- Aurelie Dube-Lavoie – Laval
- Catherine Beauchemin – Laval
- Makenna Fitzgerald – Queen’s
- Danielle Jossinet – Guelph
- Hannah Woodhouse – Guelph
- Jessy Lacourse – Laval
- Anne-Marie Comeau – Laval
- Tanis Bolton – Toronto
- Elizabeth Hirsch – McGill
- Alison Irvine – Victoria
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Men (10K)
- Mark Patton – Guelph
- Sergio Raez-Villanueva – McMaster
- Russell Pennock – Calgary
- Connor Black – Guelph
- John Gay – UBC
- Max Turek – McMaster
- Stephen Daniel – Calgary
- Jean-Simon Desgagnes – Laval
- Mitchell Delange – Queen’s
- Isiah Frielink – Western
- Mostafa Elkurdy – Guelph
- Angus Rawling – St. FX
- Joshua McGilvary – McMaster
- Antoine Thibeault – Laval
- Jack Sheffar – Western
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