There are some exceptional profitable streaks in Canadian collegiate sports activities, and the College of Guelph Gryphons have constructed a formidable streak of their very own. On Saturday, they gained their sixth consecutive males’s and ladies’s U Sports activities crew titles on the 2024 U Sports activities Observe and Area Championships in Winnipeg.
The Guelph Gryphons now maintain the file for essentially the most nationwide titles gained by a males’s observe and discipline program in Canadian college athletics. They completed the 2024 U Sports activities Championship with 89.5 factors, beating the hosts (the College of Manitoba Bisons) by a mere 7.5 factors.
The boys’s crew was led by middle-distance runner Max Davies, who gained three U Sports activities gold medals for Guelph within the males’s 1,000m, 1,500m, and the 4x800m relay, amassing 30 factors. Davies, Canada’s most up-to-date sub-four-minute miler, set two U Sports activities information within the course of, clocking 3:44.00 within the males’s 1,500m and a couple of:21.00 within the males’s 1,000m. The 20-year-old was additionally awarded the Canadian U Sports activities Male Athlete of the 12 months for his unbelievable season.
On the ladies’s facet, it was Gryphons sprinter Nicole McKenzie who earned 28 of Guelph’s complete 115 factors. McKenzie gained gold within the girls’s 300m in an enormous private better of 37.99 seconds, shaving half a second off her earlier greatest. She additionally helped Guelph safe one other gold and silver within the girls’s 4x400m relay and 4x200m relay occasions. This marks the eighth nationwide observe and discipline title for Guelph’s girls’s program.
Moreover, Guelph Gryphons’ head coach, Jason Kerr, was awarded U Sports activities Coach of the 12 months on each the lads’s and ladies’s sides.
You could find the complete outcomes from the 2024 U Sports activities Observe and Area Championships right here.
