McMaster University Campus Tour

After McMaster's big win in the Vanier Cup this weekend , I think it's time to give you a little tour of why McMaster is so friggen awesome.

A running specific tour of the McMaster Campus was done with the help of current Marauder Captain, and winner of the CIS Student Athlete Community Service Award, Cory McCurry (50th at this past CIS cross country championships),  alongside the Marauders second man at CIS in Andrew Bysice (who placed 48th).

The Basics

McMaster University is located in Hamilton Ontario in the residential neighbourhood of Westdale. To the North are the beautiful trails and wetlands of Cootes Paradise as well as Hamilton Harbour, to the east is the quite neighbourhood of Westdale, to the south is the Niagara Escarpment,  and to the West is the quiet city of Dundas and the Dundas Valley Conservation area. Any 4 of these directions offer amazing trails to be featured here in the coming months.

Links from Video

- Campus Map beautiful closed campus

- McMaster Museum of Art

- Wikipedia on Senator McMaster

- Arkells Website and a marriage proposal at the Arkells McMaster Homecoming this year

- McMaster Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology

- Ron Joyce Stadium

- McMaster Facilities

- Paula Schnurr Interview

Interested in visiting McMaster or taking a virtual interactive tour online? Follow the link here to the McMaster Tour Website. 

Looking into coming to McMaster next year? Visit the new future students site.

Interested in information on the cross country or track field team? Keep updated here at MacTrack, send our coaches an email, or check out recruiting info.

CIS Cross Country 2011 - Recap

Update Nov. 17: Another Guelph centered video
Update: Women's Laval Centred Race added

Marauders.ca Recap

Yorke's Blog Recap

Guelph centered race videos
Men's Race
Women's Race
Men's & Women's Race
 
Laval Centered Videos
Laval Interviews and with a clip of Mac Cheerios
Men's Race
Women's Race

Lancer XC Season Video

The adsense money hasn't kicked it full gear yet to support travel to videotape CIS this weekend, but the two dollars so far and every penny thereafter will be reinvested into the McMaster Marauders Cross Country and Track and Field team.

CIS Cross Country 2011 Results

CIS Cross Country 2011 Results - Men
CIS Cross Country 2011 Results - Women

Haliburton leads women to a team bronze in 18th place.
Bowes leads men to 3rd best all-time finish in 21st place.

Women 3rd, Men 6th

Team Scores curtosey of @mtlendurance. Women 3rd, Men 6th

Women's team scores. 1-8 #CIS xc Guelph 31, UVic 87 Mac 131 Sask 137 UWO 159 McGill 159 (another tweet coming on that one) Laval 229 FX 236


Men's top ten team scores #CIS xc Guelph 20, Windsor 49, Victoria 82 Queens 98 Laval 175 Mac 204, UofT 206 Calgary 219 FX 224 Regina 255

Rankings Round-Up Pre CIS

Canada expects the Marauder Men and Women to finish 6th, and 2nd respectively. We'll see.


Slanders & Speculation 
Men #3 - http://can.milesplit.com/discussion/topics/91875
-  Marauder Men 6
Women #3 - http://can.milesplit.com/discussion/topics/91915
- Marauder Women 2

Week 7 CIS Poll - http://sportingcanada.com/xc/
- Maruader Men 6, Women Tied for 2

TNF Poll Nov. 2nd - http://can.milesplit.com/articles/75468-tnfnorth-final-cis-poll
 - Marauder Men 6, Women 2

Putdowns and Prognostics 2.5
Women - http://eandrin.blogspot.com/2011/11/putdowns-prognostications-chapter-25.html
 - Marauder Women 2nd
Men - http://eandrin.blogspot.com/2011/11/putdowns-prognostications-chapter-3.html
- Marauder Men 6th

More Predictions


John Lofranco's (Concordia Coach) Off the wall predictions

TNF Fantasy Team Prediction Thread

Steve Weiler (LRDC  Coach) Predictions

Male Putdowns to come Friday, and maybe a female Slanders as well.

See the bottom of this past post for an explanation of the rankers

CIS Preview

Race: CIS Cross Country Championships
Location: Plains of Abraham, Quebec
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2011
Start Times:
Women 5k: 1:00pm
Men 10k: 1:40pm

CIS Info

CIS.ca Preview

Last Years Results
Men & Women
Find results up to 2006 in Results Archive tab above.

All-Time List
Men
Women

Weather

Course Map

The course is 2.5km loop on the Plains of Abraham. The women do the loop twice and the men do it 4 times. See the following video of a Quebec race this year on the course to get an idea of the course.

Up to Date Action

I'll be sitting at home trying to follow as many twitter feeds and texts as I can, and will post someone to follow here, as well as summarizing Mac results as soon as I can receive them.

Preview

Women

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham was a crucial battle in the Seven Years' War fought between the British and French Armies over North America. Prior to the war the French dominated nearly all of Canada, but the stand made at the Plains of Abraham was enough to swing the tide in favour of the British. Foreshadow? Will this year's CIS cross country championship be a remake of the ancient battle? Can the Marauder Women overthrow the current dominators of Canada in the Guelph Gryphons? 

Mac will need strong performances from the likes of Lindsay Carson and Victoria Coates upfront as they strive to best the lowsticks of the Gryphons. The depth will have to come fast and hard as Wymann, Haliburton, MacNeil, Patterson, and Anderson will have to all be searching for Guelph singlets. Silver at a National Championship is nothing to be upset with, but these girls want the gold.

Photo Curtsey of Ryan Tice

Men

With Yorke, Bowes, McCurry, Bysice, and Tice all moving on next year, this is a do or die race for most of the squad. They have done the mediocre, and are now ready to turn some heads on the big stage. All of these boys have had sub-par races this year, but word on the street is they are rolling now and ready to make it hurt. Competition for the Bronze this year is tough with Victoria, Laval, and Queens, but these Mac boys are going to go out with a blaze.

Photo Curtsey of Ryan Tice