McMaster Athletic Awards 2013 - Finalists: Coates, Walsh, McDonald

All Finalists

Yet another strong representation from cross country and track as finalists at this years McMaster Athletic Awards that will take place next Tuesday April 2nd.

Victoria Coates 

Nominated for the Therese Quigley Award for Female Athlete of the Year, Victoria Coates won bronze medals in both the 3000m and in cross country where she lead the McMaster ladies to a silver medal. Victoria has been nominated for this award before but never won it. If she wins she will be the 5th cross country athlete in a row to win it (Katie Anderson 2011-2012, Jess Pearo 2010-2011 and 2009-2010, Jill Wyman co-won 2008-2009).

Jeremy Walsh

Nominated for the Dr. Ray Johnson Award, which goes to a graduating male athlete that exhibits ability, leadership and the spirit of McMaster is Jeremy Walsh. Jeremy is graduating this year after his second year as team captain, represented McMaster at OUAs multiple times (though admittedly not as well as he would have liked), and has been an active founding member of the Cheerios and creator of the MacTrack blog.

Madeline McDonald

Nominated for the Mel & Marilyn Hawkrigg Award for Female Rookie of the Year is Madeline McDonald. Maddy finished 13th at the CIS Cross Country Championships this year as the 2nd rookie and 3rd Marauder. Maddy also recently represented Canada at both the NACAC and World Cross Country Championships, finishing 47th at Worlds this past weekend.

The award ceremony takes place Tuesday April 2, 2013 at 6pm. We'll let you know in advance if they plan to stream it live like last year at www.marauders.ca/live.

Around the Bay Recap - Results, Photos

Full 30k Results
Full 5k Results

Highlighting Around the Bay was Lionel Sanders impressive 3rd place in the 30k with a 1:36:53. Other highlights were Andrew Bysice's 3rd place in the 5km, Ryan Tice's gutsy 1:47 30k, and Greg Lariviere crushing his father's PB and his own sub 2 hour goal.

Congratulations to everyone who competed, and a special thank you to the McMaster coaches and runners that lined the course to cheer the Marauder racers on.

Lionel Sanders with the leaders

Lionel Sanders finishing 3rd overall in the 30k

Ryan Tice finishing 17th in the 30k

Jeremy Walsh finishing 37th in the 30k

Greg Lariviere aging 50 years after running well under 2 hours to finish 66th in the 30k 

Sean Bowen finishing 77th in the 30k

Alumni James Harrington finishing with mother Roxanne

Alumni Andrew Bysice finishing 3rd in the 5km 

World Cross Country 2013 Recap - Videos, Results

Marauders.ca Writeup

McMaster Cross Country team members Madeline McDonald and Lindsay Carson represented Canada on Women's Junior and Senior World Cross Country Championships in Poland this weekend. Madeline finished 47th and second Canadian two seconds behind her teammate with a time of 20:36 for 6km. Lindsay finished 60th, 4th Canadian in 26:38 for 8km.

Team Canada doing the Harlem Shake
Junior Women's Race Video
Senior Women's Race Video
The rest of the videos

Full Results
Canadian Results and Splits

Congratulations ladies!

Nostalgia - Fisu XC 2010

Well it's sad to say, but I (Jeremy Walsh) am graduating this year. As such I've been spending some time watching old videos and I found some FISU Cross Country footage that I never ended up posting. In 2010 the World University Cross Country Championships were in Kingston, so McMaster sent a large support crew (self-titled the "Cheerios") to cheer on Jess Pearo and the rest of the Canadian team. You can read about Jess' and the Canadian team performance as published by marauders.ca, but mainly I wanted to highlight the Cheerios, as this event was one of my most memorable experiences with the McMaster Cross Country team.

I usually save personal writing for my personal running blog, but I'm going to break tradition in a few upcoming posts as I highlight some of my memorable experiences as part of MacTrack. I hope you don't mind.

Relay for Life 2013 - Recap

Thanks so much to everyone who donated to our team, and came out to support us or keep us company throughout the event. Every cent and every step has gone towards cancer research and cancer awareness. The McMaster Cross Country team raised more than ever with an impressive total of $1,545.90 $1,601.90! Check out all of our donations here.

Throughout the 10.5hrs that the event went for, our team covered 106 kilometers by walking, running and dance-running. Sorry for our sleep-deprived math, where we tweeted that we ran 126k, it was past our bedtime. If your a fellow numbers junkie, check out our splits for the first 7 hours, until our first watch died.

Prizes

Due to the 6-way tie for 3rd in donors, we're going to give extra signed photos. If your a donor listed below, we'll be trying to get in contact with you in the coming days to determine which photo you wished sent to you.

Top Donors
Linda Smith - $250
Paul Leitch and Dawn Connolly aka "Go Gregory!" - $150
Tom and Gloria Walsh - $50
Diane MacNeill - $50
Kathleen C Leitch - $50
Pete Self - $50
Paula Schnurr - $50
Ron Lariviere - $50

Our top 4 fundraisers take home Mizuno gear which you can check out on our previous post. You should be contacted by the end of the day to retrieve your winnings.

Top Fundraisers
Nat Smith - $504.63
Blair Morgan - $300
Gregory Lariviere - $260
Lisa Giles - $136.27

The overnight crew

The Schedule

Highway 2 McDonalds Challenge 2013 - Recap, Results, Videos

Official Results

After being up all night for Relay for Life, the bravest members from the McMaster Cross Country team travelled to Kingston to compete against the Queen's Gaels to see who could win in the McDonald's Challenge. The race consisted of 4k of running followed by the consumption of a Double Big Mac meal (large fries, large coke), and then another 4k of running to the finish. The McMaster crew performed magnificently, showing why they are sponsored by McDonalds by winning the team title, and placing both Rui Xu and Taylor Forbes in 2nd and 3rd. 

Here is our video, filmed by the talented Victoria Coates, who despite missing filming the eating portion, managed to get some exceptional interviews.

Here is another McMaster video filmed by Clive Morgan, proud father of 7th place finisher Blair Morgan.

Many photos are available on our facebook page or the official race facebook page, but below are a few of our favourites taken by alumnus Sara Giovannetti.

Sponsored by the Golden Arches

The Start Line 

Eating the Double Big Mac Meals

The satisfied competitors

CFMU Macs Marauders Interview - Jeremy Walsh

Last Wednesday Jeremy Walsh sat down with Lindsay Hamilton, host of the Macs Marauders radio show on McMaster's radio station, CFMU. The show opens with a weekly recap of McMaster sports, including stuff about athlete of the week winners Scott Hutchinson and Victoria Coates, and talks with Jeremy Walsh about Cross Country, Track, and Relay for Life.

To listen to more CFMU broadcasts, tune into 93.3 or go to their website cfmu.msumcmaster.ca

Relay For Life 2013 - Live Updates

It's finally here. Relay for Life is here and the McMaster Cross Country team is proud to say that we have raised $1545.90 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Thanks for everyone that has donated!. We'll be updating the post throughout the night with videos and more information so stay tuned! 

You can still donate or check our progress here.

Team Distance Totals

After a delayed start, we've covered 18k in 3 shifts.

Updated: The cross country team is up to 51k around the McMaster track. Most of the legs have been run so far with some good tempo work from the guys

Up to 80k at 3:30am!

Opening Lap

Greg Lariviere and his tiger mask

Team Captain Stephanie MacNeill and Relay Captain Lisa Gile and their swords 

Blair Morgan and his Lady Bug hat doing homework

The Cross Country Team at Relay for Life

CIS Track 2013 Recap - Videos, Results

A tremendous weekend as Victoria Coates and Scott Hutchinson pick up CIS Bronze medals in the women's 3000m and Men's 300m. Rudy Baronette finished 8th in the men's 300m, the 4x200m team 7th and 4x400m team unofficially 12th.

Updated:
McMaster Athletes of the Week (Hutchinson, Coates)
Marauders.ca Article

Full Results (still missing the 4x400m)
Trackie Event Videos
More Event Videos

We haven't found a video of Victoria's 3000m or of the men's 300m heats, but we'll post them here if we find them.

Women's 3000m

Men's 300m Final
Men's 4x200m Heats
Men's 4x200m Final

Men's 4x400m

OUA Track 2013 Highlight Video

Eric Barry has returned behind the camera to put together a fantastic OUA highlight video, perfect timing to get psyched up for the CIS championships which start tonight.



Men's 4x200m goes off tonight at 10:20pm EST, featuring our very own Hutchinson, Baronettte, Mabbott and Mok. Check out the full schedule here, and the live video feed here.

CIS Track and Field Championships 2013 Preview - Performance List, Schedule, Live Feed, Predictions

The University of Alberta is hosting the CIS Track and Field Championships on Thursday March 7th to Saturday March 9th. McMaster has 3 individual athletes competing and two men's relay teams. If you are around McMaster this weekend, the hope is to setup a live stream in DBAC at least on the Friday night for Victoria's 3000m and Scott and Rudy's 300m's. More information to come.

Performance List
Live Results
Live Feed
Schedule
Predictions Thread

Thursday March 7th 2013
Men's 4x200m - 10:20pm EST (8:20pm Alberta time)
Scott Hutchinson, Rudy Baronette, Connor Mabbott, Garrick Mok

Friday March 8th 2013

Men's 300m Prelims - 8:05pm EST (6:05pm Alberta time)
Scott Hutchinson, Rudy Baronette

Women's 3000m - 8:30pm EST (6:30pm Alberta time)
Victoria Coates
Men's 300m Final - 9:50pm EST (7:50pm Alberta Time)
TBD

Saturday March 9th 2013
Men's 4x200m Final - 4:25pm EST (2:25pm Alberta Time)
TBD
Men's 4x400m Final - 6:15pm EST (4:15pm Alberta Time)
Rudy Baronette, Connor Mabbott, Brandon Huzevka, Scott Hutchinson

Half-Dozen Donut Challenge 2013

To celebrate the end of a long season of healthy eating, the McMaster track distance team raced to see who could eat 6 donuts the fastest. A tradition that began in 2011 the donut challenge has grown some legs and this year was a fierce competition.

Rumours have spread that the infamous dozen donut challenge will take place after the Around the Bay 30k this year. Can anyone beat Greg? Only 3 weeks to judgement day.

Relay For Life 2013 - Donate!

Relay for Life is right around the corner here at McMaster, starting Friday March 15 at 7pm and going to 7am on the 16th. Relay for Life is a fundraiser for the the Canadian Cancer Society that the McMaster Cross Country team participates in every year. We'll have at least one person walking/running/jogging/joggling around the track at all times for 12 hours. Our team fundraising goal is $1000, but I think we can do much better.

We'll be posting update videos every hour through the night and tweeting out our mileage. We are going to use a Garmin watch as our baton to keep track of how much we can run as a team throughout the night. The plan is to have a new theme for every hour, so you can bet that our sleep-deprived videos are going to be funny.

2012 Relay Team	2011 Relay Team

But now onto the important part! We want as many team members to come out for the night, and as many donations as possible so here are our incentives.

Top 3 donors get 8x10 signed photos of the cross country and/or track men's and women's teams, and/or a favourite signed photo from our facebook page.

To pledge to our team or someone on our team follow this link.

Men's Cross Country	Women's Cross Country
Men's Track	Women's Track

Top fundraisers on the team get Mizuno gear, with the highest fundraiser getting their choice of a Miznuo sweatsuit, or a Mizuno t-shirt.

To join our team our team follow this link.

Thanks to our model, Sean Bowen, and to Alumni Andrew Douglas for sending us the gear free of charge! Sunglasses not included. All clothing is size medium and lightly worn.

The sweatsuit

Brilliant Run T-Shirt (2 available)

Front	Back

The Ride of Your Life T-Shirt (1 available)

Front	Back