Pete Self - President's Award

Congratulations to Assistant Cross Country and Track coach Pete Self in winning the President's Award for his outstanding contributions to McMaster University.

Peter Self with McMaster President Dr. Patrick Deane - Photo Credit: Ron Scheffler

Individual Award Description

The purpose of this award is to provide an annual recognition for individual employees who have made an outstanding contribution throughout the year beyond that normally expected for their position to the mission of the University through:

• the provision of exceptional service to staff, faculty, students, alumni, donors or visitors;
• the identification of measures which contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of University operations; and
• a direct or indirect contribution to the community or the University which impacts the reputation of McMaster.

Peter Self
Assistant Dean, Graduate Student Life and Research Training
School of Graduate Studies

Now the Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Life and Research Training in the School of Graduate Studies, Peter Self has served McMaster in a variety of paid and volunteer capacities in the last decade and a half.

During Peter’s tenure as Assistant Dean, one of his signature accomplishments is building McMaster’s relationship with Mitacs, an important not-for-profit research funder. Beginning with just a small connection, Mitacs has now provided training to more than 600 McMaster graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Peter also established a strong partnership with the Hamilton Community Foundation in creating the Eastburn Fellowship and he launched an innovative relationship with Theatre Aquarius to provide improvisation training to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Peter worked with the Centre for Leadership in Learning to expand Graduate Student Day and he acts as the key University liaison with the Graduate Students Association in all GSA issues including the relocation of the Phoenix. Peter connected his professional and volunteer roles by working with the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Student Success Centre to launch a two-day volunteer fair that also served as the kick-off for McMaster’s United Way campaign. Peter co-chaired the United Way campaign in 2011 and was instrumental in helping the committee set a record for funds raised, showcasing McMaster’s campaign as the largest workplace campaign in the region.

Peter has long been involved as a coach of McMaster’s cross country and track team and he is actively engaged in a number of diversity-related programs including the Women in Science and Engineering student group. He helped develop new policies around graduate student supervision and maternity leave along with a scholarship aimed at aboriginal graduate students.
Biography taken from here

Pete with Graduate students and McMaster runners James Harrington and Andrew Bysice - Photo Credit: Ron Scheffler

 All photos from here

Athlete Profiles

If you've ever caught your self wondering what a certain Marauders PB over 1500m was, or how their last road 5k went, then boy do we have the page for you. If your one step worse, and your like me, having trouble remembering your own times, then this page should probably become your homepage.

Introducing the the Athlete Profile's page. You can view it from the links or the tab above. It lists every Marauder to have competed for McMaster track since the 1998-99 season, including their track profile and searches for them on two road racing websites. Don't worry cross lovers, we'll get to those profiles before September rolls around.

Here is an example, but head to the page tab to see all 242 other athletes.

Name	Eligibility Year	Indoor Track Results (w/ SB's)	Cross Results	PB's	Road Race Results	Sportstats
Graham Bowes	Grad '12	Here			Here	Here

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London 5000m Video

Check out Mike Del Monte's latest video. Can you name all the Marauder athletes and coaches in it?



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Friend of the Marauder Program

 If you're a parent or fan of McMaster Athletics and you've wondered how you can help McMaster teams and individuals win more national championships and set athletes up to be competitive at the national and international level, than you should take a look at the Friend of the Marauder program

Check it out here

Former Marauder Brendan Kenny wins Toronto Marathon

Admittedly we were pretty slow on this news story, but thanks to Eric Barry for the pointing it out.

A former McMaster Marauder runner won the Goodlife Toronto Marathon on May 6th in 2:27:57. He also won the race last year in worse conditions in 2:27:19. He is teaching highschool in Dundas and working out and doing his MBA at McMaster. If you see him on campus, give him a high-five and ask him to take some extra courses and run cross country next year!



Looking back at his time at Mac, he only raced in the 2005-06 year for McMaster, his rookie year, finishing  51st at OUA cross country, and then running a 9:08 indoors for 3000m.

In other results, Brendan was 5th at last years Around the Bay 30k finishing in 1:42:10, he ran the Burlington Good Friday 10 Mile in 51:35 last year for the win, and arguably his best time was his 1:07:20 to win the Chilly Half Marathon in 2009.

Globe Article

DeGroote Article

CBC Article

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