SHERBROOKE –
Alex Stathis from Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., struck gold for the McGill men's track and field program and teammate
Matthew Beaudet of Montreal, was named rookie of the year at the RSEQ championships in Sherbrooke over the weekend.
Including a relay race, the McGill men's team produced a pair of gold medal finishes, along with six silvers and two bronzes en route to finishing second of seven schools at the meet. Laval won the men's title with 221 points, followed by McGill (143), Montreal (98), Sherbrooke (92), UQTR (24), Carleton (13) and UQAC (5).
(SEE McGILL WOMEN'S RESULTS)
Stathis, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound multi-events competitor, won gold in the heptathlon to defend his title previously won at the 2020 league championship meet. The 22-year-old economics and computer science senior scored 4,434 points, a total that was shy of the school record (4,739) he established two years ago.
The team's other gold medal effort came from the
4x800 relay squad which crossed the finish line in 7:50.41, more than 11 seconds ahead of second-place Laval (8:01.94). The McGillian foursome was composed of junior
Nicolas Bernard of Scarsdale, N.Y., junior
Sebastian Danson of Toronto, senior
A.J. Bimm of Brampton, Ont., and
Markus Geiger, a sophomore from Toronto.
All gold medalists earned conference first-team all-star status and automatically qualified for the U SPORTS national championship meet in Fredericton, N.B., March 20 to April 2. Athletes can also merit a spot by meeting more stringent qualification standards at any sanctioned meet during the season.
Silver medalists earned RSEQ second-team all-star honours and leading McGill in that department was distance runner
Matthew Beaudet and jumps specialist
Kilty McGonigal with each posting a pair silver medal performances.
Beaudet, an electrical engineering sophomore who is competing at the university level for the first time, was honoured after the meet for producing the top male track performance of the season, as well as winning the conference's rookie-of-the-year honours. A local product who hails from the NDG region of Montreal, he won his top performance for posting a 1500m time of 3:40.24 , converted from his time in the mile run (3:58.15) at the Boston University Last Chance Meet on Feb. 27.
The 5-foot-9 distance runner finished second at the championship meet in both the 1500m (3:52.01) and the 3000m (8:20.44). His time in the 1500m was one-hundredth of a second off the school record (3:52.00) set in 1997 by
Alex Hutchinson and his result in the 3000m was less than two seconds shy of the team mark.
McGonigal, a civil engineering freshman from Deux Montages, Que., claimed his two podiums in the high jump (1.75m) and the heptathlon (3,784 points).
The remaining silver medal effort was produced by the 4x200m relay squad, which was clocked in 1:32.83, about five seconds shy of the McGill record.
The quartet featured
Diego Dorantes-Ferreira, a senior from Pte. Claire, Que., in the leadoff spot, followed by
Jonas Schweiger, an exchange student from Switzerland, freshman
Ricardo Percopo of Boisbriand, Que., and
Asad Bilal, a freshman from Hatboro, Penn., who ran the anchor leg.
SEE McGILL's MEET HIGHLIGHTS BELOW
LIVE MEET RESULTS
2022 RSEQ TRACK & FIELD MAJOR AWARDS
(at Sherbrooke, March 19-20)
| MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR |
| Jean-Simon Desgagnés, Laval |
| ROOKIE OF THE YEAR |
| Matthew Beaudet, McGill |
| PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR |
| TRACK: Matthew Beaudet, McGill |
| FIELD: Louis Brosseau, Laval |
| ATHLETE OF THE MEET |
| Jean-Simon Desgagnés, Laval |
| COACH OF THE YEAR |
| Sylvain Cloutier, Laval |
| LEADERSHIP AWARD |
| Jonathan Tedeschi, Laval |
RSEQ ALL-STARS
| FIRST TEAM (gold) |
| Alexander Stathis, McGill |
| A.J. Bimm, McGill |
| Antoine Lebrun, Sherbrooke |
| Azer Khelifa, Montréal |
| Charles Pelletier, Sherbrooke |
| Cyprien Dipoko, Laval |
| Faucher, Antoine Montréal |
| Félix-Antoine Paris, Laval |
| Gabriel Pelletier, Laval |
| Guilhem Hermet, Montréal |
| Jasmin Kirouac, Laval |
| Jean-Simon Desgagnés, Laval |
| Laurent-Olivier Dumont, UQTR |
| Louis Brosseau, Laval |
| Lutch Alcéna, Laval |
| Mamadou-Bazan Togola, Laval |
| Markus Geiger, McGill |
| Mathieu Massé-Pelletier, Laval |
| Nicolas Bernard, McGill |
| Nicolas Ippet, Montréal |
| Sebastian Danson, McGill |
| William Payette, Montréal |
|
| SECOND TEAM (silver) |
| Alec Jeffery, Carleton |
| Alexandre Huot, Laval |
| Asad Bilal, McGill |
| Diego Dorantes-Ferreira, McGill |
| Jonas Schweiger, McGill |
| Kilty McGonigal, McGill |
| Laurent Grandmangin, Sherbrooke |
| Louis Moreau, Laval |
| Louis-Olivier Brassard, Montréal |
| Louis-Philippe Côté, Laval |
| Matthew Beaudet, McGill |
| Micael Anku, Sherbrooke |
| Patrick Hanna, Sherbrooke |
| Raphael Giguère, Laval |
| Ricardo Percopo, McGill |
| Samuel Vallée, Sherbrooke |
McGILL's MEET HIGHLIGHTS
| MEDAL COUNT |
GOLD-SILVER-BRONZE |
| McGill REDBIRDS |
(2-6-2) |
|
|
| MEDAL COUNT |
GOLD-SILVER-BRONZE |
| McGill MARTLETS |
(2-6-4) |
SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
514-398-7012
www.mcgillathletics.ca
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca
