WINDSOR, ONT – Donna Ntambue of the McGill University women's track and field team, won a bronze medal and just missed a school record at the BioSteel U SPORTS national championships. She was the only McGill athlete to medal at the three-day meet, held at the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse.

It was the third career bronze at Nationals for the 5-foot-6 sprinter from Montreal, who finished third in the 60-metre race, crossing the finish line in 7.34 seconds. That was just fractions shy of her McGill record of 7.32 set at the McGill Team Challenge in 2024. The 23-year-old economics junior had entered the Nationals seeded with the 10th best time in the country (7.51) set at the Windsor Team Challenge on Feb.7. She previously collected bronze in the 60m last year and bronze in the 4x200 relay at the 2023 Nationals.
 
The other podium spots in the 60m went to Western's Vivian Ogor, who won gold in 7.23 and Guelph's Gabrielle Cole, who posted a silver medal time of 7.32. Laval's Sarah Dubois-Bellavance, who edged out Ntambue for gold at the RSEQ championships two weeks ago, finished fifth in 7.47.

The only other McGill athlete to score points on the women's side was Rebecca Warcholak of Toronto. The science sophomore scored two points with a seventh-place finish in the triple jump after a leap of 11.88 metres, which was short of the McGill record (12.46).

Ntambue also ran leadoff on the 4x200 relay that failed to advance past the preliminaries with a ninth-place finish in 1:42.48. The quartet also included senior Vanessa Lu Langley of Ottawa, senior Lola Ross-McLennan of Vancouver and freshman Jade Jones of Toronto.

On the men's side, the only points scored were in the 4x400 and 4x800 relays, where McGill finished seventh in each race.

The 4x400, which was clocked in 3:21.18, included junior Luca Nicoletti of Ottawa, freshman Ben Gates of Regina, junior Sean Adams of State College, Penn., and William Sanders, a freshman from Ottawa.

The 4x800 finished in 7:40.37 and was composed of sophomore Samuel Hepworth of Montreal, Gates, Adams and Devin Chapple, a senior from Toronto.

The Western Mustangs swept both the men's and women's team championships for the first time in program history. The double gold performance sent Mustangs head coach Vickie Croley into retirement in the best possible way. Croley, who won both the male and female coach of the year awards, announced her retirement prior to the season, after 32 years coaching the Mustangs women's team, and 26 in charge of the men's squad

The Mustangs men finished first of 25 schools with 139 points, well ahead of the defending champions from Guelph (85) and Manitoba (79). McGill was 23rd with four points from the two relays.

On the women's side, Western was first of 27 institutions with 119 points, finishing ahead defending champion Guelph (85) and Saskatchewan (74). McGill was 16th with eight points.

For Croley, it marks her second national championship for both teams, as she led the Western men to a national banner in 2012 and the women in 2002.

A number of U SPORTS championship meet records tumbled. In the women's pole vault, Guelph's Jennifer Elizarov cleared a height of 4.35m. Another meet record fell in the women's weight throw where Windsor's Jordana Badley-Castello won gold with a toss of 19.45m.  A pair of record-setting performances by Calgary's Sienna MacDonald of Airdrie, Alta., set new marks in the long jump and the 60m hurdles on Friday. In the long jump, she lept 6.25m to break a mark that had stood since 2001, by one centimetre. She followed that up by posting a time of 7.99 seconds in the 60-metre hurdles, shaving 0.16 seconds off the old mark, set by Michelle Harrison of Saskatchewan in 2020.

Two records fell on the men's side, as Guelph's Max Davies ran the 1000 metres in 2:20.22, eclipsing the mark of 2:21.00 that he set last year, and Kenneth West of Western tied the U SPORTS record with a 7.88m long jump.

All individual gold medalists, including those on relay teams, merit first-team All-Canadian status, while silver medalists earn second-team honours.
 
COMPLETE RESULTS

CHAMPIONSHIP MEET LIVE RESULTS
 
INDIVIDUAL CANADIAN UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
 

2025 U SPORTS TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP HIGHLIGHTS

(flat track; Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse, Windsor, Ont)
 

MAJOR AWARDS

WOMEN

• Team Champion: Western
• Sue Wise Award (coach of the year): Vickie Croley, Western
• Athlete of the Meet: Sienna MacDonald, Calgary

 MEN

• Team Champion:  Western
• Bob Boucher Award (coach of the year): Vickie Croley, Western
• George Gemer Award (athlete of the meet):  Max Davies, Guelph

TEAM STANDINGS (final)
 

MEN  (after 17 of 17 events)
RK	UNIVERSITY	POINTS
1	Western	139
2	Guelph	85
3	Manitoba	79
4	Windsor	59
5	Alberta	41
6	Toronto	31
7	York	22
8	McMaster	21
9	Sherbrooke	18
9	Dalhousie	18
11	Trinity Western	17
12	Queen's	16
13	Calgary	15
14	Laval	13
14	Montreal	13
16	UNB	11
16	Regina	11
18	Victoria	10
18	Brock	10
20	Saint Mary's	8
21	Carleton	7
22	Saskatchewan	6
23	McGill	4
24	Ottawa	3
25	Moncton	1
WOMEN  (17 of 17 events)
RK	UNIVERSITY	POINTS
1	Western	119
2	Guelph	85
3	Saskatchewan	74
4	Windsor	58
5	Calgary	48
6	Laval	47
7	Manitoba	34
8	Toronto	33.5
9	Waterloo	20
10	Dalhousie	18
11	Regina	17
12	Sherbrooke	14
13	Lethbridge	13
14	Alberta	12
15	Victoria	11
16	McGill	8
17	Ottawa	7
18	York	5.5
19	Lakehead	5
19	UNB	5
19	McMaster	5
19	Montreal	5
23	Carleton	4
23	StFX	4
25	Trinity Western	3
26	UPEI	2
27	Queen's	1

 

INDIVIDUAL MEDALISTS

Day 3:

 

Day 2:

60m Hurdles (M)

1.        Gregory Michel, Sherbrooke: 7.84

2.        Tamarri Lindo, York: 7.86

3.        Adam Andres, Manitoba: 8.00

60m Hurdles (W)

1.        Sienna MacDonald, Calgary: 7.99

2.        Maoly St-Germain, Sherbrooke: 8.28

3.        Timi Adelugba, Saskatchewan: 8.29

300m (M)

1.        Aaron Thompson, Western: 34.09

2.        Josh Duckman, Western: 34.21

3.        Ryder Rattee, Alberta: 34.30

300m (W)

1.        Dianna Proctor, Guelph: 37.68

2.        Favour Okpali, Western: 37.78

3.        Gabrielle Cole, Guelph: 38.24

1000m (M)

1.        Max Davies, Guelph: 2:20.22

2.        Adam Schmidt, Guelph: 2:22.34

3.        Jonathan Podbielski, Regina: 2:22.39

1000m (W)

1.        Jenica Swartz, Saskatchewan: 2:47.60

2.        Hallee Knelsen, Western: 2:47.80

3.        Avery Pearson, Saskatchewan: 2:48.21

3000m (M)

1.        Alex Purnell, McMaster: 8:12.40

2.        Jude Wheeler-Dee, Queen's: 8:14.00

3.        Jacob Benoit, Dalhousie: 8:17.48

3000m (W)

1.        Madelyn Eybergen, Windsor: 9:20.72

2.        Sophie Coutts, Western: 9:26.45

3.        Mia Larochelle, Laval: 9:43.58

4x800m relay (M)

1.        Guelph, 7:33.12

2.        Windsor, 7:35.34

3.        Western 7:36.51

4x800m relay (W)

1.        Saskatchewan, 8:51.70

2.        Western, 8:51.77

3.        Laval, 8:56.17

Heptathlon (M)

1.        Tristen Miscia, Windsor: 5270 points

2.        Jared Hendricks-Polack, Western: 5257

3.        Emanuel Desilets, Western: 5252

High Jump (M)

1.        Aiden Grout, Toronto: 2.12m

2.        Alec Brent, Toronto: 2.09m

3.        Noel Vanderzee, Calgary: 2.09m

Long Jump (M)

1.        Kenneth West, Western: 7.88m

2.        Arman Shahzadeh, Western: 7.31m

3.        Oke Okumo, Trinity Western: 7.29m

Long Jump (W)

1.        Sienna Macdonald, Calgary: 6.25m

2.        Celia Markovinovic, Waterloo: 6.17m

3.        Shelaine Pritchard, Regina: 6.03m

Shot Put (W)

1.        Liv Sands, Western: 16.40m

2.        Chelsea MacIsaac, Dalhousie: 13.71m

3.        Jessica Gyamfi, Ottawa: 13.32m

Weight Throw (M)

1.        Graham Wright, Manitoba: 19.61m

2.        Wesley Eze, Alberta: 18.52m

3.        Joshua Suelzle, Manitoba: 17.91m

 

Day 1:

(W) 60M 
1. Vivian Ogor, Western: 7.23 seconds
2. Gabrielle Cole, Guelph: 7.32 
3. Donna Ntambue, McGill: 7.34  

(M) 60M
1. Immanuel Onyemah, Western: 6.63 seconds
2. Jordan Soufi, Manitoba: 6.64
3. Travis Campbell, Guelph: 6.66  

(W) Pentathlon 
1. Madisson Lawrence, Manitoba: 4119 points 
2. Rebecca Parker, Guelph: 4103
3. Shelaine Pritchard, Regina: 4021

(W) Pole Vault 
1. Jennifer Elizarov, Guelph: 4.35 metres (U SPORTS record) 
2. Rachel Grenke, Alberta: 4.10
2. Grace Elford, Windsor: 4.10 

(W) Weight Throw 
1. Jordana Badley-Castello, Windsor: 19.45 metres (Facility Record) 
2. Jinaye Shomachuk, Lethbridge: 19.23 
3. Liv Sands, Western: 18.14

SOURCE
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McGill University
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