EDMONTON – The University of Calgary Dinos women's track and field team rode a slew of stellar individual performances to capture the school's fourth CIS title Saturday, edging the Toronto Varsity Blues by just 3.5 points for the banner at the University of Alberta's Universiade Pavillion.

The win, Calgary's first women's track title since 2007, is the University of Calgary's 45th Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship in history and the first of the 2012-13 season. The Dinos will look to add another title Sunday when the women's hockey team takes to the ice in Toronto in the national championship game, set for 5 p.m. MT.

The previous three times the Dinos won the championship included 1987, 1991 and most recently 2007. In 2013, Calgary dominated the competition in its own conference, and the Dinos continued their onslaught this weekend at the CIS championships.

"This is a real team victory and a great feeling,” said Dinos head coach Doug Lamont, who wins his second women's national title at the helm. “It was a hard fought victory because Toronto put up a heck of a fight.

"I was so happy for the captain Kelsey (Lotwin) for winning this championship in her final year with us. That was the first thing that ran through my mind when it was official that we won. Things work out as they should."

Lamont was honoured as the CIS women's coach of the year following the event.

The winner in the team standings came down to the final event, the 4 x 400-metre relay. Coming in ranked third, all the Dinos needed was to capture the bronze medal to clinch the team banner. As it turned out, the Dinos overachieved, taking silver in the final race and taking the championship from the Varsity Blues. The squad, made up of Kelsey Lotwin, Danielle Kendall, Rachael McIntosh and Jenna Westaway, beat another school record in the process.

"I told them, you don't have to do anyhting special you just have to do what got you here,” said Lamont. “You just have to compete."

Earlier in the final day of competition, Rachel Machin continued to dominate in the field. She medaled in all four events she competed in and on Saturday capped it off with a win in the high jump. Coming in ranked No. 2, she beat out Trinity Western's No. 1 seed Emma Nuttall, jumping 1.82 metres to equal her personal best.

Machin was named the CIS championship outstanding athlete of the meet for her four-medal performance.

"I had a great first two events in the pentathlon, including a personal best in the hurdles and matching my personal best in the 800m race,” noted Machin. “On Friday, I was focused on my 60m hurdles race, and thanks to a little lean at the finish line I ended up with silver. In the long jump, I was really hoping to get over six meters, and thankfully I did, and in today's high jump, I was pretty tired, but once I made the 1.76 jump I got the jitters out of my system, and then I somehow cleared 1.82, which completely surprised me. I was just really, really blessed this weekend.”

Another medal came in the colour bronze from the women's 4x200-metre relay. Kendall and Lotwin picked up their second relay medal of the day with a time of 1:38.99. Teammates Jenn Zimmer and Lacey Miller were also part of the relay team.

Jenna Westaway also had a successful meet in her rookie year, winning her third medal in the women's 600 metres. Less than 0.3 seconds behind Victoria's Rachel Francois, the CIS female track athlete of the year won the silver with a time of 1:29.91.

The 2014 CIS track and field championships return to the Universiade Pavillion in Edmonton next season.

FINAL TEAM STANDINGS
Women
1. CALGARY, 115 points
2. Toronto, 111.50
3. Guelph, 85.25
4. Western, 62.25
5. Windsor, 52
6. Trinity Western, 39.25
7. Victoria, 37
8. Alberta, 29
9. Saskatchewan, 23
10.Ottawa, 21
11.Laval, 20
12.York, 13
13.Montréal, 10
13.Lethbridge, 10
15.Dalhousie, 7.50
16.Regina, 6
16.Queen's, 6
16.McMaster, 6
19.McGill, 5
20.Sherbrooke, 3
21.Waterloo, 1
22.Manitoba, 0.25

Men
1. Guelph, 114 points
2. Windsor, 92
3. Western, 59
3. York, 59
5. Ottawa, 58
6. Sherbrooke, 57
7. Regina, 40.50
8. Toronto, 39.50
9. Victoria, 21
10.Dalhousie, 19
10.Saskatchewan, 19
12.Manitoba, 15
13.Laval, 12
14.Alberta, 10
15.McMaster, 9
15.Calgary, 9
17.Trinity Western, 8
18.St. Francis Xavier, 7
19.McGill, 6
20. Waterloo, 5
21. Lethbridge, 3

INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS: DAY 3
Triple Jump (W)
1. Caroline Ehrhardt, Western, 12.47
2. Julia Wallace, Guelph, 12.39
3. Mila Simulik, Western, 12.04

Pole Vault (M)
1. David McKay, York, 4.90
2. Matt Diston, Western, 4.85
3. Townsend Bernard, Toronto, 4.75

600m (W)
1. Rachel François, Victoria, 1:29.69
2. Jenna Westaway, Calgary, 1:29.91
3. Rachel Aubry, Guelph, 1:30.02

600m (M)
1. Anthony Romaniw, Guelph, 1:18.20
2. Scott Leitch, Western, 1:18.33
3. Michael Trnkus, Toronto, 1:19.58

4X200m (W)
1. Toronto, 1:36.53 (CIS record)
(Khamica Bingham, Hayley Warren, Alicia Brown, Natalie Geiger)
2. Western, 1:37.74
(Brenna Thomson, Cassandra McCaig, Sarah Clancy, Lauren Clancy)
3. Calgary, 1:38.99
(Jenn Zimmer, Lacey Miller, Danielle Kendall, Kelsey Lotwin)

4X200m (M)
1. Ottawa, 1:26.73
(Oluwasegun Makinde, Michael Robertson, Devin Biocchi, Gabriel Tesfaye)
2. Windsor, 1:27.56
(Aaron Bowman, Leonae Nichol, Shane Kelly, Matt McKeegan)
3. Saskatchewan, 1:28.11
(Alex Fedyk, Ryan Graf, Tyler Young, Kyle Donsberger)

High Jump (W)
1. Rachel Machin, Calgary, 1.82
2. Emma Nuttall, Trinity Western, 1.79
3. Laura Maessen, Toronto, 1.73

Triple Jump (M)
1. Olivier Huet, Sherbrooke, 15.81 (CIS record)
2. Taylor Stewart, Western, 14.88
3. Simon Watts, Dalhousie, 14.44

Shot Put (M)
1. Tim Hendry, Guelph, 17.94
2. Eric Brathwaite, York, 16.85
3. Umar Khan, York, 16.71

1500m (W)
1. Emma Galbraith, Ottawa, 4:26.32
2. Andrea Seccafien, Guelph, 4:26.33
3. Carise Thompson, Guelph, 4:29.46

1500m (M)
1. Matt Walters, Windsor, 3:50.16
2. Yves Sikubwabo, Guelph, 3:50.44
3. Ross Proudfoot, Guelph, 3:52.72

4X400m (W)
1. Toronto, 3:42.90
(Rosa Serafini, Alicia Brown, Sarah Wells, Natalie Geiger)
2. Calgary, 3:43.45
(Danielle Kendall, Kelsey Lotwin, Rachael McIntosh, Jenna Westaway)
3. Victoria, 3:48.42
(Grace Annear, Rachel François, Jenica Moore, Kendra Pomfret)

4X400m (M)
1. Ottawa, 3:17.10
(Tolu Makinde, Gabriel Tesfaye, Michael Robertson, Devin Biocchi)
2. Sherbrooke, 3:18.75
(Jonathan Charest, Ludovic Christin, Sébastien Sévigny, Ian Nkanka)
3. Toronto, 3:18.94
(Sasha Smart, Michael Trnkus, James Turner, Isiah Wethers)

INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS: DAY 2
Weight Throw (M)
1. Daniel Novia, York, 20.22
2. Marc-Antoine Lafrenayé Dugas, Sherbrooke, 18.64
3. Tim Hendry, Guelph, 18.51

Long Jump (M)
1. Taylor Stewart, Western 7.87
2. Jorg Ahne, Guelph 7.54
3. Olivier Huet, Sherbrooke 7.53

Pole Vault (W)
1. Mélanie Blouin, Laval, 4.05
2. Robin Bone, Western 3.85
2. Rebecca Marchant, Trinity Western, 3.85

1000m (W)
1. Emma Galbraith, Ottawa 2:52.09
2. Jenna Westaway, Calgary 2:52.89
3. Kendra Pomfret, Victoria 2:52.93

1000m (M)
1. Steve Holmes, Guelph 2:26.32
2. Anthony Romaniw, Guelph 2:26.48
3. Jean-Samuel Lapointe, Laval 2:26.84

60m Hurdles (M)
1. Matt Brisson, Western, 7.87
2. Calum Innes, Trinity Western, 7.98
3. Isoken Ogieva, Western 8.04

60m Hurdles (W)
1. Hayley Warren, Toronto 8.42
2. Rachel Machin, Calgary 8.62
3. Nicola Charlesworth, Calgary 8.65

3000m (W)
1. Andrea Seccafien, Guelph 9:35.12
2. Carise Thompson, Guelph 9:41.76
3. Victoria Coates, McMaster 9:43.33

3000m (M)
1. Kelly Wiebe, Regina 8:08.13
2. Matt Walters, Windsor 8:10.58
3. Ross Proudfoot, Guelph 8:11.11

High Jump (M)
1. Jeremy Eckert, Regina 2.09
2. Branden Wilhelm, Windsor 2.06
3. Alhaji Mansaray, Manitoba 2.06

Long Jump (W)
1. Rachel Machin, Calgary 6.01
2. Julia Wallace, Guelph 5.97
3. Rachael McIntosh, Calgary 5.95
 
Shot Put (W)
1. Celine Freeman-Gibb, Windsor 15.40
2. Cynthia Appiah, York 14.22
3. Shealyn McLaughlin, Windsor 14.08

300m (W)
1. Alicia Brown, Toronto 38.28
2. Sarah Wells, Toronto 38.43
3. Brenna Thomson, Western 38.56

300m (M)
1. Devin Biocchi, Ottawa 34.11
2. Oluwasegun Makinde, Ottawa 34.29
3. Scott Hutchinson, McMaster 34.34

4X800m (W)
1. Victoria, 8:51.36
(Grace Annear, Rachel François, Jenica Moore, Kendra Pomfret)
2. Toronto, 8:53.05
(Rosa Serafini, Rachel Jewett, Coleen Hennessy, Kelly Hennessy)
3. Guelph, 9:00.80
(Rachel Aubry, Lydia Frost, Nadine Frost, Geneviève Lalonde)

4X800m (M)
1. Guelph, 7:31.62
(Drew Anderson, Chris Hutton, Rob Jackson, Tommy Lecours)
2. Windsor, 7:32.87
(Paul La Marra, Jordan Wand, Alex Ullman, Corey Bellemore)
3. Toronto, 7:33.95
(Sasha Smart, Michael Trnkus, Ethan Davenport, Connor Outhit)
*NOTE – Western originally finished 1st in the men's 4X800M DQ

INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS: DAY 1
Weight Throw (W)
1. Kayla Gallagher, Lethbridge, 18.24
2. Shealyn McLaughlin, Windsor, 17.49
3. Ami Schimanski, Windsor, 17.24
 
60m (W)
1. Khamica Bingham, Toronto, 7.47
2. Katrina Martin, Alberta, 7.51
3. Leah Walkeden, Alberta, 7.60

60m (M)
1. Aaron Bowman, Windsor , 6.73
2. Ben Williams, Alberta, 6.78
3. Oluwasegun Makinde, Ottawa, 6.84

Pentathlon (W)
1. Rachael McIntosh, Calgary , 4,179
2. Rachel Machin, Calgary, 3,993
3. Rachel Jewitt, Toronto, 3,735

Pentathlon (M)
1. Branden Wilhem, Windsor, 3,888
2. Jesse Drennan, Windsor, 3,825
3. Robert McCulloch, Dalhousie, 3,706

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