Speak about coming in sizzling to your collegiate profession. On the U Sports activities Observe and Discipline Championships on Friday, the College of Guelph’s Dianna Proctor simply reaffirmed her standing as U Sports activities rookie of the 12 months, claiming the 300m nationwide title as a first-year athlete. The 19-year-old stormed to just about a half-second private better of 37.68, the fifth-fastest all-time Canadian U23 mark.
Western College’s Favour Okpali clocked 37.78 for second, whereas Proctor’s teammate and the 60m silver medallist Gabrielle Cole claimed bronze in 38.24.
“Earlier than the race, I knew I wished to win,” Proctor instructed Canadian Working. “I knew I simply needed to execute the race, and I’d get what I wished.”
Though the competitors marks Proctor’s U Sports activities debut, the Edmonton native is well-versed in high-level championships. On the U20 World Athletics Championships in Lima, Peru, Proctor sprinted to a few private bests (in two days) to earn herself a silver medal within the 400m.
Dianna Proctor of the Guelph Gryphons simply gained the U Sports activities title AS A ROOKIE🤯
She clocked 37.68 to take the ladies’s 300m, profitable by a tenth of a second🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/LfjNxEpDjX
— Canadian Working (@CanadianRunning) March 8, 2025
Thus far, Proctor appears to be having fun with her time as a Guelph Gryphon. “It’s away from house, so being with the observe workforce and experiencing issues with them actually helps,” Proctor mentioned. “Being on a profitable workforce, cheering everybody on–it’s actually good.”
MacDonald smashes double U Sports activities information
On the identical day, the College of Calgary’s Sienna MacDonald took down two U Sports activities information inside moments of each other. She clocked 8.09 seconds within the 60m hurdle prelims, breaking the now-Olympian Michelle Harrison’s earlier document of 8.15 seconds. Later, she additional improved the mark within the last with a time of seven.99 seconds.
“I knew it was going to be a quick day,” MacDonald instructed Canadian Working. “The observe is thrilling, it’s quick–I’ve by no means run on a observe that offers me this a lot bounce again.”
Sienna MacDonald wins the lengthy bounce with a last leap of 6.25m, taking down her 2️⃣nd U Sports activities document of the day!
She’s additionally properly inside the Indoor World Championships quota for the 60mH 👀🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/UKKqJxNK8z
— Canadian Working (@CanadianRunning) March 8, 2025
Upon ending, MacDonald raced to proceed competing within the lengthy bounce and achieved one other U Sports activities document, leaping to 6.25m in her last try. “I like doing occasions again to again,” MacDonald revealed after her win. “So going from hurdles to lengthy bounce was superb for me as a result of I don’t have time to chill down.”
MacDonald, properly inside the World Indoor Championships quota for the 60m hurdles, is now ready for the Canadian workforce to be introduced on March 10. “I’m actually hoping to make the workforce,” she says. If chosen, it could mark her first nationwide workforce. “It feels actually surreal. I preserve considering, ‘Oh, I’m dreaming,’ however that is actuality, and it might very properly occur, so I’m excited.”
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CRM wish to thank Below Armour for his or her continued assist of our 2025 U Sports activities T&F protection.
