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Toronto Olympic Club sends Two Athletes to World Youth Championships
TORONTO, Ontario, June 23, 2009 – Megan Beverley and Eric Dillon, from the Toronto Olympic Club, have been selected to represent Canada at the World Youth (17 and under) Track & Field Championships to be held in Bressanone, Italy, July 8-12.
Beverley and Dillon will be two of 45 athletes and 10 support staff making up the Canadian team. The objective is to provide a positive international, competitive and cultural experience for first year and returning national team athletes, and to prepare them for future National teams with particular focus on preparing for the Moncton World Junior Championships in 2010. The team goal is to match or improve upon the performance of the 2007 team who brought home 1 medal, 5 top eight and 21 top sixteen finishes.
Both, Megan and Eric, are the number one ranked, under 17, 1500m runners in Canada. To make the team, they ran their nation leading times (Megan 4:32.25/Eric 3:53.10) at a meet held at the University of Western Ontario on June 9.
This will be the first time they represent Canada at a World Championship event. Dave Christiani, Megan Beverley’s coach, had this to say, “the opportunity to compete at the World Youth Championships is an extremely exciting prospect for a young athlete and important to their long term development in athletics."
Beverley and Hanna Lead All TOC Juniors
TORONTO, ON (June 6, 2009) - It's been quite of week for two of TOC's top junior women. This past weekend, Victoria Hanna placed 3rd in the Senior Girls 1500m (Friday evening) at the 2009 OFSAA Track & Field Championships, running a personal best time of 4:37.30. On Saturday, she won the Senior Girls 3000m establishing another personal best time (9:58.30). Congratulations Victoria.
On Tuesday evening, running in ideal conditions, Megan Beverley won the Runners Choice London Distance Series Meet #3 Women's 1500m race in a personal best time of 4:32.25. Megan now leads the rankings list for all youth (17 and under) women in Canada over 1500m. The time also qualifies her for the upcoming World Youth Championships to be conducted in Italy later this summer. Team Canada will be named on June 22nd. All declared athletes have until June 21 to make the standard time (4:35). The top 2 qualifiers will be named to the team.
Emberley Finishes 4th in Festival 1500m
Scott Emberley, representing UWO, finished 4th last night in the CIS Men's 1500m race at the Festival of Excellence Meet. In his own words, "I was pleased with the result". Scott has been battling bronchitis and a lung inflamation for the past 2 weeks and was uncertain participating as recently as Monday. Congratulations Scott. Apparently there was a 100m race at the event as well! For full results please use the link below:
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Beverley & Dillon Lead Canadian Youth Rankings
With one week to go before the final selection for Canada's World Youth Championship Team, TOC's Megan Beverley and Eric Dillon lead the list of qualifiers in the JW and JM 1500m. Eric also happens to lead the list of qualifiers in the JM 3000m. To date, Megan is the only female youth athlete in Canada to run the qualifying standard for 1500m. She solidified her hold on a position with the team by winning the Athletics Ontario Youth 1500m gold medal. At the same event Victoria Hanna qualified for the Pan American Junior Championships in the JW 5000m, Derek Nakluski finished 2nd in the SM 5000m and Aleks Kuternin won the JM 1500m. Congratulations to all!