On a snowy Saturday in Sudbury, Sierra Rodrigues added to her 2019 accomplishments by taking the silver medal in the Junior girls race at the OFSAA Cross Country Championships.
Sierra, the ROPSSAA champion from St. Michaels in Bolton, pushed to the front from the gun & stayed in contention throughout the cold & snowy 5.2K race.
Her silver medal performance was an upgrade from last years 5th place finish.
Rodrigues, one half of 310 Running’s Glimmer Twins, has quietly put together a breakout season & will add her newest OFSAA medal to the silver & bronze medals that she earned at the OFSAA Track & Field Championships in Guelph this past summer.
Sierra is now preparing for the Athletics Ontario Championships in King City, ON followed by Athletics Canada National Championships in Abbotsford, BC at the end of November.
310 Running’s Aysia Maurice capped off a spectacular 2019 outdoor track season with her first National title by winning the U16 girls 1500 steeplechase at the Legion National Championships in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Aysia, competing for Team Ontario, broke her own Athletics Ontario U16 record with a winning time of 4:51.77.
One day earlier, Maurice took the silver medal in the U16 girls 2000 with a season best time of 6:29.31.
What is better than winning a medal at OFSAA? Winning two medals.
And what is better than one of your athletes winning two medals? Two of your athletes winning two medals each!
OFSAA 2019 was bountiful for 310 Running’s Aysia Maurice & Sierra Rodrigues as the girls combined for a total of 4 medals – 1 gold, 2 silvers & a bronze – in their first ever OFSAA Track & Field Meet.
Aysia, competing for Humberview, won silver in the Midget girls 1500 on Friday with a stellar time of 4:37.95 & then went on to take the gold in the Midget girls 3000 on Saturday in 10:20.55.
Her training partner, Sierra, competing for St. Michaels, Bolton was hot on her heels posting a 4:45.84 in the Midget girls 1500 on her way to bronze & 10:25.02 in the Midget girls 3000 earning the silver.
Both girls are now heading to Greensboro, NC to compete in the New Balance Nationals Outdoors in the 1 mile & 2 mile events.
310 Running athletes shone in Hamilton at the 2018 OFSAA Cross Country Championships.
Aysia Maurice earned Humberview it’s first ever OFSAA cross country gold by winning the Midget girls race. St. Michael’s Sierra Rodrigues was close behind in 5th place & Mayfield’s Emma Fleming followed in 65th.
Cameron Moir of G.W. Williams took 21st in the Junior boys race.
In the Junior girls race, Notre Dame’s Catherine Rodriguez finished 71st.
Finally, Taylor Rasmussen of Mayfield placed 79th in the Senior girls event.