News - Archive 2009-2010

 

Athletes of the Week

March 15, 2009
Jason Goetz - Track and Field

Jason, a fifth year Geography student from Cambridge, Ontario, captured the GOLD medal in the Triple Jump event at this past weekend's CIS Championships hosted by Windsor. Jason smashed the Waterloo varsity record and set a new indoor personal best with a jump of 15.13m. Jason's previous personal best (and old varsity record) was 14.80m.

March 1, 2009

Monica Bolesjo- Track and Field

Monica, a third year Political Science student from Kitchener, Ontario, ran a person best time of 4:54.82 in the 1500m event this past weekend's OUA Championships hosted by York University. Monica's run was six seconds faster than her previous best and has improved by 20 seconds over the course of the season. Her time placed her 15th overall in the
talented OUA field.

March 1, 2009

Jason Goetz - Track and Field

Jason, a fifth year Geography student from Cambridge, Ontario, captured the silver medal in the Triple Jump event at this past weekend's OUA Championships hosted by York University. Jason jumped 14.75 which is the third highest in Waterloo history and qualified him for the CIS Championships in Windsor on March 11-13. Jason also finished 6th in the long jump and accounted for 11 of Waterloo's 16 team points.

December 7, 2009 

Luke Govia - Track and Field 
4th Year Mathematical Physics Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 

Luke, a fourth year Mathematical Physics student from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, captured gold in the 200m, in a field of 15, and bronze in the 60m (field of 36) at the Season Opener Track and Field meet in Western this past weekend. Luke ran a personal best 23.05s to win the 200m event and also ran a personal best in the 60m (7.07s) to capture third place.


 

Terry Goodenough Passing

 

It is with great sadness that I bring you the devastating news that Terry Goodenough passed away Monday evening. Terry was a great supporter of the University of Waterloo XC and TF programs being the head coach of the XC team and long distance coach for the TF team since 1999. He was also very dedicated to coaching at the club level. 

He has made a significant impact on the sport both as a coach and athlete, and was a great friend and mentor to countless athletes and colleagues. He has a long list of accomplishments, a small sample can be seen at his UW bio.

The family requests your consideration for a contribution to a memorial scholarship fund to be set up in Terry's name (TBA). 

Obituary & Notes to Terry

 

 

Terrier and Goetz and take home top prize 
April 6, 2010

WATERLOO, Ont. - University of Waterloo golfer Tiffany Terrier and track and field star Jason Goetz have been collecting titles all season long. Now, they each have one more accolade to accept – enshrinement in the University of Waterloo Athletics Hall of Fame. The Athletics Department handed out their 2009-2010 major awards at the 50th annual Athletics Award Banquet held Monday, April 5 at St. George Banquet Hall in Waterloo.

Terrier was awarded the Marsden Trophy as Warrior Female Athlete of the Year she after dominated the OUA women’s golf circuit in 2009. Goetz won the Totzke Award for Male Athlete of the Year after cementing himself as the greatest varsity triple-jumper in the nation. 

For the first time in Waterloo history a female athlete has won the Marsden Trophy in consecutive years. Terrier, a fourth-year engineering student from Toronto, via Kingston, Jamaica, was an absolute force on the OUA golf tour in the fall of 2009. She finished in the top three in every event she entered, capped off her fourth straight OUA all-star season, and finished it all off with an OUA championship at Angus Glen Golf Club. Terrier will also travel to Spain to represent the University of Waterloo and Canada at the FISU World University Golf Championships in June. Terrier was selected as Waterloo’s Athlete of the Year in 2008-2009.

Goetz, in his fifth and final year of CIS eligibility, simply dominated the triple jump during his time as a Warrior. A Master’s student in Geography and Environmental Management, Goetz still found the time to win a triple jump silver medal at the OUA championships before claiming redemption in the form of a gold medal at the CIS national championships. Over the course of his career, he shattered the Waterloo triple jump record six times – a record that had stood for over 20 years before Goetz arrived. All told, he extended the Warrior triple jump record by almost a full metre – from 14.27m to 15.13m.

The annual University of Waterloo athletics banquet also saw women’s curler Katherine Pringle and men’s volleyball standout Aleks Poldma take home the FEDS rookie of the year awards. Pringle, a third-year student competing on the varsity level for the first time, skipped the Warriors to an OUA gold medal in 2009. Poldma came off the bench to earn a starting spot with the volleyball Warriors, being named to the OUA and CIS all-rookie teams in the process.

The Imprint Coach of the Year Award went to men’s hockey coach Brian Bourque. After graduating 10 players – including all their captains and their starting goaltender – from their successful 2008-09 club, the men’s hockey Warriors never missed a beat in 2009-10. Under Bourque’s leadership, the Warriors cemented their position as a perennial OUA powerhouse, going 20-7-1 in the OUA regular season. In five years under Bourque, the Warriors have a record of 92-34-10. Bourque is also a two-time OUA west division coach of the year.

Figure skater Kevin Dawe was awarded the J.O. Hemphill Award. In addition to winning gold in the OUA men’s free skate, Dawe also served as a volunteer for Think Pink fundraising efforts and was a member of the IU council. The Director’s award was presented to Taryn Daneman, who has spent four years in various team promotions and coordination positions for the men’s and women’s hockey clubs.

The first ever Rotary Club Athletics Community Citizen Award was presented to women’s basketball player Reanne Holden. In addition to her commitments with the Warriors hoops team, Holden, a chemistry major from Peterborough, ON, dedicated her time to many community causes in 2009-10. She was a speaker in the Athletics Team Up program, she served on the IU council, and in the summer of 2009, Holden was part of the Global Youth Network, leading a humanitarian aid team on a month-long trip to Tanzania.

Third-year Kinesiology students Laurel Calhoun and Eliza Butler won the Brian Farrance Therapy award for their athletic therapist services to the Women’s hockey team. Rounding out the major award winners was Betsy Zanna, who was presented the Warrior Campus Service Award.

 

 

 

As Good as it Goetz
March 15, 2010 
By: Jacob Murihead

This past weekend, the Waterloo warriors sent their mens 4x200 and 4x400 relay teams as well as Jeremy Yang in the long jump and Jason Goetz in the triple jump to the CIS national track and field championships in Windsor.  

To say Jason Goetz’s performance in the triple jump was the highlight of the meet for the warriors is an understatement, as Goetz, after finishing with the silver medal in the triple jump last year, was completely focussed on that elusive gold medal to close out his last and senior year with Waterloo.  Begining with a shake-out jump of 13.76m Goetz moved into first place by 1cm on his next jump, which was 14.26m. Knowing this mark would not stand up in this competitive event, Goetz responded by jumping a school record 14.81m on his third jump to maintain his lead. Once in first place, Jason never relinquished this position, jumping 15.10m on his fourth jump, and finishing the competition with a 15.13m to add 33cm to his previous school record on his final leap.  The competition was extremely tense as Andrew Judge from Western pushed Goetz all the way, eventually placing second with a best jump of 15.01m. Jason is the first men’s individual national championship gold medal since 1996 and it goes without saying that all of Jason’s teammates and coaches are extremely proud of him. To see Jason win the national championship in his final season was the perfect way for him to close out an extremely succesful career as a Waterloo Warrior.

For the rest of the warrior team, the CIS championships were an extremely valuable learning experience, with Jeremy Yang placing 9th in the long jump and the Warrior 4x200m and 4x400m team’s placing 9th and 11th respectively. Yang has been plagued by an ankle injury all season, and without consistent training, it was an incredible achievement for him to qualify to these championships. The relay squads are all looking forward to next season, as three out of four members will be returning on the 4x200m squad and all four warriors will be returning on the men’s side.  
Thanks for a great season!

 

 

Warriors’ Goetz captures silver medal at OUA track and field championship
Feb 28, 2010 
By: Jacob Murihead and Jason Goetz

TORONTO (OUA) – This past weekend the warrior’s track and field team went to the Toronto Track and Field Centre to compete in the OUA Championships hosted by York University.   

The Warrior highlight of this competition was veteran Jason Goetz’s silver medal in the Triple Jump.  Goetz struggled to put a good jump in the first 3 rounds of the competition.  However, in the fifth round Goetz demonstrated his ability to be consistent by jumping into his 2nd place finish with a mark 14.75m, which earned the team 8 points.  Goetz remains 2nd in CIS rankings and is guaranteed a chance to compete at the CIS championship in Windsor (March 11-13) where he aims to upgrade his silver medal earned last year to gold.

In the men’s long jump, Goetz and Jeremy Yang went out to do their best in what was one of the toughest OUA finals in years.  The top five finishers all jumped over 7 meters, including a new championship record set by Ottawa’s Christopher Greenaway of 7.64m.  In the initial three rounds, Yang struggled to put his jumps together.  He did not qualify for the final top 8 round and ended up with disappointing 12th place finish.  Goetz managed to squeeze into the top 8 in his 3rd jump (6.71m), which ranked him 7th overall going into the last three jumps.  In his 6th and final jump, Goetz made the mark of 6.78m, a personal best, and a 6th place finish that contributed 3 more points to the Warriors men’s overall score.  Yang is now ranked 11th in the CIS and may have another chance to show his jumping ability at the CIS championships.

Another highlight of the championship was rookie Justin Conlon’s performance in the men’s pentathlon.  Colon had an exciting competition in the pent high jump.  He managed to slide over 1.89m (seasons best) on his 3rd and last attempt, which scored him major points that helped him finish 7th overall in the pent and scoring 2 points.  This is only Colon’s first year competing in the pent.  It is very likely if Colon continues to stay committed to the Warrior team, we may see an OUA medal and a CIS birth in his veteran years.

Other points were earned by Andrew Good in the men’s high jump.  He jumped a seasons best of 1.89m to finish 7th and win 2 points.  Also, Jacob Murihead, Luke Govia, Oliver Grant and Ben Terejko in the men’s 4x400m relay.  They finished 8th and earned 1 point. 

With the OUA as the deepest conference championship in the country, other Waterloo Warriors also came up huge to meet the challenge.  In the men’s 3000m, Patrick Mackinnon came away with a 8 second personal best, running 8:49.66 to place 13th in an extremely deep race, featuring some of Canada’s best distance runners.  Only a sophomore, Patrick’s time ranks him 8th on the warriors all time list in the 3000m. Distance captain Rob Bark ran an equally gutsy race, finishing in 18th with a time of 9:00.97.  Bark managed to shave an additional 2 seconds off his personal best, bringing his time down by 27 seconds from the beginning of the season. I’m sure this time will be broken again soon, as Bark still ran to a personal best while admitting that he couldn’t find a good rhythm in this OUA 3000m. 

On the women’s side, Monika Bolejszo also rose to the challenge, running to a 15th place finish in a time of 4:54.82 in the women’s 1500m.  After running 5:00.01 the previous week, Bolejszo knew that a sub 5 minute 1500m was in her legs and ran accordingly.  Monika has shown huge improvement this year, and will look to mix things up next year with the best in the country.  Stephanie Hinton also raced extremely well in the women’s 600m, closing well and finishing in a time of 1:41.27 seconds. In an extremely deep field, Hinton finished 15th. Reflecting the competitiveness of this race, Hinton’s time was the best by a Warrior in 6 years and places her 7th on the Warrior all time list.

In the sprints, Jennifer Adenbanjo and Kofi Kwarko-Fosu saved their best until the conference meet, running huge personal bests in the 60m.  Adenbanjo, after suffering from injury for the majority of the season returned to finish 16th in the women’s 60m. Making it through the preliminaries in a time of 8.15 seconds in her freshmen year, Adenbanjo’s future in this event looks bright. Kwarko-Fosu also had the race of his life in advancing to the OUA  60m semi-finals. With a previous personal best of 7.16 seconds, Kofi dropped an astonishing .15 seconds off his time, crossing the finish line in 7.01 seconds (only 0.04 off of the varsity record held by Ian Forde), advancing in 11th place.  Maintaining this seed, Kofi ran to his second best ever time of 7.10 seconds in the semi-final to finish 11th overall. Kwarko-Fosu, with his run in the preliminaries ranks 4th on the Warriors all time list, directly behind fellow Warrior Luke Govia’s 6.99 seconds, run earlier this season. Finally, Hugo Lopez finished a very respectable 9th place in the 60 hurdles.  He was only 0.01 seconds from making the final in the 60m hurdles and 0.02 seconds off his own varsity record.

Overall, the Warriors men’s team had their best showing since 2007 by placing 8th out of 12 teams.  Looking forward, the CIS Championship is next. Additional to Goetz and Yang, the men’s 4x200m and 4x400m are sitting well to qualify in the top 12 for the CIS championship by currently ranking 8th and 9th, respectively.

 

 

The Warriors Track and Field Team Returns Home from York with Many Rewarding Performances
Feb. 8, 2010 
By Jason Goetz

This past weekend, the Warrior Track and Field Team headed to the Toronto Track and Field Centre, hosted by York University, in an attempt to fine-tune their performances in preparation of the OUA championship, which is only 3 weeks away.  They ended up coming back with an astonishing 6 seasonal (SPB) and 19 lifetime personal bests (LTPB). 

Women
The women came back with some impressive performances. Katrina Vandervoot leaped high and stretched far to finish 4th in long and triple jump, while achieving a new LTPB of 5.14m in long jump. Veteran, Karen Belfall, also had a couple of rewarding performances.  Belfall earned a SPB in long (4.48m) and triple jump (10.53m).  Monica Bolejzo showed significant improvement in the 1500m with a LTPB (5:04.52 -15th place).  Nancy Spreitzer sprinted hard in the 60 m to earn a SPB in the 60m (8.80s).

Men
In the 60 m, rookies Kofi Kwarko-Fosu and Eric Roque returned home with LTPBs, 7.18 (10th) and 7.10 (8th), respectively.  Luke Govia showed his consistency around the 7-second mark by finishing 5th overall with a time of 7.05.  The 300 m heats pushed the Waterloo athletes hard to earn even more LTPB’s by Oliver Grant (36.70) and Ben Terejko (36.96).  Trevor Salmon finished 14th in the 600m with a SPB of 1:26.12.  

In the distance events, Rob Bark and Patrick MacKinnon continued to show improvements by earning LTPBs in times of 9:03.31 (10th) and 9:04.62 (11th), respectively.   Eric Noland, who has been fighting to get below 9 seconds in the 60m hurdles finally did it by smashing his LTPB with a time of 8.77 (7th).  Hugo Lopez had a comfortable preliminary heat in the 60m hurdles (8.77).  Looking forward to improve in the final, Lopez became victim to the new false start rule and was disqualified.  

The jumpers also continued to improve on their season.  Jeremy Yang jumped an impressive distance of 6.98m.  Not only did this jump earn him a 2nd place finish, Jeremy is now ranked 7th in CIS’s.  Jason Goetz finished 2nd in triple jump with a season best of 14.77m.  Goetz is currently ranked 2nd in CIS for triple jump.

There is only one meet left for the Warrior athletes before OUA’s.  This meet will be held at University of Toronto on February 19th and, for some, is the last chance to be selected to compete at the OUA championship.  Until then, the team will continue to train hard in preparation for one of the biggest meets of the year.

 

 

McGill Results
Feb. 1, 2010
By: Jacob Muirhead

The Warriors travelled to McGill this past weekend to compete in Canada’s largest indoor track and field competition. With 17 universities and a dozen clubs participating, the competition was deep, pushing the Warriors to some very good performances.

Leading the way were veterans Luke Govia (Port-of-Spain) and Jason Goetz (Cambridge, Ont.). Both of these athletes have been improving their performances each meet and McGill was no exception. Govia continued to drop his 60m time and at McGill, he achieved his seasonal goal of breaking the 7 second barrier after flirting with it by running times of 7.07, and 7.03 at his two previous outings over the distance.  Running to a personal best of 6.99 seconds, Govia qualified for the final. In what was an excellent opportunity to record another PB, Luke reacted before the gun was fired and was unfortunately charged with a false start and disqualified. With this time, Luke is only .02 seconds from tying the school record of 6.97 seconds set by Ian Forde in 2001 and is now in a tie for the second fastest performance by a Warrior over 60 meters!  Continuing his weekend in fine form, Govia also finished 13th in an extremely competitive 300m race with 53 competitors in a new PB of 36.13 seconds which now ranks him 10th on the Warrior all time list. Following Govia, Jacob Muirhead (36.89) Oliver Grant (37.01) Ben Terejko (37.31) and Kofi Kwarko-Fosu (38.48) all recorded PB’s, with Terejko making the OUA standard (37.60) while also taking nearly a full second off of his previous personal best. 

In the middle distance and distance events, the Warrior team saw much improvement since their last outing in Windsor. Leading the way was Jordan Andersen (Nepean, Ont.) who ran to a PB of 4:04.10 in an extremely competitive 1500m race.  Not only does this give Andersen OUA standard (4:09.31) but it is also an improvement of 6 seconds from his last 1500 meter race in Windsor.  Also in the 1500m, Monika Bolejszo ran to a gutsy 5:05.93 finish to improve her seasonal best by 6 seconds from the Can-Am Challenge in Windsor earlier this year. Team captain Rob Bark (Port Perry, Ont.) was also impressive in dropping his 3000m PB for a third consecutive time this season, by running an incredible final few laps to stop the clock at 9:05.95.  

In the jumps, Jason Goetz continued to be impressive, winning the triple jump competition by nearly a full meter. With his jump of 14.70, Goetz is quickly closing in on his varsity record (14.80) which he set last year in Windsor at the CIS indoor championships where he placed second.  Jason is on course to make that silver a gold this year.  On the women’s side,  captain Nancy Spreitzer and veteran Karen Belfall came to Montreal prepared and it showed, with both leaping to seasonal bests in the triple (10.52m and 9.96m) and long jump (4.49m and 4.35m) to place well in very competitive fields. In the throws, Amber Blackwell left Montreal happy with a seasonal best of 8.19 meters in the shot put.

Not to be outdone, with a number of individual personal and seasonal bests recorded, members of the Warrior relay squads came together to run well in the 4x200m and 4x400m relays.  In the 4x200m, a team consisting of Luke Govia (22.5) Jacob Muirhead (22.8) Eric Roque (22.9) and Kofi Kwarko-Fosu (23.4) improved their seasonal best to 1:32.21 seconds by placing 6th in a very competitive relay which consisted of the top 3 ranked teams (Ottawa, Windsor and York) in this event so far this year.  In the women’s 4x200m, Rachel Lorimer, Katrina Vandervoort, Nancy Spreitzer and Stephanie Hinton took 3 seconds off of their seasonal best by running 1:53.41.  In the 4x400m, the warrior men continued their form from the 4x200m with Jacob Muirhead (51.4) Luke Govia (51.3) Oliver Grant (51.3) and Ben Terejko (51.6) stopping the clock in 5th place at 3:25.88. This time positions the warrior men well for upcoming meetings with the 4x400m relay team currently sitting in the top 10 in the CIS. 

 

 

Warriors see many season improvements in Windsor
January 19, 2010 
By: Shane Ferth

This past weekend the University of Waterloo Track and Field Team competed in the 29th Annual Can Am Track Classic at the University of Windsor.  This meet proved to be the most competitive thus far in the season, and resulted in an impressive 19 lifetime and 8 seasonal personal best improvements.  

The top finish this weekend was in the triple jump, where captain Jason Goetz placed 2nd with a jump of 14.56 meters.  Also placing well was veteran Hugo Lopez, who finished 4th in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.72 seconds. In the 60 meter, Luke Govia continued to show improvement  by placing 7th out of a field of 48 competitors.  His time of 7.03 seconds is the fastest Warrior time of the season and is only 6-hundredths of a second off of the University of Waterloo varsity record.  Also in the sprints, the men's 4 x 200 meter relay team had a chance to show what they are capable of. In a very fast heat, the Warrior team of Luke Govia, Jacob Murihead, Oliver Grant and Eric Roque raced hard for a 5th overall finish with a time of 1:32.99.  

The distance events also showcased strong performances from Warrior athletes.  Rob Bark, captain of the cross country team, greatly improved his personal best in the 3000 meter with a time of 9:08.54, which earned him a 7th place finished. He was followed by an 8th place finish from Patrick MacKinnon with a time of 9:11.66.  Also, rookie Leslie Gray gave a fine performance in the 3000 meter, where she finished 9th in a time of 10:34.56. 

The Warriors have a couple of weeks off of competition to train hard for Canada's largest indoor track and field meet held at McGill University on January 29th and 30th.  The McGill track is known for being one of the fastest in Canada, thus it may foster some of the Warrior best performances of the season.

 

 

Warriors Bring in the New Year in Style 

January 9, 2010

On January 9th, the Warriors travelled to The University of Toronto to compete in their first meet in 2010 at the Sharon Anderson Invitational. Continuing in fine form, carried over from their season opener in London, some impressive marks were set. 

The sprints team brought their A game and were again the talk of the meet as Luke Govia, Shlomo Dunyo, Kofi Kwarko-Fosu, Eric Roque and Cory Allen were all among the top 16 who would advance to the A and B final. In the B final, Kofi improved on his time from the preliminary to take 2nd place and 9th overall with a run of 7.32 seconds. The A final was also extremely exciting with both Shlomo and Luke fighting for the final medal position until the very end of the race, with Luke grabbing 3rd place from Shlomo who finished 4th by 0.02 seconds, with times of 7.05 to 7.07 respectively. For Govia, this was a personal best. Luke took his momentum from the 60m later into the day as well, breaking the 37 second barrier in the 300m while placing second overall. 

In the middle distances, the Warriors placed well in the 600m with Jacob Muirhead, Trevor Salmon and Oliver Grant taking up the 4th, 5th and 6th finishing positions. In addition, distance team captain Rob Bark gave a gutsy effort to finish 6th in the 3000m in 9:20.51 after racing earlier that day in an extremely competitive 1500m. 

The Warriors were equally as impressive in the field events as Kat Vandervoort, Jason Goetz and Jeremy Yang all finished on the podium. In the long jump, Kat was having a great day and after making it out of the preliminaries, jumped 4.97m to place third overall. Jason Goetz continued his winning ways and his form from last season in the triple jump, when he placed 2nd at the university national championships by winning by over 40 cm with a jump of 14.66m. This effort improves on Jason’s earlier season’s best of 14.61 and as of January 9th, this jump places him first in the country. Similarly, after more than a year off, Jeremy Yang made a successful return to the long jump, placing 2nd with a jump of 6.62m. 

Up next for the Warriors is the Can Am Track Classic in Windsor on January 15th and 16th. This meet will be a real test for the Warriors, as nearly all universities from across the province will be there and ready to compete.

 

 

2009-2010 Season Opener 

December 5, 2009

On December 5th the University of Waterloo Track and Field team ventured to Western for their season home opener. This was an exciting experience for the Warriors and a chance to see how they fit in with the rest of the OUA teams.

The Warrior sprinters really impressed the crowd as Shlomo Dunyo, Luke Govia and Eric Roque respectively placed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the 60m. Rookies Shlomo and Eric did a phenomenal job and will be great assets to our sprinting group this year. Luke Govia once again showed success as he took the gold in the Men’s 200m and achieving a personal best in this race. Cross Country Captain Rob Bark transferred his skills to the track as he had two stellar performances. Rob captured gold both in the 1500m and the 3000m. 2nd year Eric Noland ran a thrilling race as he placed third in the 60m hurdles and rookie Oliver Grant took 4th place in the 300m. The day ended off with the Warriors capturing another 1st place in the 4x200m Men’s Relay. Warriors Eric Roque, Oliver Grant, Dan Ritz and Ben Terejko were part of this 1st place team. 

On the field, Captain Jason Goetz led the way with a gold medal performance in the Men’s Triple Jump. Jason leaped an impressive 14.61m which currently ranks him at the top of the CIS. Warriors Andrew Good and Justin Conlon respectively finished 2nd and 3rd in the Men’s High Jump. On the women’s side, 2nd year Katrina VanDervoort took the bronze in the Women’s Triple Jump. And in the Women’s Shot put, 4th year Amber Blackwell captured 4th place demonstrating a great start to the season.

The Warriors had an excellent first meet and demonstrated that they will be a competitive force in the OUA this year. Next to come for the Warriors is Florida Training Camp during Christmas break. This is where the team will train to improve their skills and to work on technique. In the New Year the Warriors will compete at the University of Toronto on January 9th.     

 

 

UW TF Announces Coaching Changes

August 24, 2009

The UW track team will see a few changes to it's coaching staff for next season. Head Coach Jason Dockendorff will be on leave while Assistant Head Coach Shane Ferth will be filling in. The team also welcomes back Ian Morton as Throws Coach.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer Recap
Numerous UWTF members have been active this summer. Most notably, Jason Goetz recently won the Ontario Senior Championships for the triple jump.