Track and Field - W | 4/10/2015 8:14:00 AM
BURNABY, BC – Over 460 athletes will be at Simon Fraser University on Saturday competing in the 2015 Emilie Mondor Invitational track and field meet on Terry Fox Field.
The meet begins at 10:45 AM with the first race and will continue to approximately 4:00 PM. The discuss and hammer events will take place at Percy Perry Stadium in Coquitlam.
A webcast of the Mondor Invitational is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAz-CwRBv8 RESULTS HERESimon Fraser, which had five men's and two women's NCAA Division II automatic and provisional qualifying times last week in meets in San Francisco, is ranked 23rd in the men's USTFCCAA computer rankings and 21st in the women's.
On Saturday, the Clan will be competing against athletes from Seattle Pacific, Western Washington, Trinity Western University, UBC and many Canadian track and field clubs.
Schedule of events and meet records Revised Heat Sheets Last week, Simon Fraser's
Lindsey Butterworth had the only NCAA automatic qualifying times posting Division II's season-best times in both the 800 and 1500 at the Stanford Invitational.
Butterworth's times of 2:05.86 and 4:18.34 were both better than last year's winning national meet times.
Her 800 time was also the fifth fastest in GNAC history and her 1500 time ranks second in GNAC history and eighth all-time in Division II.
SFU's
Cameron Proceviat of Burnaby, BC, finished second in his section of the mile and third overall in the San Francisco State Distance Carnival. His time of 4:05.26 converts to a provisional national qualifying time of 3:47.09 for the 1500 and ranks sixth nationally. His converted time is also the second fastest 1500 in GNAC history. He also had a PNQ in the 800 meters at the Stanford Invitational with a time of 1:51.61.
Read the story of Proceviat's rise from walk-on to GNAC champion by
The Province newspaper writer Howard Tsumura
here: