BURNABY, B.C. – Simon Fraser Red Leaf Marie-Éloïse Leclair bettered her own Great Northwest Athletic Conference record in the women's outdoor 200 meters en route to a third-place finish in the event at the Stanford Invitational Saturday in Stanford, California.

She ran a time of 23.87 seconds, lowering the previous GNAC best of 23.88. The sophomore from Candiac, Que., is the ninth-ranked 200-m sprinter in NCAA Division II. After this weekend, Leclair owns five of the six GNAC sprint records (indoor 60, 200, 400, outdoor 100 and 200). She won the 100 Friday at Stanford with a time of 11.45.

Junior Megan Roxby (North Vancouver, B.C.) moved to third in the NCAA Div. II rankings in the women's 800 meters, after winning her section at Stanford in a career-best two minutes 9.34 seconds. She is also ranked sixth in the 1,500 after her performance on Friday.
 

Leclair teamed up with sophomore Erika Binder (Calgary), sophomore Claire Bosma (Richmond, B.C.), and freshman Emma Cannan (Kelowna, B.C.) to complete the 4x400-meter relay in 3:47.65, the eighth-best time in NCAA Div. II so far this season.

The men's 800 meters featured a number of excellent SFU results. 

Senior Jordan Schmidt (Langley, B.C.) was third in his section after crossing the finish line in 1:50.43, a personal best. Sophomore Aiden Good (Carstairs, Alta.) was just behind Schmidt in fourth (a career-best 1:51.87). Schmidt and Good are now ranked eighth and 25th in Div. II, respectively.

Junior Charlie Dannatt (North Vancouver, B.C.) was fifth (1:50.95) in a closely contested section where the top six runners were separated by less than a second. Dannatt is 11th in the Div. II rankings.
 

At the Mike Fanelli Track Classic in San Francisco, sophomore Kennedy Primrose (Surrey, B.C.) won the women's triple jump with a best attempt of 11.36 meters.

Eleven Red Leafs recorded personal-best results Saturday across the two Bay Area meets.  

SFU will return to Burnaby to host its biggest home meet of the season, the Emilie Mondor Invitational on Saturday, April 8. 

A tentative schedule can be found here: https://athletics.sfu.ca/sports/2014/3/19/MTRACK_0319140500.aspx 

STANFORD INVITATIONAL RESULTS FOR SFU
Women's 200 Meters
3. Marie-Éloïse Leclair – 23.87 seconds (GNAC outdoor record)
24. Emma Cannan – 24.75

Women's 800 Meters
Section 7
1. Megan Roxby – 2:09.34 (personal best)

Women's 4x100-Meter Relay – DQ

Women's 4x400-Meter Relay
7. SFU (Erika Binder, Claire Bosma, Emma Cannan, Marie-Éloïse Leclair) – 3:47.65

Men's 200 Meters
27. Jesaiah Penson-McCoy – 22.10
30. Kaito Suzuki – 22.50

Men's 800 Meters
Section 3
5. Charlie Dannatt – 1:50.95

Section 6
3. Jordan Schmidt – 1:50.43 (personal best)
4. Aiden Good – 1:51.87 (personal best)
9. Andrew Thomson – 1:54.16 (personal best)
10. Tomas Chapman – 1:54.71
 

MIKE FANELLI TRACK CLASSIC RESULTS FOR SFU
Women's 800 Meters
23. Emily Chilton – 2:14.70
26. Kate Cameron – 2:15.39
57. Selin Tasdemir – 2:20.53 (personal best)
66. Rachael Watkins – 2:23.14 (personal best)

Women's Triple Jump
1. Kennedy Primrose – 11.36m
9. Olivia Windbiel – 11.01m

Women's High Jump
9. Olivia Windbiel – 1.53m

Men's 100 Meters
33. Nicholas Monro – 11.37 seconds (personal best)
42. Mitchell Gibbs – 11.50 (personal best)
44. Blake Furtado – 11.51 (2.6 m/s)

Men's 800 Meters
8. Ephrem Mekonnen – 1:53.73 (personal best)
28. Jose Castro – 1:55.49 (personal best)
76. Brendan Moore – 2:00.26 (personal best)

Men's 400-Meter Hurdles 
3. Jorrin Lenton – 55.68

Men's Long Jump
3. Blake Furtado – 6.82m
9. Mitchell Gibbs – 6.41m
11. Nicholas Monro – 6.38m

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