The RDP track team won 15 individual medals at the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference Indoor Track Championships over the weekend.
The Queens led the way, earning gold with 95 points at the University of Alberta. The Kings picked up bronze with 63 points.
Sylvan Lake’s Zoey Longman was named ACAC Women’s Indoor Track Rookie of the Year and a member of the ACAC Women’s Indoor Track All-Conference team. Teammates Laomi Rautenbach and Justine Larson joined Longman on the Women’s All-Conference team.
Red Deer’s Ben House and Ben Higham received spots on the ACAC Men’s Indoor Track All-Conference team.
Longman won silver in the 60m final, finishing in 8.34 seconds.
Rautenbach won gold in the women’s 300 m final in a time of 43.54, finishing more than two seconds faster than second place Sidney Cusak (45.92) of the University of Alberta Augustana Vikings. Rautenbach also earned silver in the 600 m final in a time of 1:43.50.
Larson won silver in the women’s 1,000 m in 3:15.49, following Cadence Laplante by only one hundredth of a second. Larson (5:18.41) also earned gold in the 1,500 m and bronze in the women’s 3,000 m final (11:56.26).
The RDP Queens 4x200m relay team (1:56.23), consisting of Alissa Berwick, Kammy Park, Myah Cota and Rautenbach, won gold. Longman, Larson, Cota and Rautenbach (4:19.65) won gold in the women’s 4x400m relay.
In the men’s 600m, House (1:25.74) captured silver. House (2:36.24) and Ben Higham (2:37.20) earned silver and bronze, respectively, in the men’s 1,000 m final.
In the men’s 3,000m final, House (9:37.22) earned bronze.
In the 4x400m relay, Grant Johnson, Fraser Motley, Higham and House (3:41.82) picked up silver.
With 13-of-16 student-athletes competing in their first or second years, RDP Indoor Track Head Coach Doug Spicer is encouraged by the team’s progress.
“The team is very excited to work toward improving even more next season and bringing more hardware back to RDP,” Spicer said.