KITCHENER — Things worked out according to the plan for Lindsay Thompson of Guelph CVI on the first day of the CWOSSA high school track and field championships.
Thompson claimed victory in the open girls’ 1,500-metre steeplechase, finishing the event in five minutes and 21 seconds to beat second-placed Simone Tomasovic of Kitchener’s Cameron Heights by more than five seconds.
“My coach set up a game plan and I followed it and it worked out well,” Thompson said. “I don’t want to give away secrets, but it was to stick behind the lead pack for the first 800 metres, then lead my own lap and then just give it all I had at the end for the last 300 metres.”
In other words, she bided her time for the first two laps of the four-lap race, took control on the third lap and ran away with it after the water jump on the final lap.
“It was kind of scary, landing in the water,” Thompson said. “It slows your time down, but it went well.”
The race was the first of four events that the Grade 11 student will compete in at the zone championships. She also qualified in the 1,500m and 800m and as a member of GCVI’s 4x400m relay team.
“Making it to OFSAA,” is her goal for the year, she says. “I’ve made it to regionals every year, but not to OFSAA.”
Her best shot, she feels, will be in the steeplechase.
"I like them all,” she says of her track events. “I just like competing.”
During track’s off-season in the winter months, she feeds her competitive drive playing rep basketball in the Guelph Youth Basketball Association.
“We came second in provincials,” she said. “We were in the fourth division, though, but we got silver.”
Thompson will be joined at next week’s OFSAA West regional meet at Windsor by Sara Bowman of Ross who placed fourth in the steeplechase. Top five in each CWOSSA final advance to the regional meet.
Dan Caudle of St. James will be competing at Windsor in the open boys’ 2,000m steeplechase after he finished fifth at CWOSSA in a time of 6:54.08.
Jordan Collison of Saugeen District destroyed the field as he set a meet record in winning in 5:57.88. It’s the first time in the meet’s history that the winner has finished the event in less than six minutes. He was more than 32 seconds ahead of runner-up Jason Thornton of Jacob Hespeler.
The CWOSSA meet concludes today.
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