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The University of Regina's Jonathan Podbielski won three gold medals and Shelaine Pritchard picked up a total of five medals to lead the Cougars at the 2025 Canada West Track & Field Championships at the Regina Fieldhouse.

PODBIELSKI LEADS MEN'S SCORERS

• Podbielski ran away from the field in the 1500-metre run on Saturday afternoon, giving the third-year runner a total of three gold medals for the weekend and locking up Canada West Men's Track Athlete of the Year honours.
• He also earned Men's Performance of the Meet honours for his dominating run in the 1500. He finished with a time of 3:45.92, breaking the old conference record of 3:47.43 set by Calgary's Eric Lutz back in 2022.
• Podbielski's big run in the 1500 on Saturday came after gold medals in both the 1000-metre run and the 3000-metre run on Friday. He scored 30 of the men's team's 81 points at the meet, the highest individual total of any athlete at the meet on the men's side.

MEDAL HAUL FOR PRITCHARD

• Pritchard had a spectacular meet for the women's team. Her weekend started with a gold medal and school record in the shot put (13.75m), then collected an astounding total of four silver medals as she placed second in the 60-metre dash (7.48 s), the 60-metre hurdles (8.32 s), the long jump (6.06m), and the 4x200-metre relay (1:40.12) along with Kaidyn Keith, Heidi Branning, and Queen Clayton.
• Pritchard matched Podbielski as the top individual scorer on the women's side, collecting 34 points to account for over half of the team's weekend total of 65. Besides her individual total, she was also part of both the 4x200 and 4x400 teams which scored a total of 12 points for the Cougars.

WOMEN'S BREAKDOWN

• Keith won her first career Canada West individual medal in the triple jump, claiming bronze with a top jump of 11.77 metres to score six points for the Cougars. She also placed sixth in the 60 with a time of 7.72 seconds, giving her a total of nine points for the weekend.
• Heidi Branning scored four points with a fifth-place effort in the 60 (7.64 s). Faith Adebogun also accumulated four points by placing sixth in the weight throw (14.32m) and eighth in the shot put (11.93m), while Joclyn Seibel added three points with a seventh-place finish in the shot put (12.20m).
• The relay teams scored a total of 12 points, including a silver medal in the 4x200 as Pritchard, Keith, Branning, and Queen Clayton finished in a time of 1:40.12. Pritchard, Branning, Harper Lebell, and Katelyn Kichula combined for a fifth-place finish in the 4x400.

MEN'S BREAKDOWN

• Rookie Ian Teichler had a strong debut Canada West meet, winning silver in the 1000 on Friday with a time of 3:56.21. Teichler also placed eighth in the 3000 to give him a total of nine individual points scored.
• Third-year sprinter Storm Zablocki had the only other individual medal on the men's side. Zablocki won bronze in the 60-metre dash with a time of 6.77 seconds, while his rookie teammates Femi Akinloye and Adam Sieben finished in fifth and sixth with times of 6.87 and 6.91 seconds, respectively.
• The relay teams accounted for a silver medal, a bronze medal, and a total of 19 points scored. The 4x200 team consisting of Zablocki, Akinloye, Jevon Garwood, and Brett Franklin won silver with a time of 1:29.91, while the 4x400 group featuring Omer Labrie-Boulay, Logan Stachowich, Adam Mytopher, and Daniel Eiswerth took bronze in 3:22.49. Labrie-Boulay, Greg Hetterley, Scott Fenton, and Eiswerth finished fourth in the 4x800 (7:43.09).
• Quinton Fettes finished fifth place in the heptathlon with a total of 4210 points. His best event was the 60-metre hurdles, with his time of 9.07 seconds placing him third among the eight athletes still competing. Fettes was also strong in the 60-metre dash, scoring 806 points with a time of 7.22 seconds which was the fourth fastest out of 10 in that event.
• The men's team's other individual points came from Eiswerth's sixth-place finish in the 600-metre run, Brett MacLean's seventh-place finish in the 3000-metre run, and Dominic Topos' eighth-place effort in the 60-metre hurdles.

Women's Standings
Saskatchewan 173.25
Calgary 123
Alberta 87.25
Manitoba 69.5
Regina 65
Trinity Western 44
Victoria 42
Lethbridge 40

Men's Standings
Manitoba 182
Alberta 104
Trinity Western 98
Saskatchewan 82
Regina 81
Calgary 59
Victoria 32
Lethbridge 3