Athletics Canada is pleased to field a team of four athletes for the 2022 NACAC Combined Events Championship held on May 14 and 15 at the Terry Fox Athletics Facility in Ottawa.
Nicole Ostertag, Madisson Lawrence, Rostam Turner and Shawn Beaudoin will don the maple leaf at the first championship of its kind since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ottawa Lions are hosting this year's competition, at the same venue that welcomed the Pan American Combined Events Cup in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018. This edition of the Championship will be classed as a GL event for World Ranking purposes, and the top three athletes in the women’s and men’s open divisions will respectively be awarded $1,500, $750 and $250 by the local organizing committee.
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Nicole Ostertag – Saskatoon Track and Field Club – Coach: Jason Reindl
Ostertag is a university senior with the Saskatchewan Huskies who rose to prominence in 2020 by winning silver in the indoor pentathlon at the U SPORTS championship. Earlier this month, she finished second in the heptathlon at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California in a new personal best of 5443 points, reaching PBs in the long jump, shot-put, javelin, 100m hurdles and 800m in the process.
Madisson Lawrence - Winnipeg Optimist Athletics – Coach: Gee-Ef Nkwonta
Lawrence, a Manitoba-based athlete, finished just behind Ostertag at the Bryan Clay invitational, also reaching a personal best of 5259 points. The 23-year-old athlete also re-wrote her own book of PBs in Azusa, reaching new best marks in the 200m, 800m, high jump and javelin throw.
Rostam Turner – Okanagan Athletics Club – Coach: Kevin Reid
Turner will also come to Ottawa as no stranger to international competition: the B.C.-based athlete represented Canada at the 2017 Francophone Games. A seasoned multi-venter and U SPORTS champion in 2017, Turner also raced to a personal best in the 100m last May.
Shawn Beaudoin - Windsor Legion Track and Field - Coach: Kristi Ryan
Beaudoin joins the team with more than a decade of experience in track and field. The 28-year-old Guelph Gryphons alumnus from Lasalle, Ont. boasts a lifetime best decathlon score of 6696.
