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Track stars earn Boston Pizza Athletes of the Week honours

Mar 19, 2019 | 9:10 AM

A pair of track stars have been named this week’s RDC Athletics Boston Pizza Athletes of the Week.

This past weekend, indoor track athlete Shayla Sklaruk was a key contributor for the Queens, helping her squad win silver at the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Indoor Track Championships at Repsol Sport Centre in Calgary.

Over two days of competition, the Bachelor of Education student earned three gold medals along with the silver.  

Sklaruk won gold in the 300 m (42.33), over two and a half seconds faster than silver medalist Shaunice Burgers from MacEwan University (44.87).

The first-year runner also captured gold over 600 m (1:38.81), crossing the finish line over six seconds quicker than the second place runner (1:44.97).  

The Stony Plain native was also a member of the gold medal winning 4 x 400 m relay team (4:20.21) and was joined by Lauren Pasiuk, Jill Stewart and Sandra Garcia-Bernal on the first place relay squad.  

Fellow indoor track athlete Matt Hope was also an important member of the Red Deer College Kings’ bronze medal performance at the ACAC Indoor Track Championships in Calgary last weekend.

Individually, the third-year student athlete earned bronze in the men’s 1,000 m final (2:36.15), less than three and a half seconds behind first-place Leonard Chesoo (2:32.89) of Concordia University.

Then in the 1,500 m, the Bachelor of Education Secondary student from Red Deer added another bronze to his collection, with a time of 4:08.57.

Hope’s result was impressively over 11 seconds faster than fourth place.

(With files from RDC Athletics)