RECAP: Preparations for OUA Championships begin after Bayfront meet

The Gee-Gees cross country team competed at the last event before the OUA Championships this weekend, travelling to Hamilton for the McMaster Bayfront Open. 

The Gee-Gees men place seventh in the team standings which featured eleven OUA teams. The Gee-Gees were in tight contention with both Laurier and Laurentian, with just five points separating the three teams finishing from sixth and eighth place. André Alie-Lamarche had the top finish for the Garnet and Grey, crossing with a time of 26:16 over the eight kilometre course to place 25^th overall. Adrian Fournier, Stephen Robinson, and Nicolas Abanto Enns provided the key next finishes for the team score, placing in 46^th, 54^th, and 55^th, respectively.

For the Gee-Gees women, Kylee Fowler recorded a did not finish which meant no team score for the remaining four team members. Skye Pellerin was the top finisher with a time of 33:28.7 for 48^thposition in heat one, with Tiarra Ward in at 34:37.4 for 59^th, Elana Tyman 64^th at 35:43.7, and Kylie Crawford 67^th at 36:21.0.  

There was also a second heat run for both the men's and women's events and the Gee-Gees had a total of 16 representatives at the meet. Full results are available online here.

The OUA Championships are set for Saturday, November 6 in London, Ont. 2021 will mark the Gee-Gees team return to the OUA Championship event for the first time since 2015. From 2016-19 the Gee-Gees used the RSEQ Championships as their U SPORTS qualifying event, but were not official members of the RSEQ conference in cross country.