Canadian Operating and Beneath Armour have teamed up for the 2025 Canadian U Sports activities indoor observe and discipline season to spotlight among the nation’s brightest abilities. Every week, main as much as the 2025 U Sports activities Observe and Area Championships in Windsor, Ont., in March, Canadian Operating will choose one male and one feminine athlete because the Beneath Armour Athletes of the Week.
The athlete of the week will likely be a female and male observe and discipline athlete who achieved a standout efficiency, broke a college report or crushed a private finest. These athletes will likely be featured on the Canadian Operating website and awarded the UA Infinite Elite working shoe. College of Manitoba’s Tyrell Davis and Université Laval’s Mia Larochelle have been chosen as this week’s Beneath Armour U Sports activities Athletes of the Week for his or her performances on Jan. 24-25.
Tyrell Davis, College of Manitoba (CanWest)
At Saskatoon’s Knights of Columbus Indoor Video games final Friday, College of Manitoba’s Tyrell Davis secured his spot at U Sports activities, demolishing the 60m auto-qualifying time customary (Auto-Q) by 5 hundredths of a second. Within the course of, the 20-year-old took down his college’s 50m report with an excellent 5.83-second efficiency. (Though the occasion will not be an official U-Sports activities distance, the time is transformed to an equal 60m time of 6.71.) Davis, the reigning U Sports activities silver medallist, now sits on the prime of the nationwide leaderboard.
“The race felt fairly good,” Davis instructed Canadian Operating. “My warmth and remaining seemed very totally different. In my warmth, the place I ran 5.83, I bought out of the blocks very nicely, however didn’t shut as nicely. My remaining, after I ran 5.85, was the polar reverse–I used to be principally asleep within the blocks, however closed very nicely.” Each instances convert to sooner 60m runs than he achieved through the 2023-24 season. “I’m very excited to see the time after I put a full race collectively,” the Winnipeg native added.
Davis is eyeing the person and staff podiums on the upcoming championships. “My objectives for the season could be to win each CanWest and U Sports activities within the 60m,” he mentioned. “[I’d also like to] reclaim the CanWest banner for the fourth 12 months in a row with my staff, and win the U Sports activities staff banner for the primary time in nearly 30 years.” Final 12 months, the Bisons males’s staff took second total at U Sports activities.
Full outcomes from the Knights of Columbus Video games could be discovered right here.
Mia Larochelle, Université Laval (RSEQ)
Eventually Friday’s McGill Staff Problem in Montreal, Université Laval’s Mia Larochelle routinely booked her ticket to March’s U Sports activities Championships in her first-ever race. The 20-year-old had by no means competed earlier than, however clocked an astounding 9:28.54 within the 3,000m, profitable by greater than eight seconds and surpassing the Auto-Q customary of 9:30.38.
“I simply ran with out considering an excessive amount of–I nonetheless don’t totally understand what I completed,” she instructed Canadian Operating. “I used to be centered on pushing myself to be first, as quick as I may. My solely aim was to cross the end line in first place as rapidly as doable, so I did what I needed to do.” Her debut efficiency launches her into the #2 spot on the U Sports activities leaderboard.
The next day, the Quebec native took second within the 1,500m, clocking 4:30.96. She now sits within the eleventh spot for the occasion–nonetheless a contender to maneuver on to the nationwide championships.
Larochelle is a former NCAA DI soccer participant at Nicholls State College in Louisiana, the place she bought injured throughout her fall season. Final month, she made the choice to maneuver again to Quebec, shift her focus to working cross-country and observe, and be a part of the Rouge et Or squad. “Operating has at all times been part of my life,” she mentioned. “Not only for enjoyable, however as a daily follow.” Her father was additionally an avid runner.
Larochelle says she has lofty objectives for the U Sports activities season and past. “I’m centered on profitable a medal at provincials within the 3,000m,” she mentioned. “I actually wish to take first place there and carry that momentum into the U Sports activities Championships, the place I’ll goal to do the identical.”
The primary-year enterprise pupil additionally revealed {that a} Canadian report might be inside attain. “I’ve my eyes on breaking Ceili McCabe‘s U23 report of 8:50.44,” she revealed. “It’s an enormous aim, however I’m positively pushing myself to see how shut I can get this season. Hitting that U23 report is certainly on my radar, however proper now I’m prioritizing my race technique and constructing consistency, so I can obtain these podium finishes,” she added.
Full outcomes for the McGill Staff Problem could be discovered right here.
