Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

Local runners to join U of M track team – Our Communities

By A Mystery Man Writer

Two local athletes headline the 2020 recruiting class of the University of Manitoba Bisons track and field team. | River East Collegiate graduate Angela Kroeker is a middle-distance and distance runner who will also compete in cross country. Her accolades include a gold medal in the 3,000 metres at the 2018 Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association championships and a bronze in the same event at the 2019 Western Canada Games. An honour roll student in each of her four years at River East, Kroeker was also named the school’s athlete of the year. | Murdoch MacKay Collegiate’s Reese Lange is also a four-year honour roll student and was twice named athlete of the year. The sprinter was a 2019 MHSAA silver medalist in the 100 metres and was a member of a 4x100-metre relay team that set a provincial record. Lange has extensive provincial team experience. | “These athletes exemplify the tremendous work being done in track and field at both the high school and club levels in Manitoba,” Bisons track and field head coach Claude Berubé said, speaking of the entire 13-person recruitment class.