{"id":18659,"date":"2025-10-27T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18659\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:44:07","slug":"queens-gaels-and-victoria-vikes-sweep-u-sports-conferences-on-home-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18659\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Gaels and Victoria Vikes sweep U Sports conferences on home turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An action-packed Saturday on the Canadian collegiate cross-country scene saw four U Sports conference championships taking place from coast-to-coast. The home-course advantage proved powerful, as both the Queen\u2019s Gaels and the Victoria Vikes delivered dominant performances on familiar ground, each sweeping the men\u2019s and women\u2019s team titles in their respective conferences.<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s domination in Kingston, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>At the OUA Championships, at their home course of Fort Henry in Kingston, Ont., the Queen\u2019s Gaels grabbed double gold, defending their men\u2019s title and taking home the women\u2019s title as well with 50 and 70 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The squads were led by Jude Wheeler-Dee, who placed first overall, and Elizabeth Vroom, who took sixth. On the men\u2019s side, the Guelph Gryphons took second (69 points) and the McMaster Marauders took third (80 points.) On the women\u2019s side, it was a very tight race for the team title, with the Windsor Lancers also scoring 70 points (Queen\u2019s won the tiebreaker that went to the sixth runner on each team) and the Western Mustangs taking bronze with 71 points.<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s top three:<\/p>\n<p>Jude Wheeler-Dee, Queen\u2019s Gaels \u2013 23:26.7<br \/>\nMax Davies, Guelph Gryphons \u2013 23:32.3<br \/>\nJack Lehto, Guelph Gryphons \u2013 23:38.3<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s top three: <\/p>\n<p>Alex McDougall,\u00a0 Guelph Gryphons \u2013 26:50.5<br \/>\nJulia Agostinelli,\u00a0Toronto Varsity Blues \u2013 27:39.2<br \/>\nSamara Quanz, Windsor Lancers \u2013 27:46.4<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/my.raceresult.com\/356161\/results#0_8AF0E5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for full results from the 2025 OUA XC Championships.<\/p>\n<p>A long-awaited return to the top<\/p>\n<p>On the west coast, also on home turf at the CanWest Cross-Country Championships at Royal Roads University on Vancouver Island, the Victoria Vikes cross-country teams swept the team titles for the first time since 1998. The women defended their title with 37 points while the men took home conference gold (scoring 40 points) for the first time in 10 years. Victoria\u2019s Jaxon Kuchar took the overall win, while Madelyn Eybergen, a new addition to the Vikes squad and last year\u2019s OUA champion, took individual silver.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s race, the University of Regina took silver with 65 points while UBC took bronze with 83 points; on the women\u2019s side, UBC took silver with 54 points and UBC Okanagan rounded out the podium, scoring 71 points for bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s top three<\/p>\n<p>Jaxon Kuchar, UVic Vikes \u2013 25:25.2<br \/>\nMaximilien Filion, UBC Thunderbirds \u2013 25:42.0<br \/>\nIan McAllister, UVic Vikes \u2013 25:56.5<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s top three<\/p>\n<p>Lauren McNeil, UBC Okanagan Heat \u2013 27:44.0<br \/>\nMadelyn Eybergen, UVic Vikes \u2013 27:52.2<br \/>\nMackenzie Campbell, UBC Thunderbirds \u2013 29:35.8<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanathleticsresults.dreamhosters.com\/2025\/CanWest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for full results from the 2025 CanWest XC Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An action-packed Saturday on the Canadian collegiate cross-country scene saw four U Sports conference championships taking place from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10814,9,24,63,12774,122,12775,124,123,12776,12777,12778,12779],"class_list":["post-18659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-cross-country","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens-university","tag-queens","tag-queens-gaels","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-running-news","tag-u-sports-2025","tag-university-of-victoria","tag-victoria-vikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}