Ravens Track and Field
MONTREAL (January 25, 2026) - A young Carleton Ravens Track and Field Team did not let the absence of a full-sized track to train on in Ottawa slow them down at the McGill Team Challenge. Fifteen athletes on the team registered personal bests at the meet.
Leading the flock was the men’s 4x200m relay team of Cole Simard, Will Flett, Joshua Haughton, and Ali Kalkas, who took just under a second off the school record despite still-shaky handoffs. The women’s relay team of Rose Basu, Michaella Appiah-Kubi, Jiire Fowler, and Christine Ani-Asamani finished just under two tenths of a second shy of a new school record. Going into week four of the season, the women’s 4x200m team is ranked third in RSEQ and the men fourth.
Third-year student-athlete Rose Basu led the Ravens on the track, recording personal bests of 7.66 seconds in the 60m and 41.83 seconds in the 300m. Both marks auto-qualified her for the RSEQ championships, where she is ranked 5th and 10th, respectively, and moved her to 2nd (60m) and 3rd (300m) on the Ravens all-time list.
In his first ever outing on a banked 200m track rookie Cole Simard moved up to fourth on the Ravens 300m all-time list and sixth in the conference rankings with a conference championships auto-qualifying time of 35.92 seconds.
Other notable performances at the meet included Michaella Appiah-Kubi, who auto-qualified in the 60m for the RSEQ championships. Will Flett just missed the conference standard despite a dodgy hamstring in his first foray over the forty-inch sprint hurdles and the flat 60m. Joshua Haughton demonstrated remarkable consistency in the 60m, pointing to a qualifying time later this season. In the 600m and the 1,000m, rookie Duncan Gray moved closer to championship standard with a personal best in each event. Macauley Blaine set a PB in his chase for a lane in an RSEQ 3,000m field loaded with national team members. In a breakout meet, Christine Ani-Asamani broke her 300m personal best by over a second before delivering a standout 4x200m relay leg to put her team in the end-of-season medal conversation.
Basu and Appiah-Kubi are off for a pair of meets at Harvard and Boston University, possibly the fastest track in North America. The rest of the team is moving into a reload training block as they prepare for the Windsor Team Challenge in early February.
There is nothing like lining up next to an Olympic finalist and triple national record holder to start the RSEQ conference season. That was the scenario for Ravens speedster Michaella Appiah-Kubi in the qualifying rounds of the 60m at the L’Université de Sherbrooke Vert et Or Invitational on January 10. Michaella kept Canadian Olympian and triple national record holder Audrey Leduc in sight and moved on to the semi-finals, where she just missed her personal best, but hit the automatic qualifier standard for the conference championships.
Rose Basu, fresh off a December 2025 pre-season 60m personal best and Ravens all-time number two performance of 7.67, was Carleton University’s top performer in Sherbrooke in the short sprint and also an auto-qualifier for the RSEQ championships. Despite being in the middle of a heavy training block, she managed tenth place in a stacked field that included Leduc as well as two other members of Canada’s 4x100m sprint relay program.
On the men’s side, the 60m saw the debut of talented newcomers to a Ravens squad deep in a rebuilding phase. Cole Simard opened his season in the 60m by making the semi-finals, auto-qualifying for the RSEQ championships, and claiming fourth place in the Ravens all-time event ranking. Freshman Will Flett took a break in his preparation for the hurdles, where he must move up from the 36 inch high school barriers to the 42 inch university ones, to test out his early season speed development in the 60m and claim ninth spot in the Ravens all-time rankings.
Simard and Flett teamed up with Ali Kalkas and Daniel Grebb to form a 4x200m relay team that may have RSEQ medal prospects if they can fine-tune their baton passing. Carleton’s defending RSEQ 4x200m women’s relay bronze medalists of Rose Basu, Michaella Appiah-Kubi, Jiire Fowler, and Christine Ani-Asamani also displayed strong early season form, signalling that they, too, could be in the hunt for hardware at the conference championships.
Elsewhere on the track Carlyn Brunette, Daniel Greb, Ashley Olar, Madison White, Duncan Gray, and Cameron Belleuille all posted personal bests in their events.
