Ravens Track and Field (Photos: Sean Burges, Mundo Sports Images)
Despite having only ten women competing across seven of the seventeen events on the program, the Carleton Ravens achieved a fifth-place finish at the 2026 RSEQ Conference Track and Field Championships.
Third-year sprinter Rose Basu led the way with a personal best run of 7.56 seconds in the 60m to claim the bronze medal and just missed the Ravens event record of 7.54. Michaella Appiah-Kubi ran a PB in the 60m ‘B’ final to finish ninth and a single spot out of the point scorers. Kierra McGillivray and Madison White also jumped on the short sprint PB train, with McGillivray teaming up with Basu, Appiah-Kubi, and Christine Ani-Asamani to take home the bronze medal in the 4x200m relay later that night with a time that broke the existing Ravens record by over a second.
Basu and Appiah-Kubi came back on the Saturday to deliver clutch PBs in the 300m, vastly out-performing their seed times to earn critical points for the team ranking. Their performances moved them, respectively, to number two and three on the Ravens' all-time ranking list behind USport All-Canadian Alexandra Telford. Racing over 1,000m, Sara Gross peaked her season at the perfect time to record her best-ever time in the event.
The speed display continued with an even smaller men’s team, comprised of just five athletes competing over seven of the seventeen events. First-year engineering student Cole Simard led the conspiracy by breaking the Ravens record in the 60m heats to qualify for the ‘A’ Final, where he set his second record of the day by running 6.96 seconds to finish fifth. The other big mark on the sprint straight away came from freshman hurdler Will Flett, who qualified for the 60m hurdles final with a PB in only his second ever race over the 42-inch barriers, after racing over 36-inch hurdles in high school.
Simard would come back in the 300m to record another personal best to move into the number two position on the Ravens all-time list and a point-scoring seventh-place finish. In the 600m, rookie Duncan Gray overcame poor heat seeding to effectively run a solo time trial and record a personal best. Overall, the men finished seventh in the team title chase.
