If you consider wild streaks within the sport of monitor and area, some issues that come to thoughts are Usain Bolt’s reign of three straight Olympic golds within the 100m and 200m or Allyson Felix’s five-straight Olympics with a medal. However final weekend on the 2023 Atlantic College Sport (AUS) Observe & Discipline Championships in Saint John, N.B., the Dalhousie College girls’s monitor and area group received a powerful thirty third consecutive convention title, setting a U Sports activities report throughout all Canadian college sports activities.
The final time the Dalhousie girls’s monitor and area group didn’t win the AUS championship was 1989–the yr Nintendo got here out with its revolutionary Sport Boy.
The earlier report was held by the College of Toronto males’s swimming group, which received 32 consecutive OUA titles between 1960 and 1992.
Though the Dalhousie Tigers have stored profitable, there was lots of change in this system because the streak started in 1990. Dalhousie Tigers head coach Wealthy Lehman has been on the forefront of success, and is in his eleventh yr as head coach of this system, profitable the AUS girls’s group coach of the yr title eight years in a row.
“All of it comes all the way down to our teaching employees and the help we obtain from the college,” says Hannah Trites, the captain of the ladies’s monitor and area group. “The consistency and longevity that Coach Lehman and others have maintained is just a testomony to our success.”
In 2021, the Dalhousie monitor and area program made AUS historical past, marking the primary time there was a whole gender stability between coaches on employees (six male, six feminine). “Our athletes at Dal imagine having nice function fashions that encourage us on and off the monitor to attain our targets has been instrumental in getting our program to the subsequent degree,” says Trites.
“The streak means so much for our group,” Trites says. “Having our laborious work repay at our convention championship yr after yr is rewarding for all of the athletes.”
The AUS convention was as soon as often called a small convention in comparison with its competitors within the OUA (Ontario), RSEQ (Quebec), and Canada West. In recent times, packages like Dalhousie, Saint Mary’s, St. Francis Xavier and the College of New Brunswick (UNB) have all despatched athletes and groups to U Sports activities championships yearly, which has elevated competitors.
“With the depth of the AUS convention growing, our streak reveals that our program is without doubt one of the greatest within the nation,” Trites says.
