Future, Current, and Former Huskies Poised to Shine at 2025 Canadian Track & Field Championships

OTTAWA, Ont. – Wednesday, July 30, 2025, marks the official begin of the 2025 Canadian Track & Field Championships, introduced by Bell, for over 1,500 athletes from throughout the nation. Among these competing on the Terry Fox Athletic Facility are 26 with ties to the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Huskie Track & Field Team. 12 present student-athletes, 4 incoming recruits, and 10 alumni will compete in occasions starting from hurdles to discus, aiming to take their place on the rostrum among the many finest in Canadian athletics.

“The Canadian Track and Field Championships is always an exciting competition for our Huskie athletes,” mentioned Huskie Track & Field Head Coach Jason Reindl. “Paige and Hannah are coming off a very successful FISU World Championship and we have a number of athletes in the U20 age group who are ranked 1st in the country (Hussey, Pinno, Woodhouse, and Mathieson) which goes to show just how bright the future is within our program. Seeing several of our alumni competing as well is always just awesome to watch as they continue to pursue excellence in the sport.”

Future, present, and previous Huskie athletes are featured in two classes on the Canadian Track & Field Championships, with 11 competing amongst U20 athletes and 15 within the Senior class.

Highlighting the U20 athletes are 4 present and incoming student-athletes in Michael Hussey (Saskatoon, SK), Nathan Pinno (Fort Saskatchewan, AB), Hailee Woodhouse (Dilke, SK), and Alyssa Mathieson (Sylvan Lake, AB) who every rank first of their respective occasions.

Hussey is within the midst of his first offseason following an incredible rookie marketing campaign final season. The middle-distance specialist turned heads simply weeks into his freshman marketing campaign, setting a U20 Canadian document on the Penn State Open in February earlier than claiming Canada West bronze in each the 600m and as a member of the 4x400m relay staff on the convention championships. He now heads to Ottawa with a season’s better of 1:48.03 within the 800m, over two tenths higher than the second-ranked athlete. 

Nathan Pinno is one other athlete coming off a powerful introductory season into U SPORTS Track & Field. Specializing in throws, Pinno’s rookie season was highlighted by a Third-place end on the Pandas Open in Edmonton adopted by a powerful exhibiting on the 2025 Canada West Championships which noticed him simply miss the shot-put podium with a 4th-place throw of 15.54m. This week, he enters competitors because the top-ranked athlete in shot put and the one athlete to surpass the auto qualification commonplace of 17.00m, incomes a season’s better of 17.98m. Additionally, he ranks second in discus with a throw of 51.01m and is one in all three athletes who earned auto qualification. 

As for incoming recruits, Hailee Woodhouse and Alyssa Mathieson enter the Canadian Championships as top-ranked athletes within the 400m and excessive soar, respectively. Woodhouse, a sprints specialist, topped the rankings with a 400m time of 54.03 seconds, which she ran on the Saskatchewan Canada Games Trials & Provincial Championships in June. She may also compete within the 200m, proudly owning a private better of 24.30 seconds. Meanwhile, Mathieson at present sits atop the rankings with a season’s finest soar of 1.71m, achieved on the ASAA Track & Field Championships in Calgary simply final month. 

All 4 athletes may also be featured within the 2025 Canada Summer Games in August, with Michael Hussey, Nathan Pinno, and Hailee Woodhouse set to compete for Team Saskatchewan whereas Alyssa Mathieson will swimsuit up for Team Alberta. In complete, 33 Huskie student-athletes will characterize their provinces in St. John’s subsequent month.

Four extra U20 athletes enter the week ranked within the prime 10 of their respective occasions. Jocelyn Hanson ranks sixth whereas Logan Schmidt ranks tenth within the excessive soar, and Logan Kok sits sixth in 110m hurdles and seventh within the decathlon. 

Turning consideration to the senior class, The Canadian Championships will mark a fast turnaround for present Huskie student-athletes Paige Willems (Saskatoon, SK) and Hannah Hagerty (Regina, SK), who each not too long ago represented Canada on the 2025 FISU Summer Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany. 

Willems, who will compete within the 400m this week, returned from abroad with some worldwide {hardware} after serving to the Canadian 4x400m staff declare bronze. A sprints specialist, Willems ran lead within the relay remaining, setting her staff up for a podium end with a time of three:34.16. Her FISU success comes after one other unbelievable season in inexperienced & white through which she helped the Dogs declare a seventh consecutive Canada West Title and U SPORTS Bronze medal. Individually, she added 5 medals to her spectacular profession, three on the convention championships (Gold – 4x200m, 4x400m; Silver – 300m) and a pair of silver medals at nationals as a part of the Huskie 4x200m and 4x400m relay groups. 

For Hagerty, she enters the weekend because the No. 2-ranked athlete set to compete within the lengthy soar because of a season’s finest soar of 6.28m achieved final week on the FISU Summer Games. Similarly to her Huskie teammate, Hagerty additionally added {hardware} to her inexperienced and white resume this previous season. At the Canada West Championships, she earned a pair of gold medals within the lengthy soar and as a member of the USask 4x200m relay staff. She then closed out the 2024-25 marketing campaign with a 4x200m silver medal and Sixth-place end on the U SPORTS National Championships.

Two extra athletes head into the week ranked within the respective occasions in Jennifer Weber and Tyrell Sawatzky, each of whom are Huskie Track & Field alumni. Weber at present sits fifth in shot put because of a season’s finest throw of 13.74m whereas Sawatzky enters because the No. 7-ranked athlete with finest toss of 46.08m.

Additional alumni headed to Ottawa embody Michael Akintunde (lengthy soar | 3x CW All-Star, 2x U SPORTS All-Canadian), Daniel Yetman (triple soar), Gracie Fletcher (Anderson) (100m, 200m | 2x CW All-Star, 2x U SPORTS All-Canadian), Kaitlyn Harrison (400m, 800m, 1500m | 5x CW All-Star, 3x U SPORTS All-Canadian), Avery Pearson (800m | 16x CW All-Star, 11x U SPORTS All-Canadian), Jenica Swartz (800m, 1500m | 4x CW All-Star, 4x U SPORTS All-Canadian), Julianne Labach (800m | 6x CW All-Star, 4x U SPORTS All-Canadian), and Courtney Hufsmith (1500m | 6x CW All-Star, U SPORTS All-Canadian). 

Rounding out the Huskie connections are present student-athletes Joshua Tam (pole vault), Geovanne Powell (100m, 200m), and Selene Keyowski (100m, 100m hurdles | 2x CW All-Star, U SPORTS All-Canadian) who might be getting into their third- and fourth-years with the USask Track & area program. 

See under for the entire checklist of the Huskies set to compete within the 2025 Canadian Track & Field Championships, introduced by Bell. Head to athletics.ca for extra info or click on HERE for the composite occasion schedule. Fans may also watch their favourtie Huskies in motion HERE or observe on with stay outcomes HERE. 

 

Huskie Connections on the 2025 Canadian Track & Field Championships