Myer grad vaults into history
Two graduates of high schools in the Niagara region are Brock University’s top athletes for the week ending Sunday.
Michael Ivanov, from Niagara Falls and A.N. Myer, made program history at the 2024 U Sports Track and Field Championships with a jump of 4.75 metres in the pole vault.
He finished 20 centimetres ahead of the fourth-place finisher for the bronze medal, the first medal in track and field at nationals in the history of the Brock program.
Besides adding his name to the track and field record book at the school, the business major also bettered his fifth-place finish in the same event a year ago.
Sadie Dick, a St. Catharines native who attended Governor Simcoe
Secondary School and transferred to Brock after starting her post-secondary career at the University of Pittsburgh, earned female athlete of the week honours helping the Badgers to their third consecutive Ontario University Athletics volleyball championship.
The junior had a team-high 37 attack attempts from the right-side position and finished with a .297 hitting percentage in a four-set victory over McMaster — 22-25, 2520, 25-21, 25-16 — in the provincial final.
Dick also led the team with 15 kills and added three blocks for a teamhigh 18 points as the top-seeded Badgers defeated No. 3 McMaster before a sold-out Bob Gymnasium last Friday in St. Catharines.
Brock (18-2, regular season; 3-0, playoffs) enters the national championship beginning Friday in Hamilton seeded third behind Manitoba (20-4, 5-0) and British Columbia (22-2, 4-1).
The OUA’s other entry, the host McMaster Marauders (15-5, 2-1), are seeded seventh in the field of eight.
The Badgers face the sixth-seeded Acadia Axewomen (15-5, 4-2), the champion from the Atlantic Conference, in a quarterfinal beginning at 8 p.m.
The game is available on the CBC Sports YouTube channel.
The U Sports women’s volleyball championship wraps up Sunday with the fifth-place final at noon, the bronze medal game at 2 p.m., and the championship match at 6 p.m.