Sidney Cusack was the top Viking runner by earning a silver medal in the women’s 300-metre dash event. She is the first ever individual Augustana athlete to win a medal at the indoor championships. She also picked up a bronze in the 600-metre race and a bronze medal in the team relay.

The Vikings placed third in the women’s 4x400-metre relay with Chloe Funnell, Lara Birkill, Jhecelle Borile and Cusack crossing the line in 4:32.97.

“Last year at the championships, I finished 12th in the 300m and eighth in the 600m,” said Cusack, on her vast improvement. “Our women’s relay team was never above second, and this year, we earned a bronze in the championships.”

In the women’s 60-metre dash, Emma Sachko placed 13th in 9.01 seconds. In the 1,500-metre women’s event, Funnell came in third place. In the women’s 600-metre, Cusack also placed third and Effie Lockhart came in 13th.

On Saturday in the women’s 4x200-metre relay, the team of Hannah Taplin, Sachko, Borile and Cusack placed fourth in 2:04.87. Funnell crossed the line in fourth, and Lockhart was 13th in the women’s 1,000-metre run. Cusack grabbed second place in the women’s 300-metre dash with a time of 45.92. Teammates Borile in 16th, Birkill in 17th, Sachko in 22nd, Taplin in 26th and Jessica Andrea 27th followed her.

On the men’s side, Augustana placed 11th in the 4x400-metre relay with runners Connor Peake, James Saly, Ewan Schellenberg and Juan Garzon.

In the 60-metre dash, Deinbo Harry came in 13th. Schellenberg placed 14th in the men’s 1,500-metre run. In the 600-metre run, Garzon crossed the line in 17th, followed by Joe Mwatha in 23rd and Andres Castaneda in 24th.

On Saturday, in the men’s 4x200-metre, the Vikings finished sixth with runners Peake, Saly, Harry and Mwatha. In the men’s 300-metre dash, Peake placed 11th, Harry 20th, Garzon 22nd, Great Adele 30th and Castaneda was 31th.

In the 3,000-metre men’s event, Schellenberg came in 10th and Kunlin Ye was 12th.

Curling

The Augustana women’s rink earned bronze medals at the ACAC Championships and advanced to nationals in Fredericton, New Brunswick, March 12 to 16, where they lost 6-5 in the bronze medal match to Humber College.

Concordia beat SAIT 8-5 in the gold medal match as Alberta came close to sweeping the medals.

The Vikings lost 12-5 in the semifinals against SAIT in a wild game. Concordia beat Humber in the other semifinal.

In other games, Augustana won 10-3 over Assiniboine, beat PacWest 11-3, lost 11-7 to Humber, lost 9-1 to Concordia, lost 11-5 to SAIT, beat Mohawk College 13-2, and beat Fanshawe College 12-10, to finish the regular round at 4-3, qualifying for the playoffs.