SPARTANS AIMING TO MAKE HISTORY AT NATIONALS

WINDSOR, Ontario – The back-to-back defending Canada West champion Trinity Western women's track and field team is looking to make history this weekend as it competes in the 2015 CIS national championships in Windsor, Ont. with its sights set on a program best ever finish.

The Spartans women's team finished third at the 2014 CIS national championships, behind Guelph and Toronto, but as the No. 2 ranked team going into this year's meet, TWU is looking to better last year's finish and set a new program benchmark.

The team will be led by the likes of distance runner Sarah Inglis (Falkirk, Scotland), who is ranked first in the CIS in the 3000m and second in the 1500m, Claudette Allen (New Longville, Jamaica), who enters the weekend ranked first in long jump and fifth in triple jump, Fiona Benson (Dawson Creek, B.C.), who is third in the 3000m and fourth in the 1500m, and Sabrina Nettey (Surrey, B.C.), who is third in triple jump and sixth in long jump.

Unfortunately for the Spartans, Emma Nuttall (Edinburgh, Scotland), who is the high jump record holder for both the Canada West and CIS championships, will not compete due to injury.

"We had a very strong conference championship and now I'm just hoping I didn't peak our girls too early," said TWU coach Laurier Primeau. "We're going to lose Emma Nuttall in the high jump for our national championships and that's going to hurt a little bit. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a pretty deep team and between the pole vault, the long jump and the triple jump and the way Mark Bomba has got our endurance girls going, we have lots of strengths in a variety of events."