RDP Queens Indoor Track team wins gold, Kings pick up bronze at ACAC Championships

Edmonton, AB – The Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) Indoor Track team wrapped up the 2023/2024 season with a total of 15 team and individual medals at the two-day Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Indoor Track Championships.

The RDP Queens had a dominant performance, earning gold with 95 points at the University of Alberta Pavilion. The Lethbridge College Kodiaks Women's team picked up silver with 49.5 points. With 45 points, St. Mary's University sealed bronze.

The Kings solidified bronze with 63 team points. The Lethbridge College Kodiaks Men's teams won gold (101 points). The SAIT Trojans followed with 83 points, earning silver.

RDP's Zoey Longman was named ACAC Women's Indoor Track Rookie of the Year and a member of the ACAC Women's Indoor Track All-Conference team.

Longman

Teammates Laomi Rautenbach and Justine Larson joined Longman on the Women's All-Conference team.

RDP's Ben House and Ben Higham received spots on the ACAC Men's Indoor Track All-Conference team.

House

There were several remarkable individual and team relay performances from Red Deer Polytechnic student-athletes.

Longman (8.34), who is a Legal Assistant student, picked up silver in the women's 60 m final.

Rautenbach (43.54) won gold in the women's 300 m final, finishing more than two seconds faster than second place Sidney Cusak (45.92) of the University of Alberta Augustana Vikings. Then Red Deer's Rautenbach (1:43.50) earned silver in the 600 m final.

Rautenbach

Strathmore's Larson had several great races. She (3:15.49) solidified silver in the women's 1,000 m, following first place Cadence Laplante by only one hundredth of a second. Larson (5:18.41) also earned gold in the 1,500 m and bronze in the women's 3,000 m final (11:56.26).

The RDP Queens 4 x 200 m relay team (1:56.23), consisting of Alissa Berwick, Kammy Park, Myah Cota and Rautenbach, won gold. Longman, Larson, Cota and Rautenbach (4:19.65) won gold in the women's 4 x 400 m relay.

In the men's 600 m, Red Deer's House (1:25.74) captured silver. House (2:36.24) and Ben Higham (2:37.20) earned silver and bronze respectively in the men's 1,000 m final.

Higham

In the men's 3,000 m final, House (9:37.22) placed third, picking up a bronze medal.

Grant Johnson, Fraser Motley, Higham and House comprised the Kings 4 x 400 m relay team (3:41.82) that picked up silver.

With 13-of-16 student-athletes competing in their first or second years, the RDP Indoor Track team will be strong again next season.

"The team is very excited to work toward improving even more next season and bringing more hardware back to RDP," said Doug Spicer, RDP Indoor Track Head Coach. "I want to thank my assistant coaches Michael and Jenna Schnare and Noah Arychuk, along with my team."

The results from the ACAC Indoor Track Championships are available online.