Canadian Working and Underneath Armour have teamed up for the 2025 Canadian U Sports activities indoor monitor and area season to spotlight a number of the nation’s brightest abilities. Every week, main as much as the 2025 U Sports activities Observe and Area Championships in Windsor, Ont., in March, Canadian Working will choose one male and one feminine athlete because the Underneath Armour Athletes of the Week.

The athlete of the week will likely be a female and male monitor and area athlete who achieved a standout efficiency, broke a college report or crushed a private finest. These athletes will likely be featured on the Canadian Working website and awarded the UA Infinite Elite operating shoe. College of Manitoba’s Tyrell Davis and Université Laval’s Mia Larochelle have been chosen as this week’s Underneath Armour U Sports activities Athletes of the Week for his or her performances on Jan. 24-25.

Tyrell Davis, College of Manitoba (CanWest)

At Saskatoon’s Knights of Columbus Indoor Video games final Friday, College of Manitoba’s Tyrell Davis secured his spot at U Sports activities, demolishing the 60m auto-qualifying time customary (Auto-Q) by 5 hundredths of a second. Within the course of, the 20-year-old took down his faculty’s 50m report with an excellent 5.83-second efficiency. (Though the occasion will not be an official U-Sports activities distance, the time is transformed to an equal 60m time of 6.71.) Davis, the reigning U Sports activities silver medallist, now sits on the prime of the nationwide leaderboard.

“The race felt fairly good,” Davis informed Canadian Working. “My warmth and ultimate seemed very totally different. In my warmth, the place I ran 5.83, I acquired out of the blocks very effectively, however didn’t shut as effectively. My ultimate, after I ran 5.85, was the polar reverse–I used to be principally asleep within the blocks, however closed very effectively.” Each instances convert to sooner 60m runs than he achieved throughout the 2023-24 season. “I’m very excited to see the time after I put a full race collectively,” the Winnipeg native added.

Davis is eyeing the person and group podiums on the upcoming championships. “My objectives for the season can be to win each CanWest and U Sports activities within the 60m,” he mentioned. “[I’d also like to] reclaim the CanWest banner for the fourth 12 months in a row with my group, and win the U Sports activities group banner for the primary time in virtually 30 years.” Final 12 months, the Bisons males’s group took second total at U Sports activities.

Full outcomes from the Knights of Columbus Video games might be discovered right here.

Mia Larochelle, Université Laval (RSEQ)

Eventually Friday’s McGill Group Problem in Montreal, Université Laval’s Mia Larochelle mechanically booked her ticket to March’s U Sports activities Championships in her first-ever race. The 20-year-old had by no means competed earlier than, however clocked an astounding 9:28.54 within the 3,000m, profitable by greater than eight seconds and surpassing the Auto-Q customary of 9:30.38.

“I simply ran with out considering an excessive amount of–I nonetheless don’t absolutely understand what I achieved,” she informed Canadian Working. “I used to be centered on pushing myself to be first, as quick as I may. My solely objective was to cross the end line in first place as shortly as potential, so I did what I needed to do.” Her debut efficiency launches her into the #2 spot on the U Sports activities leaderboard.

The next day, the Quebec native took second within the 1,500m, clocking 4:30.96. She now sits within the eleventh spot for the occasion–nonetheless a contender to maneuver on to the nationwide championships.

Larochelle is a former NCAA DI soccer participant at Nicholls State College in Louisiana, the place she acquired injured throughout her fall season. Final month, she made the choice to maneuver again to Quebec, shift her focus to operating cross-country and monitor, and be a part of the Rouge et Or squad. “Working has all the time been part of my life,” she mentioned. “Not only for enjoyable, however as a daily follow.” Her father was additionally an avid runner.

Larochelle says she has lofty objectives for the U Sports activities season and past. “I’m centered on profitable a medal at provincials within the 3,000m,” she mentioned. “I actually need to take first place there and carry that momentum into the U Sports activities Championships, the place I’ll goal to do the identical.”

The primary-year enterprise scholar additionally revealed {that a} Canadian report might be inside attain. “I’ve my eyes on breaking Ceili McCabe‘s U23 report of 8:50.44,” she revealed. “It’s an enormous objective, however I’m undoubtedly pushing myself to see how shut I can get this season. Hitting that U23 report is certainly on my radar, however proper now I’m prioritizing my race technique and constructing consistency, so I can obtain these podium finishes,” she added.

Full outcomes for the McGill Group Problem might be discovered right here.