The stars were out in Lloydminster last week as multiple records fell during the Northwest High Schools Athletic Association district track and field championships.
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Included in the long list of personal achievements were 17 record-setting performances from eight athletes, including the U.S. college bound Kate Fink of the host Lloydminster Comprehensive High School Barons.
Fink, an elite runner from Paradise Hill, Sask., shattered records in each of her three races in the senior girls’ division, paving her golden path toward this week’s Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association provincial championships at Saskatoon.
She broke her own record in winning the 100 metres in 11.80 seconds, eclipsing her 12.18 mark from 2025.
This year, Fink also set new standards in the senior girls’ 200 metres and 400 metres.
In the 200m, her 24.71 showing topped a 34-year-old record (26.80) that belonged to Stacey Sachko.
In the 400m, Fink erased an even older district standard. She posted a time of 59.06 seconds to push past the 59.97 record that Lori Cey established in 1987, or 39 years ago.
Fink wasn’t able to participate in last year’s Saskatchewan high school provincials because of other high-level track commitments, but she’s on board this year for the Friday and Saturday meet at Gordie Howe Sports Park.
It’s a busy month for Fink, who participated in a Florida meet this past weekend. She’s juggling her final exam schedule at Lloyd Comp to enable her to compete in Canada’s national track and field championships, which are set for June 17-21 in Ottawa.
Fink has chosen to continue her track career at the NCAA Division 1 level with Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.
An up-and-coming Lloyd Comp athlete, Joseph Kelly, has broken more ground in quadrathlon, the four-discipline competition still relatively new to high school athletics.
Kelly, a standout last year at the intermediate level, set four quad standards this year in junior boys’ events. He scored most points overall (2,372), along with record-breaking gold-medal finishes in the 100 metres (11.62), 800 metres (2:14.64) and long jump (5.48).
Kelly placed second in the quad shot put behind record-setter Grady Andersen of Carpenter High School in Meadow Lake. Andersen’s distance was 10.85 metres.
Kelly’s younger brother, Noah, represented College Park School in style. He set a bantam boys’ district record in the 100-metre preliminaries, with a time of 11.75 seconds.
Intermediate girls’ quad athlete Jael Allen of Maidstone made a big splash, setting records for most points (1,574) and victories in the 100m (14.00), 800m (3:03.12) and long jump (3.82).
Lloyd Comp’s Izzy Sebree, competing in the senior girls’ quadrathlon, established a new 100-metre standard (12.83).
In the maiden year for the Lloyd-based Pursuit School of Sport, a Pursuit student has written her name in the Northwest district record book — twice. Elle Campbell set the bantam girls’ standard as she won the 1,500 metres in 5:15.99 and the 3,000 metres in 11:32.48.
Also earning his place among the all-time Northwest record-holders is Aiden Kappel of H. Hardcastle School in Edam.
Kappel mined gold in the intermediate boys’ 100-metre hurdles in 14.21 seconds.
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