SUBMITTED PHOTO - Jayel Dovichak (left), coach Sean Freeman and Elic Ayomanor pose during the Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships in Nova Scotia this past weekend.
Before he heads south of the border to pursue his football dreams, Elic Ayomanor had one last thing to cross off his list of athletic achievements.
The Medicine Hat athlete won a gold medal at the Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships in Nova Scotia this past weekend, pairing with three other sprinters to win the 4×100 metre relay for under-18 boys.
Paired with Mason Sartain, Ryan Wright and Shen Arnett, the Alberta team ran 42.34 seconds in the relay, winning their heat and the gold medal, two-tenths better than the Saskatchewan team that won the other heat.
Ayomanor, who starred for Hat High’s Mohawks in his Grade 10 year of high school football, is moving to New Jersey where he’ll attend Peddie School, a high-profile institution which has graduated numerous athletes to the NCAA and NFL ranks.
He ran a 22.74-second 200 metre to wind up eighth in that final, was part of a 4×400 metre team that placed sixth and was 23rd in the 400.
Bulldogs teammate Jayel Dovichak, who’s from Tilley, won silver in the under-16 girls pentathlon and was sixth in the 80 metre hurdles.
After a 12.68-second hurdles race, she had to run the event again as part of the pentathlon and posted a 12.47-second time. That, plus a time of 2:29.42 in the 800 (second), height of 1.55 metres in high jump (third), shot put throw of 8.98 metres (fifth) and long jump of 4.63 metres (sixth) gave her 3,066 points in the pentathlon. Saskatchewan’s Shelaine Pritchard was first with 3,150 points.
