Athletes of the Week

Leanne Huck

Leanne Huck is this weekÕs Dalhousie University Female Athlete of the Week. Huck, a sprinter with the track and field Tigers, recovered from a bout of the 24-hour flu on Saturday to qualify for the 60m sprint final at the 2006 CIS Track and Field championships this past weekend at the University of Saskatchewan. She followed up an impressive preliminary time of 7.71 seconds with a final time of 7.72s to place fourth overall. Huck showed steady improvement throughout the season and finished a mere 3-100ths of a second out of the medals. Huck is a third-year Kinesiology student from Hatchet Lake, NS and is also a member of the Tigers soccer team.

Geoff Harris

MALE — GEOFF HARRIS
SPORT — TRACK AND FIELD

Geoff Harris is this weekÕs Dalhousie University Male Athlete of the Week. Harris won the CIS Rookie of the Year award at a pre-championship luncheon and then went on to prove why he deserved the honour at the 2006 CIS Track and Field championships this past weekend at the University of Saskatchewan. Harris led both the preliminary and final heats in the 600m wire-to-wire to win the event making him the first rookie to win in over 15 years and the first-ever Dalhousie rookie to win a CIS track and field gold medal. He was also a member of Dalhousie's 4x800m bronze medal relay effort. In an amazing story, Harris's heel was clipped at the 100-metre-mark during the relay and he fell, causing the team to lose about 20 metres and approximately three seconds. Harris then got back on his feet and finished his leg of the race less than a metre behind the first-place runner. His successes led the Tigers to their best-ever showing at the CIS meet with a sixth-place overall team finish. Harris is a first-year Arts student from Halifax, NS.