Athletes of the week

Celia Peters, Track & Field

Celia Peters

Simon Watts

Celia Peters produced an outstanding series of results at the AUS Track and Field Championships in Moncton this weekend, earning her both the female MVP of the Championships award and the AUS Track & Field Female Athlete of the Year award. She shattered the 15-year old AUS 600-metre record of 1:34.37 with her personal best effort of 1:32.23. Celia then made up a seven second deficit in the 4x800-metre relay to overtake the St. FX team, running an excellent 2:12 split. She also won the 1000 metres race by 6/100ths of a second in a near-record 2:54.45 over Ashley Ryer from Saint Mary's. A fourth-year international development studies student from New Glasgow, N.S., Ms. Peters also demonstrated her versatility by anchoring the winning 4x200-metre team. 

Simon Watts, Track & Field

Simon Watts demonstrated his dominance at the AUS Championships and earned AUS Track & Field Male Athlete of the Year. He had a record-setting 2.11 metre high jump, bettering both his own Dalhousie record for the fourth time this year and shattering the AUS high jump record by 8 centimetres, increasing on his national lead in the high jump. The previous record of 2.03 metres was set 25 years ago in 1985. Mr. Watts is in his second year of Kinesiology and hails from Prospect, N.S.