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Five Varsity Blues to compete at Canadian national championships Five University of Toronto Varsity Blues will vie for a national title at the 2009 Canadian track-and-field championships and world trials June 25 to 28 at Varsity Centre. Sarah Boyle, Jason Wurster, Doug Creighton, Michael Del Monte and Kate Ruediger will represent the Varsity Blues, while 16 members of the University of Toronto Track Club (UTTC) are also set to compete this weekend. Boyle led the Blues women's track-and-field team this season with a gold medal in high jump at both the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) championships. The fourth-year Faculty of Physical Education and Health student was also the recipient of U of T's 2008-09 Clara Benson Award, given annually to the female student-athlete, in her graduating year, for outstanding ability in athletics, scholarship and values and interfaculty and community involvement. Wurster also had an impressive 2008-09 season, winning the OUA gold medal and CIS silver medal in pole vault. Named an OUA first team all-star and CIS second team all-Canadian, Wurster set the second best height in Canadian history (5.50 metres) at a meet in Rehlingen, Germany, which not only earned him a trip to the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, but also met the B standard for the world championships as well. Creighton will also compete alongside Wurster in the men's pole vault competition. The arts and science major was sixth at the OUA championships this season and went on to place just off the podium at the CIS championships, vaulting 4.70 metres, good for a fourth-place finish. The men's CIS 1,500-metre silver medallist at the inaugural Festival of Excellence, Del Monte will be battling for a top spot in the 800 metres, while Ruediger, the 2008-09 OUA women's 300-metre bronze medallist, is set to compete in both the 200-metre and 400- metre sprints. 2008 Olympian Massimo Bertocchi highlights the group of UTTC members that will also be in attendance at the national championships. Others include heptathletes Jenne Bell and Maddie Buttinger, decathlete Tyler Koskenoja, Rayann Chin in shot put and discus, Brent Roubos in the discus, high jumper Mark Dillon, triple jumper Christopher Martin, sprinter Natalie Geiger (200 metres), Sarah Katz and Michael Trnkus in the 400 metres, Daniel Chan in the 400-metre hurdles, Erika Jacobs in the 1,500 metres, Robert Kitz and Spencer Morrison in the 5,000 metres and pole vaulter Kyle Tomasello.
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