{"id":131034,"date":"2025-01-23T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/?p=131034"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:38:30","slug":"aidan-goslett-and-marisha-thompson-named-under-armour-athletes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/u-sports\/aidan-goslett-and-marisha-thompson-named-under-armour-athletes-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Goslett and Marisha Thompson named Under Armour Athletes of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Running<\/em> and Under Armour have teamed up for the 2025 Canadian U Sports indoor track and field season to highlight some of the nation\u2019s brightest talents. Each week, leading up to the 2025 U Sports Track and Field Championships in Windsor, Ont., in March, Canadian Running<\/em> will select one male and one female athlete as the Under Armour Athletes of the Week.<\/p>\n

The athlete of the week will be a male and female track and field athlete who achieved a standout performance, broke a school record or crushed a personal best. These athletes will be featured on the Canadian Running <\/em>site and awarded the UA Infinite Elite running shoe. Dalhousie University’s Aidan Goslett<\/strong> and University of Victoria’s Marisha Thompson <\/strong>have been chosen as this week’s Under Armour U Sports Athletes of the Week for their performances on Jan. 16-17.<\/p>\n

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Marisha Thompson, University of Victoria (CanWest)<\/h2>\n

At last Friday’s University of Washington (UW) Preview meet at Dempsey Indoor facility in Seattle, University of Victoria’s (UVic) Marisha Thompson\u00a0<\/strong>demolished the 3,000m auto-qualifying time standard (Auto-Q) by exactly 10 seconds, running a massive personal best time of 9:20.38. Racing against NCAA athletes, the 22-year-old took eighth overall.<\/p>\n

“I am still kind of in shock about it,” Thompson told Canadian Running. <\/em>“I feel like I\u2019m kind of living a dream. It\u2019s going to be a race I\u2019ll never forget.” The race marked Thompson’s return to the indoor track after years of injury\u2013although the athlete is in her third year of her psychology degree at UVic, it’s only her first year using U Sports eligibility.<\/p>\n

“The race went out harder than expected, but then settled into a good pace,” she continued. “I started to fade a bit going into the mile mark, but there was a bit of a switch that went off going into three laps to go\u2013I just started to make moves.”<\/p>\n

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