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Posted: Nov 02, 2021

Makenna Fitzgerald Honored as 2021-22 ACAC Women’s Runner of the Year

Makenna Fitzgerald Honored as 2021-22 ACAC Women’s Runner of the Year

The Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) is pleased to announce Makenna Fitzgerald ofSAIT has been selected as the 2021-22 ACAC Women's Runner of the Year. 

Fitzgerald finished first in every Grand Prix race she participated in this season, capping off the ACAC year with a gold medal performance at the Cross-Country Running Championships hosted by the University of Alberta-Augustana on Oct. 30, 2021.

Her first-place mark of 22:20 (mins:sec) is the fastest 6-kilometre time recorded (Grand Prix or Championship) since the ACAC moved from 5km to 6km in the 2017-18 season – beating the previous record of 22:33 set by Lethbridge College's Sophia Nowicki in the 2018-19 season's second Grand Prix event in Calgary. In fact, Fitzgerald and Nowicki are the only runners since 2017-18 to break the 23-minute barrier.

Fitzgerald also becomes the first SAIT women's runner to win the individual title since Holly Ratzlaff did so in 2004-05.

"Makenna has quickly established herself as one of the best runners to ever wear our SAIT Trojans logo," said Wade Kolmel, SAIT Director of Athletics. "We are extremely proud of her, and look forward to seeing what she can do on the national stage."

Makenna Fitzgerald is a third-year Diagnostic Medical Sonography student from Kamloops, BC.