{"id":22154,"date":"2018-11-09T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=22154"},"modified":"2018-11-09T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:32:26","slug":"ormond-makes-history-with-fourth-ofsaa-cross-country-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/ormond-makes-history-with-fourth-ofsaa-cross-country-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ormond makes history with fourth OFSAA Cross-Country title"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make it a clean sweep, and a new Ontario record, for Aurora\u2019s Cameron (Cami) Ormond.
\nOrmond made history in Dundas on Saturday in capturing her fourth straight OFSAA cross country gold medal, the first woman to ever do so while becoming the second to win four throughout her high school career.
\nThe Grade 12 student said breaking the OFSAA record was \u201can amazing feeling.\u201d
\n\u201cI felt so much support from my family, teammates, competitors, and all of the spectators leading up to, during, and after the race,\u201d said Ormond. \u201cI\u2019m very happy to have ended my high school cross country career on a great note.\u201d
\nFinishing the six-kilometre course in a time of 23:01.7, Ormond crossed the line just under twelve seconds ahead of her nearest competitor.
\nShe called the race \u201ctactical\u201d, adding that the frontrunners were often bunched up on the narrow course making passing difficult.
\n\u201cI used to larger hill on the course to pull away from the group, and from there just tried to keep a steady pace to the finish line,\u201d said Ormond. \u201cIt was a great weather to run in, and I really liked the course.\u201d
\n Battling a few minor injuries for a few weeks prior that put her record contention on the line, she credits her mother Sue, who works in muscle activation, for getting her race-ready.
\n\u201cI cannot express how grateful I am for all her work and patience.\u201d
\nYet despite making history, the Aurora High School senior continues to stay humble about her achievements.
\n\u201cI was just excited to be there at OFSAA, and glad I was able to perform the way I did.\u201d
\nThough a competitor by the name of Kathy Butler, a multi-time Olympian, accomplished four gold medals in OFSAA cross-country in the late 1980s, it took her five years to do so. Two male competitors have ever accomplished the feat.
\nFor the elite athlete, there\u2019s no slowing down: next up is a trip to Seneca College this weekend for provincials with her club team, the Newmarket Huskies, before nationals in Kingston later this month, something Ormond said she is \u201cdefinitely looking forward to.\u201d
\nOrmond plans on staying in Canada to attend university while running for the school\u2019s athletic program. She hopes to study engineering.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make it a clean sweep, and a new Ontario record, for Aurora\u2019s Cameron (Cami) Ormond.
\nOrmond made history in Dundas on Saturday in capturing her fourth straight OFSAA cross country gold medal, the first woman to ever do so while becoming the second to win four throughout her high school career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2018-11-08-06.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5Lk","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 03:44:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}