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REDS Grab Relay Gold On Day 1 Of AUS Championships

UNB's Allison Dewar races a leg of the REDS 4-by-200-metre gold medal effort on Day 1 of the AUS Track & Field Championships, in Moncton. (PHOTO: Normand Leger/for U de Moncton Athletics)
UNB's Allison Dewar races a leg of the REDS 4-by-200-metre gold medal effort on Day 1 of the AUS Track & Field Championships, in Moncton. (PHOTO: Normand Leger/for U de Moncton Athletics)
Results
February 20, 2026

(MONCTON, NB) Oliver Arnfast led the UNB REDS with a pair of gold medals on the first day of competition at the 2026 Atlantic University Sport Track & Field Championships, in Moncton.

Arnfast won the men's pole vault and 60-metre hurdles.

In the 60-metre hurdles, Arnfast and Dalhousie's Jonah Gratton ran a virtual dead heat with Arnfast edging Gratton by 2/1000ths of a second, 8.426 seconds to 8.428 seconds.

Jared Howse won the men's 3000-metres and UNB won the men's 4-by-800-metre relay, beating second place STFX by almost eight seconds.

Hannah Barnard and Haley Angus led the REDS women, winning the high jump and triple jump respectively.

In the women's 4-by-200-metre relay, UNB beat Dal by 14/100ths of a second for the gold medal.

UNB ran second in the women's 4-by-800.

Sierra Rodrigues earned the silver medal in the women's 1000-metres while Anna Somers was second in the 300-metres.

In the women's 60-metre hurdles, Allison Dewar took the bronze medal with teammate Anne Vogt a close fourth.

Caden Wolverton was second in the men's 300-metres, finish 3/10ths of a second out of first, and Hayden McKinnon grabbed the bronze medal in the men's 1000-metres.

UNB was second in the men's 4-by-200-metre relay.

The conference championship meet concludes Saturday.

 

STORY BY: Andy Campbell/UNB REDS

PHOTOS BY: Normand Leger/for U de Moncton Athletics