DUNDURN—Dundurn’s Kaycee Schroeder exceeded her personal goals this summer by winning Triathlon Canada’s Youth Elite Series and Triathlon Canada’s National Championship.
The series has Canada’s best Under-16 athletes competing in four grueling triathlons that consist of a 500-metre swim, 10-kilometre bike and a 4-Km run.
Based on her strong performance in the 2014 series and the subsequent improvements she made in her times over the course of her training last year, going into the summer Triathlon Canada Youth Series Kaycee had hoped to finish in the top three.
At the series opener in Pike Lake near Saskatoon in June, the first stop in the four-race series, Kaycee, 15, showed that she may of set the bar a little too low. She was in the lead pack of girls the entire race and powered through the run to win by nearly a minute ahead of her nearest competitor.
In mid-July the race series moved to Quebec. On July 12 Kaycee competed in the race at Lac DeLage. She had an amazing swim, coming out of the water first. In the first transition, she hit a snag and couldn’t immediately locate her bike and missed the first pack of girls. This didn’t deter her. She powered on, catching the lead pack to return to the transition in first place. During the 4-Km run she stretched out her lead and pulled away from the field to win the second race in the series.
To learn how Kaycee did in the rest of the series, please see the Sep. 8 edition of The Davidson Leader.