Athletes of the Week - September 3-9

Athletes of the Week - September 3-9

Madison Scrimger 

Third-year Rattlers runner Madison Scrimger recorded her first-ever ACAC Cross Country race win on Saturday in Edmonton. The 19-year old nursing student established an early lead and never looked back, stopping the clock in a time of 25:36 for the 6 km rolling course in Gold Bar Park. Scrimger was 24 seconds ahead of second place finisher Ashlee Walker of the host school Concordia University of Edmonton.

 

Michael Valk

The 2023 Golf of the Year, Michael Valk, opened up the ACAC Golf season in the only way he knows. After the first two rounds of the competition, Michael Valk topped the leaderboard with a total to par of -9, putting himself as the the only golfer under par in the tournament.

This new season is the last run for Valk to accomplish what slept through his hands last year. After last year CCAA silver medal, there is only one extra step left to be conquered by him. In his last year of eligibility, the Power Engineering student-athlete is local talent from Medicine Hat that has being conquering ACAC and CCAA.