SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Trinity Western University fourth-year Grace Konrad (Edmonton) won a silver medal in the 300m with a blistering time of 38.38 on Friday at the 2022 U SPORTS Track and Field Championships, presented by Saint John LNG, while first-year Spartan Brandon Gremaud (Kamloops, B.C.) won a bronze medal in the heptathlon with a personal best 4,743 points.
 
Konrad, who is a three-time Canada West champion in the 300m, earned her first-ever trip to the national podium after finishing fourth in 2020 and fifth in 2019. Konrad's time of 38.38 is her fastest time ever on a flat track. She will look to continue her run of success on Saturday when she runs in the 600m final, which she enters as the top seed after running the fastest time in the preliminaries, and in the 4x200m, which she anchored to fourth place in the preliminaries. 
 
Meanwhile, Gremaud was turning heads all weekend in the heptathlon, as he had five personal bests on his way to a third-place finish. Gremaud entered this weekend's event ranked 10th in U SPORTS and was coming off a sixth-place finish at the Canada West championships. In his first-ever national championship meet, Gremaud climbed the ladder to put himself on an all-Canada West podium. 
 
In the field, Sheleena Wiley (Langley, B.C.) finished seventh in long jump with a mark of 5.72m, while pole vaulter Ana Fonseca (Mexicali, Mexico) was eighth, having cleared 3.65m. 
 
Danny Earles (Conception Bay, Nfld.) was 10th in the 300m with a time of 35.64. 
 
The Spartans will wrap up the U SPORTS Championships Saturday with more medal hopefuls set to compete. 
 
TWU MEDALS (2)
WOMEN (1)
Silver (1): Grace Konrad, 300m
 
MEN
Bronze (1): Brendan Gremaud, Heptathlon 

TWU RECORDS (1)
Women
600m – Grace Konrad – 1:30.34Q
 
TWU RESULTS
*TWU Record
WOMEN
300m Preliminaries 
2nd – Grace Konrad – 38.67Q
 
Final 
2nd – Grace Konrad – 38.38
 
600m 
Preliminaries 
1st – Grace Konrad – 1:30.34*
 
Long Jump
7th – Sheleena Wiley – 5.72m 
 
Pole Vault
8th – Ana Fonseca – 3.65m 
 
4x200m 
4th – 1:42.96q
 
Men
300m Preliminaries 
10th – Danny Earles – 35.64
 
Heptathlon
3rd – Brandon Gremaud – 4743 
 
60m – Heptathlon 
2nd – Brandon Gremaud – 7.30
 
Long Jump – Heptathlon
2nd – Brandon Gremaud – 6.56m 
 
Shot Put – Heptathlon
5th – Brandon Gremaud – 12.10m 
 
High Jump – Heptathlon
7th – Brandon Gremaud – 1.75m 
 
60m Hurdles – Heptathlon 
9th – Brandon Gremaud – 9.02 
 
Pole Vault – Heptathlon 
4th – Brandon Gremaud – 4.10m 
 
1000m – Heptathlon 
9th – Brandon Gremaud – 2:59.45 
 
4x200m
7th – 1:31.09q
 
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 12 U SPORTS team championships and 29 Canada West team championships.
 
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