Chisholm named CDN X-C assistant

March 20, 2008
X mentor named CDN x-country assistant
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Mar 20, 2008 - StFX cross country head coach Bernie Chisholm was recently appointed as an assistant coach of the Canadian cross country team for the 2008 World University Cross Country Championship to be held in Mauquenchy, France. "I am looking forward to the world championship and I feel that this is one of the stronger teams that Canada has ever sent to the event," comments Chisholm. "It is an honor to represent Canada in international competition and the world university championship in France should be a great experience."

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Chisholm, who recently completed his 21st season as head coach of the StFX cross country team, joins head coach Shane Lakins from Queen’s University and assistant coaches Terry Goodenough from Waterloo and Vincent Paquet from Sherbrooke in completing the coaching staff of the national team, as selected by Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). The 16th Cross Country World University Championship is scheduled to take place April 5-6, 2008 in Mauquenchy, France and team Canada will be sending five female and six male runners. Peter Corrigan from the Dalhousie Tigers men’s cross country team joins Chisholm as the only other AUS representative on the team. At the 2006 World University Championship in Algeria the Canadian women placed seventh overall and the Canadian men placed eleventh, so both teams are looking to improve upon their finishes.

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Coach Chisholm has travelled to the Cross Country World University Championship on two other occasions, in 2000 and 2003, again as an assistant coach with team Canada. In other international coaching experience, he was an assistant coach with team Canada at the 1978 World Cross Country Championship in Scotland. Through his 21 year tenure ship as head coach of both the male and female cross country teams at StFX, Coach Chisholm has earned six AUS Cross Country Coach of the Year awards, six AUS championship banners (five women’s and one men’s) and this past fall coached the X-Women cross country team to their first ever medal at the CIS championship with a bronze place finish. He has also coached high school cross country in Antigonish, NS for 35 years, winning 57 provincial titles and has coached high school and university track. He was recently named the AUS Indoor Track Women’s Coach of the Year as the StFX track team had their best ever showing at the AUS championship this past February, winning 18 medals. Coach Chisholm was a distance running coach for Nova Scotia from 1976-79 and coached the 1977 Canada Games team. He was inducted into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.