The Windsor Lancers are pleased to announce that senior cross country stars Andrew Nebel and Stefanie Smith have been named to Team Canada for the 2018 World University Cross Country Championships in Switzerland.

The 2018 World University Cross Country Championship will be held in St. Gallen, Switzerland on Apr. 7.
 
For the official release from U SPORTS, please see below.
 
TORONTO (U SPORTS) – 2017 BLG Athlete of the Year finalist Claire Sumner of the Queen's Gaels is among a group of 11 U SPORTS All-Canadians named to Team Canada for the 2018 World University Cross Country Championship in Switzerland.  
Championship Website
 
Sumner, the reigning U SPORTS individual silver medalist is joined on the roster by 10 U SPORTS cross country All-Canadians, including Guelph's Mark Patton who took home U SPORTS team gold in November. A fifth-year life sciences student, Sumner (35^th) along with Windsor's Stefanie Smith (32^nd) return from the 2016 WUC squad, after helping Canada finish fifth in the women's competition.
Also returning from the 2016 World University Championship, Gaels assistant coach Brant Stachel will serve as head coach and team leader. Toronto Varsity Blues' Jill Mallon will serve as assistant coach, while Trinity Western therapist Katia Sanon rounds out the staff for Team Canada.  
"The opportunity to represent my school and country on the international stage is an experience that never loses its novelty. Each experience is unique and has provided me with the opportunity to develop as an athlete to be competitive in international competition and to travel to several places around the world," said Sumner. "As this is my final year as a student-athlete…I plan to treasure every moment of this opportunity and to do everything I can to be successful both individually and as a team. We have an extremely talented group of Canadian cross country runners competing at this event, so I am really looking forward to seeing what we accomplish in Switzerland."
  
TEAM CANADA ROSTER

First Name	Last Name	School	Elig.	Hometown	Program
Benjamin (Ben)	Carson	Western	4	Toronto, Ont.	Management & Organizational Studies
Aurélie	Dubé-Lavoie	Laval	2	Saint-Damien-de-Buckland, Que.	Law
Danielle	Jossinet	Guelph	3	Coburg, Ont.	Biomedical Engineering
Andrew	Nebel	Windsor	4	St. Catharines, Ont.	Criminology & Sociology
Mark	Patton	Guelph	3	Fergus, Ont.	Environmental Governance
Russell	Pennock	Calgary	3	Calgary, Alta.	Kinesiology
Kristina	Popadich	Western	4	Toronto, Ont.	Business
Sergio	Raez Villanaeuva	McMaster	2	Mississauga, Ont.	Biology (Physiology)
Angus	Rawling	StFX	3	Calgary, Alta.	Accounting
Stefanie (Stef)	Smith	Windsor	5	London, Ont.	Human Kinetics
Claire	Sumner	Queen's	5	Calgary, Alta.	Life Sciences

 
Head Coach / Team Leader: Brant Stachel, Queen's
Assistant Coach: Jill Mallon, Toronto
Therapist: Katia Sanon, Trinity Western