Chloe VidAmour and Jordan Collison of the University of Windsor Lancers track and field team have earned awards following the completion of the 2025-26 OUA Track & Field season. VidAmour has been awarded the Female Community Service Award and Collison was named the Male Assistant Coach of the Year.
The Female Community Service Award goes to a student-athlete who demonstrates excellence in athletes, academics, and community service. VidAmour is the first Lancer to win this award since Stefanie Smith in 2017-18.
Away from the track, VidAmour works as an APEX Program Coordinator with the University of Windsor, volunteering with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She organizes programs, oversees participants and volunteers, recruitment, financials, and is the primary communicator with community partners. This experience has allowed VidAmour to launch the APEX-STEPS program in 2025, expanding this programming into secondary schools across the Greater Essex County District School Board and adapt the programming for school-based settings.
VidAmour, a fourth-year jumper, won the bronze medal in triple jump at the OUA Championships on Feb. 20-21 with a season-best distance of 12.09m. She won triple jump at Grand Valley State University earlier this season and earned a podium finish on four other occasions during the season.
Collison, the Lancer track and field distance coach and head coach of the cross country team, has been awarded the OUA Male Assistant Coach for the success that his athletes have had. He becomes the first male Lancer coach to win this award, and first since Tina Sharman won the Female Assistant Coach of the Year last season.
Collison's accomplishments this season include overseeing numerous provincial medals, U SPORTS auto-qualifications, and records. This includes coaching
Isabella Goveia to break Olympian Melissa Bishop's school record in the 1000m, win OUA bronze, and auto-qualify for U SPORTS,
Noah Costa and
Abdullahi Abdullahi finishing first and second in the OUA Championships in the 1000m, and both the men's and women's 4x800m teams winning OUA gold and qualifying for U SPORTS. He has also overseen four additional OUA medals and five more U SPORTS qualifications.
Under Collison, Lancer distance runners contributed 91 points towards the men's and women's overall scores at the OUA Championships, earning the women a team bronze medal and men fourth place. Throughout the season, 10 individual athletes and two relay teams moved into the Lancer all-time top-10 lists or improved upon their positions. This success has been achieved through frequent goal meetings with athlete and advocacy for athletes within the university for higher level opportunities, and ensures that the busy schedules of student-athlete are accommodated for in training.
