The MHC Cross Country/Indoor Track team is this year’s MHC Rattlers Team of the Year. The award was announced on Friday evening at the 51st annual Rattlers Athletics Awards night at the Medicine Hat Lodge.

The Team of the Year is awarded to the MHC varsity team which best exemplifies the Three Pillars of Rattlers Athletics: Athletics, Academics, and Citizenship. In the 2022-23 season, MHC runners won the team gold in ACAC women’s cross country; captured gold, silver, and bronze event medals at ACAC Indoor Track Championships; and placed 6th (women’s) and 15th (men’s) in the CCAA Cross Country Running Nationals hosted at Medicine Hat College. In the classroom, the team earned a 3.49 GPA. Rattlers runners were also active in the community raising money for the Kidney Foundation of Canada and volunteering at a number of local not-for-profit organizations and schools.

In addition to capturing the Team of the Year award, several other Rattlers Runners were honored as major award winners for the 2022-23 season. They included:

Becky Ross – MHC Female Athlete of the Year; MHC Female Rookie of the Year, CCAA Academic All Canadian

Brannon Sumner – CCAA Academic All Canadian

Madision Scrimger – MHC Female Athlete of the Year – Nominee; MHC Female Rookie of the Year – Nominee

The Rattlers Running team awards were also given out on Friday. Ross was named as the Most Outstanding Runner and Rookie Runner of the Year, while Sumner received the Cross Country/Indoor Track Rattler Award.

The MHC Rattlers Awards Banquet represented the final team activity for a number of Rattler Runners moving on next year. Sumner, Raya Grover, and Cheldynn Molnar will be pursuing studies at the University of Calgary, while Carson Schiller will start work as a paramedic in Red Deer.