Lucia Stafford (Year 4 CivE), a middle distance runner, has secured an Olympic berth as Athletics Canada announced their national team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games next month.
Stafford finished second in the women’s 1500m at the Olympic Trials. As a Varsity Blue, Stafford was a cross country phenom, helping the Blues to the 2017 national title, while winning both championship races to be named OUA and U SPORTS female athlete of the year in 2019.
On the track, she is a four-time OUA all-star and three-time U SPORTS all-Canadian. She was named the winner of the 2018 Dr. Wendy Jerome Trophy as the OUA female most valuable performer and wrapped up her intercollegiate career as U of T’s T-Holders’ female athlete of the year and the OUA female athlete of the year across all sports in 2019-20.
Her last international appearance came with two fifth-place finishes in the 1500m and 4×400 relay at the 2019 FISU Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.