McMullin & Kramo sparkle during record-setting day at NCSSAA track & field
May 27, 2026
By Isabella Disley
Grade 11 Louis-Riel high school student Mallea McMullin broke the eight-year-old senior girls’ javelin record at the 2026 NCSSAA Track and Field Championships at Terry Fox Athletic Facility. Photo: Isabella Disley
If ever there was a competition for who could throw their hockey stick farthest, put your money on Mallea McMullin. In reality, the back-to-back OFSAA javelin champion’s talents in her summertime pursuit aren’t tied terribly closely to her standout hockey skills, but the all-around athlete seems to star on any sports stage.
“My dad used to throw in high school, and he thought I’d be pretty good at it,” explains McMullin. “Then I just kept on improving from there, so I stuck to it.”
A novice and junior provincial high school champion in 2024 and 2025, the Grade 11 Louis-Riel student established a new record for the senior girls’ javelin event on the second day of the May 20-21 national capital championships at Terry Fox Athletic Facility.
McMullin launched the javelin 42.23 metres – 40 centimetres farther than anyone else before her – and then pronounced herself mildly satisfied.
Senior girls’ javelin record holder Mallea McMullin. Photo: Isabella Disley
“It always feels good to break the record,” she says. “I guess I’m a bit disappointed I didn’t get a personal best, but I’m really happy about it.”
McMullin started throwing javelin in Grade 9, while prioritizing her competitive hockey career.
The Nepean Junior Wildcats forward has committed to Clarkson University to play NCAA women’s hockey for the Golden Knights come the fall of 2027 alongside Nepean teammate Jordan Mulvihill.
McMullin enjoyed an excellent Ontario Women’s Hockey U22 Elite League season this winter, leading her Wildcats in scoring with 26 goals and 39 assists in 46 games.
She has her eyes set on studying engineering or business at Clarkson, but will have a whole academic year to think about her program of choice.
The Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club athlete plans to continue pursuing javelin during summers, when she isn’t at the rink.
With javelin being a less common sport, McMullin appreciates the chance to bring her pursuit to the forefront.
“I think that we get lots of representation in the running events and not much in the throwing events, so I like that I can represent,” she says of her Louis-Riel Rebelles. “They’re all very supportive. Our sprinting is very good. They try to come in between their races to come watch me throw, and our coaches are definitely good.”
Lions teammates/rivals chase records/each other
Ange-Mathis Kramo (left) and Ayoub Shangai (right). Photo: Isabella Disley
Ottawa Lions teammates Ange-Mathis Kramo of Paul-Desmarais and Ayoub Shangai of Louis-Riel have been drafting off each other for the past couple of years as they continuously compete against each other in 200 m and 400 m races.
Last season, Kramo set a new east regional record in the senior boys’ 200 m a year after establishing new junior boys’ city benchmarks. Rinsing and repeating this season, the Grade 12 sprinter broke Will Batley of West Carleton’s city finals meet record.
He stopped the clock faster in preliminaries at 21.26 seconds but the 2.4 metres per second wind reading was above the 2.0 limit for the record books. But Kramo’s 21.29 performance in finals stood up and edged the 21.56 runner-up time of Shangai, who finished just .02 behind Batley’s previous mark.
“The prelims felt pretty good. In the final, I gave everything I had. (Shangai) was on my ass right behind me, so I had to push off, and broke the meet record,” Kramo recounts, before adding with emphasis and motivation: “I’m gonna keep on breaking records over and over.”
Ange-Mathis Kramo. Photo: Isabella Disley
Kramo and Shangai were both members of last summer’s Canadian-champion U20 men’s 4×400-m relay squad with the Lions, and were named 2025 Ottawa Sports Awards male team of the year. They both love their high school rivalry and are fully invested in it.
“It’s really good to have a rivalry, especially if it’s someone close to you,” Shangai highlights. “Not only do I always compete against him on the track, but I basically see him every day at training and everything. It actually helps us bond and push each other.
“So, technically,” he smiles, “without me, he wouldn’t have broken the record.”
Ayoub Shangai. Photo: Isabella Disley
Kramo also edged Shangai in the senior boys’ 400 m by .05 with his winning time of 48.59, while Shangai added a third silver medal in the 100 m, where he missed gold behind Franco-Ouest’s Anderson Alexandre by .01 in 10.97.
Playful trash talk aside, Kramo was more than happy to give his teammate and friend his due.
“It brings up the hype at the races, brings up the hype during practice,” Kramo signals. “We’re like annoying each other, and we still push each other. At the end of the day, I think that’s what matters the most.”
New pole vault record & many more
McMullin and Kramo weren’t the only record breakers at the city finals meet.
Glebe’s Anabelle Muir set a new junior girls’ pole vault record with a height that would have won OFSAA last year. She cleared 3.47 m to surpass the previous height of 3.05 m belonging to Team Canada paddler Amelia Wojtyk.
Ottawa Tech’s Molly Boisseau and Melodie Wardle broke the girls’ intellectual shot put record with a distance of 5.06 m and 4.96 m, respectively. In the boys’ intellectual shot put division, Ottawa Tech’s Kahyden Matti established with a new mark with his 12.16 m effort, while Lisgar’s Noah Lamoureux came in second, also surpassing the record distance with a 10.93 m shot.
In the boys’ intellectual 800 m, Immaculata’s Grayson LeBlanc and Ottawa Tech’s Kaiem Lemay both broke the record as they finished side-by-side in 2:29.87 and 2:29.98, respectively.
Meanwhile, there were two athletes who dominated all the vertical and horizontal jump events in their categories.
Sir Robert Borden’s Roxy Gardiner won the senior girls’ high jump, long jump and triple jump, while Garneau’s Maxime Cazabon topped all junior boys’ jumps.
The race of the day went to novice girls Keira Ganton of Maplewood, Roan Gerth of Glebe and Colonel By’s Zoe Allina, who all ran 3,000 m to finish within a tenth of a second of one another. Ganton took the top of the podium in 11:11.22, Gerth was second in 11:11.24 and Allina third in 11:11.31.
The Louis-Riel Rebelles earned the distinction of the inaugural winners of the first 4×400 m mixed relay.
Ottawa’s top high school track and field athletes are set to compete again Thursday in Brockville at the east regional championships, with tickets to June 4-6 OFSAA in St. Catharines on the line.