WINDSOR -- It wasn’t the finish to the indoor track season that Kevin Tree was looking for.
The Lakehead runner placed 12th in the 3000-metre at the Canadian university national championships in Windsor on Friday.
Tree finished in a time of eight minutes and 36 seconds, about 20 seconds slower than a personal best he had set in a meet in Boston earlier in the season, breaking a 40-year-old school record in the distance.
The 21-year-old placed fourth in the distance at the OUA championships.
“It was a tough day for Tree. For whatever reason he just didn't have it today,” Lakehead coach Kip Sigsworth said in a release.
Tree, who competed at the PanAm cross-country championships in February, heads to China in two weeks for the world championships.
