Epp, Jamie
Athlete
Inducted: 2011, Cross Country
Other Sports: Track and Field,
For five consecutive seasons from 1999 to 2003, Jamie Epp dominated distance running in both
cross country and track & field being named a First Team All-Canadian eight
times – four times in track & field and four in cross country and a nine
time Canada West All-Star – four times in track & field and five times in
cross country.
He won the 1,500-metre CIS race three times and the CIS
3,000-metres once. He was twice the CIS cross country champion – the first and
only Huskie athlete to do so. He was also a member of the 2001-02 CIS champion
Huskie men’s track & field team and four Canada West champion track &
field teams.
Jamie holds the Huskie Athletics 3000-metres record at 8:14.96. He
is decorated with awards winning the CIS Cross Country Athlete of the Year
twice, the Canada West Male Track Athlete of the Year, SaskSport Male Athlete
of the Year as well as the E. Kent Phillips Trophy for Huskie Athletics Male
Athlete of the Year.
Jamie was a member of five national teams including the
PanAm Junior Championships, the World Junior Cross Country Championship, the
World University Cross Country Championships twice and the World Senior Cross
Country Championship.
He graduated from the College of Kinesiology in 2003.
