SMU track & field head coach Kevin Heisler announced Drew Mittelstadt as committing to the Huskies line-up for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The commitment was announced on SMU\u2019s Instagram page on March 12.
A 6\u20195\u201d jumper and sprinter from Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Mittelstadt competes for the Hants East Rural High Tigers and Truro Lions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″] Mittelstadt won the long jump at the 2024 School Sport Nova Scotia Regional with a leap of 6.43 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”218″] [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”190″] [adrotate banner=”78″] ENFIELD: An Enfield track & field athlete will be donning the Saint Mary\u2019s Huskies colours beginning in September. SMU track & field head coach Kevin Heisler announced Drew Mittelstadt as committing to the Huskies line-up for the 2025-26 season. The commitment was announced on SMU\u2019s Instagram page on March 12. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[390,7958,7957],"class_list":["post-53000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-enfield","tag-smu-hudskies","tag-track-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mittelstadt currently sports personal bests of 1.85m in high jump, 6.43m in long jump, 11.83 seconds in 100m and 24.08 seconds in 200m.
He is currently ranked second in all Atlantic Canada in high jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/484109920_18493502146051910_2282903522824053639_n-e1741914225857.jpg\")
Mittelstadt is dedicated to both academics and athletics and has drive and determination to develop his skill set in both jumps and sprints.
\u201cDrew is a very promising athlete, and we look forward to working with him over the next four years to maximize his potential,\u201d said Heisler.
Mittelstadt will be pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree at SMU, with hopes to major in geology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n