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PERSONAL BESTS:
- 14th Elite Woman, ITU World Championships 2005
- 1st Elite Woman, Canadian Nationals 2005
- 1st Overall, AG World Championships 2004
- 3rd F25-29, 6th Overall, AG World Championships 2003
- 1st F25-29, Overall AG Champion, Canadian Nationals 2003
Running
- 3000m 9:40
- 1500m 4:31
- 5 km Cross Country 17:24
- 5 mile 28:59
- 10 km 37:05*
*(run during Canadian Duathlon Championships)
AWARDS:
- 2005 OAT Elite Female Duathlete
- 2-time Top Age-Group Duathlete (F25-29) Inside Triathlon Magazine (2003, 2004)
- 3-time CPTC Women's Triathlete of the Year (2003, 2004, 2005)
- Triathlon Canada, Female AG Duathlete of the Year (2003)
 Born: Toronto, Canada. April 6, 1976
“Always attack the hills!” Margaret Schotte’s high school coach gave her that one piece of advice at her first cross-country practice 13 years ago. She still lives by that motto. Running with the Toronto Olympic Club, she developed into one of Ontario’s top cross-country runners, representing Canada at the World Cross-Country Championships in Durham, England (March 1995) and becoming the Canadian Junior 3000m track champion later that year. Moving south of the border to continue her education, she studied early modern history and literature at Harvard University, and continued to push herself athletically. During her undergraduate years, she earned 12 varsity letters, captained both the cross-country and track teams, and was named to Harvard’s All-Time Academic All-Ivy list. She competed at the Penn Relays, ECACs, and the quadrennial Oxford-Cambridge meet.
Moving to New York City after graduation, Margaret now works as a rare book dealer at Martayan Lan in midtown Manhattan and trains with the Central Park Track Club. After training throughout the winter of 2002 in preparation for a 4-day, 325-mile (500 km) fundraiser from NYC to Boston, Margaret discovered that her talent for hill climbing extended to cycling as well as cross-country running. The course of the ride included more than 100 serious hills, and Margaret ate them up. After the AIDSRide (June 2002), it was only a matter of months until her multi-sport debut in Sept. 2002, when she finished second to an elite woman from New Zealand at the Pine Barrens Duathlon (NJ).
Since that first race, Margaret has been virtually undefeated, aggressively attacking the hills in the tri-state area and further afield. In the summer of 2004, she obtained her Elite card from O.A.T., and a Duathlon Development card from Triathlon Canada--look for her in the pro field in 2005.
College
- Harvard Women’s Track Co-Captain (Winter-Spring 1999)
- Harvard Women’s Cross Country Captain (Fall, 1998)
- Harvard University’s All-Time Academic All-Ivy Selection (Fall, 1999)
- Second Team All-Ivy, Cross Country Heptagonal Championships 1996
- Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY 5km 18:05.02
- Franklin Park, Boston MA 5km 17:24.78
- Penn Relays, College Women’s 3000m 1998 (9:56.04), 1997 (10:04.79)
High School
- World Cross Country Championships, Durham, England, (March 1995)
- 54th Junior Woman, 2nd Canadian finisher
- Canadian Junior Nationals, Abbotsford, BC (July 1995) 3000 m Champion, 9:40.37
- OFSAA Provincial Championships
- 1994 Bronze Medallist Cross-Country
- 1995 Silver Medallist Senior Girls 3000 m; 4th place 1500 m 4:31.59
- Athlete of the Year (1995): Leaside High School, Leaside Town Crier, Toronto Star
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