Owen Lockyer recorded the top local performance at last weekend’s Athletics Canada National Cross Country Championships in Ottawa. The Toronto West Athletics and Team Ontario member, who is currently attending...
A.N. Myer's Kristina Etezadi won a silver medal in the junior girls division at the OFSAA cross country championships held last Saturday in Lakefield. It was a Super Saturday for...
Three Sir Winston Churchill teams won gold and another silver at last week’s SOSSA cross country championships. Five Niagara individuals and three Niagara teams brought home gold medals from the...
Saint Francis runner Mia Biancaniello and guide Mark Savage are shown in action during the para girls race Wednesday at the NCAA cross country meet. Cait Whittard made the most of...
Reese Arnold won the senior boys race Wednesday at the NCAA cross country meet at Firemen's Park. After missing a summer of training because of an ankle tendon injury, Reese...
Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf’’s Alexandra Nickel won the senior girls race Tuesday at the Zone 3 high school cross country meet at Firemen’s Park. It has been two years since Alexandra Nickel last...
Fifteen years after he started training at the Niagara Olympic Club, Mohammed Ahmed returned to the St. Catharines location Thursday night wearing an Olympic 5,000 metres silver medal around his...
The Dallman name in Niagara Falls is synonymous with hockey. Marty Dallman played six games for Maple Leafs, had a long pro career in North America and Europe and played...
Thorold Elite's Evan Blake won gold in the long jump and 300 metres at the Athletics Ontario under-14 championship. STEVEN FIFE PHOTO. The Thorold Elite Track Club continues to flex...
A gold medal by Thorold Elite Track Club’s boys 4x400-metre relay team helped the club capture the team title at the Athletics Ontario U16 Track and Field Championships. Photo by Steve Fife....
Campbell Lee is having a hard time believing he is entering his four year as a scholarship runner at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. “It has been crazy. I...
Julia Tremeer led the medal haul for the Niagara Olympic Club at the Ontario U14/16 championships held at NOC over the weekend. The 14-year-old won a gold as part of...
Callan Saldutto was having an up-and-down season in his first year of being a full-ride scholarship athlete at the University of Louisiana Monroe when he arrived at the prestigious Texas...
Coco Van Nynatten was a competitive dancer for 10 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the studio she attended. The 14-year-old West Lincoln resident looked elsewhere for a sport...
Thorold Elite Track Club runner Fenway Breckels has the perfect name for a baseball player. “My dad really likes baseball and my mom’s side of the family is from Boston...
Hayden Molnar kept an impressive streak alive at this past weekend’s Athletics Ontario under-18 track and field championships at York University. The 15-year-old Welland resident continued his run of achieving...
Moh Ahmed is the last person anyone would consider cocky and arrogant. But in an interview with BP Sports Niagara prior to departing for the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the 30-year-old...
Basketball’s loss was track’s gain. Josee Regala loved basketball since she began playing it as a seven-year-old, but when the COVID pandemic shut down the sport, she began looking for...
Moh Ahmed will be going for gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo by: Claus Andersen/Athletics Canada. The Tokyo Summer Olympics is Mohammed Ahmed’s...
Thorold Elite athletes Carson Gauthier, Kaleb Kennedy, and Mikhail Dwyer swept the podium in the novice boys javelin throw. Photo by Steve Fife. Niagara’s track and field athletes had a...
Even the weather co-operated Thursday night for Niagara Olympic Club’s first twilight meet of the summer. The skies cleared after several hours of rain as almost 300 athletes converged to...
Zavio Prato traded one love for another. The 16-year-old Blessed Trinity student gave up soccer two years ago to pursue track and field, a decision he didn’t take lightly but...
Roman Olszewski’s love of track and field dates back to watching the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics on television. “Watching the decathletes was the first time I became interested in it,”...
Alissa Mete is the definition of a multi-sport athlete. The Grade 12 student at Welland Notre Dame qualified for Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championships in swimming, track and...
Caution, caution and more caution is how the Niagara Olympic Club approached a return to training at its St. Catharines facility this week. The track and field club waited an...
With Niagara designated a red zone under the provincial COVID-19 protocols, the Thorold Elite Track Club is excited about being back on track. Indoor training resumed this week and the...
Tessa Jeffery’s desire to follow her sister has landed her a full-ride NCAA Division 2 cross country scholarship at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. “I started cross country in Grade...
The University of Guelph has been chasing runner Eric Campbell for a long time. The Grade 12 student at Sir Winston Churchill first came to the attention of the school’s...
The roots of the Thorold Elite Track Club can be traced back to 2011 when a then-Grade 10 student at Thorold Secondary School, Amy Browett, went around the school asking...
Thanks to Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities, the Niagara Olympic Club will be able to provide its athletes with one-stop training. The charity, founded in 2005 to help kids overcome financial...
