Shaw back on track (updated with link to results)

Kaden Shaw is on a mission.

The 18-year-old, Grade 12 student at A.N. Myer blew out a quad muscle in his leg last spring and missed the entire track and field season.

Shaw returned to action Tuesday at the Niagara Region High School Athletic Association Zone 4 meet at Centennial with some lofty goals.

Shaw won the senior boys 1,500 and also set his sights on breaking the school record in the 800 (1.58) and breaking the zone mark of 9:30 in the 3,000.

“I want to get on my school’s board because I missed my track season last year due to an injury so it would be nice to have a little bit of redemption from last year,” Shaw said. “I had no track season last year.”

Shaw injured his leg in March of 2023 but doesn’t remember a single incident that put him on the shelf for a month. 

“It was pretty bad,” he said. “I don’t know exactly what was wrong with it but it was an overuse injury. I just kept running on it and it kept getting worse.

“I could go pretty fast but on easier stuff I would limp a lot and it started to hurt. It was a bit harder to push hard. Had to shut it down and rest for rehab.”

Shaw admitted rehabbing the injury was no fun.

“It was pretty tough. I just did some light runs and some biking and some swimming in there too.”

Once healthy, Shaw did a triathlon in Grimsby last summer and then shortly after had a cycling practice and fell off his bike going 30 kilometres-per-hour. 

“I got some stitches above my eye and was off for a week or two and then decided I wanted to do cross country because August was coming up so I transitioned right into that,” he said.

Finally healthy, Shaw placed 41st overall at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) cross country meet last fall.

Shaw, who is a member of Edge Sports, has committed to Brock for this fall where he will study political science and run cross country and indoor track.

McMaster, Laurentian and Western were also in the running but the practicality of Brock won out.

“I wanted to save money and I’ll be at home and have a car too,” he said.

https://www.nrhsaa.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-Zone-3-Results.pdf

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