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...

Runners compete last year at a high school cross country meet at Firemen's Park in Niagara Falls. The Niagara Olympic Club had hoped to stage the Athletics Ontario cross country...

Matthew Kleinsmith is making the best of a less than ideal situation. The 14-year-old Fonthill resident enjoys cross-country racing, but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, had to switch to track...