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I Am Your Father 15K Relay TWA-MTA

Posted on June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 by torontowestathletics

I’m Your Father Father’s Day 15k Relay Another fun virtual event for our TWA MTA and family crew. All of our athletes did a great job of battling through the heat to run impressive 3k times. Coaches and parents set a good example for the youngsters as well running 15, 5 or 3k. Great job by all!

In our last event, coaches Warren and Michael were able to defeat the kids with the help of their wives. This time, with a team of dads and a longer distance to run, all of the kid teams struck the fathers down. Just like the emperor wanted Luke to do in Return of the Jedi. The force is strong in these kids! Continue reading I Am Your Father 15K Relay TWA-MTA

National Champions U18 girls and boys!!!

Posted on December 10, 2019December 21, 2021 by torontowestathletics

What a crew! National Champions U18 girls and boys!! Shoutout to Ben 3rd, Isabel 7th and Sophia 8th!! 5 boys in top 23! 6 girls in top 28!! Great racing by all!!

XC OFSAA 2019

Posted on November 17, 2019 by torontowestathletics

27 club athletes qualified for XC OFSAA this year. Our biggest team yet!

Special shoutout to Sofia on winning Junior race!

Grade 9 athletes: Hayley 38, Sophie 41, and Kinnon 99!

Grade 10 athletes: Sofia 1, Grace 8, Katherine 19, Kayla 25, and Sabrina 134; Daniel, 6th, and Mark, 14.

Grade 11&12 athletes: Sophia 10th, Isabel 11th, Julia 18th, Laura 24th, Lauren 35th, Hannah 50th, Erin 87th, Jocelyn 113, Jenaya 139, and Kate 175; Ben 13th, Ivan 43, Justin 45, Jose 59, Lucas 65 and Naveen 68.

Shoutout to Isabel, Hannah, Erin and their Redmond team for placing 3rd in senior girls team.

OFSAA 2019 RECAP

Posted on June 10, 2019 by torontowestathletics

What a weekend! Toronto West Athletes competed well each and every session at OFSAA.

It started Thursday with the steeplechase heats. Ben and Daniel each qualified for the final, with Ben lowering Daniel’s club record along the way.

Next up, the 1500m heats saw Sofia in Novice, Sophia in junior, and Ivan in Senior all advance to the final. Ivan was in a particularly loaded heat and had to run perfectly to advance, which he did with a new personal best of 4:01. Grace and Jose also competed well in their heats, but did not advance.

On Friday, the steeplechase final saw Ben and Daniel smash their best times, finishing 5th and 6th.

In the Jr girls 1500 final Sophia Lucki smashed her own club record and the 4:40 barrier, running 4:36 for 3rd place.

(Last week I mentioned how strong the Metro and South Regions are. In this Jr Girls 1500, Toronto girls went 2,3,4,5!)

But Saturday was the best of all. Lauren Jacobs started us off with a great run in the Sr 800 to qualify for the final. Justin Jelaca also ran a new personal best in the Jr boys 800 to make the final. Then Kayla Sanderson Kirby shocked the field with a huge personal best to qualify for the Novice final.

Kayla then followed that up in the final with a great 3rd place finish and the bronze medal.

Daniel and Ben and Jose were up next in the senior boys 3k final, all 3 boys running new personal bests and competing very well in the one of the toughest events at OFSAA.

And we saved the best for last! Sofia Bowe and Grace Cousineau ran out of their minds in the Novice girls 3000m, with Sofia earning the bronze medal in the spectacular time of 10:26 and Grace also running a great time in placing 6th.

So we competed from 400m to 3000m, with athletes in all 3 age categories performing well. The only thing missing was a senior medal, and that will be a target for next year.

Congratulations to all athletes, but we still have lots of races left this year. Continue reading OFSAA 2019 RECAP

Regionals Recap – OFSAA Qualifying

Posted on June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 by torontowestathletics

One of the main focus points of the season is the regionals,-the last step before OFSAA.

Competing in the Metro Toronto Regional and the South Regional (Mississauga all the way down to Niagara) these regionals contain huge populations and therefore finishing in the top 4 is a great accomplishment.

Toronto West athletes had excellent results at both regionals.

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Jordan 5K race

Posted on April 14, 2019April 14, 2019 by torontowestathletics

The high school distance crew hit the roads this morning at the Jordan 5k at Subaru Running Series http://niagararunningseries.com/
Congratulations to all who raced!
Shoutout to Julia, 2nd female with club record 18:41! Olivia and Laura 6th and 7th females and 1st and 3rd in age group! Cathryn 15th female!
Ben 4th overall in 16:10, Justin, Mark, Evan, Alexander, Daniel, Julian, Jack 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th, 21st, and 31st overall! Coach Jill snuck on the podium for 2nd in her age group!

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MARCH BREAK – Myrtle Beach

Posted on March 20, 2019 by torontowestathletics

The 800/1500 group travelled to Myrtle Beach South Carolina for some badly needed warm weather and to put in a heavy week of training after a very successful indoor season.

Two workouts a day were on the menu, along with the Golden Corral chocolate fountain and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. In fact, the boys discovered Krispy Kremes to be a new meal of champions.

At the end of the week we participated in a University meet attended by D1,D2, and D3 schools also seeking some warm weather.

Daniel Rosen put conventional training theory on its ear by running 8:55 in the 3k- a new personal best at the end of the hardest training week of his life!

Hamza got introduced to big boy racing, running his first ever 5k in a crowded field of 17 with lots of pushing and shoving. He survived and hit his goal of 15:55.

Sophia and Isabel ran the 800, both placing in the top 10, with Sophia 4th.

Lauren got in some speed work running the 400, and Ivan ran a solid 800 on very heavy legs.

Now we regroup and will ease back a bit this week before starting the push to the high school season.

Update. Spire Showcase and AO championship

Posted on February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 by torontowestathletics

Toronto West flexed its muscles around the US and at York U this weekend.

First of all, I will deal with the University athletes. Best run of the weekend was Alex Lucki with a great 3k and new club record of 9:28 at Iowa State. Mikaela Lucki followed up with a big PR in the mile with a 4:50 mile (4:30 1500) Finally, Peter M had a big PR in Boston running 8:38 for his 3k. Great double for Jake Carroll, who had a great weekend at the university meet at Spire- 2:28 1k PR! and 4:14 mile.

At York, a large group of athletes competed at AOs on both Saturday and Sunday with all running personnel or seasonal best times. Great runs by Ivan (4:05) and Hamza another PR in 3k in 9:09.

A small group travelled to Geneva Ohio for the Spire Scholastic Showcase. Highlight of the trip was Sophia Lucki in the 1600 (the US high school distance) running 5:03. She passed 1500 in 4:43- a new PR.

Isabel Raymond ran a perfect race to keep moving up in her section and finished in 5:14, passing 1500 in 4:54-another new personal record.

We had a great experience in Ohio and are determined to go back next year and win the girls’ 4×800!

2018 TWA Club Results

Posted on January 21, 2019 by torontowestathletics

This year marks the start of the 4th year of Toronto West Athletics! Our club continues to grow and is well recognized at the provincial and national level thanks to the efforts and abilities of our athletes and coaches.

The accomplishments of our athletes are too numerous to list. They have achieved personal bests, set club records, medaled at OFSAA, and have taken home hardware from provincial, national, and international events. Athletes have made provincial and national teams in track and cross country. The athletes’ achievements have been well documented on our Instagram page, which has over 900 followers, we hope you follow us @TorontoWestAthletics. Thank you to Jill Cameron who is the person responsible for over 98% of our 1426 posts on Instagram and who is also our club president, high-school coach, and club photographer.

We are pleased to announce that the World Master Cross Country Championships in 2020 will be held in Toronto and that our University/Seniors coach Gary Westgate is the Meet Director. It is part of the World Masters 2020 which also involves all track and field events. It is over 2 weeks long and will involve several thousand athletes from all over the world. The official venues are York, Centennial, and U of T. Toronto West Athletics will be providing support for the 2019 pre-championship meet as well as the championships in 2020.

This summer our MTA coaches (Jim Graham and Warren Ringler) provided our “retired” athletes, Paul Robinson and Nick Carbone, the opportunity to get their coaching feet wet by helping out with the MTA group. If any of our alumni are interested in coaching opportunities please keep in touch!

Each year our high school athletes are recruited by universities in Canada and the United States and this year was no different. Madeline Smart-Reed went to Queens, Keithan Sivapragasam went to Western and Peter Minbashian to McMaster. They will join the list of university athletes who also compete as Toronto West Athletics members for Athletics Ontario and Athletics Canada events. (Miles, Asad, Jake, Ben, Ehab, Mathieu, Mikaela, Alexandra, Joshua, Marc, Carter, Connor, Andres, and Triphon).

We held our annual club banquet in January 2019 to celebrate 2018 and recognize our athletes. We were pleased to have Alex Cyr (Runners of the Nish) as our guest speaker. Below is a list of our 2018 club award winners: Pictures available on Facebook and have also been posted on Instagram.

MTA Male MVP: Sam Hodgson

MTA Female MVP: Anna Noble,

Bantam Male MVP: Kinnon Ringler

Bantam Female MVP: Caitlin Graham

Midget Male MVP: Roman Mironov

Midget Female MVP: Sophia Lucki

Youth Male MVP: Ben Miske

Youth Female MVP: Lauren Jacobs

Junior Male MVP: Peter Minbashian

Junior Female MVP: Mikaela Lucki

Senior Male MVP: Ehab El-Sandali

Senior Female MVP: Alex Lucki

Track MVP: Clare Teron

Cross-Country MVP: Kayla Sanderson-Kirby

Most Improved Athlete: Hamza Shariff

Team of the Year: Athletics Ontario Cross Country Championships, Bantam Girls, First Place Team

Grace Daly, Hayley Fraser, Caitlin Graham, Sophie Lau, Vanessa Pryor, Jocelyn Ringler, Clare Teron

Wishing you all the best for 2019!

Toronto West Athletics club executive and coaches

Jill Cameron, Paula MacLeod, Adrienne Teron, Greg Tramble, Wendy Fraser, Gary Westgate, Michael Housley, Sarah Smart, Marina Mironov, Jim Graham, Warren Ringler, Geoff Cameron