Pickering club earns 11 medals agaisnt top high school athletes from US
PICKERING -- The Speed Academy Athletics Club traveled to Ohio to compete against some of the top high school track athletes in the United States at the Spire High School Showcase.
Oshawa’s Mariam Abdul-Rashid finishes fifth in 400m hurdles
EUGENE. OREGON -- Two members of the Pickering-based Speed Academy turned in record-setting performances at the world junior track-and-field championships in Oregon.
OSHAWA -- Mariam Abdul-Rashid says she is used to being away from home, which is a good thing considering where much of her time over the next four years is going to be spent.
PICKERING -- When Tony Sharpe started The Speed Academy track club based out of Pickering, he had a long-term vision of where he wanted the club to go and an idea of what he wanted his athletes to accomplish.
PULLMAN, Wash. -- A Canadian sprinter and the top hurdler in the state of Washington have signed National Letters of Intent to attend and compete for Washington State University starting in the fall of 2013, Cougar Track & Field Head Coach Rick Sloan announced Friday.
Going into the final relays meet, UTTC, which opted not to compete in the relays championship, led Speed Academy by a seemingly unsurmountable 87 points.
PICKERING -- It was another massive display of Speed Academy talent at York University as high schoolers took to the track looking to earn a spot on the provincial team heading to Trinidad in March.
AJAX -- Wesley Best recognizes a good opportunity when one is presented to him.
PICKERING -- Speed Academy coach Tony Sharpe is a firm believer that if you put talent and knowledge together it creates results.
Sharpe, the former Canadian Olympian, runs the Speed Academy, a developmental track and field club in Pickering, which has helped dozens of athletes get NCAA scholarships.
The club was founded in 2006 and Sharpe left his corporate account manager’s job at Bell to track athletes full-time a few years later.
“I’m a full-time coach, you know, not something people do often in Canada,” says Sharpe, 59, adding about 50 Speed Academy athletes have received scholarships.