Pickering's Taylor Sharpe gains experience, exposure at Pan Am Games
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- Published: Wednesday, 20 April 2016 08:24
Represents Canada in 400m and 4x400m races
TORONTO — The learning curve that Taylor Sharpe is on right now is a huge one
TORONTO — The learning curve that Taylor Sharpe is on right now is a huge one
EDMONTON — The Speed Academy had a number of its athletes turn in outstanding performances at the Canadian track-and-field championships in Edmonton.
LOS ANGELES – USC sprinter Andre De Grasse is favored to win the 100- and 200-meter dashes at this weekend’s Pac-12 Championships, the latest big meet in a season and future seemingly full of them for the 20-year-old Canadian.
OSHAWA -- Sometimes you learn more about an athlete with how she handles defeat more so than victory, even if such instances are extremely rare.
OSHAWA -- Coming off an impressive summer on the track, Oshawa’s Mariam Abdul-Rashid has big plans ahead in her final year of high school at Eastdale Collegiate.
COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS -- It’s easy to measure how fast sprinter Andre De Grasse is every time he steps into the starting blocks, a stopwatch defining his success.
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AJAX -- Duan Asemota didn’t have a lot of time to make a good impression.
PICKERING -- Kerwin Jackson is another fine example of the eye the late Cyril Sahadath had for talented track athletes.
PICKERING -- Taylor and Sommer Sharpe came into the world as a package deal, and that’s how the two will embark on their university endeavours as well.
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.