Author Archives: Niagara Olympic Club

Our Parent Volunteers Do It All!

Many people have the mistaken belief that NOC is a City-run Track and Field Facility. Yes, the City owns the Facility, but it is leased, on a 5-year renewable basis, to NOC. The City is responsible for the perimeter, garbage bins, toilets, the lighting and the trees, but NOC Volunteers pretty much do all theContinue reading “Our Parent Volunteers Do It All!”

What a week for the brothers Ahmed. Canadian Distance Runners Shine!

Cam Levins runs another Olympic qualifier, and a BC record A week after hitting the Canadian A+ Olympic standard in the 5,000m, Cam Levins ran an outstanding 10,000m at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in California. Levins won the race in 27:27.96, just over 4 seconds outside Simon Bairu Canadian record, but over 8 seconds fasterContinue reading “What a week for the brothers Ahmed. Canadian Distance Runners Shine!”

Bill’s Bits and (thought)Bytes

Coach Bill MacDonald is using his Twitter account to tweet about Meets, Training Sessions and other interesting “stuff”. He can be found @pelhamrunner if you have a Twitter account. We look forward to his insights, thoughts, feelings and wit… From time-to-time, with his permission, we’ll do a tweet-to-blog conversion for the really good “stuff”. ThanksContinue reading “Bill’s Bits and (thought)Bytes”

Track Season starts in earnest…Please bring us your news…

As you can see from our NOC facilities bookings Calendar (the big turquoise icon on the right hand side), things are busy at the track on an almost daily basis well into June. This means that our Athletes are also involved in many of these events, especially DSBN and CDSBN. We would really like toContinue reading “Track Season starts in earnest…Please bring us your news…”