Guess Who’s Coming to Langley? Atlantic Silver Medalist PEI Girls 4x100m Relay Team

More exciting news from Prince Edward Island!

The Journal Pioneer reported that the PEI Girls 4x100m Relay team took the Silver Medal at the Atlantic Track and Field Championships.
 
This puts them on everybody’s radar as one of the teams to watch for this weekend at the 2013 National Youth Track and Field Championships.
 
Read the original article here for more details on their win.
 
For more information about the athletes, the events, and the championships, please visit the official Legion Nationals site.

Guess Who’s Coming to Langley? PEI Team looks strong for Nationals
 
Following the Atlantic Track and Field Championships, many PEI athletes set themselves up for success at the Legion Nationals coming up August 9-11 in Langley, BC.

• Girls 5000m: First Place, Maddy Crowell 19:04.53; Second Place, Melanie McKenna 20:18.12.

• Boys 16-17yrs 100m: Fifth Place, Sean Fitzpatrick 12.51s

• Girls 14-15yrs 300m: Third Place, Lydia MacLeod 44.57s; Fifth Place Ashley Fitzpatrick 45.53s

These scores were reported by the Journal Pioneer. We are certainly expecting to see great things from our Maritime teams this weekend at the 2013 National Youth Track and Field Championships.
 

For more information on the athletes, the events, and the championships, check out the rest of the official site.

Guess Who’s Coming to Langley? The 4x400m Relay Team from Mississauga!
 
The results are in, and the 4x400m Relay Team of Jordan Stanford, Alex Zaranek, Matthew Leliever and Cameron Nurse have qualified for Legion Nationals!

The foursome – from Etobicoke Track and Field Club, Mississauga – competed at the Ontario Championships and set the Canadian Record for the Male Under-17 4x400m Relay with a time of 3m 24.70s.
 
This event was reported in the Mississauga News. Click here to read the rest of the article.
 
For more information on the athletes, the events, and the championships, please visit the official site for the 2013 National Youth Track and Field Championships.
 
Best of luck to all our competitors!

Photo Credit: Mississauga News (Stanford, Zaranek, Leliever, and Nurse are all in green.)

Guess Who’s Coming to Langley? Keiran Leboe is aiming high for Nationals

Prince George's Keiran Leboe is ready for the big stage.

The 15 year old will be making his first Team BC appearance at the 2013 National Youth Track and Field Championships August 9-11 in Langley, BC.
 
He already passed the Team BC standard for Hammer Throw at the Jamboree as a member of the Prince George Track and Field Club and now he wants to take on the Canadian Legion record.
 
As reported to the Prince George Citizen, Leboe says, “The Canadian Legion record is only 53 metres, so I'd like to keep working and see if I can get up to 54 just to make sure nobody steals it the next year.”
 
We wish Keiran and all the competitors lots of luck at Nationals next weekend! It would definitely be exciting to see record be broken and history be made.
 
Click here to view the Prince George Citizen article.
 
For more information on the athletes, the events, and the championships, please visit the official site: YO.ca.

Photo Credit: HQ Prince George

Guess Who’s Coming to Langley? Nanaimo’s Deschiffart Twins join Team BC!

Yesterday we mentioned that Marita Deschiffart hit her Team BC standards at the BC Track and Field Jamboree in Kamloops.

Now we are excited to announce that both Marita AND Erica Deschiffart will be heading to Langley next week as members of Team BC.
 
They have competed against each other all year in the 2000m Steeple Chase and they expect to do it again at the National Youth Track and Field Championships.
 
Reported on Canada.com and the Nanaimo Daily News the twins have said, “They both have goals of improving on that performance and being on the podium together in Langley.”
 
We can’t wait to see the camaraderie and sibling rivalry help the girls push each other to beating their personal bests!
 
You can read the rest of the Canada.com article here.
 
For more information on the athletes, events, and the 2013 National Youth Track and Field Championships, check out the rest of the YO.ca site!

Three Nanaimo Athletes hit their Team BC standards at BC Jamboree in Kamloops!

It was a big day for the Nanaimo Track and Field Club last week!

Rachel Jerome (15), Jason Clare (15), and Marita Deschiffart (17), all met their standards to become members of Team BC at the National Youth Track and Field Championships on August 9,10, 11.
 
In fact, of the 15 athletes from Nanaimo, most of them will be going to Nationals! However many of them will compete separate from Team BC.
 
Congratulations to Rachel, Jason, and Marita – we can’t wait to see you achieve even more personal bests at the Championship.
 
Check out the rest of this article at Canada.com.
 
For general information about the Championships and the athletes competing, head to YO.ca.

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Chicago Bains breaks 27 year old BC Hurdles Record! 

History has been made by BC Athlete Chicago Bains. The 15 year old track star has set a new 80m Hurdles record with a time of 11.42 seconds! The previous record – 11.50 seconds – has stood since 1986.

You can see Chicago Bains and many other outstanding Canadian athletes at the 2013 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships at McLeod Field, Langley, BC from August 9-11.
 

Stay up to date with the championships and Canada’s youngest rising stars at YO.ca
 
The Cowichan News Leader, the local paper in Bains’ hometown, reported on the event.
 
Click here to read their full article!

Photo from Cowichan News Leader; Chicago Bains is second from the right (wearing pink).

YO.ca Goes Live - After Spending Nearly a Century in the Shadows, the Royal Canadian Legion Goes Global and Captures the True Spirit of Community with State-of-the-Art Private, Socially Integrated Content Marketing Technology for All Participants of the Legion National Youth Track & Field Championships
 
Attracting visibility to any sporting event is paramount to its success and increasingly reliant on the synchronized use of multiple media outlets to execute promotional objectives and increase awareness of the event.  


OneBigBroadcast (OBB) is honored to deliver the world’s first private, socially integrated member portal to the athletes, their families, supporters and sponsors of the 2013 & 2014 Legion National Youth Track & Field Championships, to be held in Langley, British Columbia on August 7 – 13, 2013. Sanctioned and officiated by Athletics Canada, 1,000 young athletes 14 – 17 from across Canada will compete in the only national championships for this age demographic while accessing their own cloud powered social marketing tools.
 
Celebrated by athletes since its origin for its potential to enable young athletes to achieve their dreams, this event facilitates a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience for these young participants. Multiple-time track & field medalist Marie-Josée Le Jour of Quebec writes, “If it had not been for the Royal Canadian Legion Camp of 1994, I’m pretty sure my life would have turned out differently… I am so thankful to the Royal Canadian Legion for organizing such a quality event year after year,” captivating the magical allure of this competition to the many talented young athletes across Canada.
 
This 10-day national competition connects these talented athletes with top professional coaches in the first venue for Athletics Canada to view Canada’s cadre of recruits for its Olympic teams. “These championships are now considered the primary recruiting system for young Canadian men and women entering professional and Olympic sports,” comments Ted Stout, Senior Producer, Special Projects for YO.ca who represents the Royal Canadian Legion & Athletics Canada.

The OBB private social networking platform is a layer of applications integrated with its existing high performance content marketing platform. The ‘social connecting’ application layer will enable athletes to create their own profiles and share individual stories of their struggles and triumphs before, during and after the event with an array of personal social and SEO automation tools, while enabling centralized control over published content through the platform’s permissions management functions.


The personalized content developed by the participating athletes will be broadcasted through the athletes’ respective social media sites as well as to other Track & Field clubs globally, fostering community and awareness and ultimately enhancing the visibility of this important athletic event by increasing traffic to the Young Olympians website (YoungOlympians.ca and YO.ca).
 
YO.ca organizers have the unique ability to connect with global sporting clubs via SMS or email delivering event messages to sporting clubs back home or around the globe on their own time zone based on the athlete’s profile preferences. In addition to building awareness and support for some of the world’s most promising athletes, the platform’s social casting tools will be used to capture and broadcast the excitement of the annual Legion National Youth Track & Field Championships in real time. One Big Broadcast will be working in conjunction with Shaw Media and JoyTV (a Vision Network Channel) to execute joint communications, social casting and media for this event.  Sponsors will also have access to their own branded content marketing in addition to social automation tools to further enhance the visibility of their individual brands and the event.
 
“The YO.ca website has created the much needed connection to current and past participants in Club, Provincial and National Legion Track & Field Programs. A repository of alumni, stories, performances and achievements – achievements that reach to the heights of Olympic Games and Business/Community/Government  leaders. Coupled with the search and social casting capability of YO.ca the Legion National Youth Track & Field Championships will bring a whole new audience to the Championships and link athletes, coaches, officials, parents and fans across the globe. Building such a collective of Athletics/Track &Field enthusiasts provides great opportunities to engage, partner and deliver Athletics at a much higher and more effective way.”; Brian McCalder, President/CEO, BC Athletics. 


OneBigBroadcast is thrilled to have the opportunity to be involved in this noble competition, and for the chance to showcase both the incredible athletic talent and the generosity of The Royal Canadian Legion through this state-of-the-art private social networking platform.

OneBigBroadcast (a Vancouver BC Canada company) is an all-in-one content creation and marketing platform with layers of applications that simplify all things web combined with synchronized applications that automate social media news delivery and enhance Search Engine Optimization (SEO), ultimately boosting website traffic and sales by increasing online visibility. The latest addition to OBB’s cutting edge suite of functions includes new tools for the emerging area of social E-commerce and harnessing the power of enterprise content marketing and management.     www.OneBigBroadcast.com

The Royal Canadian Legion is one of Canada's largest non-profit charitable service organizations.  In addition to the Legion's vast community philanthropic and volunteer service, their unwavering dedication to youth leadership and development dates back to the end of the Second World War.  The enduring near-century legacy of the National Championships is a testament to the Legion’s dedication to training and mentoring Canada's future young Olympians.     www.Legion.ca