Treah Bennett of Vancouver Thunderbirds TFC does it with a little jazz. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
More than 1,000 athletes were up, down and everywhere in between at the 2025 Legion National Youth Track & Field Championships in Calgary Aug. 8-10, 2025.
Here is the second instalment of the Top 100 photographs of the competition. (See the first here.)
Going thataway! [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Fly like an eagle. Abiola Omoyayi of Leduc, Alta., Track Club took bronze in the U-18 women’s heptathlon with 4,528 points. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Reed Passmore of Manitoba-Northwestern Ontario took silver in the U-16 men’s javelin with a vocal throw of 50.32 metres. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Lily Stroda of of B.C./Yukon swept all four events, including the high jump, on the first day of U-18 women’s heptathlon. She took five of seven overall to smash a 10-year-old Canadian record with 5,573 points and won the LeRoy Washburn Award as the championships’ top female Legion athlete. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
U-18 women navigate the water hazard in the 2,000m steeplechase. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Donovan Pringle of Manitoba-Northwestern Ontario finished out of the medals with a 6.43m in the U-18 men’s long jump. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Ben Leveck of Ontario took silver in the U-18 men’s pole vault with a tight 4.60m effort. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM}
Bianka MacMillan of Ontario took silver in the U-16 women’s 200m hurdles and bronze in the 100m hurdles (pictured). [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
U-18 men fight a precarious battle against the water hazard in the 2,000m steeplechase. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Flying Angels anchor Noah Horspool is in full stride as he takes the final pass in the U-18 men’s 4x100m from Kula Nembhard Jr. en route to a gold medal to go with his two silvers (100m and 200m). Lead Eamon Sheppard and second Jahleel Haley opened for the winning foursome. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM}
Eleyna Brooks of Truro, N.S., Lions Track and Field heaves one in the U-18 women’s javelin. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Gabrielle Armstrong of Bolton, Ont., finished second in the U-18 women’s pole vault, clearing 3.55 metres. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Competing in her last Legion Nationals, Jurnee Scott pulled off two silvers, including in the U-18 100m hurdles where she was just .002s back of Madison Gravelle’s gold medal-winning 13.643s. Jurnee’s twin sister Jordynn missed the competition with an injury. The pair are considering their future, with their collective eye south of the border. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Sabriel Connors of Capital City Track Club in Edmonton winds up for a U-18 women’s discus throw. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Clearly up, Dennis Iriowen of Ontario received the Jack Stenhouse Award as top male Legion athlete after setting a national record of 20.84s in the U-18 men’s 200m. He also took gold in the 100m with a time of 10.35s. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Kayla Divine Kadji Majo takes on the barrier in an early U-16 women’s hurdles heat. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Congratulations all around as the U-18 men’s pole vault teammates finish 1-2. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
James Grant of Sarnia, Ont., Athletics overcame teammate Chase Capes to win the U-18 men’s 1,500m race by more than 1s, in 3:57.39. Capes finished second, while Riley Simmonds of B.C./Yukon took the bronze. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Olivia Downey of Durham Dragons Athletics in Oshawa, Ont. won the U-18 women’s 2,000m steeplechase in 7:11.77. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Daniel Hephzibah of New Brunswick hits his stride in the U-18 men’s 100m preliminaries. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Robin Allard of Quebec, Aidan Chan-Smith of Ontario, and Hansen DeBoer of Laurel Creek TFC in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., finished 1-2-3 in the U-16 men’s 1,200m. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Kayla Divine Kadji Majo of Quebec took the U-16 women’s 80m hurdles in 11.32s. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
U-16 pole vault champion Mark Baginskiy of Ontario prepares for another attempt. On a cold and rainy Friday in Calgary, he cleared 3.9 metres on his winning vault. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Tyrique Woodside of Thorold, Ont., Elite Track Club edged out second-place Anthony James Jr. of Flying Angels (not pictured) and bronze medalist Luis Corredor Reyes with a 10.99 in a rainy U-16 men’s 100m dash. Sixteen one-hundredths of a second separated the Top 3. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
A coach offers support and encouragement to one of his charges. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Levi Seel of B.C./Yukon earned bronze in U-16 men’s javelin with a 49.01m throw. [Stephen J. Thorne]
Anchor Elizabeth Tannis takes the hand-off from teammate Aliyah Campbell on a gold-medal U-18 women’s 4x100m run for The Speed Academy out of Oakville, Ont. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
U-16 women’s 200m champ Avionne Marie Dean of B.C./Yukon and silver medalist Payton Rogers of Kajaks TFC in Richmond, B.C., process the results of their race. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Decathlete Sullivan Friesen of the Langley, B.C., Mustangs grabs a gulp of oxygen after finishing second in the 1,500m run. He finished the competition 8th in a field of 14, recording 5,035 points. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Volunteers at work. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Liam Micks of Stratford, Ont., Sabrecats Track Club edged Samuel Beaulieu of New Brunswick with a time of 2:04.96 to take gold in the U-16 men’s 800m, while Tyler Stewart of Newmarket, Ont., Huskies Track Club earned bronze. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Competitors remain clustered through early laps in the U-18 men’s 2,000m steeplechase. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Mountain cold to Prairie heat kept athletes on their toes, or otherwise. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Ronan Cole of Thorold, Ont., Elite Track Club clears a hurdle midway through the U-18 men’s 400m race. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Adam Nyarko of Alberta-N.W.T. takes the U-18 men’s 400m in a meet record 46.50s. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Anchor Tyrique Woodside of Thorold, Ont., Elite Track Club, the U-16 men’s 100m champion, takes the baton from teammate Muscab Mohamed to bring home the U-16 men’s 4x100m gold, for his second victory of the championships. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Tyler Hvidston of B.C./Yukon clears the bar in early action at the U-18 men’s pole vault. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Aiden Clodd of Ontario won the U-18 men’s 2,000m steeplechase in 6:01.63 [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
U-18 decathletes celebrate the end of their ordeal following the 1,500m. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Sanaa Chesney of Thorhold, Ont., Elite Track CLub hands-off to teammate Koko Dennis after running the first leg of the 1,600m medley relay. The team finished fifth. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Clara Yetman of Newfoundland won the province’s female Legion athlete of the championships. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
U-18 decathletes recover as more come in to finish the 1,500m. Smoke hangs over the track from a Calgary Stampeders game next door. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Alan Tirop of Ontario won bronze running the opening leg of the 4×400 relay. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Marcus Yu of Newmarket, Ont., Huskies Track Club heads for the water in the U-18 men’s 2,000m steeplechase. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Noelle Pols of Calgary’s Caltaf Athletics clears the final obstacle in the U-16 women’s 1,500m steeplechase. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Riley Fontaine of Winnipeg Optimist Athletics clears the bar in early going during the U-18 women’s pole vault. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Nishant Sharma of Calgary Spartans TFC and Daniel Zhang of Ocean Athletics in Surrey, B.C., tackle the water hazard in the U-18 men’s 2,000m steeplechase. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Recovery time in the hot sun of the August afternoon in Calgary. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
Lily Stroda of B.C./Yukon smashed a 10-year-old national pentathlon record, scoring 5,573 points and winning the LeRoy Washburn Award as top female Legion athlete. She leapt a 5.91m in the long jump, one of the five heptathlon events she won. [Stephen J. Thorne/LM]
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