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the one hurdle Maddex needs help getting over is financial. Attending world-class competitions costs money and her family is now looking for sponsors to help Maddex make her Olympic dream a reality. They have already found a vocal supporter in Coun. Bernard Payer who has issued a challenge for pledges to a trust fund set up through the Ottawa Lions Track Club to help cover Maddex’s competition travel expenses. “I have $100 right now to give,” said Payer, “and I challenge every member of council and the municipality to do the same.” Pledge details available from Teresa Robertson at 488-3781 or email to tmadd8888@yahoo.ca.
her sports career goal but until this year her plan called for earning a shot on the national team for the 2016 Games. Last year after finishing her first year in university at Ottawa U, Maddex had a chance to attend York University and get into the senior women’s program. So she took it and feels the odds for her making the national team may just prove better this year now than she had anticipated. “I feel I have a better chance with the environ- ment I’m in,” she said, noting that Athletics Cana- da had already listed her as one of the athletes to watch as potential national team candidates for the 2016 Olympics. With her training schedule well in hand now,
Saint-Pascal-Baylon | When Ashlea Maddex is on the run during competition she sees noth- ing but the track ahead of her and the next hurdle she has to clear on her way to the finish line. So she can be forgiven if she didn’t notice the big handmade luminescent sign her best friend Ashley Versolato held up as Maddex flashed by at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility track field dur- ing the first heat of the women’s 100-metre hur- dles in Saturday’s Springtime High Performance Meet. She was more than pleased to see her friend afterwards and the big shiny letters spell- ing out Ashlea Runs 4 #1 earned the other Ashley a big smile. “I always knew she would go far,” Ashley Verso- lato said about her best friend and name-sister. Maddex finished the 100-metre hurdle final later that grey and gloomy Saturday afternoon first for the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club with a time of 13.8 seconds and allowing for the change in wind. As this edition of the Vision goes to press she is getting ready to go to Vancouver for the Harry Jerome International in Vancouver, one of several world-class level qualifier meets she wants to compete in as she prepares for the Canadian Track and Field Trials in Calgary at the end of June. Her performance at the nationals this year could determine whether Maddex gets to adjust her dream of competing for Canada in the Olympics for a London setting this year or continue to plan for a high-altitude experience in Brazil when Rio de Janeiro hosts the 2016 Games.
Wildcats off to OFSAA challenge their latest Eastern Ontario Secondary School Athletic Association (EOSSAA) title after taking down the competition in Kingston the last week of May, blanking Cornwall Collegiate 53-0 in the opening round and then unhorsing the Lasalle Knights 19-10 in the final. VISION @ EAP . ON . CA PRESCOTT-RUSSELL
Champion athlete Ashlea Maddex (right) en- joys a weekend reunion with her best friend, Ashley Versolato at Terry Fox Field. In between Maddex pursues her kinesiology program studies at York University near Toron- to while enjoying an intense training program under the guidance of national coach Anthony McCleary and working with her new training partners, world-class Canadian hurdlers Pris- cilla Lopes-Schliep, Phylicia George, and Nikkita Holder. “I love the training group that I’m with,” Mad- dex said during a phone interview. “Everyone is there to put in the work. They’re focused. They know what they want to do. It’s given me a lot more (self) discipline.” During her own high school athletics career, Maddex has earned her own provincial and na- tional titles along with setting a few new provin- cial records. She has always had the Olympics as
Rockland| Both of Rockland District High School’s senior rugby squads are off and away for a shot at provincial titles this week. The varsity girls hit the road Monday for the Twin Elms Rugby Park in Ottawa for the first day’s matches in the 2012 Ontario Federation of Secondary School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) three-day championship senior girls rugby tour- nament. The Wildcats senior boys have a couple more days of rest available to them before they pile into the team bus Wednesday and drive down to Coburg for the OFSAA senior boys champion- ships scheduled to begin June 14. They captured
“That was a close game,” said Assistant Coach Brandon Boivin. “But we were ahead most of the game.” Boivin said the Wildcats’ individual and team skills proved the deciding factors in the game. “The Rockland guys have more skill. The La- salle guys are a big team, but they couldn’t pass, they couldn’t kick, they couldn’t keep up with our Rockland guys.” One other pleasure the Wildcats senior boys enjoyed from their EOSSAA victory is receiving a seventh-place ranking now in the provincial senior high school boys rugby standings as they head on to OFSAA.
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