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Oct 1, 2008 - Jacob Smith broke Matt Leeder's existing record by more than 2 seconds at the annual Pirates Invitational Cross Country Meet in brockville yesterday. Jacob won the 7k race with a time of 22:14.22, Ian Donald also broke the existing record with a second place finish in a time of 22:16.28. A third AFE athlete, Will McFall finished third with a time of 22:58.10.
Emma Norman won the Junior Girls 4k race in a time of 15:20 with a lead of 22 seconds

Compete Recorder and Times News Story Here

Videos HERE

Sept. 1, 2008 - Many things have happened with AFE athletes over the past few months. Matt Leeder completed a successful Freshman year at Florida State and won the Canadian Junior Cross Country Championships. He also improved his position by 40 places at the World Junior Cross Country Championships in Scotland and represented Canada at the World Youth Championships.
Jeremy Rae won three GOLD MEDALS at the Canadian Under 17 Championships in Sherbrooke Quebec while Kevin Bowman came up with GOLD and SILVER. Trevor Schiavone won a SILVER MEDAL and two BRONZE MEDALS in the same events as Jeremy.
Trent Corney also represented Ontario at the the same "Nationals" and came home with TWO SILVER and a BRONZE.

Kyle Milks, Jenn Wynands and Matt Kopansky have all received Full Scholarships to US Universities and are reporting that things are "awesome" so far.

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"Whether you WIN, LOSE or COME CLOSE, Good Character is the most important thing you have. Once you lose that, you will eventually lose everything that is really important to you". "Hindsight in the future will never change the bad decisions you make now!

Dave Torrance (Trainer Dave)