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45 | Thursday June 1 5 , 2 0 1 7 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | w w w .insidehalton.com Tint, Parsons earn OFSAA medals Continued from p. 44 elementary school and so when she joined the Though the Hamilton runner denied him Oakville Legion Track and Field Club when the gold medal, Ayorinde said the rivalry ben she was 12, she naturally gravitated toward the 1,500-metre and other longer distances. efits both of them. "I feel like the meets he's there, I run faster," "When I joined it was the indoor season he said. "It's someone there to push you." and we ran on 200m tracks," she said. "I ran They will have two more years to go head- the 1,200m and six laps seemed way too long. to-head. After that, Ayorinde said he's not sure I did well but I hated it." what his track future holds. Instead, she turned her at tention to middle distances, the "Right now I'm kind of half 400m and the 800m, where she and half. Sometimes I just want continued to have success. to pursue school," he said. "I'll do both (school and track) for There was another event the next couple of years and that intrigued her, though. then I'll talk with my parents Parsons would often train for and decide." the hurdles, though she never competed in it until she ar Like Ayorinde, things rived at Abbey Park in Grade 9. seemed to come easy to Oakville Trafalgar's Matthew "I really liked them," the Tint in his first year of compe Grade 11 student said. "I find it tition. He capped a remarkable less nerve-wracking. It's more first season in the high jump like a fun obstacle course." by earning a the midget boys' At the Ontario Federation of silver medal at OFSAA. School Athletic Associations Ibrahim Ayorinde championship, Parsons quali After clearing 1.75m at OF SAA, Tint was in third place, but had missed fied for the final in both the senior girls' 400m and the 400m hurdles. While she finished sev his first two attempts at 1.80m. "It was pretty stressful because my first two enth in the 400m, it was in the hurdles that jumps, I didn't even come close," he said. "On she earned her first OFSAA medal, taking the my last one, my foot actually hit the bar and bronze in one minute, 2.99 seconds. moved it, but it didn't fall." That represented a drop of more than four That left just two competitors, himself and and a half seconds from her time at the Gold St. Catharines' Duemo Quinton, who had en Horseshoe meet two weeks earlier. edged Tint at the regional meet. Quinton While Parsons usually doesn't like to know would need his final attempt to clear 1.85m where she stands in terms of seedings and and claim the gold. times -- "I freak out and over analyze ev Tint started the season six weeks earlier erything," she says -- another competitor with no prior high jump experience. Tint congratulated her on having the third fastest studied fellow competitors at his first meet time in the OFSAA preliminaries. This time it provided a boost of confidence. "I can actually and asked them questions about technique. With no high jump equipment at the school keep up," she thought to herself. to practise, Tint got creative. He tied a string Though she didn't have her best start in the fi across his trampoline, and practised arching nal, Parsons held off her nearest rival by almost his back and kicking his feet. The unusual half a second to claim the bronze. And with an training method helped him add 18 centime other year of senior competition to come, Par tres to his personal best (1.83m) at regionals. sons is already looking ahead to next year. "I was really surprised," Tint said of his sil "I was signing up for events for the summer ver medal. "I didn't even expect to make it to and I told my coach, `Maybe I need to switch OFSAA. It was a much bigger event than I ex some of those 800s to hurdles.'" pected so it was really good experience. Other results from OFSAA included: Immy Hindered by a hip injury from the high Govan, Appleby College, fifth, midget girls' jump, Tint finished 16th in the triple jump. 200m; Nic Legaspi, Loyola, sixth, midget boys' Nicole Parsons grew up in a family of dis 300m hurdles; Tamia Noel, Loyola, sixth, se tance runners. She had run cross country in nior girls'shot put; seventh, senior girls' discus. C O FFEE , HOT CHOCOLATE & TEA GUY FIERI, CAKE BOSS, HURRICANE, WOLFGANG PUCK, AUTHENTIC DONUT SHOP, BARNIE'S BLEND, BARRIE HOUSE MARTINSONS, VAN HOUTTE, TIMOTHY'S,...AND MORE! 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