Triathlete’s from across the province, ages 12-15, gathered at the Sask. Summer games for their first day of competition Thursday, among them, Elle Campbell from Lloydminster.
At just 12-years-old she chooses to participate in the Summer Games after some encouragement from her mother.
“I do the ATB triathlon through school and have been doing it since grade one,” said Campbell. “Then we saw in the paper the advertisement for the summer games and my mom said, I should try this.”
When it came time to qualify it posed another significant challenge for her. She learned that her ATV competition time and the qualifying time for the games were just 15 minutes apart.
After the qualifier she had some more work to put in.
“I received an invite to Echo Lake for some training, I trained there and have been going for morning bikes and runs, I do swim club so I’ve been swimming with them.”
According to her athlete profile on the Sask. Summer Games website she had three goals for herself when coming to the competition. She wanted to make friends and have fun. learning from her leaders and improve her skills was also a major goal for her this week. Last but not least she wanted to compete to the best of her ability.
“I’m a twelve-year-old against 15-year-olds, I’m going to do my best” she told us on her last training day.
Doing her best was really good in hindsight. In her Girls Triathlon Final held July 25 she raced among 26 other participants in age from 11 to 15. Her finish, only 25 seconds behind the leader earned her a silver.
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