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Durham Region, Ontario — Track & Field

Building Tomorrow's
Champions Today.

Quest Sports Track & Field Club is an Olympian-founded development system — built lane by lane, season by season, from a child's first sprint to world status.

The Proven Path

Development through to world status.

Every athlete moves through the same five stages — the pace differs, the pathway doesn't.

Stage 1

Development

12 & under. Non-competitive and competitive streams.

Stage 2

Competitive

Ages 13–18. Event specialization, regional and provincial competition.

Stage 3

Elite

Provincial to national-caliber training volume.

Stage 4

National

National championship competition, NCAA recruitment.

Stage 5

World Status

National team selection, world junior competition.

The Lanes

A pathway, not a program.

Every athlete runs a different race, but every athlete runs it in a lane.

Lane 01Foundations

Development Lane

Movement literacy, coordination, and the love of running.

12 Years & Under
Lane 02Regional

Competitive Lane

Event specialization across sprints, hurdles, jumps, and throws.

U14 – U16
Lane 03National

Elite Lane

National-caliber training volume and technical detail.

U18 – U20
Lane 04Pathway

NCAA & Post-Secondary Lane

Recruitment positioning and the handoff to college competition.

U19 – U23
Why Quest

What holds every lane together.

Method

The Proven Path

A development system tested across a decade of competition.

Character

Discipline First

Performance is a byproduct of character.

Data

Tracked, Not Guessed

Load monitoring and a living athlete record.

Season Registration

Your lane is open.

Spots are limited by coaching ratio, not by ambition.

Programs

Four lanes.
One standard.

Every athlete is placed by ability and age, then developed through a system built to hold up under real competition.

Lane 01Foundations

Development Lane

Movement literacy, coordination, and running mechanics.

12 Years & Under
Lane 02Regional

Competitive Lane

Event specialization across sprints, hurdles, jumps, and throws.

U14 – U16
Lane 03National

Elite Lane

National-caliber training volume, technical refinement.

U18 – U20
Lane 04Pathway

NCAA & Post-Secondary Lane

Recruitment positioning and scholarship strategy.

U19 – U23
Events

Trained across every discipline.

Find Your Lane

Ready to register?

Quest Highlights

The World Stage
Starts Here.

Dream Local. Compete Global.

Elite Spotlight

Proven at the highest level.

Three Quest Sports alumni carrying the Proven Path onto the biggest stages in sport.

Denzel Clarke

Denzel Clarke

Professional Athlete

Trained at Quest Sports before going on to a professional baseball career — the clearest proof yet the Proven Path carries an athlete to the highest level of professional sport.

Sydney Freeman

Sydney Freeman

Team Canada — 400m Hurdles

OFSAA Champion · Canadian Champion (U20 60mH) · Team Canada, U20 World Championships · now competing for Rice University (NCAA).

Tia Porteous

Tia Porteous

Team Canada — 100m

Canadian Indoor Champion (60m) & Canadian Outdoor Champion (100m) — both in 2026 · Team Canada, U20 World Championships.

Athlete Spotlight
Hall of Fame

Top 10 athletes of all time.

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NCAA Scholarship Recipients and Graduates

Earning their way to school.

Quest athletes who have turned their development into NCAA and collegiate scholarship opportunities.

Competition History

2016 – 2026.

Ten seasons of provincial, national, and international competition. Select the board, then a year, to expand it.

Records

Canadian & Ontario record holders.

Team Canada

Wearing the Maple Leaf.

Representing Quest Sports provincially and the international stage.

World Junior Championships 2026
Sydney Freeman — World Junior Championships 2026
Sydney Freeman
Canadian National Team
400m Hurdles
Tia Porteous — World Junior Championships 2026
Tia Porteous
Canadian National Team
100m
Awards & Honours

Provincial recognition.

All-Ontarian awards and OFSAA medals — select a board to expand it.

All-Ontarian Athletes

OFSAA Medalists

Provincial & National Teams

Representing beyond the club.

Team Ontario Representatives

Ontario & Canada Summer Games

Next Chapter

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Coaching

Built by Olympians.

Quest Sports is led by a coaching staff with lived experience at the Olympic level.

The Founder

Quest Sports was founded on a simple premise: the same discipline that builds a Canadian Olympian can be systemized, taught, and repeated.

1984 Canadian Olympian — Heptathlon, Los Angeles
Certified Mental Performance Coach — CMPC
High Performance Coach & Technical Leadership
The Staff

Coaching team.

Leadership

Donna Clarke

Donna Clarke

Founder & Programme Director

Founder, 1984 Olympian (Heptathlon), high-performance coach and technical leadership - NCCP Certified Coach.

Gavin Smellie

Gavin Smellie

West Hub Program Director

Olympian 2012 and 2020. West Hub Sprints. Gavin leads West Hub program precision.

Clance Laylor

Clance Laylor

Strength & Conditioning Program Director

LPS, athletic founder and Master Strength Coach, with decades of experience coaching Olympians and professional Athletes.

East & West Hub Coaches

Clive Foster

Clive Foster

High School Program Director

NCCP-certified coach.

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Quinton Myles

Quinton Myles

Junior Development Director

NCCP-certified coach.

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Shannon King

Shannon King

High School Program Director

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Strength & Conditioning

The engine behind the times.

Every Lane includes structured strength and conditioning work scaled to the athlete's age and training age.

Youth

Movement Prep

Bodyweight strength, mobility, and coordination circuits.

Competitive

Foundational Strength

Introductory barbell and resistance training, plyometric progressions.

Elite

Performance Strength

Periodized strength blocks aligned to the competition calendar.

Philosophy

Character before clock time.

Discipline, faith, and structure come first. The times and distances follow — they always have.

01

Discipline

Consistency in training builds consistency in life.

02

Character

Faith-informed development that shapes who an athlete becomes.

03

Data

Every athlete's load, wellness, and progress tracked with professional-level rigor.

Athlete surrounded by performance data during physical activity
Meet the Staff

Ready to train with us?

Inquire

Find your lane.

Tell us about your athlete and a member of our coaching staff will follow up.