Breaking News from Hamilton’s only youth triathlon club

The Hamilton Hammerhead Board had a very productive meeting with Barrie Shepley on Monday, February 14, 2011.

Barrie Shepley, president and cofounder of Personal Best, founder of C3, and founder of KOS, was Canada’s National Triathlon Team coach in 1991. Since then he has coached over 500 people to national championships, Pan American Games medals, World Championship medals, and completion of the Hawaii Ironman and the Boston Marathon. Barrie was selected to go to the 2000 Sydney Olympics where Triathlon made its debut as a full medal sport where Simon Whitfield won the gold medal in a performance no one will ever forget. Barrie has a number of elite triathletes currently studying and competing at McMaster.

Our discussion dealt with short term planning to put into place coaching and training for all Hammerhead athletes beginning March 1st and a longer term vision of what the Hammerheads can become. As a result of this meeting, the board is pleased to welcome Barrie as our Director of Coaching.

Barrie’s role will be one of oversight, direction, planning and coordination. He is committed to securing coaching and arranging training schedules for our athletes. We will announce these as they come to fruition over the next few days.

We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Barrie.

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The Hamilton Hammerheads returned a new board which will lead the club into new coaching and training programs.  More details will follow over the next two weeks.