Photo roundup features skiing and winter season farewell
Written by Gordie Howe Sports Complex staff
When it comes to being busy, track and field coach Jason Reindl takes it to a whole different level.
After getting married in October of 2023, Reindl, who has served as the head coach of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies Track and Field and Cross-Country Teams since the start of the 2017-18 campaign, hasn’t slowed down a bit. During the spring and summer months, you can often find him coaching athletes of all ages and abilities at the Track and Field Track on the Gordie Howe Sport Complex grounds.
Since the start of January 1, 2024, Reindl’s life has been a whirlwind. The sport has taken the 40-year-old to Paris, France, as the personal coach for 100-metre hurdler Michelle Harrison at the Summer Olympics. Reindl was also the sprints, hurdles and relays coach with Team Canada for World Under-20 Championships that ran August 27 to 31, 2024 in Lima, Peru.
He also guided the Huskies Women’s Track and Field Team to Canada West Conference championship wins in February of 2024 and this past February for a run of seven straight conference title victories. On Saturday, the Huskies Women’s Track and Field Team captured bronze at the U Sports Track and Field Championships in Windsor, Ontario.
Those were some of the biggest head turning happenings Reindl was a part of. The number of roles he has filled in track and field is mind boggling.
A feature on Reindl is the main story for the March upload of Howe Happenings. In that piece, Reindl talks about how growing up in a track and field family naturally led to him being at first an athlete and then a coach.
He discussed how he started coaching during his years as a high school student at Evan Hardy Collegiate. Reindl went into how rewarding his experiences have been over the last 14-and-a-half months and what drives him as a coach.
To go with the feature on Reindl, February’s “Howe Happenings” upload includes a photo roundup that is anchored by images from the ski trails that run across the Glenn Reeve Fields. A farewell was given to the winter sports season on the ski trails along with the Clarence Downey Speed Skating Oval, which closed on March 2. Also for the photo roundup, action continued to heat up at the Indoor Training Centre as athletes from various sports prepared for their upcoming spring seasons.
You can find these items on the “Howe Happenings” blog at howehappenings306.blogspot.com.
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