PHOENIX ATHLETICS

NATE BRANNEN

YOB: 1982

Event(s): 1500m, mile
School: U of Michigan

Alma Mater: -
Personal Bests:

800m - 1:46.00 (2001)

1000m - 2:16.52 (2012)

1500m - 3:34.22 (2012)

mile - 3:52.63 (2009)

2K - 4:59.56 (2013)

3K - 7:48.98 (2013)

5K - 13:43.19 (2007)

Titles: 3-time Olympian

AARON BROWN

YOB: 1992

Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: U of Southern California (USC)

Alma Mater: Birchmount Park C.I.
Personal Bests:

100m - 9.96 (2016)

200m - 20.00 (2016)

Titles: 2016 Olympic Games 4x100m bronze medalist; 2015 World Championships bronze medalist; 2015 Pan Am gold medalist; sponsored by Nike

Nathan Brannen is a middle distance runner specializing in the 800m, 1500m and mile events. Brannen is a 3-time Olympian in the 1500m for Canada and has been competing professionally for 12 years. Coming out of high school as a sub 4-minute miler, his career took off while competing at the University of Michigan where he won 4 NCAA Track and Field Titles, 6 Big Ten Titles, and was an 11-time All-American in Track and Field (8) and Cross-country (3). Nathan has been one of the top 1500m runners in the World for more than a decade. Nathan is the Canadian record holder in the Indoor (2:16.86) and Outdoor (2:16.51) 1000m, Indoor Mile (3:54.32), and Outdoor 2000m (4:59.52) and is the previous record holder of the Junior 800m (1:46.60) and Indoor 800m (1:47.61). Most recently, Brannen finished 10th at the Rio Olympic Games in the 1500m event.

Aaron Brown joined Phoenix in grade 10. He is a multi-year Ontario champion in both the 100m and 200m running for Birchmount Park C.I. He placed 5th in the 100m & 3rd in the 200m at the World Juniors in Moncton, NB. Twice he has run for Canada in the 4x100m relay in the Olympics, earning a bronze medal in 2014. After graduating from the University of Southern California (USC), Aaron signed as a Nike athlete. He is presently training in Clermont, Florida with a Nike group that is coached by Dennis Mitchell and Justin Gatlin as a training partner.

EMMA BRENDER

YOB: 2000
Event(s): 100m, 200m, 400m
School: Malvern C.I.
Personal Bests:

100m - 14.16

200m - 29.91

400m

KEMAR BURRELL

YOB: 1996

Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: Wexford C.I.
Personal Bests:

100m - 11.77

200m

THOMAS CALLENDER

YOB: 1998
Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: Wexford C.I.
Personal Bests:

100m - 11.37

200m - 22.44

SEBASTIAN DAVID

YOB: 2000
Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: Jean Vanier C.S.S.
Personal Bests:

100m - 11.89

200m - 25.21

SYDNEY FRIGERIO

YOB: 1999
Event(s): 100m, 100mH
School: North Toronto C.I.
Personal Bests:

100m - 13.81

100mH

Titles: competed at 2013 Giochi Della Gioventu (Italian-heritage track meet) in Rome, Italy as a finalist in 80mH and a member of the gold medal 4x100m relay team.

ABDULLAHI HASSAN

YOB:2003
Event(s): 400m, 800m
School: Birchmount Park C.I.

Personal Bests:

400m - 50.34

800m - 1:55.32
Titles: OFSAA 2017 800m champion

MARLON LAIDLAW-ALLEN

YOB:1993
Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: George Brown College

Alma Mater:
Personal Bests:

100m

200m - 20.98
Titles: member of World Youth, Pan Am Junior, 2-time World Junior Canadian teams

MICK MENDOZA

YOB: 2000
Event(s): 1500m, 3000m, 5000m
School: Blessed Cardinal Newman H.S.
Personal Bests:

1500m - 4:42

3000m - 9:58

5000m - 17:45

Accomplishments: OFSAA participant; top 10 finisher in TDCAA XC

MARISSA PAPACONSTANTINOU

YOB: 1999
Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: Bill Crothers S.S.
Personal Bests:

100m - 13.49

200m - 28.33

Titles: 2015 Canadian Para Champion in 100 & 200m; Canadian Record Holder (T44 100m & T44 200m); represented Canada at the 2015 IPC World Championships, and a finalist in the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in both the T44 100m & 200m.

EMMA SCHWARTZ

YOB: 2001
Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: Wexford C.I.
Personal Bests:

100m

200m

DANIEL SIMPSON

YOB: 2000
Event(s): 100m, 200m
School: Sir Oliver Mowat C.I.
Personal Bests:

100m - 12.56

200m - 25.53