The Sarnia Athletics Southwest Track and Field Club is pleased to announce that Jillian Drouin, a St. Pat’s grad, will be working this summer for the club in the capacity of summer track and field coordinator and assistant coach. Drouin will be also be the Sarnia Athletics Southwest’s Junior Development camp director. The summer camps, which are for elementary aged athletes aged 8 to 14, will run weekdays throughout the months of June to early August. The focus of the camps will be to provide age-appropriate coaching to young athletes, with a focus on developing proper track and field skills and technique.

Jillian Drouin is currently entering her third year at Syracuse University, where she is her school record holder in the high jump (1.81m) and heptathlon (5287 points) this spring. Last summer, Drouin made a splash in the Canadian ranks when she won the Canadian Junior National Championship in the heptathlon and then went on to finish fourth in the event at the PanAm Junior Championships.