Canadian sprinter appointed athletics director at GC Foster College

COMING ON the heels of his gold medal win in the 4x100-metre men’s relay at the Paris Olympics for Canada, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter Brendon Rodney has joined the athletics division of the GC Foster College of Sport in Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Rodney has had an ongoing partnership with the sports college and with Jamaica. He trains in Jamaica under the guidance of coach Maurice Wilson, and Rodney taught courses at the college during the past academic year. He also donated a number of scholarships to needy students there earlier this year, in partnership with the Canadian High Commission in Kingston through the Brendon Rodney Foundation. He was born in Toronto, Canada, but both his parents are Jamaican.

His new appointment as assistant athletics director at GC Foster College became effective on Monday, August 19 and his responsibilities will include guiding the multidisciplinary development of students there. He will ensure that sports teams, coaches and facilities are compliant with governing bodies and that facilities and procedures are in accordance with best practices. He will also focus on the recruitment and management of student-athletes as well as the disbursement of scholarships.

Rodney is a graduate of Sheridan College in Canada. He also earned a master’s degree in exercise science from Long Island University in New York.

“GC Foster has become an important part of my sprint journey and I am thrilled to be able to enrich the academic lives of students here through sharing my skills and my experience,” Rodney told The Gleaner.

Rodney was also part of Canadian 4x100-metre teams that mined Olympic silver in 2020, Olympic bronze in 2016, and World Championship gold in Eugene, Oregon, in 2022.