{"id":120017,"date":"2024-07-30T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/?p=120017"},"modified":"2024-07-30T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:34:06","slug":"under-armour-diversity-series-running-wild-athletics-club-continues-to-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/ua-diversity-series\/under-armour-diversity-series-running-wild-athletics-club-continues-to-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Armour Diversity Series: Running Wild Athletics Club continues to thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, we met Saskatchewan-based Harvey Weber<\/strong>, a dedicated coach, mentor and advocate for runners from all walks of life. His focus in recent years has been building the running community and spreading the joy of running within the Indigenous and newcomer communities in Saskatoon and Saskatchewan. After he was featured in the Under Armour Diversity Series last November,<\/a> Under Armour provided his club, the Running Wild Athletics Club (RWAC), with shirts and singlets for all the runners. We caught up with him to see how the club was doing, what’s new, and how he’s approaching bringing runners of every background and age to the track.<\/p>\n

“In Running Wild, we have three different programs so we can reach as many people as possible,” he says. “We have the Future Greats, who are six- to 10-year-olds. They come once a week for an eight-week session that we run a few times a year. On average, there’s about 15 to 20 kids involved in that program each time.”<\/p>\n

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What’s great about the different programs is how circular they are: the Future Greats grow up and move into the next program, the developmental program, and even go on to become the young coaches that Weber uses to run the Future Greats programs.<\/p>\n

Weber himself is still hard at work leading the developmental program as the head coach. The runners start at around 11 and go all the way up to age 76. “We’re divided into two groups: there’s a sprint group, and then there’s a middle distance group,” he explains. “Beyond that, we have a Performance Group, which is typically our university athletes. When they’re not competing for the university, they compete for us in the summer. We’ve also had some athletes who finish university but are still competing at a high level, and they train with us.”<\/p>\n

Under Armour Diversity Series: Saskatchewan’s Harvey Weber<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n