Two of Canada’s premier distance runners, Cam Levins and Sheila Reid have gone professional and have signed long term contracts with Nike, per their management group, Flynn Sports, Inc.
Levins and Reid, both NCAA Champions, were versatile distance runners, with success in cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. In this post-Olympic time period, footwear companies are only looking for the best of the best to sponsor. RBR wishes Cam Levins and Sheila Reid the very best as elite professional distance runners!
CANADIAN DUO SHIELA REID AND CAMERON LEVINS SIGN WITH NIKE USA Inc.
(22 Oct) — Flynn Sports Inc. today announced that Sheila Reid and Cameron Levins have signed multiple year agreements with Nike USA, Inc. Reid (22) is a five-time NCAA champion, formerly of the University of Villanova, and Cameron Levins (22) is the 2012 double NCAA outdoor champion at 5000m and 10000m, while attending Southern Utah University.
“Nike is very excited to sponsor two of Canada’s biggest distance talents. It will be fun to watch them develop over the next several years”, said John Capriotti, Global head of Sports Marketing at Nike USA Inc. Reid, from Newmarket, Ontario and Levins from Black Creek, BC, recently competed in the London Olympic Games for Canada.
“I am delighted that Sheila and Cam have decided to begin their professional careers with Nike where they will be well supported” said Ray Flynn, President, Flynn Sports Inc.
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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