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Epitome of Excellence, Inc. is a non-profit youth track club based out of Jacksonville, FL coached by Reginald McCray and assisted by Venetta Oglesby. Epitome promotes an environment that encourages full personal development of its student athletes. The organization puts a big emphasis on their athlete's scholastics academics and behavior as well as their athletic abilities. The coaches are dedicated to developing synergy between the academic and athletic abilities of all its student athletes.
They have an attention grabbing team motto as well.
"We must be the Epitome, the embodiment of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. Like no other respect all, fear none."
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They compete in both the USATF and AAU organizations and have seen much success. They recently competed at USATF Florida Association Championship with 25 athletes coming away with 38 medals and also competed at the AAU Region 9 Championships. If you missed the action there you will see 15 of their athletes at the USATF Junior Olympics in Sacramento, CA July 25th- 31st and 34 athletes participating in the AAU Junior Olympic Games in Houston, TX July 30th- Aug 6th.
Some notable athletes you will be seeing in the near future are...
Females
Da'Moni Kelly - District, State and Regional Champion in the throws.
Terren Peterson - District and State Champion in the 200, 400, and 4x100
Aniya Harper - District and State Champion in the 100 & 200
Males
Joshua Patterson - USATF National Champion in the Boys 8 & Under Long Jump / District, State, and Regional Champion in the 800
Davaughn Patterson, DeQuan King, JaQuon King and Maurion Watkins - District, State, and Regional Champion in the Boys 4x800
Some newcomers that have already made an impact for Epitome are Thomas and Daniel Hoff. President/ Executive Director Angela Harris says that they are hard-workers who are dedicated to the sport.
The commitment and support from the coaches, team mom and parents are their greatest strength as a whole. Their dedication to academics and structure to be an innovative community oriented organization providing sports and fitness programs for all ages and ability is something to aspire to.
Check out Epitome's win at the USATF Championships back in 2014 here.
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