{"id":14,"date":"2011-05-07T23:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T23:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-01-21T04:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T04:55:40","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The New West Spartans Track &amp; Field Club is a non-profit, community athletics club. Since 2007, we have focused on building fun and excellence in Track and Field for youth in New Westminster and surrounding communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We offer competitive and non-competitive programs in Track and Field as well as Cross Country for youth between the ages of 6 to 18. We are proud to be a club that has coached many national champions and supported countless others to achieve their personal bests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our home base is Mercer Stadium. We train 2 to 3 times weekly and gather at track meets to support our athletes throughout the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a member of BC Athletics and Athletics Canada, following Athletics Canada\u2019s Long Term Athlete Development model to create a sports environment that is safe, smart and secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn <a href=\"https:\/\/nwspartans.org\/?page_id=1163\">more<\/a> about our programs and current schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2392-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2392-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1782\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2392-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2392-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2392-1-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New West Spartans Track &amp; Field Club is a non-profit, community athletics club. Since 2007, we have focused on building fun and excellence in Track and Field for youth in New Westminster and surrounding communities. We offer competitive and non-competitive programs in Track and Field as well as Cross Country for youth between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nwspartans.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}