Canada has produced its share of sprinting stars, however its quickest excessive schooler hasn’t even completed Grade 11.
Over the weekend on the 2025 Ontario highschool observe and area championships (OFSAA), Wyatt Lee of Frontenac Secondary Faculty in Kingston, Ont., clocked 10.38 seconds within the senior boys’ 100m ultimate to change into the quickest highschool sprinter in Canadian historical past.
In doing so, Lee broke a 31-year-old Canadian interscholastic file of 10.41 seconds set by 1996 Olympic gold medallist Carlton Chambers. Lee additionally lowered his personal Canadian U18 nationwide file of 10.42, which he had set every week earlier. (Each instances are pending ratification by Athletics Canada.)
OFSAA marked the third time Lee has damaged the U18 nationwide 100m file this season. He first dipped underneath the earlier mark of 10.46 (set by three-time Olympic medallist Aaron Brown in 2009) with a ten.44 run at a meet in New York Metropolis in early Might. Lee is ranked third on the earth amongst U18 sprinters.
Is that this Kingston, Ont. sprinter the subsequent Andre De Grasse?
The Grade 11 sprinter gained the senior boys’ OFSAA 100m ultimate by a commanding three-tenths of a second—a big margin for the occasion. And his dominance didn’t cease there. The next day, he added one other gold medal within the 200m, clocking a private better of 21.07 within the prelims and 21.09 within the ultimate.
Lee’s rise has been meteoric. Simply over a 12 months in the past, in Might 2024, he made his highschool debut within the 100m with a time of 11.51. In 12 months, he has shaved greater than a full second off that mark. His historic rise has even caught the eye of Canadian dash legends Brown, Donovan Bailey and Andre De Grasse.
De Grasse attended OFSAA on Saturday to supply commentary and witness Lee’s 200m ultimate race firsthand. Like Canada’s seven-time Olympic medallist, Lee’s sprinting skills had been additionally acknowledged at a highschool observe meet. He joined Toronto’s Flying Angels dash program earlier than the 2025 season and has continued to enhance, dropping his 60m finest to six.71 and his 100m finest to 10.38.
With one 12 months of highschool left, who is aware of how a lot quicker Lee will go—however for now, Canada’s quickest excessive schooler is an unbeatable health club class nickname.
