CALGARY — Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson couldn't have imagined when his high school Halloween costume was a Jamaican bobsledder that he'd eventually intersect with that world of sleds and ice. He grew up in Calgary diving competitively.
CALGARY — Yohan Eskrick-Parkinson couldn't have imagined when his high school Halloween costume was a Jamaican bobsledder that he'd eventually intersect with that world of sleds and ice.
After attending testing and push camps provincially and nationally in the summer and fall, Eskrick-Parkinson will slide down a track for the first time in his life Thursday in Whistler, B.C., with the goal of doing that for Canada at an Olympic Games. Eskrick-Parkinson's father Desmond emigrated from Jamaica to Canada in the 1990s. His mother Melissa lived in Calgary during the 1988 Olympic Games. The underdog Jamaican bobsled team there inspired the 1993 movie"Cool Runnings."
Eskrick-Parkinson studied neuroscience at Northwestern. He's applied to medical schools while he pursues bobsled. It's common for athletes from power sports such as track and field, rugby and football to graduate to bobsled. "You can tell he's been putting in the work. It's great to see that he's trying to take advantage of this opportunity that he has to to try a second sport and excel at it."
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