Homenetmen Atheltics

Homenetmen Track & Field

The Track and Field Team meets twice a week at the Toronto Track and Field Centre at York University. The team is open to all age groups and is coached by veteran Homenetmen Athlete yeghpayr Mardiros Pakhdikian

Please contact us at info@homenetmentoronto.com if you have any questions or would like to join the Track team

Armen Balouzian, is a Scout, Member of the Midget Boys Basketball team that won the Gold medal at the Canada Regional Games in Montreal in Nov. 2006 and a member of the Track and Field team. In March of 2007, Armen won the Bronze Medal for High Jump and finished 2nd in his heat for the 200m at the Ontario Track & Field Under 14 Championships.

37th Homenetmen Canada Games: The Armenian Community of Toronto was all abuzz over the weekend of November 23,24,25 2007 as Homenetmen Toronto played host to the 37th Homenetmen Canada Games. Over 300 athletes took part in seven events over the three days at various venues accross the city. There were visiting teams from Montreal, Cambridge, Washington DC, Providence Rhode Island, Orange County, Pasadena, and London, England. The events included Basketball, Soccer, Ball Hockey, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Chess, and Indoor Track & Field.

Friday’s Baketball games took place at the Homenetmen Gymnasium at the AYC to a packed house of fans and spectators. Members of the visiting teams could not believe the turnout of people that had come out to watch them play and cheer their teams on. "Samo", a basketball player from Providence expressed that this was his 2nd time in Canada and that of all the places he has played around the world, Toronto was his favourite.

A "Victory Celebration" was held on Saturday night at the Armenian Community Centre where all the athletes as well as the community enjoyed a great concert featuring the debut of local talent "Princess" and the guest feature, R-Mean, an Armenian rapper from Los Angeles. This was R-Mean’s first visit to Canada and he promised to come back as he fell in love with our Armenian Community.

The closing ceremonies took place Sunday afternoon, once again to a standing room only crowd. Guests included, V Reverend Sipan Kechedjian, Barkev Basmadjian, the President and Benefactor of the games, Homenetmen World Committee member Armen Kidikian as well as former World Committee Members, Hratch Der Sarkissian and Manuel Hallajian. Representatives from the Armenian Community Centre and sister organizations that run out of the centre were also present showing their support.

Events like this show the community that young people are our future and by providing them with these venues we achieve the principles of Homenemen.