Charmaine Crooks

Charmaine Crooks
Crooks in 2013
36th President of the
Canadian Soccer Association
Assumed office
March 1, 2023
Preceded byNick Bontis
Personal details
Born (1962-08-08) August 8, 1962 (age 62)
Mandeville, Jamaica
Alma materUniversity of Texas at El Paso
Sports career
NationalityCanadian
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
SportRunning
Event(s)400 metres, 800 metres

Charmaine Crooks CM OLY[1] (born August 8, 1962), is a Canadian businesswoman, sports executive, and retired sprinter and middle-distance runner.

Crooks was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, but represented Canada for close to 20 years in athletics. She was a five-time Olympian, winning silver and setting a national record of 3:21.21 in the 4 x 400 metres relay with her teammates Jillian Richardson, Molly Killingbeck, and Marita Payne. The first Canadian woman to run 800 metres in under two minutes, Crooks also won gold medals at the Pan American, Commonwealth, World Student Games, and World Cup. In 1996, she had the honour of being Canada's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games. She is the fifth child with five sisters and three brothers.

  1. ^ "OLY Canada Commission created to empower Team Canada Olympians". Olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee. April 29, 2021. Retrieved August 16, 2021.