01 / NIGERIAN SLIDING FEDERATION
The pathway to the ice.
The Bobsled & Skeleton Federation of Nigeria provides the national sporting pathway behind the journey.
Meet the backer03 / THE JOURNEY
The person
behind the helmet.
THE COMEBACK / A DIFFERENT STARTING POINTA different
starting point.
I came to skeleton late. I had never pushed a sled. Learning the sport meant starting with what I didn’t know.
Before the ice, there were hurdles: the 110 m and 300 m at Innisdale Secondary in Barrie, Ontario, then the 400 m hurdles and relay at UTEP. The track came first. The sled came later.
REBUILD. LEARN. GO AGAIN.Build the system.
Do the work.
I work in construction engineering and project management, delivering large commercial builds. With Ryan Hawkes, I bring that discipline to health, fitness and wellness facilities: procurement, scheduling, time and budget.
I speak six languages. My skeleton career has been self-funded alongside that work. The engineer’s mindset follows me onto the ice: preparation, repetition, measurement.
PRECISION IS A PRACTICE.For those told
they couldn’t.
I’m working toward taking Nigerian men’s skeleton to the Olympics — and making the route easier for whoever follows.
If even one person takes one real thing from my journey and does something with it, that’s a win. In the work, the waiting and the parts no one is watching, the standard I’m building toward is to look like Christ.
JESUS. NIGERIA. AFRICA.