Barry retired as a high school teacher,counsellor, and coach after a long career with the Vancouver School Board. He has been a competitive runner for over 50 years and competed at all levels including representing Canada. He has experience as a director and volunteer at the club and provincial level working on runs and meets . Barry was a close friend of Frank Reynolds since high school and is dedicated to keeping Frank's vision of coaching alive through the Whistler Spirit Run. Barry is married and has one son.

Linda Bakk qualified as an exercise specialist with the American College of Sports Medicine. Bakk is an expert in the fitness leadership and cardiac rehabilitation fields, and aided in the implementation of the Cardiac Rehabilitiation Program at Lion’s Gate Hospital. Bakk is dedicated to promoting health and fitness in the community, and helping to realize the vision of her late partner Frank Reynolds- to bring an annual world class track event to Whistler in order to promote amateur sport in Canada. Presently, Bakk also works as a certified exercise physiologist for the Healthy Heart Program.

Markus Bill has extensive experience in the sporting goods industry. Markus has been involved in the organization of major sporting events as well as organizing tours to international events including marathons, Olympic games, track and field and cross-country championships. After moving back to Vancouver from Switzerland, he was responsible for the overall implementation of some of the Landmark Group Pacific events, which included the Vancouver Sun Run, the Vancouver Sun Jerome Track Classic, the Vancouver In-Line Skating Festival and the Vancouver Canucks Fan Appreciation Day Celebrations. Markus is now Part-Owner of Prime Travel/International Sports Tours Ltd., a travel agency & tour operating company in West Vancouver specializing in Switzerland, Europe and worldwide Sports Tours. He is a father of three children who are heavily involved in Track and Field and Cross Country Running.

Peter Diemer, is the Executive Vice President, Strategy & Development for Hip Digital Media and brings over 25 years of experience of marketing, sales, and business development in the music, entertainment and technology industry to the Whistler Spirit Run. Previously, Diemer was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Musicrypt Inc., and has also held senior level executive positions for Capitol-EMI, MCA/Universal Records and EMI Music Canada, where he was instrumental in managing all artist and media relations, radio and television promotional efforts, and governmental affairs. Diemer has a degree in Television, Stage and Radio Arts, from S.A.I.T. (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) in Calgary, Alberta. He’s been actively involved with various music organizations, including The Juno Awards, where he chaired the Marketing Committee in 1997 & 2002 and is also a past Board Member of the Norwesters Track and Field Club.

Jim Douglas has been very active in youth sports, specifically Youth soccer and minor hockey in a number of BC communities, as his work in the hotel industry has taken him and his family to many communities in British Columbia. Jim has participated on a number of Tourism and Chamber of Commerce boards, and is committed to the development of a tangible legacy for youth outside the mainstream sports connected to the legacy of our new world class Olympic venues, such as The Olympic Park.

Jim is married with one adult daughter, still active in recreational hockey, and enjoys cross country running.

Iain, a retired teacher and coach (thirty-four years with the Burnaby School Board) has been a competitive athlete all his life and is an Athletics Canada Level V international official having worked at the start line of the 1994 Commonwealth Games, Victoria, and 2001 IAAF World Athletics Championships, Edmonton. He is married with two adult children.

Steve has a long history of involvement and volunteering with the track and field community. For ten years he has served with the NorWesters Track and Field Club as a Board member, and this year is their President. He continues to help organize their Club meets and is primarily responsible for overseeing meet entries and the photo finish and results.

During the day, Steve is a Professional Engineer and develops residential properties with ParkLane Homes. Personally, Steve is married and has four adult children.

Jake Weaver is a NCCP Level 3 Cross Country Ski Coach for the Hollyburn Jackrabbit Ski Club, and considers the late Frank Reynolds his main inspiration for coaching. Weaver has close ties with organizers at the Olympic Cross Country Skiing committee and with the venue at Whistler Olympic Park. He has three children, who have all competed in Track and Field with the NorWesters Track Club. Weaver is also a dentist.

Ashley Weber is a certified level II, middle distance track and field coach, who credits Frank Reynolds for instilling values in him that have served Ashley equally in sports and in life-perseverance, commitment, dedication, sacrifice, responsibility and accountability. Weber was formerly a varsity track and field and cross-country athlete at Simon Fraser University, and head coach of the senior middle distance group with the Norwester's Track and Field club. Weber is working towards his Master's degree in education, and teaches in the North Vancouver School District.

Two- time Olympic 1500m runner, Thelma Wright, competed for Canada all through the 70's winning Commonwealth and Pan Am medals. Wright has spent 30 years teaching and coaching students and athletes of all ages 'to be the best that they can be' including coaching Lynn Kanuka Williams to Bronze in the 84 Olympics. Wright, an inductee in the BC Sports Hall of Fame, and a recipient of a Queen’s Jubilee Commemorative medal, is currently the Athletics Canada cross-country coordinator and coach, and a member of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) Cross Country Committee. Wright presently coordinates the Run Jump Throw Program for BC Athletics and is married to two time Olympic Field hockey player, Lee Wright.