Elite Athlete
Former national track champion in the 100m and 200m sprint events, with competition experience across Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Awards & Recognition
Former National Track Champion (100m & 200m) | National Coach | Diversity Award Winner | Motivational Speaker | Thought Leader

Former national track champion in the 100m and 200m sprint events, with competition experience across Canada, the United States, and Europe.
Decades of athlete mentorship, coaching leadership, and youth development rooted in discipline, confidence, and resilience.
Recognition connected to inclusion, community impact, lived resilience, and helping people rise through adversity.
Books, keynotes, workshops, and faith-friendly messages designed for schools, leaders, teams, women, youth, and communities.
Speaker Biography
Lornette's credibility comes from lived experience: elite competition, decades of coaching, authorship, community service, faith, and resilience.
Lornette Daye is a former track athlete, national coach, Diversity Award Winner, author, and motivational speaker whose credibility is grounded in elite athletic achievement, lived resilience, decades of mentorship, and measurable community impact.
Her athletic background includes multiple national and Western Canada Games titles in the 100m and 200m sprints, along with provincial and city championships. Her career as an elite athlete took her across Canada, the United States, and Europe, including Poland and Germany.
As a Black athlete in the 1970s, Lornette experienced tremendous adversity, including housing insecurity and discrimination. Those challenges became part of the foundation for her message on resilience, identity, faith, courage, and helping younger athletes rise through similar struggles.
Across decades as an elite competitor, national coach, entrepreneur, mentor, and author, Lornette has built the authority to speak to schools, organizations, churches, women, youth, athletes, founders, and community leaders who need practical tools for confidence, resilience, and purpose.
Signature Keynote
Drawing from her journey as an elite sprinter, Lornette shows audiences how discipline, faith, confidence, and perspective can carry them through setbacks without losing sight of who they are.
A powerful elite-athlete story on rising above adversity without losing yourself.
Recognition Highlights
These highlights trace the experiences behind Lornette's voice, from athletic excellence to community impact and authored resources.
Traveling from Alberta, Canada. Business-class international travel and standard professional AV/stage specifications for eligible events.