Endurance, speed, power and strength -- four attributes that were being evaluated at the RBC Training Ground, held at St. Joseph High School on Sunday.

The event was a combine for athletes between 14-25 years old and a search for elite talent by 14 National Sport Organizations (NSO) that will examine data collected from sessions across the country.

Some of them include Canada Snowboard, Canada Basketball and Cross Country Ski Canada.

Kirsti Lay, a member of Canada’s bronze-winning cycling team at the Rio Olympics, attended the event in Red Deer to encourage participants.

She said elite athletes are versatile, who can be molded to fit an NSO’s program.

“Personally, I was a speedskater before I turned cyclist. I picked up cycling four years before Rio,” Lay said.

“If you have the right coaches, the right mentors and they put the resources into you, it’s pretty impressive how far you can go with a sport.”

Strength was one of the qualities being evaluated during the RBC Training Ground event in Red Deer.

Red Deer’s Jared Howse, was one of roughly 100 participants throughout the day.

He drew the attention of the entire fieldhouse with his performance in the beep test, scoring 13.5, outlasting his entire heat.

Lay said that a score of 12 is rare but the 15-year-old St. Joseph student he could have done better.

“Felt pretty good but doing all the other stuff before made me a little bit tired. But I still feel like I did strong overall and I kept my cool all the way through,” Howse said.

Howse happens to be a distance runner with experience at the national level. He hopes to earn a university scholarship through the sport.

“Other than that, I wouldn’t mind competing in the Olympics someday,” he said.

RBC Training Ground events are being held across Canada, with the top 30 in the country to receive funding to chase an Olympic dream.