Game On Magazine - April 2017 GameOn-Apr2017-P001-144-ONLINE | Page 52

CANADA GAMES SPORT FOR LIFE TRAINING CENTRE
Elite Hockey a Big
Part of the new
Canada Games
Sport
for Life
Training
Centre
By Scott Taylor
Photos by Jeff Miller
and Sport Manitoba
JEFF WOOD
I
ON ICE WITH JEFF WOOD
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t will be called the Canada Games Sport
for Life Training Centre and for longtime
hockey high performance training spe-
cialist Jeff Wood, it’s one of the most excit-
ing times in Manitoba sports history.
Located adjacent to the Sport Manitoba
at 145 Pacific, the Centre will be a 200,000
square foot facility that will not only be home
to Manitoba’s Provincial Teams, many of the
province’s National-level and professional
athletes and the general public, it will also be
the home of a serious hockey training pro-
gram for Manitoba’s most elite players.
“This place will be awesome” said Wood,
who has more than 20 years of athlete train-
ing experience. “We have a great team of
coaches, top of the line equipment and a
fantastic new training centre. We believe this
will be the best training facility in the prov-
ince. Our programs will use the latest in tech-