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COVER PHOTO Cover photo of Vincent Massey Quarterback Andreas Dueck by Jeff Miller
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Jeff and Tara Miller / 100 Acre Woods Photography, James Carey Lauder Sports Photography, Cycling Canada, Canadian Centre for Sport Manitoba Basketball Manitoba, Canada Basketball Water Ski Canada, Glenn Dickson, Mike Lukyn, Mantioba Fencing, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Brandon Sun, Brant Fenske
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For the Elite, Sport is a 24 / 7 / 365 Commitment
Yes, I know. It’ s July and we have a high school football player on the cover. Seems a tad early considering the Winnipeg High School Football League doesn’ t get underway until September.
For one thing, elite athletes don’ t stop training at any time during the year and for another, most of the high school football players you will meet in this issue have been playing all spring and summer with head coach Don Burrell’ s U-18 Team Manitoba. Seems that these days, it’ s football season all the time.
This is our Annual WHSFL Players to Watch edition. Inside you will meet Vincent Massey quarterback Andreas Dueck, THE player to watch this season, plus three players from each of the WHSFL’ s three Divisions – Potter, Vidruk and Currie – who are expected to have( a) outstanding and( b) highly entertaining seasons.
If you want to go out and watch some football this fall, go watch the young men you will meet on these pages. They can play. And they’ ve been working on it since the last down from last season.
In the meantime, there is a lot more going on than just football. We’ ll introduce you to a couple of outstanding fencers, Cameron Mackay, 20, and Sarah Filby, 17. Both recently named the Canadian Fencing Federation’ s Junior Athletes of the Year for 2015-16. You’ ll also meet four lawn bowlers who have either won national championships or competed for Canada’ s national team or are trying to make Canada’ s national team( or all of the above): Shirley Fitzpatrick-Wong, John Bjornson, Nathan Jacobucci and Rob Law. You’ ll also meet all-around athlete Victoria Tachinski, Para-Badminton champion Olivia Meier, basketball coach Tim Friesen, Olympic cyclist Leah Kirchmann and football star Zack Williams.
Sport never stops and that’ s a good thing. This month’ s edition of SportsLife is chalked full of stories about athletes and events and, as always, we sent our photographers, James Carey Lauder and Jeff Miller out to get a feel for what’ s been going on in Winnipeg this summer.
So sit back and enjoy. And thanks for reading SportsLife: Winnipeg’ s Place to Play.
– SCOTT TAYLOR Editor-in-Chief
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