SportsLife is Manitoba ’ s amateur sports magazine . This is where sports fans will meet the Olympians of tomorrow and the medalists of today and they all compete right here in Manitoba . We exist to pay tribute to those who make sport so important to this province .
Published by SportsLife Publications , it is edited by Scott Taylor and is designed and developed by Scott Taylor , Debbie Dunmall and OV Suvajac . SportsLife Magazine is printed by The Winnipeg Sun .
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PUBLISHER OV Suvajac publisher @ sportslife . life # 202B - 2621 Portage Avenue Winnipeg , Manitoba R3J 0P7 204-996-4146
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Scott Taylor sdtaylor2 @ shaw . ca
ART DIRECTOR Debbie Dunmall ddunmall @ gmail . com
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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
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Scott Taylor , Adam Wedlake , Johnston Hall , Duncan Morrison Rick Henkewich , Al Gowriluk
SportsLife is published at least six times a year by SportsLife Publications . All sales are managed by SportsLife Publications . All design and layout is provided by Debbie Dunmall and SportsLife is printed by The Winnipeg Sun .
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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