SportsLife Canada Magazine - Issue 4, 2017

In this issue

SUMMER IS PARADISE IN OUR TOWN
Despite a number of tolerable winters over the past few years, life still isn’t easy in Winnipeg in January. However, snow, cold, a challenging drive and a penchant for cocooning, is worth the suffering when summer arrives in Manitoba. The lakes, the parks, the big sunny sky, they’re all the things that make summer in our city something close to paradise.
And this year’s summer edition of SportsLife celebrates all the things that make summer great – Shaw Park, Assiniboia
Downs, Investors Group Field, the Manitoba Marathon, the golf courses and all the wonderful people. Our own Lisa Lysen has a terrific story about Rock Steady Boxing and the two sensational people – Brandt Butt and Sheri Larsen-Celhar – who make the program a civic treasure. We also introduce you to Canada’s finest female bowler, Winnipeg’s Marissa Naylor, who also happens to be one of the three top female golfers in the province. As well, we take you to the Downs where 46-year-old Peruvian jockey Adolfo Morales calls Winnipeg his second home and is tearing up the track this season. We introduce you to Wes Darvill, the talented third baseman from Langley, B.C., who has not only become one of the best ball players on the Goldeyes, but also one of the best in all of independent baseball thanks to an athletic
trainer from Winnipeg. And we get you up-to-date with all the latest inductees to Manitoba’s and Canada’s various Sports Halls of Fame. Just to round things out, we have full Manitoba Marathon coverage, full coverage of the Canada-Costa Rica soccer friendly featuring Winnipeg’s own Danielle Scott, a pictorial look at the Fearless’ female football team and all the latest amateur sports news from the U of M to the national gymnastics championships.
So thanks for picking us up and taking us to the lake. We hope to provide you with a good read as you watch the sunset tonight. After all, we’re SportsLife, Winnipeg’s Place to Play.
– SCOTT TAYLOR
Editor-in-Chief