SportsLife Canada Magazine - Issue 5, 2018

In this issue

Back to School, Back to the Gridiron
It’s September, the kids are back in school and that means the schedules for football, soccer, volleyball and basketball are set and ready to go. The sports seasons for both the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba are underway and the Winnipeg High School Football League is actually not far from playoff time.
Speaking of the WHSFL, our September/October edition for 2018 will introduce you to some of Manitoba’s best and brightest young athletes and our cover boy, Vincent Massey Trojans’ 6-foot-8 defensive lineman Kyler Filewich, sets us up for an issue that is full of champions, award winners and young people who are likely to succeed in their chosen sports for many years to come.
For instance, we’ll meet Carson Lee, a 17-year-old wrestler from Flin Flon who is already one of the best in the country, a pro volleyball player from the University of Winnipeg named Josh McKay and Victoria Tachinski, a track star at Penn State University who has just been named winner of the Michener Award.
In this issue of SportsLife, we also pay tribute to some of Manitoba’s all-time greats: A 2018 inductee into the International Softball Hall of Fame, the indefatigable Shelly Paton, a fitness star who isn’t in her 20s anymore and some horse racing veterans who helped Assiniboia Downs enjoy one of its most successful meets.
Oh yes, and we also pay tribute to the winner of the Gold Cup, the last great race of the season at the Downs; the stars of the World Masters Ultimate Club Championship that was held right here in Winnipeg; and Manitoba’s successful rowers who did so very well at the prestigious 2018 Henley Regatta.
So sit back and enjoy. We hope you meet someone you didn’t know before and learn about a sport you’d never thought about before. Winnipeg is blessed. It’s also Canada’s Place to Play.
SCOTT TAYLOR
Editor in Chief