Month: August 2021

Our next Canada Summer Games sport feature is Canoe Kayak! Head Coach Jerome Seremak and Manitoba Paddling Association Office Manager Aimee Hunt tell us what their athletes are doing to train as they head into the fall and winter seasons, and why this is a special event for many young athletes that sparks big dreams….

Kaitlynn Anderson is playing a major role in leading the way for women’s lacrosse in Manitoba. As the first girl in Manitoba to attend a D1 college in Massachusetts in lacrosse, she has a lot of exciting things on the horizon from now until then, including aspiring to make a memorable debut with Team Manitoba…

Volunteer as a family Volunteering as a family has many benefits including; spending quality time together, creating strong family values, discovering new interests, learning new skills and best of all, it’s FREE.  

Para-badminton athlete Olivia Meier discusses her historic journey to the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.     Photo credit: Canadian Paralympic Committee

Have you heard about our exciting new project? We have teamed up with local author Sean Grassie to publish a book celebrating iconic stories from 150 years of sport in Manitoba. All proceeds from the book will go to KidSport Manitoba, an organization that provides support to children in order to remove financial barriers that…

The story of the National Hockey League cannot be told without the impacts made by goaltenders from Manitoba.  Our net minding history stretches back as far as the 1920s with Charlie Gardiner and Hal Winkler, and into the present day with Chris Driedger, Calvin Pickard, and James Reimer.  Sandwiched between those players is 100 years…

Ancient Wrestling Wrestling, or Palé, as the ancient Greeks called it, has been a staple at the Olympics since the beginning. Milo of Croton, a wrestler from what is now southern Italy, was the crème de la crème of the sport at the time. He won six Olympiads and was described by many ancient sources…

In a previous blog post, we introduced why flexibility matters, and provided a few basic exercises to try to get you started. In this post, we’re progressing with these four video demos of exercises you can incorporate into your routine that require the following equipment: an exercise ball, a dowel, and an exercise mat. Give…

As I write this, I am sitting in front of my TV watching the Olympic Games, excited to watch elite athletes compete on the world stage and show their talent, resilience, and hard work after a very trying year.   These athletes had their Olympic experience postponed last year, and when you spend your life, especially…