REGINA — Eight athletes, one manager and three mission staff from southeast Saskatchewan will be among the province’s contingent at this year’s Canada Summer Games which run Aug. 8-25 in St. John’s, Nfld.
Among them are women’s box lacrosse players Keariah O’Watch, from Sintaluta, and Maedy Moen of White City.
Alexa Smith (White City) will represent the province on the women’s beach volleyball team while Hailey Tulik (Fort Qu’Appelle) will do the same on the indoor court.
Landon Hebig (Balgonie) will suit up for the men’s baseball squad, Jorge Gutierrez Carabias (White City) for the men’s swimming team and Frederick Comfort (White City) for the men’s indoor volleyball team, while Ayva Delainey (Grayson) will compete in the women’s wheelchair 100 metre, 400 m and 1,500 m races.
The province’s management team will include Amber Moon (Riceton) on the female box lacrosse team, while Faye Matt (Balgonie), Eric Honetschlage (Edenwold) and Chelsey Exner (Grayson) will serve as mission staff for the province.
Saskatchewan finished seventh in the overall medal table at the COVID-postponed 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara Falls, Ont. with 32 medals – three of them gold.
Local medalists that year included White City’s Alex Ellert who helped Saskatchewan’s baseball team to a bronze medal and fellow White City resident Laura Desautels who helped coach the province to a silver medal in platform diving.
