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Windsor Park wins Price Division championship

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Windsor Park Collegiate has a new championship banner to hang from the rafters.

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Léo-Rémillard, Murdoch MacKay win hockey championships

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Léo-Rémillard, Murdoch MacKay win hockey championships

Sheldon Birnie STAFF REPORTER 4 minute read Friday, Mar. 17, 2023

Another high school hockey season is in the books. And what a season it was for east Winnipeg athletes.

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Friday, Mar. 17, 2023

Gophers crowned league champs

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Gophers crowned league champs

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 3 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023

The Garden City Collegiate Gophers varsity boys hockey team has won its first divisional championship, after defeating the St. Paul’s Crusaders 2-1 in a best-of-three series.

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Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023

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Brothers Noah Banera (left) and Evan Banera celebrate a championship win together.

Preparation, planning are key to healthy eating

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Preparation, planning are key to healthy eating

Crystal Kirby-Peloquin 3 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023

Are you a shift worker who struggles with nutrition? Or maybe you’re a parent who’s spending a lot of hours up at night with a child?

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Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023

Dreamstime

When looking for late-night food, single-serve soups, pasta dishes, rice, steamed veggies and bagged salads are easy wins.

Meet a young goalie with lofty goals

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Meet a young goalie with lofty goals

Troy Westwood 3 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023

Kaia Sigurdson is a 14-year-old, Grade 9 student who attends Shaftesbury High School.

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Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023

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Kaia Sigurdson attends Shaftesbury High School and plays goalie with The Rink Hockey Academy.

Skiing sisters compete at Canada Winter Games

Sheldon Birnie STAFF REPORTER East St. Paul North Kildonan 4 minute read Preview

Skiing sisters compete at Canada Winter Games

Sheldon Birnie STAFF REPORTER East St. Paul North Kildonan 4 minute read Monday, Mar. 13, 2023

Two sisters from East St. Paul recently represented Manitoba on the slopes at the Canada Winter Games.

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Monday, Mar. 13, 2023

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Golf Manitoba names this year’s Team Manitoba roster

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Golf Manitoba names this year’s Team Manitoba roster

It was 71 years ago this week…

T. Kent Morgan 4 minute read Preview

It was 71 years ago this week…

T. Kent Morgan 4 minute read 2:00 AM CDT

When the Chicago Black Hawks visited the New York Rangers on March 23, 1952, the final NHL game of the season for both teams had little meaning.

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Famed Winnipeg hockey player Bill Mosienko holds three pucks after scoring three goals in 21 seconds on March 23, 1952 against the New York Rangers.

Bisons basketball star wins national award

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Bisons basketball star wins national award

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 4 minute read 2:00 AM CDT

For just the second time, a University of Manitoba men’s basketball player has won the Dr. Peter Mullins Trophy as the nation’s U Sports rookie of the year.

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Simon Hildebrandt sizes up a free throw.

Wild in the hunt for AAA crown

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Wild in the hunt for AAA crown

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 3 minute read Monday, Mar. 13, 2023

The Winnipeg Wild Red, who draw players from St James, Charleswood and Fort Garry, are battling for the U15 Winnipeg AAA Hockey league championship against the Brandon Wheat Kings.

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Monday, Mar. 13, 2023

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Carter Kingerski of the Winnipeg Wild Red tore up the league this year, averaging more than three points per game.

Road warrior just keeps clicking along

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Road warrior just keeps clicking along

T. Kent Morgan 3 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023

If, in January or February, members of the Reh-Fit Centre on Taylor Avenue, spotted a man riding a fat-tired bicycle around the parking lot, it was Lindsay Gauld. Investigation by Memories of Sport confirmed that the honoured Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame member was just getting in a few extra kilometres before he went into the Reh-Fit for his regular exercise class.

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Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023

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Cyclist Lindsay Gauld marked his one-millionth kilometre in the saddle with a ride along the Assiniboine Trail in 2013.

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2 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023

In the second week of 2023 Canada Games based in Prince Edward Island, at least two athletes from west Winnipeg added medals to their collections. The games closed on Sunday, March 5, but the deadline for this paper was March 3.

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Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2023

High school hockey playoffs heating up

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High school hockey playoffs heating up

Staff reporter 4 minute read Friday, Mar. 3, 2023

The playoffs are well underway for high school hockey players across Manitoba. Here’s a look at how local teams are faring across both men’s and women’s leagues at press time.

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Friday, Mar. 3, 2023

Photo by Mikaela Mackenzie / Winnipeg Free Press

Garden City beat St. Paul’s in the Winnipeg High School Hockey League’s Platinum Promotions Division two games to one, winning the deciding match 4-3 on March 2.

Young Thrasher aims to fly high

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Young Thrasher aims to fly high

Troy Westwood 2 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023

Ed Salay is a 14-year-old Grade 9 student at Garden City Collegiate, a very hard-working and strong hockey player.

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Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023

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Ed Salay, who played this season for the U15 Thrashers-White, has his sights set on playing hockey at the highest-possible level.

Blades of glory

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Blades of glory

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 4 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023

A pair of west Winnipeg skaters — one a speedskater and the other a figure skater — are riding high and glinting with gold.

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Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023

Outdoor soccer registration now open

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Outdoor soccer registration now open

Canstar staff 2 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023

Soccer registration opens citywide

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Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023

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Registration for the upcoming 2023 soccer season is now open.

Kildonan-East JV basketball teams among top in province

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Kildonan-East JV basketball teams among top in province

Sheldon Birnie STAFF REPORTER 4 minute read Friday, Feb. 24, 2023

When talking about the Kildonan-East junior varsity basketball program, it would be an understatement to say ‘the kids are alright.’

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Friday, Feb. 24, 2023

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The Kildonan-East Reivers girls junior varsity basketball team, ranked second in the province at press time, is looking to take home the provincial championship this season.

Barracudas hungry for banner

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Barracudas hungry for banner

Simon Fuller STAFF REPORTER 4 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

The Béliveau Barracudas girls’ hockey team is having a season to remember.

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Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

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Members of the Béliveau Barracudas girls’ hockey team recently clinched top stop in the Manitoba Women’s High School Hockey League’s second division standings.

Portage boys crowned provincial curling champs

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Portage boys crowned provincial curling champs

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER Portage la prairie 3 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

The Portage Collegiate Institute Trojans boys’ curling team recemtly swept its way to a provincial championship.

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Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

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The Portage Collegiate Institute boys’ curling team celebrates a provincial championship.

Once, twice, five times a champion

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 3 minute read Preview

Once, twice, five times a champion

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 3 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

The Canadian Mennonite University women’s basketball team blazed through the competition yet again this season, going undefeated en route to its fifth consecutive Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference championship title.

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Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

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The CMU women’s basketball team celebrates its fifth consecutive title.

Celebrating Manitoba’s best Black athletes

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Celebrating Manitoba’s best Black athletes

T. Kent Morgan 4 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

February is Black History Month, so what better time to remember Black sports personalities who were pioneers or made a major impact in our province?

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Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

Winnipeg Free Press file photo

Boxer Al Sparks, pictured here in 1976, was the Canadian light heavyweight boxing champion in the 1970s.

East Winnipeg schools vie for Price Division banner

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East Winnipeg schools vie for Price Division banner

Sheldon Birnie STAFF REPORTER 3 minute read Friday, Feb. 17, 2023

If competition has been intense this season for the Price Division title, it’s only heating up.

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Friday, Feb. 17, 2023

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Murdoch MacKay boys hockey team, seen here competing in a tournament in Montreal, Que., earlier this year, finished second in regular season play in the Winnipeg High School Hockey League’s Price Division for 2022-23.

Les Rouges’ Gagnon named an MCAC athlete of the week

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Les Rouges’ Gagnon named an MCAC athlete of the week

Staff reporter 1 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

Alexi Gagnon, who plays for the Université de Saint-Boniface Les Rouges women’s futsal team, has been named the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference female athlete of the week for the week ending Feb. 5.

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Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

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Alexi Gagnon, who plays for the Université de Saint-Boniface Les Rouges women’s futsal team, has been named the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference female athlete of the week for the week ending Feb. 5.

At home on the rink and in the fairway

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At home on the rink and in the fairway

Troy Westwood 3 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

Gavin Carver is a 14-year-old, Grade 9 student who attends St. Paul’s High School.

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Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

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Gavin Carver enjoys hockey and golf but is determined to try to earn a golf scholarship to a U.S. college.

Spartans star headed to U of W next season

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 2 minute read Preview

Spartans star headed to U of W next season

Cody Sellar STAFF REPORTER 2 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

Yet another women’s basketball star will filter through Sisler High School to the University of Winnipeg Wesmen.

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Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

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Sisler Spartans’ Alyssa Doneza dribbles upcourt and scans the floor for a pass.

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