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Starting
Line-Up
By Scott Taylor
Photos by Tara Miller, Jeff Miller,
James Carey Lauder
and Kelly Morton
SportsLife Magazine
brings you the hottest news
stories in Manitoba sports.
Once again, we’ll catch up with
a number of the star athletes
who have been so sensational in 2015
Bisons Run Out of Gas in Canada West Semi-Final
On the upside, the University of Manitoba Bisons football team reached the Canada West
playoffs for the fourth consecutive year. On the downside, they lost the semifinal game
52-10 to the UBC Thunderbirds in Vancouver on Nov. 6. It’s one of those games you don’t
want to remember, so we won’t. Let’s just suggest, that it’s probably safe to say, Coach
Brian Dobie and the Bisons have some off-season work to do.
Manitoba Names High Performance Figure Skating Team
The members of Manitoba’s new
High Performance Figure Skating
Team are preparing to compete
against the country’s best skaters at
the 2016 Skate Canada Challenge
Competition in Edmonton, Alberta,
December 2-6. The team was
selected at the 2016 Skate Canada
Manitoba Sectional Championship
in Morris, Manitoba, on Nov. 7
and 8. The national competition
in Edmonton will feature
approximately 500 skaters from
across the country, including PreNovice, Novice, Junior and Senior
level skaters in Men’s, Women’s,
Pairs and Ice Dance. This is the only
opportunity for Novice, Junior and
Senior skaters to qualify for the
2016 Canadian Tire Figure Skating
Championships, in Halifax, N.S.,
from Jan. 22-24, 2016. The following
skaters are now members of the
2015- 2016 Skate Canada Manitoba “Team TOBA High Performance” Team: Senior Women : Deidre Russell – Skate
Winnipeg; Junior Women : Madison McCallum – Skate Brandon, Tori Thiessen – Skate Brandon, Kirsten Gutenberg
– Skate Brandon; Novice Women: Casey Bertholet – Hartney Figure Skating Club, Dominique Bergeron – Portage
Skating Club , Danae Russell – Skate Winnipeg, Lindsey Hopkins – Selkirk Skating Club , Nicole Nordal – Skate
Winnipeg; Pre-Novice Women Andrea Laskovic – Skate Winnipeg, Emma King – Skate Winnipeg, Julia Patenaude –
Holland Figure Skating Club , Chanel Cabak – Portage Skating Club , Marijka Popadynetz – Skate Brandon.
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