GRAY RANKED NO. 11 BY CFL SCOUTING BUREAU
A rare football-playing graduate of the University of Winnipeg
Collegiate is now ranked No. 11 on the CFL Scouting Bureau’s
initial prospect Top 20 list for the 2017 CFL Draft. Geoff Gray, a
6-foot-6, 310-pound offensive lineman who is in his fourth year
of CIS eligibility with the University of Manitoba Bisons is also
ranked seventh among players competing in the CIS. The other
three ahead of Gray on the list are all NCAA players.
Gray played all his minor and midget football with the
Greendell Falcons and originally arrived at the U of M as a
defensive lineman. Head coach Brian Dobie switched him to
offence and it took him no time at all to adjust. Gray, 21, is a first
time captain with the Bisons this season. A durable performer, he
started in all eight conference regular season games in 2014 and
2015 and has also started both games in 2016.
Brandon Racette
QB Theo Deezar in front of Geoff Gray (67) and a string Bisons
offensive line
RACETTE RAISING FUNDS TO GO TO BASEBALL ACADEMY
Brandon Racette is one of the best young baseball players in
Manitoba, but he needs help. The 17-year-old pitcher from Ebb
and Flow First Nation who pitches for Team Manitoba, has been
offered a spot at Badlands Baseball Academy in Oyen, Alberta.
Badlands Baseball Academy is a boarding school and Racette will
be able to play, practice and get instruction every day from top
baseball coaches. He’ll also get to play against the best age-group
competition in North America. However, the tuition fee for this
baseball academy is $14,000 and that has put a bit of a wrench in
his plans. In order to raise the money required to attend Badlands,
he has started a GoFundMe Page. You can help Brandon with his
dream by going to his GoFundMe Page at https://www.gofundme.
com/2dgzt6k?ssid=739233547&pos=34. Brandon Racette is a
talented and polite young man with a very big dream. He just needs
a little help.
MANITOBA GOLF HALL INDUCTS FOUR
Garth Goodbrandson was among four legendary Manitoba golfers
to be inducted into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame on Sept.
19. Manitoba’s director of player development since 1997 and
the co-founder of the University of Manitoba golf team in 1999,
Goodbrandson is from Selkirk and has won various awards for teaching
and golf development. The other inductees were Gord Lenton, 89, the
former Canadian Senior Men’s Champion; the late Muriel (Bremner)
Garth Goodbrandson
Rogers who won Canada’s ladies amateur in 1932 and 1938; the late Kas
Zabowski who won the Manitoba Open three times in the 1930s, was
the former golf professional at Pine Ridge from 1931-39 and made the cut at the 1937 US Open.
“As Golf Manitoba enters its second century of service to golfers in the province, we are pleased to be able to recognize
the outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the game over many decades by this year’s Honoured Members,”
said Don MacDonald, President of the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame and Museum Inc. “Their inclusion in the Manitoba Golf
Hall of Fame is public and permanent recognition of all that they have done to advance the game of golf in the province.”
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