Twenty young athletes from Hay River have qualified to represent the NWT in the upcoming 2018 South Slave Arctic Winter Games.
Gaius Crook, a ski biathlete from Hay River, qualified for Team NT going to the Arctic Winter Games during territorial trials in Hay River in December.
Sport North announced the complete list of team members late last week, following territorial trials in nine sports from Jan. 18 to Jan. 20 in Yellowknife, Fort Smith and Inuvik.
The new qualifiers and coaches from Hay River following those trials are:
Riella Bordey, junior female badminton
Trey Beck, junior co-ed dog mushing
Kale Beck, juvenile co-ed dog mushing
Anna Cassidy, juvenile co-ed dog mushing
Rodney Beck, coach, dog mushing
Therese Fordy, coach, dog mushing
No athletes from Hay River qualified for the AWG in the Jan. 18 to Jan. 20 territorial trials in Arctic sports, Dene games, snowboarding, speed skating, wrestling, table tennis and snowshoeing.
The new qualifiers and coaches from Hay River join others from the territorial trials held from Dec. 7 to Dec. 9.
They are:
Gaius Crook, biathlon ski, juvenile male
Michaela Crook, biathlon snowshoe, junior female
Lorraine McDonald, coach, biathlon snowshoe
Nicole Griffiths, junior female curling
Katherine Lenoir of Enterprise, junior female curling
Julie Squires-Rowe, junior female curling
Zoey Walsh, junior female curling
Trudie Walsh, coach, junior female curling
Fiona Huang, intermediate female futsal
Brianna Goodwin, juvenile female futsal
Kaden Beck, bantam male hockey
Declan Munro, bantam male hockey
Bryn Hill, junior female hockey
Layne Leonard, junior female hockey
Abby Webster, junior female hockey
John Hill, coach, junior female hockey
Zackary Horton, midget male hockey
Tyrell Wilgosh, midget male hockey
Jacqueline Larocque, junior female volleyball
Dane Dupuis, junior male volleyball
No athletes from Hay River qualified during the December territorial trials in basketball, cross-country skiing, figure skating and gymnastics.
The 2018 South Slave Arctic Winter Games will be held in Hay River and Fort Smith from March 18 to March 24.